People lower on the hierarchy receive more of what is undesirable. And they are less likely to be successful at challenging the top.
Catholic Church leaders in Los Angeles for years shuffled predator
priests into non-English-speaking immigrant communities. That pattern
was revealed in personnel documents released in a decades-old legal
settlement between victims of child sex abuse by Catholic priests and
the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
Now clergy sex abuse victims throughout California are working to get the release of more data to discover how wide-spread the practice of hiding abusers
in immigrant communities really was.
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