By AFPMore by this AuthorCHICAGO,Catholic officials in the US state of Texas on Thursday released the names of approximately 300 clergy who have been accused of sexual abuse dating back 70 years. Most of the Texas priests were dead, had been removed from the clergy, or both, according to the state's dioceses. The 15 dioceses of the sprawling Lone Star state had promised in October to release names of clergy "credibly accused" of sexually abusing minors. But Reck said that list was incomplete, since it did not include the names of those accused of abuse prior to 1978, when the diocese was created. The attorney general in the US state of Illinois in December revealed investigators had found at least 500 clergy accused of sexually abusing children, which the church had not previously disclosed.

Source: Daily Nation February 01, 2019 04:40 UTC