Church allowed abuse by priest for years

The article was prepared by the newspaper’s investigative unit, the Spotlight Team, and written by Michael Rezendes. It reports that more than 130 people had come forward since the mid-1990s with accounts of abuse by John Geoghan, that the archdiocese had moved him between parishes over three decades, and that Cardinal Bernard Law approved his transfer to a parish in Weston in 1984. It draws on the public files of civil lawsuits against Geoghan and on church records the newspaper had obtained, and says that the cardinal’s office declined to answer questions.

It is journalism and is cited in this wiki for one thing only: what the newspaper published, and on what day. For the facts of what happened in the archdiocese the wiki uses the attorney general’s report, the Sexual Abuse of Children in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston: A Report by the Attorney General, which had the archdiocese’s own files.