Vatican Official Left Abusive Priest In Pastor Job

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Vatican Official Left Abusive Priest In Pastor Job

http://www.ktvu.com/news/23294634/detail.html

SAN FRANCISCO -- The cardinal who oversees priest abuse cases at the Vatican didn't restrict a California priest after learning in 1995 that he had molested a 13-year-old boy a decade earlier.

Cardinal William Levada talked about the case in a 2005 deposition obtained by The Associated Press. He was archbishop of San Francisco when he decided not to remove the Rev. Milton Walsh from ministry.

Levada says he believed that Walsh would not re-offend and the previous archbishop handled the case appropriately. Levada is now head of the office that defrocks pedophile priests.

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