Police helped the Catholic Diocese of Toledo cover up sex abuse allegations for several decades, refusing to investigate or arrest priests suspected of molesting children, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The Blade, relying on interviews with former officers and a review of court and diocese records, found at least five instances since the 1950s of police covering up allegations of abuse.
Four former officers said Anthony Bosch, a Catholic who was chief of the Toledo department from 1956 to 1970, established an unwritten rule that priests could not be arrested.
"You would have been fired," said Gene Fodor, who served on the force between 1960 and 1981.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/31/AR2005073101031.htmlWho would think that one of the papers with the strongest investigative reporting traditions (the Blade recently won a Pulitzer for its coverage of Vietnam-era human rights abuses) is in Toledo?
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