Catholic Bishop Indicted For Blanketing Child Pornography

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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U.S. Catholic bishop Robert Finn is being accused of failing to protect children after he and his bishopric hid hundreds of pictures of child pornography found on a priest’s computer from the police.

Finn is the first U.S. bishop officially charged with protecting an abusive clergyman and the Kansas City-St. Joseph Catholic Diocese have pleaded not guilty on one count each of failing to report alleged child abuse.

Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said: “Now that the grand jury investigation has resulted in this indictment, my office will pursue this case vigorously. I want to ensure there are no future failures to report resulting in other unsuspecting victims.”

Finn completely denies any misconduct in a statement Friday and said he had started working on overhauling the bishopric’s reporting policies and act on important findings of a bishopric-commissioned inquiry into its practices.

He said: “Today, the Jackson County Prosecutor issued these charges against me personally and against the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph. For our part, we will meet these announcements with a steady resolve and a vigorous defense.”

David Clohessy, national director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests says indicting only Finn might allow a few to believe that he’s the only criminal.

Clohessy said: “He’s (Finn) not. If Finn died tomorrow, there will remain a very unhealthy, secretive church hierarchy in Kansas City. That’s the bigger issue.”

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  1. Finally there is some hope and a beginning to protect children today. But “ALL” who concealed, or dcomment_ID not report to police, or who covered up crimes against kcomment_IDs need to be held accountable.

    Hopefully others, who may have knowledge or been harmed by anyone in the KC-St Joe diocese or any diocese, will have the courage to speak up and report it to police and to prosecutors, however long ago your abuse happened. Keep in mind your silence only hurts, and by speaking up there is a chance for healing, expose the truth, and therefore protecting others.

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