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As more accused priests are named, alleged victims of clergy abuse in Colorado demand change {p dir=”ltr”}Four weeks after a revelatory report from the Colorado Attorney General’s Office found that Catholic priests allegedly abused at least 166 Colorado children between 1950 and 1998, victims spoke out in favor of changes to the statute of limitations.…

Former AG Coffman endorses statute of limitations change following clergy abuse report {p dir=”ltr”}Former Attorney General Cynthia Coffman has endorsed the expansion of Colorado statute of limitation’s to allow child sex abuse victims more time to sue. {p dir=”ltr”}Victim advocates and at least one state legislator already support the policy change following last week’s report…

Colorado legislators, Archdiocese of Denver react to demands to alter statute of limitations in wake of abuse report {p dir=”ltr”}Some Colorado state lawmakers are contemplating legislation in response to calls to extend the statute of limitations for civil cases involving child sex abuse. {p dir=”ltr”}“The next step will be to take away the predator-friendly statute…

Among the priests identified in the report on clergy abuse released Wednesday by Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser: Father John Beno of Pueblo’s St. Francis Xavier parish. Beno went by another title: Democratic state senator, from 1979 to 1986. According to abuse allegations detailed in the report, Beno abused two young girls. One was 5…

On Wednesday, Attorney General Phil Weiser released a special master’s report that determined at least 166 children were sexually abused from 1950 onward by 43 priests in three Catholic dioceses in Colorado. Here is what Coloradans and groups that work with survivors of abuse have said about the news: “I think this reflects a church-controlled…

One hundred sixty-six children. That is the tally of likely abuse victims at the hands of Roman Catholic clergy in Colorado, a special master’s report released Wednesday by state Attorney General Phil Weiser’s office found. “Our review confirmed the Roman Catholic Church’s long history of silence, self-protection and secrecy empowered by euphemism,” the report’s authors…

Kenneth Feinberg has begun receiving claims from victims of Catholic Church sexual abuse in Colorado, under a voluntary compensation program created by the dioceses of Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo. Feinberg, who also managed compensation payouts to victims of 9/11, the Aurora Theater shooting, and the Boston Marathon bombing, told CPR that money is only…