Two half-brothers, in prison for killing a priest, tell a story of abuse in New Orleans
by Jason Berry of the National Catholic Reporter in N from US news | The Guardian on (#72EZ6)
Father Patrick McCarthy was brutally murdered in 1988. The two half-brothers in prison for the killing say he sexually abused them for years
More than 600 alleged survivors of clergy abuse have claims against the Roman Catholic archdiocese of New Orleans in its long bankruptcy. Attorneys Frank Lamothe III and Kristi Schubert have 75 clients. Twenty-three of them are prisoners, and most of them allege abuse at two long-shuttered orphanages, Hope Haven and Madonna Manor.
Two of these men had a different path to prison.
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