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Jury in Pa. priest-abuse case to view secret files

Data include two decades of complaints

By Maryclaire Dale

 |  Associated Press  

  February 16, 2012

Jurors picked over the next month to hear a landmark priest sex-abuse case will pore over two boxes of complaint files long buried in “secret archives’’ of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The files contain complaints lodged against dozens of Philadelphia priests over several decades, along with sex-therapy notes, legal advice, and other sensitive material, according to summaries read aloud in recent pretrial hearings. The boxes were marked Exhibit 1 at a hearing yesterday.

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