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Scores of priests involved in sex abuse cases

Settlements kept scope of issue out of public eye

  January 31, 2002

Under an extraordinary cloak of secrecy, the Archdiocese of Boston in the last 10 years has quietly settled child molestation claims against at least 70 priests.

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