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How Baltimore law firms helped the Catholic church manage sexual abuse claims
In 1987, a law firm for the Archdiocese of Baltimore contacted a prosecutor with a problem: was the church obligated to report a priest who had lately been accused of trying to rape a teenage woman a ten years before? The reply was no, in accordance to final week’s comprehensive report into sexual abuse and coverups in the archdiocese. But the priest could be charged with assault, battery or tried rape, the assistant state’s attorney mentioned. Neither the law firm nor the archdiocesan official who spoke to the prosecutor provided the identify of the priest, Father Thomas J. Bauernfeind, or formally documented that a girl had named Bauernfeind as her…
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1 dead in Baltimore shooting of 3; related car crash injures 2 young children
Gunfire in Baltimore that killed a person and wounded two other older people Saturday night time was aspect of a “mass casualty incident,” the city’s best police leader reported. Just one human being was detained for questioning, and police have been however attempting to decide if the individual would be specified as a suspect or sufferer, authorities reported at a Saturday evening information meeting. Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison described a chaotic scene in the city’s Upton community, exactly where ShotSpotter sensors alerted law enforcement to gunshots at 6:39 p.m. He stated it appeared that a shooter or quite possibly additional than a single armed suspect opened fireplace, striking a…


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