CARDINAL EGAN HID PRIEST'S SEX WITH TEEN GIRL

by MSNBC News

April 12, 2002

http://msnbc.com/news/732931.asp?0dm=C218N

"In Connecticut, two newspapers reported Friday that Cardinal Edward Egan, the archbishop of New York, failed to notify police about an affair a priest had with a 15-year-old girl in the late 1980s, when Egan was bishop of Bridgeport.
The relationship, which would be considered statutory rape under state law, resulted in the girl became pregnant with the priest’s child, The Hartford Courant and the Connecticut Post of Bridgeport reported.


The Associated Press reported that at least three of the five bishops on the committee appointed to develop the church’s national response to the sex abuse crisis have been accused of protecting priests who molested children."