The Lacuna Project

lacuna (n.) a gap in a record where something should be

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Agency

Office of the Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • REL-3.1: The Massachusetts Attorney General reported on 23 July 2003 that Cardinal Law, as head of the Archdiocese of Boston, and his senior managers had direct, actual knowledge for many years that substantial numbers of children in the Archdiocese had been sexually abused by substantial numbers of its priests. The report found no evidence sufficient to charge the Archdiocese or its senior managers under the law then in force and states that clergy were not mandated reporters of child abuse in Massachusetts until May 2002.

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 470 23 July 2003. Office of the Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Thomas F. Reilly): The Sexual Abuse of Children in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston