The Portland Catholic Archdiocese Priest Abuse Document Archive

Archdiocese records released

KOIN 6 News
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Newly released documents from the Portland archdiocese prove the Catholic Church lied about their knowledge of allegations of priest abuse.

The archdiocese agreed to release documents as part of its bankruptcy filings. However a federal judge had to step in to get these ones released.

In the 1950s, a child claims he was abused several times by Fr. Rocco Perone. The victim had correspondence with Fr. Chuck Lienert in 1989 about Perone, where it was learned a nun asked the victim when he was a child if had been abused by Perone.

In 2002, the archdiocese denied having received any complaints about Perone.

A new website has been created that posts and explains the documents, as well as a link to the archdiocese site on the abuse documents.