Sunday, April 15, 2007
MATT ABBOTT'S LATEST COLUMN - TOLEDO DIOCESE ABORTION FILES ?
More on Toledo Catholic diocese, abortion files
Matt C. Abbott Matt C. Abbott
April 12, 2007
In a Dec. 2006 column, I printed an excerpt from Toledo Blade religion editor David Yonke's book Sin, Shame and Secrets which stated that "privileged" diocesan files "contained reports of abortions paid for by the [Toledo] diocese."
Yonke's book is about the Father Gerald Robinson case in Toledo, Ohio. Robinson was convicted on May 11, 2006 of murdering Sister Margaret Ann Pahl in a hospital chapel in 1980. He is serving a sentence of 15 years to life.
To date, the diocese has not commented on Yonke's report of the abortion files.
And Yonke stands firmly behind his reporting.
Claudia Vercellotti, of the Toledo chapter of SNAP, shed more light on the matter in a recent e-mail to me:
"Here's what I know: The Toledo Police asked the diocese for everything on Father Gerald Robinson and received only three pages. After obtaining and executing two no-knock search warrants, they uncovered 145 more pages that had never been turned over to the police.
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