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Unmarked buildings, quiet legal help for accused priests
Unmarked buildings, quiet legal help for accused priests
Clouds hang over The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church, also known as Assumption Grotto, in Detroit, on May 8, 2019. In the years before the Rev. Eduard Perrone helped start Opus Bono Sacerdotii, he and Assumption Grotto took in at least two priests who had been accused of sexual misconduct at dioceses in other states — including one who later admitted to molesting as many as 50 children in the 1980s and '90s, according to court documents in Texas. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
DRYDEN, Mich. (AP) — A secretive network operating out of unmarked buildings in rural Michigan provides money, transportation, shelter and legal assistance to priests accused of abuse.