Weakland, Sklba to take the stand!
Retired Milwaukee bishops Rembert Weakland and Richard Sklba will answer questions under oath in October about the extent and alleged coverup of child sex abuse in the archdiocese, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Susan V. Kelley ruled on Friday.
However, that testimony won't be available to the public, at least initially.
Kelley granted a request by survivor-creditors to question the two, along with defrocked priest Daniel A. Budzynski, who is believed to have molested several children, as part of the church's bankruptcy proceedings.
The judge scheduled the questionings for the weeks of Oct. 17 and 24. But she imposed strict limits on their duration and ordered them sealed from public view.
"I don't want this on anybody's website," said Kelley, a reference to victims' attorney Jeff Anderson's distribution of Weakland's 2008 questioning, in which the retired archbishop referred to Sklba as his "go-to guy" in the handling of sex abuse cases.
"This isn't about embarrassing these people. This is about giving the parties relief," Kelley said.
MJS
2 comments:
Given Archbishop Weakland & Bishop Sklba's track records, their being embarrassed is the least of their problems. In fact I doubt if either of them has any shame. I think the judge is wrong, we deserve the truth about how they betrayed their vows & promises made when they were ordained.
Here in Milwaukee, that set of depositions will be more sought-after than Ted Thompson's short-list for the next NFL draft.
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