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Records show L.A. Catholic sex abuse cover-up

LOS ANGELES - For decades, the Roman Catholic Church's Los Angeles archdiocese ignored parishioners’ sex abuse complaints and shipped accused priests between therapy and new assignments, according to newly released personnel records involving 126 clergymen.

In many cases, there was little mention of child molestation in documents. Instead, euphemisms such as “boundary violations” were used to describe the conduct.

The summaries of the personnel records were released Tuesday as part of settlement talks with lawyers for more than 500 accusers who sued the nation’s largest Catholic archdiocese.

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