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Law Deposed Third Day

Aired May 13, 2002 - 14:31   ET

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BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Back to Boston now. Cardinal Law's third day of deposition. Quickly to Jason Carroll, who's watching this -- Jason.

JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The afternoon session is still going on right now as we speak, Bill. There's just about a half-hour left of Cardinal Law's deposition for the day. It's scheduled to end at about 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

We're already getting a sense of what happened earlier in the day during Cardinal Law's deposition. Two of the alleged victims in the civil suit say that Cardinal Law seemed to, at least in their eyes, become angry during the proceeding, when Cardinal Law was questioned about the medical advice that he had received.

Cardinal Law is being deposed in a civil suit involving defrocked priest, John Geoghan. Geoghan was convicted of molesting a young boy earlier this year. The civil suit alleges that Geoghan molested as many as 86 others.

Cardinal Law said in his deposition last week that he relied on the medical advice that was given to him, saying that it was OK to have Geoghan around children. Cardinal Law was asked about a letter that he received this morning during that deposition. That letter, coming from a psychiatric center. It said that Geoghan had been treated and that doctors could not guarantee that Geoghan would not molest again.

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PATRICK MCSORLEY, ALLEGED ABUSE VICTIM: As far as I can see, the cardinal relied too much on the doctor's words about Father Geoghan being released. And he said he was assured that Father Geoghan would be safe to be put back into the priesthood.

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CARROLL: Patrick McSorely, one of the alleged victims, obviously still very angry about today's proceedings. The attorneys in the case who are representing the archdiocese of Boston have requested that transcripts not be released until they get a chance to review them. The judge in this case, Constance Sweeny, okayed that request last week. So, Bill, we're not actually going to be getting specific transcripts like we did last week. The attorneys representing the archdiocese are going to get about 30 days to review them before they're actually released.

Again, the last day, or what is scheduled to be the last day of the proceedings, should be ending in just about a half-hour from now -- Bill.

HEMMER: Jason, thank you. Jason Carroll again in Boston.

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