The Truth vs. Public Relations

April 14, 2011 by Marci Hamilton

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Daniel Neill: "The first [time] Daniel was molested was when Father Gallagher took the boy to buy supplies for a St. Patrick's Day party at school. After buying a disco ball, green party vests, plates, and cups, the priest stopped at his mother's house. There he took the boy upstairs to a pink, frilly bedroom. The priest unbuckled the boy's belt, pulled down his pants, and fondled his genitals. After less than two minutes, Gallagher pulled up the boy's pants and started to leave the room. But as Daniel was refastening his pants, Gallagher returned, pulled the child's pants down again, bent him over at the waist, and stuck his finger in the boy's anus." Daniel committed suicide after the Philadelphia Archdiocese's Review Board told him his claims were not credible.

Children will be protected when Americans insist on the truth, even when it is difficult to read and heart-breaking to know.

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Marci A. Hamilton is the Paul R. Verkuil Chair in Public Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University and author of Justice Denied: What America Must Do to Protect Its Children (Cambridge, 2008) and God vs. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law (Cambridge, 2005, 2007).

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