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Mar 2 2004
A coalition of groups yieling posters of bishops marched to the State House denouncing the church's numbers of priests accused as too low. 150 protestors rallied as the names of 247 accused priests were read as a bass drum was struck once for each name. The protesters then marched through the South End to the State House.
On Friday, the Boston Archdiocese reported 162, or 7 percent, of archdiocesan priests have been accused of abusing 815 minors since 1950. In addition, 57 unaffiliated priests and deacons stationed in Boston were accused of abusing 150 minors during the same period.
The John Jay College of Criminal Justice did a study, and put the national percentage of abusive priests at 4 percent, and the number of abused minors at 10,667.
"If Governor Romney can establish a commission to investigate the murder of one priest in prison," an activist said, referring to the panel that examined the death of defrocked priest John J. Geoghan, "why can't he investigate the rape of hundreds of children in churches all over the state?"
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