He said he knew of at least one case where a priest in a Long Island parish who may have been involved in sexual abuse was transferred to another diocese.
While the proposal by the bishops' committee makes no mention of punishment for church officials who may have covered up abuse or transferred offending priests from parish to parish, these victims' groups want the removal of any church leader who has moved around or helped a priest who was a sex offender.
The investigation found that employees who committed physical and sexual abuse were often transferred to other group homes instead of being fired, and that law enforcement was rarely notified of alleged abuses.
In a lawsuit filed on Monday, the Diocese of San Bernardino, Calif., a populous jurisdiction just east of Los Angeles, said Boston church officials gave assurances that the priest, the Rev. Paul R. Shanley, was in good standing, despite a record of sexual abuse when he transferred from Boston in 1990.
The three men stay on the case for two decades, during which the embittered Avery sinks into substance abuse, Toschi is transferred from the homicide department under a cloud, and Graysmith's marriage comes to grief.Obsessed investigators are common in films about serial killers, a genre in which Mr Fincher scored a notable success in 1995 with "Seven".
"There has not been a single, solitary proven allegation of abuse involving a transferred Taliban prisoner by Canadian forces", Defence Minister Peter MacKay said in the House of Commons, with his parliamentary secretary suggesting Colvin was not credible.
In one November 2002 correspondence, a high-ranking Special Operations official said military police were detecting "an extremely high level of physical abuse" of detainees transferred from Special Forces field bases to a prison in Bagram.
"The abuse case wasn't transferred to the Vatican at all," he said.
In one-quarter of the cases involving physical, sexual or psychological abuse, the workers were transferred to other homes.
The Roman Catholic bishop of Phoenix, Thomas J. O'Brien, has signed an agreement admitting that he knew of accusations of sexual abuse by priests but transferred them without telling their new superiors or parishioners, an Arizona prosecutor said yesterday.
