Superior Court Judge Barry Stevens has ruled that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport must release thousands of pages of documents relating to allegations of sexual abuse by priests.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court ended nearly a decade of appeals by the diocese in its efforts to block public access to more than 12,000 pages from 23 lawsuits against six priests.
While the nation’s highest court ordered the diocese to turn over the documents, it let stand a lower court ruling that a small segment of the records dealing with priests’ medical records and seven priests not named in the lawsuits could remain sealed.
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