California Detective Solves Decade-Old Abuse Case II

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California Detective Solves Decade-Old Abuse Case

Updated: December 10th, 2007 11:51 AM PDT

Los Angeles Sheriff’s Det. Mario Loffredo spent six months looking for a boy who didn’t exist – and found him.

As one of the detectives investigating former Roman Catholic priest and pedophile Michael Stephen Baker, Loffredo was told to find a potential molestation victim named in an internal church document.

The document, which the archdiocese was forced to turn over after a long court battle, was in Baker’s personnel file and showed that church officials had looked into – and dismissed – an allegation that the priest had a boy in his room at a South Los Angeles parish church in 1996.

a lawyer for the archdiocese, confirmed that the church later provided detectives with the man’s correct surname. He said the church did not deliberately mislead investigators. Asked about detectives’ assertion that church officials had not interviewed the victim or his family, he said: “I’m not aware of any reason why church officials would have . . . said they had interviewed people they had not interviewed.”

I posted this story previously only to have it closed because the link purportedly had a virus. Here is another link with the same story.