Bishop’s Attorney: Trial Not About Brother’s Conduct

June 13, 2008

The Rt. Rev. Charles E. Bennison Jr.’s lawyer repeatedly pressed a theme of maintaining the confidentiality of the young woman who was sexually abused by the bishop’s younger brother, during the final day of his ecclesiastical trial in Philadelphia on Thursday.

The Bishop of Pennsylvania is charged with responding inadequately to the sexual abuse of Martha Alexis in the 1970s, and with suppressing information about his brother’s behavior in the years since then.
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