Another lawsuit against Bishop Robert Finn and the Catholic diocese alleges cover-up in Shawn Ratigan child-porn case
The Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Bishop Robert Finn and the Rev. Shawn Ratigan are facing yet another lawsuit alleging a cover-up of the alleged discovery of child pornography on Ratigan’s computer (Ratigan is facing state and federal child-porn charges). The details of how the diocese handled the discovery are disgusting, if true.
KCTV5 reported that the lawsuit alleges that Finn, the diocese’s attorney and others gave Ratigan’s laptop computer to the priest’s family rather than authorities because they knew the family would destroy the computer — and evidence along with it — giving them “plausible deniability that they were incompetents rather than intentionally assisting Ratigan, as they were.”
