KMBC: Bishop Robert Finn subpoenaed by Jackson County grand jury
Big news in the Rev. Shawn Ratigan child-porn case. A Jackson County grand jury has subpoenaed Bishop Robert Finn, according to KMBC Channel 9’s Micheal Mahoney. However, Mahoney doesn’t know when, or even if, Finn will appear before grand jurors.
We don’t know exactly what grand jurors are looking into in the case. Could they be reviewing why it took the Catholic diocese five months to report Ratigan to authorities? Or maybe they’re considering Ratigan’s placement at an Independence mission house that allowed him to allegedly victimize a 12-year-old girl on Easter Sunday — the same girl whom he allegedly took naked pictures of when she was 6 years old. Or maybe jurors want Bishop Finn to explain how a priest shortage is a good reason for keeping around someone suspected of taking child-porn pics of little girls. We just don’t know yet.
