BOSTON (MA)
Boston Herald
by Robin Washington
Saturday, December 14, 2002
A victims advocacy group has called upon Bishop Richard G. Lennon, the newly named apostolic administrator for the Archdiocese of Boston, to reopen the sex abuse investigation of Monsignor Michael Smith Foster.
Foster, who heads the Boston church’s Metropolitan Tribunal, had his suspension lifted in late October after church investigators found his accuser not credible.
But a pair of articles in yesterday’s Herald showed that documents in Foster’s personnel file show numerous allegations made by Foster’s supporters attacking the credibility of alleged victim Paul R. Edwards were untrue.
David Clohessy, national executive director of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, said Lennon should immediately reimpose Foster’s suspension and renew the probe as part of a new spirit of openness.
