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Future Pope Benedict XVI failed to defrock abusive priest
By Iris Park
March 25, 2010 - 11:47am
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The future Pope Benedict XVI and other top Vatican officials failed to defrock an American priest who molested deaf boys.

The Reverend Lawrence Murphy sexually abused more than 200 boys from the 1950s through the 1970s at the St. John's School for the Deaf in Wisconsin.

Father Murphy was never disciplined, and died in 1998.

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope, granted Murphy leniency.