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The Archive > 33 Other Corroborated Cases of Recovered Memory

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31. Mike, a retired construction supervisor in Anchorage, Alaska, whose recovered memory of abuse at the hands of Rev. Francis Murphy in a Catholic Junior High School locker room was corroborated by a witness/participant at the time who never forgot. Nicole Tsong, "Sins of the Father," Anchorage Daily News (August 3, 2003), A9.

32. An unidentified man's recovered memory of being sexually abused by Robert L. Mueller in 1982 in the Boy Scouts. His subsequent report to the police resulted in Mueller’s arrest on child pornography charges. The criminal complaint says two other men who were Boy Scouts at the time also reported being sexually assaulted by Mueller. McCormick, "Former Scouts leader charged in child porn case,"Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, (December 3, 2004).

33. Ralph Cosimo's "repressed memory of multiple instances of [sexual] abuse" by Rev. James F. Rapp of the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City in the early 1970s. Rapp was defrocked and is currently in prison for molesting a boy in Oklahoma. Ralph Cosimo's memory is corroborated by his brother’s continuous memory and by an admission by Rapp. The church's defense to civil litigation was based on the stature of limitations. The defense even argued that Rapp had acknowledged to Ralph in 1975 that he was a pedophile and that he was abusing his brother at the time. (An appeals court in Utah disallowed the lawsuit on statute of limitations grounds.) See generally, Romano, "Okla. Archbishop Failed to Oust Priest; Long Trail of Abuse Prompts Complaints," Washington Post (May 21, 2002). See also, Neff, "Court rules brothers waited too long to sue," Salt Lake Tribune (November 27, 2004).

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