Ashley Powers

Los Angeles Times

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Reporter for the Los Angeles Times, covering the courts

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Fifteen years before the clergy sex abuse scandal came to light, Roger Mahony, then Archbishop of America's largest Roman Catholic Archdiocese, plotted to conceal child molestation by…

Files Point to Child Sex Abuse Cover-up at LA Archdiocese

Fifteen years before the clergy sex abuse scandal came to light, Roger Mahony, then Archbishop of America's largest Roman Catholic Archdiocese, plotted to conceal child molestation by…

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