Code words, cover-up
Victim's rights advocates Patrick Wall and Joelle Casteix speak during a press conference in Winslow Wednesday. © 2011 Gallup Independent / Cable Hoover

Gallup clergy sex abuse file now online

By Elizabeth Hardin-Burrola
Independent correspondent

WINSLOW, Ariz. — It’s all about code words, according to Patrick J. Wall.
Wall, a canon lawyer and former Catholic priest and Benedictine monk, was in Winslow on Wednesday talking about the Diocese of Gallup’s recently released personnel file on the late Clement A. Hageman, whom diocesan officials have admitted was a pedophile priest.

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