Brother Lawrence Sandstrom
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After receiving a letter from an alleged victim’s mother, a top official of Holy Cross brothers responded that he could give her “as much assurance as life affords” that Brother Lawrence Sandstrom was no danger to children. “His behavioral pattern has been and continues to be normal,” he wrote.
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When a judge ordered Brother Lawrence Sandstrom removed from Maryvale orphanage after allegations of sexual abuse of children, his supervisors at the facility and in his religious order helped him get jobs at Catholic high schools with supportive recommendation letters.
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In 1992, a devoutly Catholic mother from the San Gabriel Valley wrote Cardinal Roger Mahony asking for help with a painful situation “no human being should be asked to endure.” Her adopted son had molested his younger brother and, when confronted, had disclosed that he himself had been abused by a member of a religious order at a Catholic orphanage in Rosemead. “How can we teach him to trust and ...
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