«Breaking News» Cardinal hires judge to review church sex abuse policies

NEW YORK (AP) - The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York said Thursday that it has hired a former federal judge to review its procedures and protocols for handling allegations of sexual abuse.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan announced the appointment of Barbara Jones, saying he was ordering the review because Catholics in New York have demanded "accountability, transparency" and "action" from church leadership.

Jones, 71, said the archdiocese already has a "robust infrastructure" to deal with the issue but she will evaluate its effectiveness, identify any deficiencies and report her findings directly to the cardinal.

The appointment comes after New York's attorney general announced that she was doing a comprehensive investigation of how the church and its leaders handled abuse allegations across the state.

Two years ago, the archdiocese announced a compensation fund for victims of clergy sex abuse willing to forego lawsuits. It has paid out about $60 million so far.

The Manhattan-based archdiocese is the nation's second biggest after Los Angeles.

Jones, who left the Manhattan federal bench in 2013, finished her work only weeks ago as a court-appointed special master identifying items subject to attorney-client privilege from over 4 million items seized in raids on Republican President Donald Trump's ex-personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.

Jones was an assistant U.S. attorney in Manhattan and chief assistant to former Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau before she was appointed to the bench in 1995 by President Bill Clinton. As a federal prosecutor, she served as chief of the Organized Crime Strike Force Unit.

After leaving the bench, she joined the law firm Bracewell, where she has specialized in white collar defense and internal investigations.

She has served repeatedly in roles calling for an outside independent monitor or arbiter.

In 2014, she said former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice could play football again after concluding that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell had made an "abuse of discretion" in suspending Rice indefinitely after video emerged of him hitting his wife in an elevator.

She also has served on a panel conducting a full-scale review of the New York City Police Department's discipline policies and was appointed as an independent external reviewer at the University of Michigan to decide student disciplinary actions under the school's policy and procedures on student sexual and gender based misconduct.

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