% NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE, THANKS
% VERY MUCH.
% >> THANK YOU.
% >> DISTRICT ATTORNEY THIS WEEK
% CHARGED 92-YEAR OLD DEFROCKED
% FORMER CARDINAL THEODORE
% McCARRICK WITH SEXUAL ASSAULT.
% THE CRIMINAL COMPLAINT SAYS
% McCARRICK REPEATEDLY SEXUALLY
% ABUSED THE VICTIM IN THE 1970s
% AT A GENEVA LAKE RESIDENCE.
% HE HAS CHARGES SPENDING AS WELL
% IN ANOTHER STATE AND IN 2019,
% POPE FRANCIS DEFROCKED HIM FOR
% SEXUALLY ABUSING MINORS AND
% ADULTS.
% McCARRICK IS THE ONLY U.S.
% CATHOLIC CARDINAL EVER TO BE
% CRIMINALLY CHARGED WITH CHILD
% SEX CRIMES.
% THE WISCONSIN CHARGES ARE THE
% RESULT OF A REPORT MADE TO THE
% ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CLERGY AND
% FAITH LEASHED ABUSE INITIATIVE.
% THAT TIP LINE AND ON-LINE
% REPORTING SYSTEM STARTED NEARLY
% TWO YEARS AGO, AND TO DATE HAS
% COMPLETED 248 REPORTS OF ABUSE.
% ATTORNEY GENERAL JOSH KAUL JOINS
% US NOW.
% THANKS VERY MUCH FOR BEING HERE.
% >> THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.
% >> SO HOW MEANINGFUL ARE
% WISCONSIN CHARGES AGAINST ONE OF
% THE MOST PROMINENT RELIGIOUS
% LEADERS IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH?
% >> I THINK IT'S AN EXAMPLE OF
% THE IMPORTANCE OF THE WORK THAT
% WE'RE DOING.
% WE HAVE ASKED SURVIVORS ACROSS
% THE STATE OF WISCONSIN TO MAKE
% REPORTS IF THERE'S INFORMATION
% THAT THEY HAVE CERTAINLY
% INVOLVING ABUSE OF WHICH THEY
% WERE VICTIMS, BUT ALSO IF
% ANYBODY HAS INFORMATION ABOUT
% INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSE TO ABUSE
% AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S
% BEEN SO ENCOURAGING IS THAT OVER
% 200 PEOPLE HAVE REACHED OUT AND
% MADE REPORTS.
% THAT SHOWS ME THAT WHAT WE'VE
% SET UP THROUGH THE TIP LINE IS A
% TRUSTED SAFE PLACE FOR PEOPLE TO
% REPORT, AND THAT'S GOING TO LEAD
% TO ACCOUNTABILITY IN A VARIETY
% OF WAYS.
% THERE ARE NOW THREE CASES THAT
% HAVE BEEN CRIMINALLY CHARGED,
% ONE OF WHICH HAS RESULTED IN A
% CONVICTION, BUT WE ALSO WANT TO
% MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE CONNECTING
% VICTIMS WITH SERVICES AND THAT
% WE'RE PROVIDING AS FULL AN
% ACCOUNTING AS POSSIBLE THROUGH
% OUR REVIEW HERE.
% >> THE McCARRICK CHARGES WERE
% MADE AFTER A REPORT TO THIS
% CLERGY ABUSE HOTLINE, SHOWING
% HOW PEOPLE ARE REPORTING AFTER
% DECADES OF NOT TELLING ANYONE.
% WHAT HAVE SURVIVORS TOLD YOUR
% VICTIM SERVICES SPECIALISTS
% ABOUT WHAT PROMPTED THEM TO
% REPORT?
% >> I THINK FOR A LOT OF
% SURVIVORS, HAVING A SAFE AND
% TRUSTED PLACE IS PART OF WHAT'S
% CAUSED THEM TO REPORT.
% AS YOU SAID, THERE ARE PEOPLE
% WHO, FOR DECADES, HAVE NOT
% PREVIOUSLY REPORTED ABUSE AND
% THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE WHO DID
% REPORT THAT ABUSE TO TRUSTED
% PEOPLE AND SOMETIMES CHURCH
% OFFICIALS, SOMETIMES TO LAW
% ENFORCEMENT, AND DIDN'T GET THE
% KIND OF RESPONSE THAT THEY
% SHOULD HAVE.
% I THINK -- I HOPE THE PEOPLE
% HAVE SEEN HOW COMMITTED WE ARE
% TO CONDUCTING A FULL AND
% THOROUGH REVIEW AND THE NUMBER
% OF REPORTS WE'VE RECEIVED AND
% SOME OF THE RESULTS THAT WE'VE
% GOTTEN FROM THOSE REPORTS I
% THINK SHOWS HOW COMMITTED WE ARE
% TO THIS.
% >> FOR THOSE WHO DIDN'T REPORT
% EVER UNTIL NOW, WHAT HAVE THEY
% SAID ABOUT LIVING IN SILENCE ALL
% THOSE YEARS?
% >> ONE OF THE THINGS WE WANTED
% TO MAKE SURE WE WERE DOING
% THROUGH THIS PROCESS IS TO HAVE
% A VICTIM CENTRIC APPROACH.
% WE KNOW GOING IN THAT SOME OF
% THESE CASES WOULD INVOLVE
% INCIDENTS THAT HAPPENED DECADES
% AGO AND WOULD BE OUTSIDE THE
% STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS OR EVEN
% CASES WHERE THE PERPETRATOR HAS
% PASSED AWAY, BUT THAT DOESN'T
% MEAN THAT WE CAN'T DO IMPORTANT
% WORK BEHALF SURVIVORS, AND ONE
% OF THE THINGS IS THAT THE
% PROCESS OF TALKING WITH A VICTIM
% SERVICES SPECIALIST WHO IS
% TRAINED IN WORKING WITH
% SURVIVORS, THAT THAT HAS BEEN A
% HUGE BENEFIT TO THE SURVIVORS
% WHO HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO
% REPORT AND WE'VE HEARD SOME
% REALLY COMPELLING STORIES ABOUT
% HOW MUCH THAT'S MEANT TO PEOPLE
% IN THE RECOVERY PROCESS.
% >> SOWFD ONE CONVICTION OPINION
% SO YOU HAVE HAD ONE CONVICTION
% IN WAUSHARA COUNTY AND THE
% INFORMATION IS STILL AVAILABLE?
% >> WE ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO MAKE
% REPORTS IF THEY HAVE INFORMATION
% BUT WE ARE CONTINUING TO REVIEW
% CASES THAT HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO
% US.%WE HAVE MULTI-DISCIPLDIS
CIPLINAS
% AND THEY'RE REVIEWING EACH AND
% EVERY REPORT THAT WE RECEIVE AND
% FIGURING OUT WHAT FOLLOW-UP CAN
% HAPPEN AND IS APPROPRIATE AND
% THEN PURSUING THAT FOLLOW-UP.
% THAT PROCESS IS GOING TO
% CONTINUE AS LONG AS WE CONTINUE
% TO RECEIVE INFORMATION.
% >> CAN IT BE HARD TO MAKE
% CHARGES IN THESE CASES,
% PARTICULARLY THE ONES THAT ARE
% DECADES OLD?
% >> ABSOLUTELY.
% IN ANY ACE T CASE THAT GOES BACT
% FAR, YOU HAVE TO CONSIDER
% STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS ISSUES
% AND ALSO YOU HAVE TO RECOGNIZE
% THE FACT THAT WITNESSES WHO MAY
% HAVE BEEN AROUND MAY HAVE MOVED
% TO A DIFFERENT STATE OR EVEN OUT
% OF THE COUNTRY.
% THAT CAN MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT.
% IT'S ALWAYS BETTER TO
% INVESTIGATE AND PROSECUTE CASES
% SOON AFTER THE INCIDENTS HAVE
% HAPPENED, BUT THAT DOESN'T MOONN
% THAT THERE'S NOT A LOT OF VALUE
% IN CONDUCTING THIS REVIEW AND
% WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE PURSUING
% CASES AS LONG AS WE GET
% INFORMATION.%>> GOING ALL THE
WAY BACK TO THE
% BEGINNING, WHY DID YOU START THE
% CLERGY AND FAITH LEADERS ABUSE
% INITIATIVE?%>> ONE OF MY PRI
ORITIES AS
% ATTORNEY GENERAL HAS BEEN TO
% STRENGTHEN WISCONSIN'S RESPONSE
% TO SEXUAL ASSAULT.
% IT'S A CRIME THAT HISTORICALLY
% HAS HAD VERY LOW PERCENTAGE OF
% REPORTS MADE AND I DON'T THINK
% OUR SYSTEMIC RESPONSE IS AS
% STRONG AS IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN
% OVER THE DECADES.
% WE WANT TO FIX THAT.
% WE'VE PRIORITIZED CASES WHERE
% THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN
% INVESTIGATED OR PROSECUTED
% PREVIOUSLY BUT WEREN'T AND SO
% WE'VE WORKED TO ENSURE THERE'S
% NEVER ANOTHER BACKLOG OF
% UNTESTED SEXUAL ASSAULT KITS
% THAT WE'VE PROSECUTED SOME CASES
% THAT D.N.A. RESULTS WERE FOUND
% THROUGH THE BACKLOG AND LIKEWISE
% WITH CLERGY AND FAITH LEADERS
% ABUSE, WE KNOW THERE ARE CASES
% THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN PURSUED
% AND WEREN'T.
% >> THE U.S. SUPREME COURT HAD
% UNDER CONSIDERATION THE CASE OF
% WHETHER TO BLOCK OR ALLOW THE
% ABORTION PILL.
% WHY DID YOU SIGN ON TO PROTECT
% ITS USE WHEN, AS IT STANDS NOW,
% ABORTION IS ILLEGAL IN
% WISCONSIN?% >> THERE ARE A C
OUPLE REASONS.
% FIRST, WE NEED TO DO EVERYTHING
% WE CAN TO PROTECT REPRODUCTIVE
% FREEDOM IN THE STATE OF
% WISCONSIN AND WE'RE PURSUING
% EFFORTS ON MULTIPLE FRONTS TO
% RESTORE ACCESS TO SAFE AND LEGAL
% ABORTION.
% BUT MIFEPRISTONE IS NOT ONLY
% USED IN ABORTIONS, BUT
% MISCARRIAGE MANAGEMENT.
% WE DON'T WANT TO TAKE ANY
% OPTIONS AWAY FROM WOMEN THAT ARE
% LEGALLY VALID IN THE STATE OF
% WISCONSIN IF WE CAN PROTECT
% THEM, SO PROTECTING ACCESS TO
% MIFEPRISTONE HELPS THERE, BUT
% ALSO WE ARE ALSO ADVOCATING IN
% COURT THAT THE ABORTION BAN IS
% NOT ENFORCEABLE AND IF WE WIN
% THAT CASE, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE
% THAT ACCESS TO CARE IS AS WIDELY
% AVAILABLE AS POSSIBLE AND
% WINNING THIS CASE WOULD HELP
% WITH THAT.
% >> DO YOU FEEL AS THOUGH YOU
% HAVE A GOOD CASE IN THE
% OVERTURNING THE CURRENT ABORTION
% LAW?
% >> I FEEL REALLY GOOD ABOUT OUR
% CASE.%THERE WERE A SERIES OF
LAWS THAT
% WERE PASSED FOLLOWING ROE VERSUS
% WADE THAT REGULATE LAWFUL
% ABORTION.%THEY ARE FUNDAMENT
ALLY
% INCONSISTENT WITH THE IDEA OF
% THE BROAD 1849 BAN AND I'M VERY
% HOSPITAL MISS THAT THE COURTS --
% OPTIMISTIC THAT THE COURTS WILL
% FIND THAT THE LAW WAS REPEALED
% WHICH WOULD MEAN IT'S NOT
% ENFORCEABLE AND THAT WE GO BACK
% TO BASICALLY WHERE WE WERE PRIOR
% ROE VERSUS WADE BEING