A Wisconsin priest continued abusing children even after the Vatican decided not to punish him. Lawrence Murphy was sent into retirement after victims of sexual abuse demanded he be removed from work at a school for the deaf near Milwaukee. The Archdiocese of Milwaukee had put Murphy under restrictions including that he not having any contact with children. Yet he interacted freely with children until his death in 1998 and never recieved any punished from local authorities or the church.
Documents uncovered in a lawsuit show Murphy used his family’s lakefront cottage as a lure in his sexual advances, bringing youths from the school into his home.
