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deaths_head_hawkmoth t1_jeagu76 wrote

Sorry this has happened to you. I live in a different diocese, but there is a phone number on this page https://www.usccb.org/offices/child-and-youth-protection/victim-assistance for the person supposedly in charge of handling abuse reports. If I were you I would be spamming her phone number (not email because that is more easily ignored) until some progress was made.

I can totally understand if you do not want to do this, but you might get further also by contacting the current priest of the parish, according to the website his email is mellone@annunciationdc.org. Priests usually have a direct line of contact with their bishop so there is a decent chance that he would be able to escalate it to Archbishop Gregory. What you are asking for is not a big ask, you just have to get through the layers of bureaucracy.

Best of luck.

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DancesWithTreetops OP t1_jeai69b wrote

Thanks for the response and info. The person at the office of child protection did her job well and is someone I actually trust a bit. She has nothing to do with the investigation. The office where the report is currently located is the Moderator of the Curia and I dont trust anyone in that office. The head honcho is a graduate of the same place that turned out the predator who abused me, and a shitload of other predators. I’m a where there’s smoke, then there must be a fire kind of person. Mt. St Marys Seminary in Emmitsburg Maryland is thick with smoke. So I am not expecting anything positive from the Moderator of The Curia office.

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deaths_head_hawkmoth t1_jeajgp7 wrote

Gotcha.

There are a few articles from recent years about Msgr Mellone (email I linked above) trying to help victims of abuse in the archdiocese so I think you would have a pretty good chance of making more progress if you felt comfortable emailing him.

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sabarlah t1_jeak79k wrote

Email leaves a written track record though, whether or not answered.

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deaths_head_hawkmoth t1_jeaoijj wrote

No harm in doing both, but if it came to a legal situation then call logs are also recorded.

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