In 1997, he reassigned a priest accused of sexual abuse after paying a settlement to one victim's family; Curlin later acknowledged that the same priest had told him in 1995 of an "indiscretion" involving a boy and had undergone psychological testing.
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Deliver Us from Evil is about sex abuse cases in the Roman Catholic Church, focusing on Oliver O'Grady, who abused many children in California between the late 1970s and early 1990s.
As an attorney for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester, Lamontagne negotiated the 2003 settlement of the New Hampshire Attorney General's investigation into the child sex abuse scandal that spared the diocese from being criminally charged.
In 2003, after a grand jury report on the handling of sexual abuse cases in the Diocese of Rockville Centre sparked public outrage, Bishop William Murphy named Guglielmone to be the diocesan Director of Clergy Personnel.
The Diocese of Dallas was not untouched by the scandal of Catholic sex abuse cases, as a jury awarded $120 million from the diocese to victims in a 1997 case implicating Rudy Kos, a priest of the diocese who has since been laicised.
Between 2000 and 2003, she worked as a reporter and anchor for WBZ-TV, the CBS-owned station in Boston, where she covered the ongoing Catholic church scandal, the Michael Skakel trial and the The Station nightclub fire in West Warwick, Rhode Island.
John Geoghan (1935–2003), key figure in the Roman Catholic sex abuse cases in Boston, Massachusetts in the 1990s and 2000s