51.   Prosecutors had argued that while the accuser reported sexual abuse by Geoghan earlier, he reported the rape allegations three years later.

52.   Regulators feel the most notable change to date involves how child abuse is reported.

53.   Several congressional hearings and a nationwide, toll-free hotline for women to report abuse have focused attention on sex crimes in the Army.

54.   Several panelists said they believed that it was harder for women or girls to report abuse by their priest than for men or boys.

55.   Sixty percent of the women who reported some abuse said they did not make a formal complaint.

56.   Spurred by recent accusations of sexual abuse by members of the clergy, Conley said those who report abuse should not be turned away because of timing.

57.   State officials said they were establishing an emergency phone line to report similar abuses.

58.   Tamberg said he did not know whether the accusation was received on a hotline created by Mahony to report sexual abuse or by some other means.

59.   The archdiocese decided to handle the case informally, without reporting the abuse to the police.

60.   The brothers said they were from a devout Catholic family and that they had been too afraid to report the abuse as it was happening, only later.