This warning was summarily ignored. A single accusation of child molestation was not going to gum up the gears of the fund-raising machine.<\/p>\n
But about ten years later, another accusation surfaced. And another. And then another, this one from the Episcopal church and school in Houston where Tucker worked after St. Stephen’s.<\/p>\n
That’s when the Episcopal Diocese of Texas went back and looked at Woodruff’s notes from his 1993 talk with Haslanger. And that’s when diocesan officials figured they had a problem on their hands: It looked like, for the past 40 years, a series of diocesan and school authorities had conspired to cover up allegations of sexual abuse. Now the school and diocese are facing a $45 million lawsuit for that cover-up. And now, say Haslanger and the other two plaintiffs, the diocese is abusing them all over again.<\/p>\n