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Consultant and Expert Witness:
Mr. Sipe has
served as a consultant or expert witness in 250
cases of clergy abuse of minors and other clergy professional
malfeasance in the United States and Canada, 1988-2006; and deposed 36
times.
Expert Trial Witness:
Mr. Sipe has been presented at
trials as an expert on (1) the sexual abuse of minors; (2) the
sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests; and (3) the sexual
behaviors of members of an organization that professes the complete
sexual abstinence (celibacy) of its members.
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Kimberly
Phillips vs. Fr. Timothy Sugrue, Marist Fathers & the Military
Ordinariate. District Court of Arkansas, Western Division, Little
Rock, 1993
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Daubert
Hearing: Does I-VI vs. Fr. Ed Klister & the Diocese of El Paso,
Texas. (Drs. Doyle, Foote & Sipe) October 20, 1999.
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Expert Witness
at the Sentencing Hearing: Case of the US vs. Fr. Richard Poster
in the Federal Court of Des Moines, Iowa, January 22, 2004.
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Mr. & Mrs. Doe
vs. Fr. H. & the Archdiocese of St. Paul, Minnesota. February 18,
2005.
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Machado vs.
Fr. Arakal & the Diocese of Stockton, Stockton, California, March
11, 2005.
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Kavanaugh vs.
Fr. Pritchard & the Diocese of Oakland, California, Alameda
County, California, July 11, 2005.
Consultant:
To the District
Attorney’s Office of Orange County, California, Rosemary Froeberg,
and her staff (detectives, social service, and lawyers) for
investigation of child abuse. August 20, 2002.
To the District
Attorney’s Office of Los Angeles, Division of Childhood Protection,
Assistant District Attorney William Hodgman and staff. (DA’s from
Ventura County and San Francisco also attended.) December 11, 2002 &
October 14, 2004.
To the staff of
the Attorney General’s office of the State of Massachusetts
preparing to convene a Grand Jury investigation of abuse of minors
by Catholic clergy. December 16, 2002 & January 2, 2003.
With the
Attorneys of the city of Philadelphia conducting a Grand Jury
investigation of minor abuse by Catholic priests. May 1, 2003.
Witness before
the Philadelphia Grand Jury investigating sexual abuse by Catholic
priests. May 8, 2003.
To the Attorney
General of California, district of San Diego (Assistant Peter Quon)
in the criminal prosecution of priests accused of sexual abuse of a
minor. June 15, 2003
Witness before
the National Review Board convened by the American Bishops to
investigate the child abuse crisis. May 6, 2002.
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