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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. 
Consultant:
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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With the
Attorneys of the city of Philadelphia conducting a Grand Jury
investigation of minor abuse by Catholic priests. May 1, 2003.
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Witness before
the Philadelphia Grand Jury investigating sexual abuse by Catholic
priests. May 8, 2003. |
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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 |
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Witness before
the National Review Board convened by the American Bishops to
investigate the child abuse crisis. May 6, 2002. |
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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. |
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