Pope John Paul II covered up child abuse as cardinal in Poland, says report

The late Polish pope John Paul II knew about child abuse in Poland's Catholic church years before becoming pontiff and helped cover it up, private broadcaster TVN reported Sunday...

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230306-pope-john-paul-ii-covered-up-child-abuse-as-cardinal

Theodore McCarrick Abuse Allegations: Vatican Report Says Pope John Paul II Knew : NPR

...The most striking revelation is that Pope John Paul II, who was made a saint in 2014, appointed McCarrick to the position of archbishop of Washington despite a letter from the late New York Cardinal John O'Connor in 1999 detailing allegations against him...

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/10/933382721/vatican-report-says-pope-john-paul-ii-knew-about-allegations-against-former-card

Alleged McCarrick victim says in lawsuit he told Pope John Paul of sex abuse in 1988 | TheHill

A man claims in a new lawsuit that he told then-Pope John Paul II in 1998 about being sexually abused as a child by then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, but the Vatican did nothing to respond to the claim. The lawsuit was filed Thursday by James Grein, who alleges that McCarrick, a family friend, abused him for decades beginning when he was 11, The Associated Press reported. Some of the abuse allegedly occurred on trips that he took with McCarrick to other states, as well as to the Vatican. https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/473280-mccarrick-victim-says-in-lawsuit-he-told-pope-of-sex-abuse-in