While it sounds like it’s a burden for the former Life Teen founder, it’s actually going to work in his favor. An Arizona court has ruled that Monsignor Dale Fushek will be tried separately for molesting 5 boys back in the 1980’s. However, the county attorney is rightfully upset with the ruling since the separate trials denies the prosecution the ability to explain to a jury what was Fushek’s pattern and practice of abuse. This is a central point in the criminal proceedings just as it is always important in priest abuse civil lawsuits. If the jury doesn’t hear about a priest abuser’s pattern and practice and doesn’t hear about how the bishops covered it up by moving the offending priest, the jury never gets the full picture of what happened. The same is true when victims are not allowed access to the internal church files documenting the abuse and the bishop’s modus operandi of covering it up by transferring the priest. Church documents can show that the diocese knew that the particular priest was an abuser and that the diocese chose to ignore such information. In New Hampshire, a review of internal church documents revealed that the bishop had promised the offending priest that he (the bishop) would destroy psychological records that showed the priest was a danger to the community. This is the stuff we find in the internal documents of the church when we actually are allowed by the courts to review the documents.