“…Montgomery County
District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman asked the county coroner to examine the
body of Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua last week because the timing of the
88-year-old prelate's death struck her as "peculiar," she said
Friday.
Ferman acknowledged that
she enlisted county Coroner Walter I. Hofman because the cardinal died one day
after a Philadelphia judge said Bevilacqua could be called to testify at the
child sex-abuse and endangerment trial of three current and former priests.
"I had the same
reaction that many people had and that many people communicated with me,"
Ferman told reporters at a news conference in Norristown. "It struck many
of us as odd, as peculiar, that the cardinal passed away so suddenly after the
court ruling. . . . I just thought that someone should make sure that nothing
happened that was inappropriate."
Ferman said she had no
information to suggest that the cardinal was the victim of foul play or an
unnatural death. She said her office had not opened an investigation…”
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