http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010...urch-sex-abuse
"By 2002 the then cardinal had signed what critics claim was an incitement to the obstruction of justice. A letter he circulated to bishops the previous year reminded them that internal church inquiries into certain serious offences were covered by what is known as papal secrecy, for which the penalty is excommunication."
Read this decree
http://www.catholiccincinnati.org/fi...pdf/Decree.pdf
it states that the church will comply with civil cases but not that it will give up it's priests to be tried. They will be handled INTERNALLY.