"admitted allegation"?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 3/9/2011 11:06 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>By confession or independent verification.

Yes, I got the intent, but part of the usage grated.  Isn't it a
*crime* that would be admitted (confessed), not an allegation?  "I
confess to the allegation" or I confess to the alleged crime"? (On
second reading, establishing / verifying an allegation now sounds OK to me.)

Joel

>DanG
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>On Mar 9, 2011 9:58 PM, "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia is quoted as having said, in
> > response to the grand jury report, that  ' there were no priests in
> > active ministry "who have an admitted or established allegation of
> > sexual abuse of a minor against them." '
> >
> > NYTimes, March 9, "Philadelphia Cardinal Suspending 21 Priests", by
> > Catharaine Q. Seelye.
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> > How does an "allegation" become "admitted"?  Or "established"?
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> > Joel
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