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What happened to forgiving sins? That’s what a woman is asking after filing suit against the Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn for firing her after learning she had been convicted of manslaughter.

Barbara Marengo says in her Brooklyn federal-court discrimination suit that she’d been hired in 2010 to work in a church property office. But after a few months, she was told she had to go because of the conviction.

She’d been convicted for leaving her 3-year-old daughter in the care of an ex-boyfriend, who killed the child in 2001. She was paroled after 18 months. Church officials did not reply to requests for comment.

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