Seven lawsuits filed or being filed Tuesday accuse the Chicago Archdiocese of failing to protect children from sexual abuse at the former Holy Angels parish, where the alleged abuse spanned 1969 to 2002. The claims center on four priests who served at the South Side parish, and primarily involve Black children, according to attorneys who discussed the cases at a news conference Tuesday. The alleged victims included children as young as 5. Attorneys said about 30 victims are included in the claims and that the count is growing. They said they are also working with more than 100 people in cases of this kind, though that figure was not identified as the number of Holy Angels survivors. The lawsuits allege not only abuse by individual priests, but also that the archdiocese failed over decades to meet its responsibility to protect children. The claims have not been established in court. One priest named in the latest allegations is the Rev. George Clements, who died in 2019. A separate lawsuit previously accused him of repeatedly abusing a boy from 1974 to 1979.