Catholic bishops covered up 'hundreds' of sexual abuses in Pennsylvania

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Catholic bishops covered up 'hundreds' of sexual abuses in Pennsylvania

Associated Press in Altoona, Pennsylvania
Tuesday 1 March 2016 17.17 GMT

Two Roman Catholic bishops who led a central Pennsylvania diocese helped cover up the sexual abuse of hundreds of children by over 50 priests or religious leaders over a 40-year period, according to a grand jury report issued on Tuesday.

The 147-page report on sexual abuse in the Altoona-Johnstown Diocese was based partly on evidence from a secret diocesan archive uncovered through a search warrant executed in August, said Pennsylvania attorney general Kathleen Kane, who announced the findings.

“These predators desecrated a sacred trust and preyed upon their victims in the very places where they should have felt most safe,” Kane said in a statement. “Just as troubling is the cover-up perpetrated by clergy leaders that allowed this abuse to continue for decades.”

No criminal charges are being filed in the case because some abusers have died, the statute of limitations has expired and, in some cases, victims are too traumatized to testify, she said.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/01/pennsylvania-catholic-bishops-cover-up-priest-sexual-abuses-of-children

[nichomachus]

1. No criminal charges, but they should sue those rapist and rapist enablers

Until they have to sell pencils on a street corner to cover their expenses.

Anyone who donates one penny to this criminal enterprise is a fool.

[Bluenorthwest]

2. And yet society continues to permit this organization to denigrate LGBT while pretending to be God's

voice. 'He drives an old car! So it is all good! Suffer the children!'

[trotsky]

3. He washed feet! He said "Who am I to judge?"

I guess he was talking about child rapists.