Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Grand jury names 20 Greensburg priests, 99 from Pittsburgh in Catholic sex abuse report

From Pennsylvania-

Systemic efforts to cover-up sexual abuse by clergy in six Pennsylvania Catholic dioceses included not only church officials and bishops in Greensburg and Pittsburgh but reached as high as communications with the Vatican, revealed a long-anticipated grand jury report made public Tuesday. 

Backed by more than a dozen adult victims of priest abuse in six Catholic dioceses, state Attorney General Josh Shapiro blasted the church. He said the grand jury that sat for two years in Pittsburgh heard searing testimony from dozens of witnesses and corroborated most of the allegations made against 301 “predator priests” in more than a half million documents secreted away in church archives. 

Of those, 20 worked in the Greensburg diocese and 99 in the one based in Pittsburgh.
“There have been other reports of abuse within the Catholic church, but none this extensive,” Shapiro said Tuesday from his Harrisburg office, moments after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court released an edited version of the 884-page report. “It paints a complete picture of abuse and cover-up in every diocese in Pennsylvania.” 

More here-

https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/13973314-74/grand-jury-names-20-greensburg-priests-99-from-pittsburgh-in-catholic-sex

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