Report details sexual abuse by more than 300 priests in Pennsylvania's Catholic Churchhttps://www.cnn.com/2018/08/14/us/pennsylvania-catholic-church-grand-jury/index.htmlA new grand jury report says that internal documents from six Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania show that more than 300 "predator priests" have been credibly accused of sexually abusing more than 1,000 child victims.
"We believe that the real number of children whose records were lost or who were afraid ever to come forward is in the thousands," the grand jury report says.
"Priests were raping little boys and girls, and the men of God who were responsible for them not only did nothing; they hid it all. For decades. Monsignors, auxiliary bishops, bishops, archbishops, cardinals have mostly been protected; many, including some named in this report, have been promoted."
The lengthy report, released Tuesday afternoon, investigates clergy sexual abuse daying back to 1947 in six dioceses: Allentown, Erie, Greensburg, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh and Scranton.
Pennsylvania's two other dioceses, Philadelphia and Altoona-Johnstown, have been the subjects of earlier grand jury reports, which found similarly damaging information about clergy and bishops in those dioceses.
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Haha, as this post opened up, I was trying to figure out what kind of priest a "chomo" priest is. I thought maybe it's something I hadn't heard of. I guess you meant homo, as in homosexual. I guess it would be more accurate to call them pedophiles. Bisexual pedophiles maybe? Since they were doing it with boys and girls. This is sickening news, but sadly, it's hardly news. There have been so many abuse scandals within the Catholic church that it's ridiculous. I feel like there really need to be some new measure put in place. There needs to be some church-wide independent investigations. The church is pretty rich though and they have great lawyers that seem good at covering things up.