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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Pennsylvania's attorney general and lawyers for current and retired priests came down on opposite sides over an effort by news organizations to unseal an extensive report into child sexual abuse and attempts to cover it up in several Roman Catholic dioceses.
Attorney General Josh Shapiro said in a filing to the state Supreme Court supporting the release that his office opposes
requests by unnamed parties to present their own evidence, question witnesses and rewrite the grand jury report "in accordance with their preferred view of the facts."
Lawyers for nearly two dozen unnamed current and retired clergy members filed a group response that described the report as replete with errors and "improper assertions," arguing that without revisions the report will irreparably harm their reputations and deny them the due process the law guarantees.
"The gross mischaracterizations, oversimplifications and outright erroneous conclusions in the report that violate the Investigative Grand Jury Act and constitutional due process must be corrected before the report is released to the public," they told the court.
https://www.indianagazette.com/news/state/clergy-argue-against-quick-release-of-child-sex-abuse-report/article_ea0d8345-5ec7-5281-8a46-93924518eefd.html
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(12,858 posts)victim of sexual abuse are allowed to bring suit vs perpetrator
Blog catholics4change (women running blog areCatholics in Philadelphia) has a lot of info about the problem of clergy sexual abuse, esp in PA.
Many of the very well-documented charges of sexual abuse in the (Evangelical) Sovreign GracMinistry of CJ Mahoney were thrown out because the allowed time to file had expired