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HARRISBURG (PA) A grand jury report detailing Catholic clergy sexual abuse in the state includes information about more than 90 offenders,
and a court document released Friday strongly suggests that could be the number for the Pittsburgh diocese alone.
If confirmed, that would be the largest number of potential sexual abusers ever publicly disclosed in the Diocese of Pittsburgh, which covers six counties in Western Pennsylvania.
(Previously) the diocese reported in 2004 that 45 priests and deacons who served between 1950 and 2002 ... faced credible accusations that they sexually abused a minor.
New details about the investigation of the Pittsburgh diocese emerged amid a flurry of redacted filings released Friday, as attorneys for roughly two dozen current and former clergy members appeal to the state Supreme Court,
asking the justices to block or alter portions of the more than 800-page report from public release.
The grand jury report covers the dioceses of Pittsburgh, Greensburg, Allentown, Erie, Harrisburg and Scranton and is expected to include information about seven decades of alleged abuse.
Nine media organizations, including the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Philadelphia Inquirer/Daily News, have petitioned the court for access to the full report.
http://www.post-gazette.com/news/faith-religion/2018/07/13/Grand-jury-report-could-name-90-offender-s-in-Pittsburgh-diocese-alone/stories/201807130197
mn9driver
(4,425 posts)The percentages are similar to the general population. The real crime is that the Church has historically protected these priests and often reassigned them to new positions where they could do it again.
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)my polling place is a catholic church.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Bars and churches everywhere.
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)catholic and Methodist church. polish club and rod and gun club, which my Mom called the rotten bum club.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Sinistrous
(4,249 posts)per Wikipedia:
Bobtown is an unincorporated coal town and census-designated place in Greene County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 757.
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)they had a hundred maga signs in front of the church.