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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Sat Jul 14, 2018, 09:12 PM Jul 2018

90 (sexual abuse) offenders in Pittsburgh diocese alone?

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

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90 (sexual abuse) offenders in Pittsburgh diocese alone? (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Jul 2018 OP
Similar to the findings in Boston in the early 2000's mn9driver Jul 2018 #1
I live in Pittsburgh, there's a fucking church on every corner, yortsed snacilbuper Jul 2018 #2
I grew up in New Kensington left-of-center2012 Jul 2018 #3
I grew up in bobtown, yortsed snacilbuper Jul 2018 #5
I don't know 'bobtown' left-of-center2012 Jul 2018 #6
I had to look it up: Sinistrous Jul 2018 #7
Plus the perverts vote for trump, yortsed snacilbuper Jul 2018 #4

mn9driver

(4,425 posts)
1. Similar to the findings in Boston in the early 2000's
Sat Jul 14, 2018, 09:34 PM
Jul 2018

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)
5. I grew up in bobtown,
Sat Jul 14, 2018, 09:57 PM
Jul 2018

catholic and Methodist church. polish club and rod and gun club, which my Mom called the rotten bum club.

Sinistrous

(4,249 posts)
7. I had to look it up:
Sat Jul 14, 2018, 10:36 PM
Jul 2018

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.

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