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Crime / 15.08.2018

On Tuesday, the Pennsylvania Attorney General released a grand jury report documenting seven decades of child sexual abuse in the Keystone State's Roman Catholic churches. Over 300 accused priests are listed by name.  The grand jury alleges that church leaders, the Diocese of Scranton among them, covered up the scope and frequency of these crimes to protect abusers and the church's reputation. The report, the result of a two year investigation, is the first of its kind to examine abuse in the Catholic Church on a statewide level.  It reviewed 500,000 pages of documents turned over by the Dioceses of Allentown,...