Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report On Catholic Dioceses Sex Abuse Is Released

As previously reported, last month the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ordered the public release (with certain redactions) of a 900-page grand jury report on allegations of child sexual abuse, failure to report abuse, and other acts endangering children by persons associated with 6 Pennsylvania Catholic dioceses.  The full text of the report was made public yesterday. Statements on the release of the report, or in anticipation of it, were issued by the Catholic dioceses of Allentown, Erie, GreensburgHarrisburg, Pittsburgh, and Scranton. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports on the statement by Pennsylvania's attorney general upon release of the document.