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Virginia Attorney General Opens Investigation of...Sex Abuse and Coverup in the Catholic Church
The Washington Post ^ | 10/24/18 | Michelle Boorstein and Laura Vozella

Posted on 10/31/2018 6:20:30 PM PDT by marshmallow

Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring announced Wednesday his office is running an “ongoing investigation” into the state’s two Catholic dioceses and whether there has been any sexual abuse and coverup. Herring’s remarks come a day after D.C.'s top prosecutor made a similar announcement.

In a late morning news conference, Herring said the probe was launched in response to a massive Pennsylvania grand jury report released this summer and not with specific knowledge of unreported abuse or a coverup in Virginia. However, he told reporters, after reading the report: “Like so many Americans … I felt sick.”

The Pennsylvania report described hundreds of Catholic priests across the state abusing children over seven decades, protected by a hierarchy of church leaders who covered it up. It identified more than 1,000 child victims.

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TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: abusivepriests; markherring; virginia
Full headline: Virginia attorney general opens investigation of possible child sex abuse and coverup in the Catholic Church
1 posted on 10/31/2018 6:20:30 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Coverup around the world. Going on for decades.


2 posted on 10/31/2018 6:29:51 PM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: marshmallow

Bottom story of the day?


3 posted on 10/31/2018 6:57:02 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: BobL

“Bottom story of the day?”

Interesting choice of words for the story at hand. In a sane world you and everyone else would be appalled and the rcc would be forced into bankruptcy, but I guess since Satan is still blinding you and most of the others it’s wink wink and all is sweep under the rug.

Vengeance is mine says the Lord God and you or your church of the dead don’t have enough holy water to put those flames out.

Absolutely pitiful


4 posted on 10/31/2018 7:48:45 PM PDT by mrobisr
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