Posted on 08/14/2018 3:32:23 PM PDT by SkyPilot
The long-awaited state grand jury report into sexual abuse in six Pennsylvania dioceses, including Pittsburgh and Greensburg, has finally been released.
The 884-page document, two years in the making, shines a light into the dark corners of these dioceses going back seven decades, exposing the predators and the efforts of their bishops to protect them.
“Today, the most comprehensive report on child sexual abuse within the church ever produced in our country was released,” Attorney General Josh Shapiro said. “Pennsylvanians can finally learn the extent of sexual abuse in these dioceses. For the first time, we can all begin to understand the systematic cover up by church leaders that followed. The abuse scarred every diocese. The cover up was sophisticated. The church protected the institution at all costs.”
The report begins with the following statement:
“We, the members of this grand jury, need you to hear this. We know some of you have head some of it before. There have been other reports about child sex abuse within the Catholic Church. But never on this scale. For many of us, those earlier stories happened someplace else, someplace away. Now we know the truth: it happened everywhere.”
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Video at the site.
Full Title: 301 ‘Predator Priests’ Named In Pa. Grand Jury Sex Abuse Report: ‘They Were Raping Little Boys & Girls’
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Just a “few bad apples”... /s
How many priests were there in Pennsylvania at that time? Three hundred is a huge number of priests for one state.
Burn them !!!!Burn them all !!
Nearly 25% of all priest are dangerous child molesters. Another 35% are sick homosexuals doing each other.
The decadence and hedonism has been going on for centuries.
The rot starts at the top with the current atheist pope.
I still have faith in the words Christ spoke -
“Jesus replied, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven. And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” Mat 16:17-18
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301 over a period of 7 decades.
Irredeemably sick.
lots of evangelical churches around where the manliest men are from catholic churches. they drop in because they’re afraid of exposing their kids to the priests.
Wut?
“How many priests were there in Pennsylvania at that time? Three hundred is a huge number of priests for one state.”
Over 7 decades? There were many thousands of priests in PA.
Even in 2017 there were 2,509 priests in PA. https://www.pacatholic.org/resources/pa-catholic-statistics/
“Nearly 25% of all priest are dangerous child molesters.”
No. No where near that many.
“Wut?”
Most of the cases are decades old.
It goes back 70 years so I am not sure how much the older recollections can be totally relied on. Also if it follows the facts of most other church sexual abuse cases the majority are predatory homosexuals. Which I think has more to do with the nature of homosexuality than the priesthood. Still heads better roll.
Mostly boys.
Unfortunately, the priesthood is a magnet for pedophiles.
That said, I grew up Catholic, attended Catholic schools, was an altar boy,
and never experienced any problems with priests.
“One boy was forced to stand on a bed in a rectory, strip naked and pose as Christ on the cross for the priests. They took photos of their victim, adding them to a collection of child pornography which they produced and shared on church grounds,” Shapiro said.
Shapiro said the priests would mark their victims by giving them gifts.
“To make it easier to target their victims, the priests gave their favored boys gifts – gold crosses to wear as necklaces. The crosses were markings of which boys had been groomed for abuse,” Shapiro said.
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