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Posted on 03/04/2026 9:29:55 PM PST by chickenlips
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Attorney General Peter Neronha released a sweeping report Wednesday detailing decades of child sexual abuse and systemic coverup within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence, identifying 72 clergy members as “credibly accused” of misconduct.
The report is the culmination of a yearslong investigation stemming from a 2019 agreement between the state’s top prosecutor and former Bishop Thomas Tobin. The agreement granted state investigators unprecedented access to the church’s “secret archives,” personnel files and internal records dating back to 1950.
“Generations of Rhode Island victims, their families and others who have suffered the impacts of this trauma deserve to know the truth of what occurred,” Neronha wrote in the report, describing the abuse as a “sordid and shameful history” spanning decades in communities across the state.
The investigation did not produce evidence of any recent child sexual misconduct by clergy, and no new criminal charges were announced Wednesday. The most recent known incident of misconduct in the diocese was in 2011, according to the report.
However, Neronha said the investigation led state prosecutors to bring criminal charges against four current and former priests for suspected child sexual abuse while working in the diocese.
The Revs. John Petrocelli, James Silva and Kevin Fisette were indicted during the investigation and are awaiting trial. The fourth clergyman, the Rev. Edward Kelley, was declared incompetent to stand trial and died at the state psychiatric hospital in 2022, according to the report.
The men with the pending cases are not included on the list of 72 clergy members credibly accused. There are more than 300 documented victims.
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1Co 7:9 But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
Child molesters ought to face the death penalty or life in prison with no parole. End of story.
Been known for decades and it just keeps going. It is the power structure.
Nothing reported in the last 15 years, so that’s something, but the offenses and coverup should have never happened.
The boy raping community has gravitated towards the Catholic Cult for centuries because of the cover it gave them by not allowing priest to marry. It didn’t help that it gave them unfettered access to fresh young quire boys . It’s clear that Satan has own the Catholic cult for a very long time and that Epstein’s Island, as bad as it was, paled in comparison to the Vatican.
Nothing reported really doesn't mean much than nothing was reported.
All we can do is hope that means there was nothing to report as opposed to just a more skillful coverup.
Shouldn’t the word “Catholic” be in the headline?
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