Posted on 08/14/2018 1:24:14 PM PDT by Enlightened1
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — 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.”
The report cites 301 priests, clergy and lay teachers with credible allegations against them. There are 99 in the Diocese of Pittsburgh alone.
Of those 99, a group of four groomed and violently sexually assaulted young boys, said Shapiro.
“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.
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predatory = homo/fag
In before the, “They don’t diddle little boys more than any other group” comments.
They should line the road with these pervs hanging from telephone poles.
The abuse scarred every diocese. The cover up was sophisticated. The church protected the institution at all costs.
Completely typical institutional behavior, thinking of the coverup and whitewash, not the underlying bad acts.
Looks like there will be a run on millstones.
“Someone is doing the raping.” Trump.
Several years ago, it was found out that a staff member of a friend’s evangelical church was molesting a couple boys. The pastor took about two minutes to catch his breath, then he called the police.
That’s how you do it.
I was raised Catholic. The priest at my high school was suddenly transferred. Years later it came out that he was a pedophile homo predator. Instead of prosecuting him, these morons transferred him to a place where he was dealing with even younger children.
The priest at my own church was one of the first people in America to die of AIDS.
Bunch of sick scum.
Filthy sodomite cabal.
301 pedo priests charged. How many more got away with it?
If you did that, half the churches would have to close.
I know of two perv priests in my neck of the woods. One was merely moved to another unsuspecting community. Probably the same with the other.
Wait a second. 300 in PA alone? That means the nationwide the number realistically could go 10.000 or higher...
301 Priests were not charged.
Only 2 are being charged as a result of this Grand Jury.
The statute of limitations has expired on the rest.
Many of the Priests in this report are dead.
This report is really all about the Church’s
shovel-and-shut-up tactics.
True to some extent, but I can’t recall Lutherans or Methodists having quite this problem.
That’s too good for them.
Public execution by meat grinder.............................
Nor do I.
I get into arguments about this with my fellow Catholics, but I think the celibacy thing is actually attractive to sexually maladjusted people. Not that there’s anything wrong with being celibate, but for these pervs it gave them the perfect cover they were seeking.
Just wow. Wonder if priests were connected to our government-media pedo’s...
That’s a RICO waiting to happen.
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