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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReport shows 'astonishing' depravity in sexual abuse of more than 600 in Baltimore's Catholic archdi
A four-year investigation of Baltimores Catholic archdiocese reveals the scope of 80 years of child sex abuse and torture and how church officials often covered it up and, in some cases, paved the way for further abuse.
Among the accounts: A deacon who admitted abusing more than 100 children. A priest who chained and whipped boys for his gratification. Another priest who, after receiving psychiatric treatment, went on to abuse 20 students at a Baltimore boys school.
The Maryland Attorney Generals Office released Wednesday its Report on Child Sexual Abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Its nearly 500 pages tell how 156 clergy and other Church officials tormented more than 600 children and young adults, dating back to the 1940s. The Baltimore archdiocese covers Baltimore City and nine counties in Central and Western Maryland.
Spurred by the reports publication, the General Assembly sent a bill Wednesday to Democratic Gov. Wes Moores desk that would make it easier for survivors to sue the institutions that employed their abusers.
The report names at least 36 abusers who are not listed on the Archdiocese of Baltimores online list of 152 priests and brothers credibly accused of abuse. Ten more abusers names were redacted. Other diocesan officials identities are redacted also, and the Catholic Church paid at least some of the legal costs for a group of people who sought to have their names shielded.
Today is a win for me, said Donna Von Den Bosch, a retired nurse and victim of Father Joseph Maskell and Father Neil Magnus in Baltimore. Its not entirely what I wanted because a lot has been redacted, but I just take it one day at a time.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/bs-md-baltimore-catholic-sex-abuse-report-20230405-ulo3twkyvndajo7dkq3yuoszbm-story.html
TheBlackAdder
(28,201 posts).
Of course we're conservative. We've only molested and average of 10 children a year!
Gotta watch this clip from the start to the end.
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Scrivener7
(50,949 posts)Their victims tried for DECADES to get someone to acknowledge the two of them were raping high school girls.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(7,930 posts)serves his time jail and, when released, moves to another country with his Catholic provided pension.
Pension was payoff from Catholic church for his guilty plea... prevented Law Enforcement from digging through their records.
really powerful documentary.
Scrivener7
(50,949 posts)BlueWaveNeverEnd
(7,930 posts)Scrivener7
(50,949 posts)Absolutely no remorse, and trying unsuccessfully to hide his glee about what he had done.