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Related: About this forumPennsylvania SC approves release of 900-page grand jury report about Catholic clergy sex abuse
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Friday that a landmark 900-page grand jury report about child sex abuse by Catholic clergy should be released as soon as Aug. 8 but with some of the 300 predators names temporarily redacted.
A court battle has been underway for weeks over questions of fairness and transparency, with prosecutors and abuse advocates saying the results of an 18-month investigation must be released for justice to be done. Ten news organizations, including the Morning Call in Allentown, Pa., and The Washington Post, joined in a brief urging the release of the grand jury report.
But people named in the report said that they have not had adequate opportunity to protect their reputations and could be severely harmed as a result.
The grand jury report comes after several other explosive ones in Pennsylvania targeting institutional sex abuse in other Catholic dioceses and at Pennsylvania State, among other places and is expected to be sobering and rather graphic, Erie Bishop Lawrence Persico said this month.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2018/07/27/pennsylvania-supreme-court-oks-release-of-900-page-grand-jury-report-about-catholic-clergy-sex-abuse/?utm_term=.b297d9d25914A court battle has been underway for weeks over questions of fairness and transparency, with prosecutors and abuse advocates saying the results of an 18-month investigation must be released for justice to be done. Ten news organizations, including the Morning Call in Allentown, Pa., and The Washington Post, joined in a brief urging the release of the grand jury report.
But people named in the report said that they have not had adequate opportunity to protect their reputations and could be severely harmed as a result.
The grand jury report comes after several other explosive ones in Pennsylvania targeting institutional sex abuse in other Catholic dioceses and at Pennsylvania State, among other places and is expected to be sobering and rather graphic, Erie Bishop Lawrence Persico said this month.
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Pennsylvania SC approves release of 900-page grand jury report about Catholic clergy sex abuse (Original Post)
Major Nikon
Jul 2018
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Voltaire2
(13,154 posts)1. I feel so sorry for the people named in the report
who wont have adequate opportunity to protect their reputations.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)3. They will be forgiven by the holy poltergeist
So there's that.
MineralMan
(146,329 posts)2. Not enough opportunity to prepare, eh?
Hard cheese, folks. Perhaps they should have thought of that much, much earlier.
True Dough
(17,320 posts)4. Glad the names are only temporarily redacted
although I don't agree with the censorship in the first place.
300 in one state. This just shows that the problem of pervert priests is not a thing of the past. Not even close!