A redacted report released Wednesday by Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown alleges 156 Catholic “clergy members, seminarians, deacons, teachers and other employees of the Archdiocese of Baltimore,” have abused nearly 600 children since the 1940s, CNN reports.
The report comes after a four-year-long investigation into the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
NPR reports:
Former Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh launched the probe in 2019 and announced its completion in November, saying investigators had reviewed over 100,000 pages of documents dating back to the 1940s and interviewed hundreds of victims and witnesses.
According to CNN, the report says, “From the 1940s through 2002, over a hundred priests and other Archdiocese personnel engaged in horrific and repeated abuse of the most vulnerable children in their communities while Archdiocese leadership looked the other way. Time and again, members of the Church’s hierarchy resolutely refused to acknowledge allegations of child sexual abuse for as long as possible.”
Furthermore, the report reads Additionally, the Office of the Attorney General created an email address and telephone hotline for […]
I suspect there will be more coming out on this..as if there hasn’t already been a mass disclosure of similar acts. But this time, I suspect there will be many who are, were or might have been catholics whose reactions will be louder, greater in number.