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Related: About this forumPennsylvania grand jury finds 50 Roman Catholic priests raped hundreds of children
Hundreds of children in western Pennsylvania were sexually assaulted by about 50 Roman Catholic priests over four decades while bishops covered up their actions, according to a state grand jury report released on Tuesday.
The report found that former Altoona-Johnstown Diocese Bishop James Hogan, who died in 2005, and his successor, Joseph Adamec, who retired in 2011, worked to cover pedophile priests tracks and that some local law enforcement agencies also avoided investigating abuse allegations, said state Attorney General Kathleen Kane.
The heinous crimes these children endured are absolutely unconscionable, Kane told reporters in unveiling the report, based on a two-year investigation. These predators desecrated a sacred trust and preyed upon their victims in the very places where they should have felt most safe.
Revelations that some priests had habitually sexually abused children and that bishops had systematically covered up those crimes burst onto the world stage in 2002 when the Boston Globe reported widespread abuse in the Boston Archdiocese.
The report found that former Altoona-Johnstown Diocese Bishop James Hogan, who died in 2005, and his successor, Joseph Adamec, who retired in 2011, worked to cover pedophile priests tracks and that some local law enforcement agencies also avoided investigating abuse allegations, said state Attorney General Kathleen Kane.
The heinous crimes these children endured are absolutely unconscionable, Kane told reporters in unveiling the report, based on a two-year investigation. These predators desecrated a sacred trust and preyed upon their victims in the very places where they should have felt most safe.
Revelations that some priests had habitually sexually abused children and that bishops had systematically covered up those crimes burst onto the world stage in 2002 when the Boston Globe reported widespread abuse in the Boston Archdiocese.
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Can't wait until someone tells me that these rapists shouldn't be in prison and that the RCC isn't the problem.
This organization needs to be stopped and those that enabled these rapists need to be in jail.
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Pennsylvania grand jury finds 50 Roman Catholic priests raped hundreds of children (Original Post)
Goblinmonger
Mar 2016
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R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)1. Hell on earth.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)2. The bastards in charge should all be in jail.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)3. Oh but don't you see?
That will only hurt the victims! Somehow!
RussBLib
(9,035 posts)4. ever get the feeling that the RCC exists simply for priests to get laid?
They sure go to great lengths to cover it up. And when you consider how they condemn homosexuality, well, we have a classic case of hypocrisy.
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)6. South Park did it
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)5. The RCC is the problem, but the problem is also much bigger
You have the same behavior going on in protestant churches, but the blame should extend beyond the churches. There had to have been a network of volunteers, parents, and law enforcement that knew what was going on, but didn't hold the rapists responsible. There's something about religion that enables evil behavior and allows it to flourish.