A Pennsylvania grand jury details decades of efforts by the Catholic Church to cover up child sex abuse by priests
by Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times
Aug 15, 2018
4 minutes
The 1,356-page report from Pennsylvania begins with a plea: "We, the members of this grand jury, need you to hear this." The Roman Catholic Church's darkest secrets start tumbling out not long afterward.
In the Diocese of Allentown, one priest was confronted by his superiors and said: "Please help me. I sexually molested a boy."
The diocese indeed helped him by letting the priest serve for several more years after the diocese concluded that "the experience will not necessarily be a horrendous trauma" for the boy, the report says.
In the Diocese of Erie, according to the report, one priest confessed to orally and anally raping at least 15
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