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Maryland attorney general’s investigation of child sexual abuse in Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore nears completion

The Maryland Attorney General’s Office’s four-year investigation into the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s history of child sexual abuse at the hands of Catholic priests is almost finished.

A spokesperson for Attorney General Brian Frosh told The Baltimore Sun the investigation is “nearing completion,” but declined to share details. A criminal investigator for the office, former FBI agent Richard Wolf, has contacted many abuse survivors in recent weeks to tell them the report is close to done.

In 2018, the office issued a grand jury subpoena to the archdiocese for records, and Archbishop William E. Lori told clergy the state was investigating. Ultimately, the archdiocese turned over more than 100,000 pages of documents to Wolf and Special Assistant Attorney General Elizabeth Embry.

The attorney general’s report, when finalized, is expected to detail child sexual abuse going back more than 80 years.

It’s unclear whether the investigation will lead to criminal charges. There is no statute of limitations on felony crimes in Maryland, but for someone to be charged in an abuse case, what’s alleged to have happened must have been classified a crime at the time it was committed...

Maryland attorney general’s investigation of child sexual abuse in Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore nears completion (msn.com)

5 comments:

  1. Déjà Vu:
    https://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2019/01/attorney-general-announces-new-phone.html#comment-form

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  2. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious: https://youtu.be/OxdV8x15WHQ

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  3. The Last Detail
    https://www.wmar2news.com/news/local-news/ag-frosh-files-motion-to-release-report-of-child-sexual-abuse-investigation-in-the-archdiocese-of-baltimore

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  4. “I wake up pretty much every day and say, ‘I can’t believe they’re paying me to do this,’” Frosh said.
    https://www.marylandmatters.org/2023/01/03/mild-mannered-a-g-says-he-will-miss-being-able-to-haul-the-bad-guys-into-court/

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    1. He was brought up in affluent suburbia
      And he did get a degree from Columbia
      He climbed the ranks via the act of election
      But, when it comes to chosing his words
      He does seems to lack the art of selection.

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