Prior to release, the office will have to eliminate specific reference to 60 individuals and redact the names of 37 others, Baltimore City Circuit Judge Robert Taylor Jr. stated in his four-page memorandum and order.
“We are pleased with the court’s order this afternoon authorizing release of a redacted version of our report on child sexual abuse by clergy in the Archdiocese of Baltimore,” Attorney General Anthony G. Brown said in a statement Tuesday. “We will work to complete the court-ordered redactions and release the report as expeditiously as possible.”
Taylor left open the possibility of the later release of an unredacted report. That would occur after the 37 people are notified and given a “suitable period” to respond. Taylor would then hold a hearing on the attorney general’s request that a final, unredacted version of the report be released.
The redacted report — based largely on grand jury testimony — identifies 158 Catholic priests accused of sexual abuse, including 43 that were never publicly named by the Archdiocese of Baltimore, as part of a four-year investigation into child sexual abuse by members of the clergy. The investigation also identified more than 600 victims of sexual abuse over the past 80 years...
Redacted report on Archdiocese of Baltimore sexual abuse may be released soon (thedailyrecord.com)
A sanitized report version
ReplyDeleteWill hide the perversion
Into the fourth dimension
To dampen the aversion.
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ReplyDelete"Unfortunately, most of the abusers and those who concealed their wrongdoing are dead and no longer subject to prosecution."
Which gives a new twist to "The Wheels of Justice Turn Slowly…."