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Friday, April 7, 2023

AG's report documents past child sexual abuse in Balt. Archdiocese

Our focus on Midday today is the Attorney General’s Report on Child Sexual Abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

A warning to our listeners: for the rest of the hour, we’re going to talk about child sexual abuse.

Yesterday, Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown released the long-awaited Catholic clergy sexual abuse report. It chronicles more than 80 years of abuse by more than 150 Catholic clergy members, seminarians, deacons and Archdiocese employees, and their victimization of more than 600 children and young people.

The Catholic Church is by no means the only religious faith institution which has had clergy break trust and act criminally with their congregants, nor are religious institutions the only professions in which abusers prey on children. But the Catholic Church is the sole focus of this particular report...

AG's report documents past child sexual abuse in Balt. Archdiocese | WYPR

3 comments:

  1. By the time they get around to them, they'll be gone!
    ". . .nor are religious institutions the only professions in which abusers prey on children."

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  2. Sneak Preview Part Two:
    "The Report is not a criminal charging document or a finding of guilt."
    https://www.marylandattorneygeneral.gov/press/2023/082223.pdf

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