PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Inquirer
By Mark Fazlollah
Inquirer staff writer
District Attorney Lynne Abraham announced that today she will release her grand jury's report on sex abuse by priests from the Philadelphia Archdiocese.
In a news release this morning, Abraham's office said the district attorney will release the report to the public after an 11 a.m. news conference.
The report, which has been three years in the making, is expected to detail how scores of priest attacked children across the region and how church leaders protected the abusers.
Dozens of lawsuits against the Philadelphia church have charged that its former leaders - Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua and Cardinal John Krol - shielded priests who raped, sodomized and performed other crimes on children from their parishes.