September 29, 2005

Church leaders cannot be charged

PENNSYLVANIA
Avon Grove Sun

By:Michael Crist 09/29/2005

The leaders of the Philadelphia Archdiocese - including two former archbishops - actively concealed sexual abuse by priests for decades, but no criminal charges can be brought against the church or its priests because of the constraints of state law, according to grand jury findings released last week.
Following the nation's longest-running grand jury probe into priest abuse, the scathing report documents assaults on minors by more than 60 priests since 1967, and alleges that former archbishops Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua and Cardinal John Krol covered up the abuse.

Posted by kshaw at September 29, 2005 08:36 AM