PENNSYLVANIA
CBS Pittsburgh
By Andy Sheehan
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Outraged over the sex abuse scandal in the Altoona-Johnstown Diocese, state lawmakers are calling for justice for the alleged victims.
The alleged crimes against children are as sickening as they are hard to hear, but in announcing the grand jury findings this week, Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane made a point to list them.
“Children reported having their genitals fondled, being forced to participate, watch or permit masturbation, being force to perform or receive oral sex from/or for priests and being anally raped,” Kane said.
The grand jury found that over a 40-year period, 50 diocesan priests and religious leaders sexually abused hundreds of child victims.
In the report, late Bishop James Hogan and retired Bishop Joseph Adamec are alleged to have warded off law enforcement while they shuffled predatory priests around the diocese.
But since the statute of limitations has run out, neither Adamec nor any priests still living can be criminally charged or prosecuted. The victims also cannot seek civil compensation.
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