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Attorney General Kathleen Kane will be in Johnstown Tuesday to announce criminal charges.
Kane’s office is not being specific, only that this is related to a major investigation.
There is speculation that it will be related to the sex abuse cover-up inside the Altoona Johnstown Catholic Diocese.
At least 50 priests are accused of abusing hundreds of children, but no charges can be filed because many of the priests have died or the statute of limitations has expired.
Kane’s news conference is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Pitt Johnstown’s Heritage Hall.
Monday in Harrisburg, a group rallied to change the statute of limitations law.
Reiterating a pledge made in the wake of a grand jury report documenting rampant child sexual abuse in the Altoona-Johnstown diocese, state Rep. Frank Burns today joined a cadre of lawmakers who implored their peers to change the state’s outmoded statute of limitations laws for such crimes.
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