PITTSBURGH (PA)
The Herald (Sharon PA)
July 20, 2018
By Melissa Klaric
Victims are one step closer to vindication after a ruling today that made public the state attorney general’s argument to unseal a grand jury report detailing child sex abuse within the Catholic Church.
Just minutes ago, the brief filed last week by the Office of Attorney General Josh Shapiro was posted. The brief cites similar cases in which the court decided to make public the identities of people who are named in a grand jury report, but who have not been indicted.
Judge Norman A. Krumenacker, who oversaw the grand jury that for two years investigated child sex abuse allegations spanning several decades within the Erie, Pittsburgh, Greensburg, Scranton, Harrisburg and Allentown dioceses, issued the order to make the legal document public.
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