EASTON (PA)
The Express-Times
July 21, 2018
By Nick Falsone
A judge has ordered the release secret grand jury report on allegations of priest sex abuse dating back decades and involving six Pennsylvania dioceses, including the Diocese of Allentown.
Cambria County Judge Norman A. Krumenacker, who has jurisdiction over the grand jury report, gave the order on Friday in a move that could bring an end to a lengthy legal battle over whether the report should be made public.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro filed a brief arguing for the report’s release earlier this month after the state Supreme Court temporarily sealed it.
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported Friday that the Supreme Court decision was based on objections from 14 lawyers representing individuals named in the report, but not charged criminally. Those names have since been redacted.
The judge wrote in his order that the redacted report does not violate grand jury secrecy and “may be filed and made public in its current form at the discretion of the Supreme Court.”
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