PHILADELPHIA
The Associated Press
August 15, 2018
By Claudia Lauer
A grand jury report documenting seven decades of child sexual abuse by hundreds of Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania found that most of the bishops who served in the state during that period mishandled at least some of the allegations.
In some cases, they failed to pass accusations on to law enforcement and in others shuffled priests off to different parishes. The report alleged a systematic cover-up and concluded that church leaders “largely escaped public accountability.”
The grand jury was particularly critical of bishops who served after the church adopted sweeping reforms in 2002 to ensure the swift removal of any clerics who molested a child. A look at accusations against four of the more recent bishops cited in the report:
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