TORONTO (CANADA)
CBC News
August 17, 2018
By Mark Gollom
Grand jury report also documents cases of abuse involving Pa. priests alleged to have occurred in Canada
In 1984, shortly after admitting to sexually molesting a 14-year-old child, Rev. John Connor of Pennsylvania was sent to a Toronto-area facility that helps clergy deal with addictions, mental-health issues and sexual disorders.
After eight months of treatment at the Southdown Institute, officials there warned the church that Connor should not be put in a position where he would have responsibility for adolescents. Yet the church seemed to ignore the institute’s advice, and would later assign Connor to a parish in Conshohocken, Pa., with a grade school and encourage him to “educate youth.”
These allegations are found in the more than 1,300 pages of an explosive grand jury report released Tuesday that claims hundreds of Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania engaged in sexual abuse since the 1940s.
Of the victims, more than 1,000 were children, but that total could be thousands more, the grand jury concluded.
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