HARRISBURG (PA)
The Associated Press
August 14, 2018
By Mark Scolforo and Marc Levy
Time is ticking down to a court-ordered deadline Tuesday afternoon to decide what information to black out in a forthcoming grand jury report investigating child sexual abuse in six of Pennsylvania’s Roman Catholic dioceses.
A state Supreme Court order issued last month set a timetable to publicly release a redacted version of the grand jury’s roughly 900-page report, and justices appointed a county judge to help state prosecutors and lawyers for clergy members named in it to decide what portions to release.
Court records in a monthslong legal fight over the report say it identifies more than 300 “predator priests” and that grand jurors accuse church leaders of brushing aside victims to protect abusers and church institutions.
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