KANSAS CITY (MO)
The Kansas City Star
August 21, 2018
Editorial Board
Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley and Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt must find a way to do something incredibly difficult and absolutely necessary. They must launch the kind of full-scale grand jury investigation into the systemic cover-up of child rape and other serious crimes by Catholic priests that their counterpart in Pennsylvania just completed.
Justice requires it. And no one else can do it.
Both Hawley’s office and Schmidt’s have said they don’t have jurisdiction but would help local prosecutors if asked.
We’ve noticed, though, that where there’s a will, there’s a loophole. And if local prosecutors do have to ask them to step in, then they should by all means do that.
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