HARRISBURG (PA)
Daily Mail
August 17, 2018
By Hannah Parry
– A grand jury report revealed that hundreds of Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania have molested more than 1,000 children
– It found that the church systematically covered up the abuse using ‘a playbook for concealing the truth’
– State AG Josh Shapiro said: ‘We saw Catholic priests weaponizing their faith… and all the while the bishops, the monsignors, the cardinals covered it up’
– The FBI’s National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime found that the church used a number of techniques for avoiding bringing attention to assault claims
– Such as never using words such as rape in reference to such claims, but simply calling them ‘boundary issues’ or ‘inappropriate contact’
– Priests would be transferred to a new parish where no one knew his reputation or taken to a church-run institute for evaluation if claims mounted up
An FBI investigation has found that the Catholic church had a ‘playbook’ for covering up sex abuse crimes by its priests.
A grand jury report released Tuesday, revealed that hundreds of Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania have molested more than 1,000 children and that senior church officials, including the now archbishop of Washington, D.C. covered up the abuse.
The report said the numbers of actual victims and abusers could be much higher.
It found that the church systematically covered up the abuse using ‘a playbook for concealing the truth.’
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