PENNSYLVANIA
York Daily Record
Associated Press and Staff Reports
September 16, 2016
A state lawmaker who says he was abused by a suburban Philadelphia priest more than three decades ago now says state prosecutors are investigating priest abuse accusations in that diocese and in Harrisburg.
Democratic state Rep. Mark Rozzi says the state attorney general’s office has a grand jury investigating the Roman Catholic Diocese of Allentown and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg.
The Harrisburg diocese includes York, Adams, Franklin and Lebanon counties, among others in the region.
A spokesman for the Harrisburg diocese tells The Morning Call it has received a subpoena from the grand jury.
In August, a York Daily Record investigation reported that the Diocese of Harrisburg acknowledged by name 15 priests who have been accused of sexually abusing children and who at one time worked in the diocese — including one who served in Dallastown in 1989-90.
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