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The grand jury, which was impaneled in 2016, has been investigating allegations of sexual abuse by priests in six Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania. In addition to Harrisburg, the panel has been investigating the dioceses of Allentown, Pittsburgh, Greensburg, Erie and Scranton.

The findings of a state grand jury investigation into clergy sex abuse in six Roman Catholic Dioceses across Pennsylvania

 are shaping up to be the most damning to date against the Catholic Church, according to one of the biggest advocates for victims of child sex abuse.

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State Rep. Mark Rozzi, D-Berks, on Wednesday said the findings out of the grand jury the Altoona-Johnstown Diocese.
will likely prove to be worse than those out of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and

"It will encapsulate the six remaining dioceses and show a pattern across all of them," Rozzi told PennLive. "There has never been another grand jury like this..in history as far as it pertains to child sex abuse.


This is going to be the worst report ever. I  think we are going to see a pattern of collusion and hopefully we can do right by the victims here and pass the right legislation that can gain victims justice and close out a chapter in our lives. That's what we are looking for, closure."

Rozzi, who testified before the panel, said the panel is nearing completion of its report. He expects the state attorney general's office to release the findings sometime in either May or June. 

This latest investigation comes several years after the release of two other grand jury reports in Pennsylvania: that out of the state's largest diocese, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, and the other out of the Altoona-Johnstown Diocese.

Investigators in Philadelphia in 2011 found widespread clergy sexual abuse and concealment by church officials. As a result, in addition to the removal of a number of priests deemed unsuitable for the priesthood, the Philadelphia report resulted in the conviction and sentencing of Monsignor William Lynn, the highest-ranking U.S. Catholic Church official convicted in a child sex abuse scandal. He served nearly three years of a three- to six-year sentence when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court tossed his conviction over trial errors. He's currently a free man.

A judge in March 2017 allowed in a ruling for prosecutors to retry Lynn in connection with his handling of sex abuse complaints involving children and priests. Because of an unresolved defense defense appeal, that retrial for Lynn wasn't expected to take place until this year.

Similarly investigators in the Altoona-Johnstown Diocese in 2016 released a scathing report on the systemic abuse of thousands of children over decades by priests and church leaders in the diocese.

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