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CHILD USA Responds to Release of Grand Jury Reporton Clergy Sex Abuse in Six Pennsylvania Dioceses |
The Report actually understates how far behind the rest of the country Pennsylvania’s statute of limitations (“SOLs”) are. It is one of the few states that has not yet eliminated at least felonies from its criminal SOLs. CHILD USA recently issued a study of statute of limitations reform since 2002, which also ranks all 50 states and the District of Columbia on the child sex abuse statutes of limitations. [Report available here]. The conclusions regarding Pennsylvania are as follows:
6-9-2018
Attorneys general across the United States are taking a newlyaggressive stance in investigating sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy, opening investigations into malfeasance and issuing subpoenas for documents.
On Thursday alone, the New York state attorney general issued subpoenas to all eight Catholic dioceses in the state as part of a sweeping civil investigation into whether institutions covered up allegations of sexual abuse of children, officials said. The attorney general in New Jersey announced a criminal investigation.
The new inquiries come several weeks after an explosive Pennsylvania grand jury report detailed the abuse of more than 1,000 children by hundreds of priests over decades. With Catholics clamoring for more transparency from their church, demanding that bishops release the names of accused priests, civil authorities are beginning to step up to force disclosure.
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“Sooner or later it will become broadly obvious that there is a systemic connection between the sexual activity by, among and between clerics in positions of authority and control, and the abuse of children
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Richard Sipe
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