Lancaster County Man Joins Legal Battle to Release Report on Sex Abuse Claims in Catholic Church

By Susan Shapiro
WGAL NBC 8
July 9, 2018

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A Lancaster County man is joining the legal battle to release the grand jury report on sex abuse claims in the Catholic Church.

Todd Frey said he was abused in the 1980s, when he was 13, by a priest in the Harrisburg Diocese. The man Frey said abused him is no longer in the priesthood.

Frey is calling for the state Supreme Court to unseal the grand jury report, and he joins several news outlets and the Pennsylvania attorney general in the request.

A judge stopped the release of the report while he accepts arguments from current and former priests who object to being named in it.

"This report has to be made public, and most importantly, the victims need a voice in it," said David Inscho, Frey's attorney. "And where Mr. Frey came in is that he is a victim who wants to stand up and make sure this report becomes public and that these crimes no longer be kept secret."