PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
A prosecutor calling the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia an unindicted co-conspirator in child sexual abuse is an overdue rebuke of systemic church sickness.
During a pretrial hearing involving a priest and a former priest accused of pedophilia and a monsignor charged with “conspiring with priests and church officials to keep priests accused of sex abuse in ministry and parishioners in the dark,” the judge asked if prosecutors consider the archdiocese an unindicted co-conspirator, The Associated Press reports.
Assistant District Attorney Mark Cipolletti replied, “Certainly. It’s not like there aren’t other people (in the archdiocese) involved. There absolutely are.”
“Other people” include 63 Philly priests named in a 2005 grand jury report on pedophilia but not charged due to “legal time limits.”
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