PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Big Trial

Thursday, March 14, 2013

By Ralph Cipriano
for Bigtrial.net

If the 2011 Grand Jury report on sex abuse in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia was a term paper, the district attorney would have gotten a failing grade for sloppy work habits and more than 20 factual errors.

It’s too bad they’re not taking questions down at the D.A.’s office right now, because the public has a right to know what went wrong with this grand jury report. But the spokesperson for the D.A.’s office has refused to answer questions all week.

The factual errors in the grand jury report are contradicted by grand jury testimony, trial testimony, and the results of the district attorney’s own investigation.

It’s a shameful work product. Somebody screwed up.

Let’s take a look at what the grand jury report said. It’s posted online, so readers can check it out for…