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ALTOONA, BLAIR COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) PA Attorney General Kathleen Kane is revealing details on a case she says goes back forty years involving priests sexually abusing children, and the church covering it up…

Kane called this a day of reckoning.

She says more than 50 priests in the diocese of Altoona-Johnstown committed what she calls horrendous acts on hundreds of children.

Kane also says the diocese leadership failed to protect children.

Officials allege bishops tried to cover up the sexual assaults that happened in camp sites, foster homes, orphanages even a cathedral.

We are following this story and will have much more on upcoming editions of Eyewitness News.

Attorney General Kane: Press Release- NOTE: Graphic Content

ALTOONA — A statewide investigating grand jury has determined that hundreds of children were sexually abused over a period of at least 40 years by priests or religious leaders assigned to…