PENNSYLVANIA
Centre Daily Times
BY LORI FALCE
lfalce@centredaily.com
Forty years of abuse was brought to light Tuesday as Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane gave a news conference to announce the results of “major investigation” of the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown.
Kane released the results of the 37th statewide investigating grand jury, a report that showed a pattern of not just abuse but the cover-up of actions by more than 50 priests and other religious leaders.
Among those was the Rev. Martin Cingle, a former priest at Our Lady of Victory in State College, the Rev. Robert Kelly, last posted to Philipsburg’s Sts. Peter and Paul Parish and others.
“Today is not the day that I stand up here and announce that charges have been filed against individuals who have committed the worst sins against children … Today is not the day that the victims get to go into a courtroom into a public courtroom and tell the story … Today is not that day. Today is the day of reckoning though,” Kane said.
“Today is the day the Office of the Attorney General steps in and tells the stories the victims of abuse cannot tell themselves,” she said. “Today is the day we tell exactly what happened in Pennsylvania.”
The released grand jury information detailed a long list of priests and others committing acts from fondling to oral sex to anal rape on boys and girls, as well as other behavior like providing alcohol.
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