PENNSYLVANIA
PennLive
By Ivey DeJesus | idejesus@pennlive.com
Several of the witnesses called to testify before a grand jury investigation by the state Attorney General’s office into allegations of clergy sex abuse across dioceses in the state are warning that they expect those findings to dwarf an earlier report this year out of the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown.
“After reading the Altoona-Johnstown report, I thought it couldn’t get much worse but from hearing stories from victims about their abuse in Allentown it’s going to make the Altoona-Johnstown report look mild,” said Rep. Mark Rozzi (D-Berks), who gave testimony to investigators a month ago in Pittsburgh.
“The number of people that I know that want to testify clearly outweighs the number that they were able to get in Altoona-Johnstown,” he said on Friday. “I think you are really going to see some horrific stories of abuse that you didn’t see in Altoona.”
The Harrisburg Diocese on Friday confirmed that it had received a subpoena from the Attorney General’s office to testify in a statewide probe into allegations of child sex abuse by priests from dioceses across the state, including those in Allentown and Pittsburgh.
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