ALLENTOWN (PA)
Of The Morning Call
June 23, 2018
By Bill White
Church child sex abuse secrets will remain hidden for now
Juliann Bortz called me the morning after the state Supreme Court blocked the release of the grand jury report on child sexual abuse in six Pennsylvania dioceses.
And she began to cry.
“This is what I wasn’t going to do,” she said apologetically. “This has been devastating. But we’re not quitting. I will not quit.”
Bortz is one of many alleged victims around the state who testified to the grand jury over the course of a two-year investigation into their abuse and the Catholic Church’s lack of responsiveness to priests’ crimes. They had anticipated the impending release of the grand jury report with anxiety and excitement.
In most cases, their stories never had been told in any kind of public way, in part because the state’s statute of limitations blocked their opportunity to confront their tormentors in court.
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