PENNSYLVANIA
Sunbury Daily Item
August 2, 2018
By Rick Dandes
Individuals and child advocacy groups on Wednesday reacted sharply to the release of a list of priests and other church officials alleged to have sexually abused minors in the Harrisburg Diocese for decades.
The list of 71, including 37 priests, was made public by diocese Bishop Ronald Gainer on Wednesday ahead of next week’s deadline to redact names from a grand jury report into sex abuse in six Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania, including Harrisburg.
“The Church could have and should have done this five, 10, 15 years ago,” said Tim Lennon, president of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, a support group of survivors of sexual abuse. Lennon said the release of that many names left him “speechless.
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