HARRISBURG (PA)
The Associated Press

August 15, 2018

A former Pennsylvania prosecutor has been fired from his job as an attorney for a county youth services office after a report showed that as a prosecutor, he stopped an investigation into alleged child abuse by a priest to gain political favor from the Pittsburgh Diocese.

Former Beaver County District Attorney Robert Masters told a grand jury investigating clergy abuse that he wrote a letter to the then-bishop of Pittsburgh in 1964 saying he was halting an investigation to “prevent unfavorable publicity.”