PENNSYLVANIA
Associated Press via York Daily Record
August 3, 2018
By Mark Scolforo
A court filing made public on Friday included excerpts from the grand jury’s findings on the role of church leaders in the clergy abuse scandal.
A grand jury investigating clergy sex abuse in six Pennsylvania Roman Catholic dioceses found that church leaders were more interested in preventing scandal than protecting children, in some cases discouraging victims from going to police or pressuring law enforcement officials to end or avoid investigations, according to a court filing.
The grand jury’s full, nearly 900-page, report is expected to be released in the next two weeks.
But a court filing made public Friday, resolving one of many legal disputes over the report, included excerpts from the grand jury’s findings on the role of church leaders in the clergy abuse scandal.
According to the document, the grand jury concluded that victims were “brushed aside, in every part of the state, by church leaders who preferred to protect the abusers and their institutions above all.”
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