PORTLAND (OR)
Street Roots
August 24, 2018
By Adam Sennott
The thousand in Pennsylvania are just ‘the first wave,’ says the attorney who helped the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team investigate clergy sex abuse
When a Pennsylvania grand jury recently released its findings on child sex abuse in the Catholic Church, the conclusions – and the numbers – were staggering: more than 1,000 identified children abused at the hands of more than 300 “predator priests,” occurring over decades under a systemic cover-up by the church.
The report, released Aug. 15, suggests that the real number of victims is much higher, with some records lost to time and many people too scared to come forward.
While the report is unprecedented in its scope, attorney Mitchell Garabedian believes it’s just “the tip of the iceberg.”
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