LOUISVILLE (KY)
Louisville Courier Journal
September 10, 2018
By Caitlin McGlade
The Kentucky attorney general will seek the Legislature’s permission to form a statewide grand jury to investigate Kentucky’s Catholic dioceses in line with last month’s damning report on Pennsylvania Catholic churches.
That report showed church leaders protected more than 300 “predator priests” for decades in six Pennsylvania dioceses because they were more interested in safeguarding the church and the abusers than in ministering to victims.
Deputy Attorney General J. Michael Brown said his office has been in contact with Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro and that his staff will “in the near future” draft legislation to put to lawmakers in Frankfort.
“We are working to secure justice for individual survivors who have reached out to the Attorney General’s office,” Brown said in a statement.
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