LANSDALE (PA)
The Ambler Gazette
September 11, 2018
By State Reps. Thomas P. Murt and Mark Rozzi
Former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo used to ask, rhetorically, “Where is the outrage?” when he encountered injustice in his beloved city.
We asked that question of our colleagues in Harrisburg in the years-long wake of the grand jury reports from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Months ago, we warned the commonwealth that the next grand jury report concerning child sex abuse was coming and that it would be worse than the previous ones.
Well, it is here, and we ask again of our colleagues in Harrisburg, “Where is the outrage”?
Moreover, “What are we going to do about it?”
What are we going to do with the results of the current grand jury report documenting the most vile, repulsive and disgusting acts of child sexual abuse at the hands of many diocesan priests across several dioceses in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania?
The current grand jury report is similar to the previous ones in that it was about Roman Catholic priests who sexually abused children, sometimes for decades. It is also about Roman Catholic Church leadership who covered up the abuse, allowed pedophile priests whom they knew were sexually exploiting children to continue abusing and mistreated victims and their families to coerce them into silence.
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