BALTIMORE (MD)
WJZ
August 16, 2018
By Kimberly Eiten
A Pennsylvania grand jury report released a 900-page report Tuesday, detailing decades of widespread sex abuse by priests.
The report said Baltimore’s longtime Catholic leader, the late Cardinal William Keeler failed to report crimes against children. The investigation took place in Pennsylvania and uncovered hundreds of priests linked to sex abuse cases.
The statute of limitations has run out on almost all of those crimes. But a survivor of sex abuse said the Archdiocese could begin to right past wrongs by opening their files on similar cases and coverups in Baltimore.
“Nothing can restore what was taken from me,” Liz Murphy, a survivor of sex abuse, said.
Liz Murphy said she is faithful and forgiving, and seeking change within the Catholic church, and the Archdiocese of Baltimore, decades after a teacher sexually abused Murphy and other students at the Catholic Community School in the 1970s.
While school administrators failed to report the crimes happening in classrooms, then teacher, and now convicted child rapist John Merzbacher is in prison serving four life sentences.
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