A Baltimore judge has ordered the public release of a heavily redacted version of the Maryland Attorney General’s Office report detailing the history of child sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore.

Circuit Judge Robert Taylor issued his written ruling Friday, directing the attorney general’s office to redact 208 names from the report so it can be released sometime in March.

“Keeping this report from the public is an injustice,” Taylor wrote.

Former Attorney General Brian Frosh’s office finished its report in mid-November, and asked the court’s permission to make public its investigative findings on how 158 priests and other church employees sexually abused and tortured at least 600 people, with examples of abuse going back at least eight decades. The report also shows how the church, in that time period, sought to cover up the abuses and, in some cases, enabled them.

The…