Survivors of abuse in Archdiocese of Baltimore call for release of redacted names

Members of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, known as SNAP, called for transparency from the Archdiocese of Baltimore after the release of the Maryland Attorney General’s scathing report into abuses within the church.

The Maryland Attorney General on Tuesday released the 456-page investigation that details 158 clergy, teachers, seminarians and deacons within the Archdiocese of Baltimore who allegedly assaulted more than 600 children going back to the 1940s.

The report also exposed many cases where members of the church and law enforcement colluded to protect priests and others within the Catholic church.  

The report was released with court-ordered redactions, which include the anonymization of 60 individuals referenced in the report by eliminating specific references, as well as the names and identifying information of 37 more individuals. 

Survivors of abuse at the hands of the church called those individuals perpetrators, and…