19 reporting abuse at Pittsburgh Catholic school

PENNSYLVANIA
SF Gate

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh says 19 former students at one of its high schools have now leveled sex abuse allegations at eight Marianist brothers who once worked at the school — one as long ago as 1940.

The revelations began when the diocese learned earlier this year that Brother Bernard Hartman was being prosecuted by Australian authorities on charges he molested four students at a Catholic school there in the 1970s and 80s.

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