Report I of the 40th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury

Download or read book Report I of the 40th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury written by Pennsylvania. Statewide Investigating Grand Jury and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents the findings of a two-year grand jury investigation into widespread sexual abuse of children within six dioceses of the Catholic Church in Pennsylvania. It reveals a systemic cover up by senior church officials in Pennsylvania and at The Vatican, resulting in that almost every instance of abuse found is too old to be prosecuted. However, as the introduction says, "we are not satisfied by the few charges we can bring, which represent only a tiny percentage of all the child abusers we saw. We are sick over all the crimes that will go unpunished and uncompensated. This report is our only recourse. We are going to name their names, and describe what they did? both the sex offenders and those who concealed them. We are going to shine a light on their conduct, because that is what the victims deserve. And we are going to make our recommendations for how the laws should change so that maybe no one will have to conduct another inquiry like this one. We hereby exercise our historical and statutory right as grand jurors to inform the public of our findings."