Pennsylvania grand jury finds some police and district attorneys helped Catholic church cover up priest abuse
By Tim Darragh, The Morning Call, September 1, 2018
As he began a blistering presentation of a grand jury report into decades of child sex abuse by priests in Pennsylvania earlier this month, Attorney General Josh Shapiro singled out two groups — the Catholic Church hierarchy and law enforcement — for sometimes working in tandem to keep the accusations from the public.
“The abuse scarred every diocese,” he said. “The cover-up was sophisticated. The church protected the institution at all costs.”
But the findings, identifying 301 predator priests, also showed a “failure of law enforcement,” Shapiro said.
The investigation found that while the church leadership was consistently involved in protecting . . .
