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The sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania, U.S., is a significant episode in the series of Catholic sex abuse cases in the United States, Ireland and elsewhere. The Philadelphia abuses were substantially revealed through a grand jury investigation in 2005. In early 2011, a new grand jury reported ...
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia will pay $3.5 million to settle a civil case alleging a now-deceased priest sexually assaulted a teenage boy nearly two decades ago, and church officials knew of ...
The August 2018 grand jury report includes all Pennsylvania dioceses except Philadelphia and Altoona–Johnstown, which had already issued earlier reports.. A grand jury investigation of Catholic Church sexual abuse in Pennsylvania lasted from 2016 to 2018, and investigated the history of clerical sexual abuse in six Pennsylvania dioceses.
A Pennsylvania grand jury says its investigation of clergy sexual abuse identified more than 1,000 child victims. Report identifies more than 1,000 child victims of Catholic priest abuse in ...
Sep. 17—Boys from Joplin and Carthage and a boy and a girl from Neosho are among 11 alleged victims of past sexual abuse by Catholic Church officials cited in a lawsuit filed last week against ...
Although 19% of the accused priests had alcohol or substance abuse problems, only 9% used drugs or alcohol during the alleged instances of abuse. [77] Over the period from 1890 to 2002, the majority of priests accused of sexual abuse were ordained in the mid-20th century, with 68% of all alleged abusers ordained between 1950 and 1979.
Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell has said things “could have been handled differently” after an investigation reported a priest at the centre of a sexual abuse case was twice reappointed to ...
John Michael McDevitt, Jr., OSFS, (March 12, 1924 – October 3, 1999) was a Democratic politician from Philadelphia who later became a Roman Catholic priest and educator. In 2011, the Oblates of St Francis de Sales priests admitted that McDevitt was a child molestor as part of a lawsuit settlement in the State of Delaware.