translated from Spanish: United States: Recognized 300 priests violators of the State of Pennsylvania

the Supreme Court of the State of Pennsylvania (USA) today released a report by a grand jury that documented 300 cases of “predatory priests’ sex in six yield Cesis, after investigating allegations of abuse of minors.

The jury explained in the document, which consists of 1.356 pages, that it has identified about 1,000 children who have been victims, some of them boys, although there are also girls, and among them there are many preteens and teens. 

“Some were manipulated with alcohol or pornography. Did some masturbating their attackers, or they were fingered by them. Some were raped orally, some some vaginally, anally”, denounces the text.

The jury explained that to produce this document has heard testimony from dozens of witnesses and reviewed 500,000 pages of internal documents of the diocese. 

Imagine that there is an association… I don’t know, sporting or cultural, that is proved to be a nest of pedophiles pigs. Is banned, truth? Why not be forbidden to the Church? It is something that I will never understand. #Pensilvania – luis Endera (@Luis_Endera) August 14 of 2018En this sense, did not rule out that the actual number of victims climb to thousands, since it is possible that some juvenile records have been lost or that the plaintiff chose to keep the silence.

In the report, the jury criticized that all cases were shelved by the leaders of the Church “who preferred to protect the abusers and the institution, above all”. 

As a result of cover-ups, abuses are too old to be tried, although the Court said it will denounce a priest of the Diocese of Greensburg and another of the Erie, who allegedly abused children in the past decade. 

 

At a press conference, the Attorney general of the State, Josh Shapiro, stressed that the report detailed “a systematic cover-up by senior members of the Church in Pennsylvania and at the Vatican”.

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