A Pennsylvania grand jury has released a damning report proving that 301 Catholic priests raped, sexually abused, groped, sodomized and otherwise sexually humiliated thousands of hapless boys and girls over a period of seven decades.
The rape and abuse were so rampant and blatant among these criminal Catholic priests that many shared their victims with fellow pedophile priests. The grand jury also uncovered a "ring of predatory priests" within the Diocese of Pittsburgh who took child pornography photos and videos on the diocesan property and used "whips, violence and sadism" when raping their victims.
The ring shared information about victims and exchanged victims among themselves. A group of pedophile priests even went so far as to gift their victims with gold crosses to inform similar priests these boys and girls were already "taken."
The largest, most comprehensive report of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests in the USA details the horrific rapes and sexual abuse of boys and girls in Pennsylvania. The report written by 23 grand jurors who listened to dozens of victims 'testimonies and pored over 500,000 pages of reports found credible evidence to support allegations that 301 Roman Catholic priest abused thousands of boys and girls in Pennsylvania.
The scathing 887-page report released Aug. 14 can verify only over 1,000 of these abuse cases, but lawyers said many of the victims never filed complaints, while the statute of limitations means most of these predatory homosexual priests went unpunished. Many of the accused clerics have since died.
Equally horrific was the unabashed cover-up of these crimes perpetrated by the Catholic leadership in Pennsylvania. None of these priests were dismissed from the Church and many were reassigned to other locations to avoid damaging the reputation of the Catholic Church.
The report revealed that priests were raping little boys and girls. It said these priests' superiors not only did nothing but hid it all -- for decades. The report noted that Cardinals, Monsignors and other ranking clerics were mostly protected by the cover-up. Many other criminal priests, including some named in the report, were even promoted.
The grand jury described the Catholic Church's methods for covering-up these disgusting crimes as a playbook for concealing the truth. The report investigated clergy sexual abuse extending way back to 1947 in six dioceses.
Earlier grand jury reports investigated cleric sexual abuse in Pennsylvania's two other dioceses, Philadelphia and Altoona-Johnstown. These reports found similarly criminal behavior and conduct about clergy and bishops in those dioceses.
