Report identifies more than 1,000 victims of priest abuse

So what happened in the mid-1950s that made this begin?  

“The cover-up was sophisticated. And all the while, shockingly, church leadership kept records of the abuse and the cover-up. These documents, from the dioceses’ own `Secret Archives,’ formed the backbone of this investigation,” he said at a news conference in Harrisburg.

Report identifies more than 1,000 victims of priest abuse

Hundreds of Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania molested more than 1,000 children – and possibly many more – since the 1940s, and senior church officials, including a man who is now the archbishop of Washington, D.C., systematically covered up the abuse, according to a grand jury report released Tuesday.

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