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*Anya* · 03-01-2016, 11:31 AM

I finally watched Spotlight yesterday.

It was so absorbing, well-done and profoundly sad.

I could not believe it actually got made and that the church did not somehow influence the filmmakers to bury it.

Of course, this morning, I read of yet one more place. When are pedophile priests going to be weeded out? The sheer enormity of the problem floors me.

This morning:

Staggering' abuse cover-up in Altoona-Johnstown Catholic diocese, grand jury says

March 1, 2016 10:30 AM

By Peter Smith / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

ALTOONA, Pa. — Hundreds of children were molested, raped and destined to lasting psychological trauma by at least 50 priests and others associated with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown across half a century, a state grand jury has found in denouncing coverups orchestrated by two bishops and enabled by the law enforcement officials they controlled.

The conspiracy amounted to “soul murder,” said the report by the 37th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury, released today nearly two years after the grand jury was impaneled.

At a press conference here this morning, Attorney General Kathleen Kane said that horrendous acts of abuse were committed by priests, and called it a ”day of reckoning.”

The report said no one could be charged for the crimes it detailed, either because they happened too long ago under the statute of limitations for such prosecutions, a time limit that the report recommends be extended, or because of witness trauma.

http://www.post-gazette.com/news/sta...s/201603010091

03-01-2016, 11:31 AM	#11
Anya Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Lesbian non-stone femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, her Relationship Status: Committed to being good to myself Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: West Coast Posts: 8,258 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 39,306 Thanked 40,444 Times in 7,285 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	I finally watched Spotlight yesterday. It was so absorbing, well-done and profoundly sad. I could not believe it actually got made and that the church did not somehow influence the filmmakers to bury it. Of course, this morning, I read of yet one more place. When are pedophile priests going to be weeded out? The sheer enormity of the problem floors me. This morning: Staggering' abuse cover-up in Altoona-Johnstown Catholic diocese, grand jury says March 1, 2016 10:30 AM By Peter Smith / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ALTOONA, Pa. — Hundreds of children were molested, raped and destined to lasting psychological trauma by at least 50 priests and others associated with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown across half a century, a state grand jury has found in denouncing coverups orchestrated by two bishops and enabled by the law enforcement officials they controlled. The conspiracy amounted to “soul murder,” said the report by the 37th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury, released today nearly two years after the grand jury was impaneled. At a press conference here this morning, Attorney General Kathleen Kane said that horrendous acts of abuse were committed by priests, and called it a ”day of reckoning.” The report said no one could be charged for the crimes it detailed, either because they happened too long ago under the statute of limitations for such prosecutions, a time limit that the report recommends be extended, or because of witness trauma. http://www.post-gazette.com/news/sta...s/201603010091 __________________ ~Anya~ Democracy Dies in Darkness ~Washington Post "...I'm deeply concerned by recently adopted policies which punish children for their parents’ actions ... The thought that any State would seek to deter parents by inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable." UN Human Rights commissioner