Fox News reports that a grand jury in Pennsylvania has found hundreds of Catholic priests in the state guilty of child molestation dating as far back as the 1940s.
According to the grand jury report which was released on Tuesday, the jury reviewed around 250 thousand pages of in house church documents which “contained credible allegations against over three hundred predator priests.”
The document went on to say, “over one thousand child victims were identifiable, from the church’s own records. We believe that the real number – of children whose records were lost, or who were afraid ever to come forward – is in the thousands.”
The children who were victim to these heinous acts may have experienced one or more of several different confirmed abusive measures including groping, masturbation, anal, oral and vaginal rape.
Fox news reports that “one boy was forced to say confession to the priest who sexually abused him.”
The jury offers many accounts of abuse in the report. Among the accounts they include the story of a women named Julianne. Julianne, who is now 68 years old, recalled that she was sexually assaulted by Father Fromholzer in 1964 during a trip to the Poconos. According to the grand jury document, Fromholzer was a religion teacher at Julianne’s school, Allentown Central Catholic High School. Fromholzer “took Julianne and at…
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