Over 600 Children Sexually Abused By Baltimore-Area Clergy As Catholic Archdiocese ‘Looked The Other Way,’ Report Finds

More than 150 Catholic clergy members in the Archdiocese of Baltimore abused at least 600 children during a six-decade period, according to a report from the Maryland Attorney General after a years-long investigation, the latest sexual abuse scandal to hit a Catholic diocese. The report alleges that from the 1940s through 2002, more than 100 priests and Archdiocese personnel abused vulnerable children “while Archdiocese leadership looked the other way.” The investigation, which began under former Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh in 2018, found more than 600 children were known to...