Report reveals over 600 abuse cases in Baltimore Catholic church

Officials say abuse in the Baltimore archdiocese — stretching back to 1940s — was ‘pervasive, pernicious and persistent’. Officials in the United States have released a report detailing decades of sexual abuse by people associated with the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland. The office of Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown released its 450-page report on Wednesday, identifying 158 priests accused of abusing more than 600 victims since the 1940s. The release of the redacted report caps a four-year saga that began when an investigation was launched in 2019 by former Maryland...