A sad new investigation by the Illinois Attorney General found
over 450 members of the Catholic church had sexually abused
nearly 2000 Children in that state. That report released
yesterday by the Illinois Attorney General identified abuse by clergy
and religious brothers across the state. Dating all the
way back to the 1950 s. That number of
abusers was four times higher than had been identified by
the church before the investigation started in 2018. Now
, while the Attorney General acknowledged that the statute of
limitations had expired in many of those cases, he
did say he hopes that this report will shine a
light both on those who violated their positions of power
and trust and on the men in the church leadership
who had covered up that abuse.