The nearly 500 pages of the report tell how 156 clergy and other church officials tormented more than 600 children and young adults, abuse dating back to the 1940s.
BALTIMORE — A four-year investigation of Baltimore’s Catholic archdiocese reveals the scope of 80 years of child sex abuse and torture and how church officials often covered it up and, in some cases, paved the way for further abuse.
In fact, the report said, Mike sadistically abused at least seven teenage boys for his sexual gratification. In 1987 at St. Louis parish in Clarksville, one victim was made to wear a loincloth while Mike poked him with a heated pin and forced him to run laps around the parish gym as Mike lashed him with a bullwhip. Mike tied the victim up, suspending him from a basketball backboard, and whipped him 150 times, according to a diary entry from the victim.
In one case, the report says, Archbishop Francis Keough in 1958 secretly resolved an accusation with the help of an unnamed Baltimore Circuit Court judge. Keough promised to send Father Gerald Tragesser, accused of abusing a 13-year-old girl, to treatment and banish him from Maryland.
The Most Rev. William E. Lori, archbishop of Baltimore since 2012, said the “enormous” history of abuse represents a moment of “shock” and “horror,” for himself and Catholics everywhere. The report says the responsibility for the cover-up lies with past archbishops of Baltimore, but its authors wanted to highlight senior members of the archdiocese staff who advised the top priest at the time. However, five of those officials’ names are among those redacted from public view.
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