This roundtable conversation includes survivors and investigators of sex abuse in the Baltimore Archdiocese.
A four-year investigation has linked the Archdiocese of Baltimore to more than 600 cases of child sex abuse over 60 years. A bombshell report released by Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown detailed the decades of abuse, torture and cover-up by more than 156 clergy members, from priests to church educators.
In the hourlong special, survivors who fought for the truth to be exposed, and for changes in the church and state law, will come forward with their stories.In one case, Father Frederick Duke, who spent more than 20 years at the Shrine of the Little Flower in Baltimore, admitted to abusing 26 boys between 1949 and 1961, with acts including oral and anal rape. In 1953, two to three boys had reported the sexual abuse, and the archbishop at the time knew, but did nothing.
When preparing to meet with that victim, the attorney general uncovered notes in the Archdiocese, which were astounding:"Do not talk about any other children";"we will deny any liability";"maybe we could say that we have nothing in our files";"if a lawyer is present, express surprise"; and"no history, nothing in files."
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