Aug 3, 2005 / 22:00 pm
The grand jury investigation into charges of sexual abuse by priests in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia over the last few decades concluded that there were no instances where archdiocesan officials transferred a known abuser to another parish.
The 500-page document on the investigation was released this week and reported in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Philadelphia District Attorney Lynn Abraham launched the investigation in early 2002. The investigation ended with only one arrest.
But not everyone believed the investigation was legitimate. Catholic League president William Donohue said yesterday that Abraham “managed to abuse her office in two ways” by launching “a witch-hunt against the Archdiocese of Philadelphia” and by “ripp[ing] off the taxpayers in Philadelphia by having them pay for her wild-goose chase.”