Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church

We’ll go On the Record with the director of a local rape crisis center. How does Maryland’s Safe Harbor legislation connect children who’ve been trafficked to assistance? Plus, preventing abuse. What steps should schools, churches, and other groups take?

The MD delegate and former Asst. MD Attorney General discusses her role as lead investigator and author of the new report on the state's 4-year probe into past child sex abuse by members of the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

Just hours after the General Assembly adjourned for the year and days after the release of a report graphically detailing abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Governor signs repeal of statute of limitations.

Sister Marie Francis Yocum is accused of abusing a young woman in the 1950s, according to the Maryland Attorney General grand jury investigation of the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

There were nearly 100 redactions in the report, leaving some survivors calling for more accountability.

Reporters' analysis of the findings of the 4-year investigation, voices of parishioners and abuse survivors, and perspectives from a doctor who treats sexual abuse.

We’ll go On the Record with Attorney General Anthony Brown. His office’s investigation of pervasive child abuse by scores of Catholic priests and brothers blames decades of cover-up by the Baltimore Archdiocese. And we’ll talk to David Lorenz, an advocate for survivors.

"Abusers preyed upon the children most devoted to the church: the altar servers and choir members, those who participated in church youth organizations and the Scout troops, and especially those who worked in the rectories answering telephones in the evening and on the weekends," according to the report.

In 2019, the Maryland Office of the Attorney General launched a grand jury investigation into allegations of sexual abuse within the Archdiocese of Baltimore and its response. The report is 456 pages and titled “Clergy Abuse in Maryland.” The document identified 158 priests who are accused of sexual abuse and torture of more than 600 people in the last 80 years.

Two bills are on the docket again after failing last legislative session.