A priest raped a 7-year-old girl while visiting her in the hospital after she had her tonsils removed.
Another priest forced a 9-year-old boy into having oral sex, then rinsed out the youngster’s mouth with holy water.
One boy was forced to say confession to the priest who sexually abused him.
An estimated 300 Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania molested more than 1,000 children — and possibly many more — since the 1940s, according to a scathing Pennsylvania grand jury report released Tuesday that accused senior church officials, including the man who is now archbishop of Washington, D.C., of systematically covering up complaints.
The “real number” of victimized children and abusive priests might be higher since some secret church records were lost and some victims never came forward, the grand jury said in the report that is the largest of its kind in the United States.
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Cardinal Donald Wuerl, leader of the Washington Archdiocese, was accused in the report of helping to protect abusive priests when he was Pittsburgh’s bishop from 1988 to 2006.
Wuerl has disputed the allegations.
You don't say.
More horrors in the Huffpo story.
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