The leaders of the Philadelphia Archdiocese, including two former archbishops, actively concealed sexual abuse by priests for decades, but no criminal charges can be brought against the church or its priests because of the constraints of state law, according to grand jury findings released Wednesday. Following the nation’s longest-running grand jury probe into priest abuse, the scathing report documents assaults on minors by more than 60 priests since 1967, and alleges that former archbishops Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua and Cardinal John Krol covered up the abuse. [...] State laws, including legal time limits, prevented prosecutors from filing charges, the report said. The grand jury also explored the possibility of charges against the archdiocese, but said the organization could not be prosecuted because it is an unincorporated association rather than a corporation. “Archdiocese leaders have endangered and harmed children in parishes and schools by keeping known abusers in ministry and transferring discovered abusers to assignments where parents and potential victims are unaware of the priests’ sexual predations,” the report said. [emphasis added]
[There you have it. If you want to rape children and get away with it, tell everybody you're a priest. You'll get away with it, just like these monsters did. Don't forget for a second that the reason these creeps were moved to new parishes was on orders of the Pope. It wasn't an isolated horror, and it wasn't a terror spontaneously happening in several places - it was coordinated by the Pope. Say that an invisible monster that lives in the sky told you to rape little boys and you are above the law.]
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