If there are challenges, the special master will resolve all it by making the necessary additional redaction. The special master will then release the interim report no later than 2:00 pm on August 14.
Grand jury identified more than 300 “predator priests”
In the court’s decision, Chief Justice Thomas Saylor said the grand jury found that more than 300 Catholic clergy “committed criminal and/or morally reprehensible conduct.” The grand jury labeled them as “predator priests,” which will not be suppressed.
“The 40th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury undertook the salutary task of exposing alleged child sexual abuse and concealment of such abuse, on an extraordinarily large scale, which the grand jurors have pronounced was perpetrated by trusted members of a religious institution,” wrote Saylor.
The state Supreme Court released its decision after Supervising Judge Norman A. Krumenacker of the 40th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury overruled the objections to the release of the report.
