Comparing what the Archdiocese said in The Keepers to what was in the Maryland Attorney General's report on Child Abuse

CW: Discussion of child sexual abuse

A new day for victims of child sex abuse in Maryland

The Child Victims Act of 2023 has been passed in Maryland, allowing survivors of childhood sexual abuse to file retroactive lawsuits, even if the existing statue of limitations on the claim has expired. The Child Victims Act of 2023 will also remove the statute of limitations for all future lawsuits based on childhood sexual abuse claims. This Act was passed on the heels of the report released by…

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Archdiocese of Baltimore could close parishes after pandemic empties pews

Archdiocese of Baltimore could close parishes after pandemic empties pews

The Archdiocese of Baltimore could close some parishes at the end of a new initiative to reimagine Catholic life in the city. Archbishop William Lori (pictured) of Baltimore has committed to a two-year synodal-based listening process before making any decisions on the future of the diocese. Lori announced the new initiative “Seek the City to Come” on Sept 29. He acknowledged that changing…

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NATALIE WYNN IS A BALTIMORON???

Baltimore Catholic archdiocese files for bankruptcy as clergy abuse victims prepare suits - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2023/09/29/catholic-bankruptcy-baltimore/

Abusive fuckers continuing to be abusive.

The archdiocese of Baltimore, the oldest in the United States, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Friday, two days before a new state law goes into effect allowing child sexual abuse victims to sue organizations no matter how long ago the abuse took place.

Archbishop William E. Lori attributed the filing directly to the law’s effect on the archdiocese, which is facing “a great number of lawsuits” that were previously prohibited by state law, he said in a letter to the archdiocese on Friday.

Filing for bankruptcy, Archbishop Lori said, is “the best path forward to compensate equitably all victim-survivors, given the archdiocese’s limited financial resources, which would have otherwise been exhausted on litigation.”

The bankruptcy filing stops all lawsuits against the archdiocese, which could have been filed starting at 12:01 a.m. on Sunday. Instead, a judge will oversee the reorganization of the archdiocese, ultimately setting a deadline for victims to file their claims in bankruptcy court.

The archdiocese of Baltimore is the latest of more than a dozen dioceses and archdioceses in the United States to currently be in bankruptcy proceedings. That’s in addition to 19 dioceses that have emerged from bankruptcy, according to a list maintained by Marie T. Reilly, a professor at Penn State Law.

It has been one year since Maryland’s attorney general’s report on sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore was released — what has changed? (bankruptcy)

just rewatched the keepers, and one the one hand it's so gratifying to know that C.T. wilson finally got the bill to remove the statute of limitations on CSA cases passed, but also learning that the fact that not only did the baltimore archdiocese filed for bankruptcy specifically to avoid facing new allegations, cases and payouts, but that they are only one of SEVERAL archdioceses to do so, makes my blood fucking BOIL

ARCHDIOCESE OF BALTIMORE IS FILING CH 11 BANKRUPTCY BITCHESSSS

I'm shocked. This is my shocked face. 😐

But please... DO go on about how the church should be the arbiter of morality for all of us, whether we're members or not.

It is absolutely infuriating that the list of priests found to be guilty of sexually abusing kids for the last eighty years in the Baltimore Archdiocese has some of the names redacted to protect the identities of the priests. If literally anyone else is guilty of CSA they get put on a publicly viewable sex offender registry, why should clergy be exempt from that?

Report details ‘staggering’ church sex abuse in Maryland

More than 150 Catholic priests and others associated with the Archdiocese of Baltimore sexually abused over 600 children and often escaped accountability, according to a long-awaited state report released Wednesday that revealed the scope of abuse spanning 80 years and accused church leaders of decades of coverups.

The report paints a damning picture of the archdiocese, which is the oldest Roman Catholic diocese in the country and spans much of Maryland. Some parishes, schools and congregations had more than one abuser at the same time — including St. Mark Parish in Catonsville, which had 11 abusers living and working there between 1964 and 2004. One deacon admitted to molesting over 100 children. Another priest was allowed to feign hepatitis treatment and make other excuses to avoid facing abuse allegations.

Clergy members across the Archdiocese of Baltimore abused hundreds of children and teenagers over the course of six decades, abetted by a church hierarchy that systematically failed to investigate and restrict their access to children, according to a detailed report from the Maryland attorney general released on Wednesday.

It was the latest harrowing installment in the decades-long revelations of sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church, this time set in the first Catholic diocese established in the United States.

The 463-page report, which is the result of a four-year investigation by the attorney general’s office, documents what it describes as “pervasive and persistent abuse” by clergy members and others in the archdiocese, as well as dismissals and cover-ups by the church hierarchy.

introduction into Maryland's report on C.S.A in the Archdiocese of Baltimore

In April, Maryland’s Attorney General’s Office released a giant report summarizing years of child sexual abuse and coverups in The Archdiocese of Baltimore. The same week, a bill expanding statute of limitations for civil suits passed.

Now, the Archdiocese filed for bankruptcy days before statue of limitations would be expanded and they anticipated hella lawsuits.