The Illinois attorney general said state investigators found that 1,997 children across the state were abused by clergy between 1950 and 2019.
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul's report on Catholic priest child sexual abuse details hundreds of cases across the state.Illinois' attorney general released the results of a sweeping investigation into allegations of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy on Tuesday, saying investigators found that 451 clergy sexually abused nearly 2,000 children since 1950 - far more than the 103 individuals the church had named when the state review began in 2018.
According to a preliminary investigation conducted by Raoul's predecessor, the state's dioceses deemed only 26% of the allegations they received to be "credible," while either not investigating or deeming remaining 74% to be unsubstantiated. The preliminary report conducted under Raoul's predecessor, Lisa Madigan, found that the church's six dioceses had done a woefully inadequate job of investigating allegations, and in some cases didn't investigate them at all or notify the state's child welfare agency. The abuse claims dated back decades and were made against some priests who had since died, but the preliminary report didn't include certain key details such as when allegations were made.
Illinois church leaders expressed regret at the time about the abuse, but they pointed to steps they had taken to address what has become an international crisis for the church.
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