Archdiocese Found Guilty of Failing to Report Abuse

Part of the Prosecuting Attorney's Statement...



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"Hold them accountable.



Make sure this doesn't happen again.



I cannot tell you how many times or how many people have said that to me over the last year. But they were not talking about a serial rapist, or a multiple murderer, or the vicious rioters who brought our city to its knees.



They were talking about one of the most respected and revered institutions in our county - the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.

And the depth of the public's anger and frustration with the leadership of the Catholic Church rivals that expressed to me about any case since I have been prosecutor.



I can tell you today that we have done exactly what the citizens of Hamilton County and this office felt was required. We have held them accountable, and we have taken steps to make sure what took place in the Catholic Church over the last several decades will not happen again. "