CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Chicago Roman Catholic Archdiocese has issued a response to the Illinois Attorney General report that concludes that more than 450 priests and religious brothers abused nearly 2,000 children over a period of decades.
The AG report said decades of Catholic leadership decisions and policies have allowed known child sex abusers to hide often in plain sight. The Archdiocese said it appears the AG's office received information during its investigation about substantiated allegations involving clerics "not on our web list, and they did not bring that information to our attention."
According to the Archdiocese, the AG report listed 125 clerics, whom they say should be added to the web list. Five are already listed.
"We have previously communicated to the Ag that 57 of the individuals they named were not clerics and they did not serve in a ministry of the Archdiocese of Chicago. We are looking at the remaining 63 more closely to determine whether any of them should be added to the weblist."
The Archdiocese goes on to say that it has reported every single allegation of child sexual abuse by a cleric known to them and concludes that this is the opposite of hiding.
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