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.
At a news conference announcing his office's findings, Attorney General Kwame Raoul credited accusers for making the review possible. He said state investigators found that 1,997 children across the state were abused by clergy between 1950 and 2019.
In a statement released Tuesday, The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests called the report"stunning" but emphasized that the numbers of victims and abusers cited by state investigators are likely undercounted. The Madigan report didn't accuse the dioceses of withholding the names of clergy who the church deemed had been"credibly" accused or against whom abuse claims had been"substantiated" -- the church's own investigation standards. However, it did point out that the overall list of accused clergy was far longer than the church had made public.
Madigan said in 2018 that notifying authorities is critical and pointed to instances in which dioceses used personal information about people to discredit them and their accusations.
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