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The grand jury investigation follows a familiar playbook written over two decades of similar investigations in Pennsylvania of the Catholic Church:

In 2003 then-Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham impaneled a grand jury that in 2005 delivered a blistering indictment against the Philadelphia archdiocese’s complicity in widespread child sex abuse by clergy.

In 2016 then-Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane released a 147-page report on a child sex abuse cover-up by the Altoona-Johnstown diocese, concluding the diocese had “a dark and disturbing history.”

Other investigations looked into child sex abuse at Penn State in 2011 and the Solebury School in Bucks County in 2017.

“There is no state in the country that has more knowledge about the way abuse operates in institutions than Pennsylvania,” said Marci Hamilton, founder and CEO of Child USA, a prominent national think tank focusing on the prevention of child sexual abuse.

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