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A new report from the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office found that 275 Catholic priests sexually abused at least 944 children across three dioceses in Massachusetts.
The findings are renewing calls for accountability and the release of the names of accused clergy members.
For decades, church officials in the Dioceses of Fall River, Springfield and Worcester knew about the sexual abuse of children "yet did not take effective action to prevent it or to examine the institutional failures of leadership that led to scores of children being victimized at the hands of abusive priests," the…