Reports like this have been held up in courts in other states. When reports are released, some have made a big difference to victims. More than 20 years ago, Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly published an investigation into child sexual abuse at the Boston Archdiocese. It did not directly result in criminal charges, but concluded the leaders of the Archdiocese allowed the widespread abuse of children and did not report it to law enforcement.
I don't understand it. It doesn't make sense to me," he said. Back when now-Gov. Maura Healey was attorney general, Stobierski said he wrote her several times asking her to investigate.
When she did, sometime around , he met investigators from her office more than once. But the results from that investigation — which focuses on the Springfield, Worcester, and Fall River dioceses — have never been released.
In an interview on GBH Radio , the current attorney general, Andrea Campbell, said her office needs court approval before she can release it.
And where it is, is in the courts. Top prosecutors have published investigations like this in many places, including Maine, Michigan, Maryland and Pennsylvania. The report identified more than 1, victims and alleged perpetrators — Catholic priests.
