{"id":381600,"date":"2018-10-19T10:14:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T09:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-opens-federal-inquiry-into-catholic-church-sex-abuse\/"},"modified":"2018-10-19T10:14:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T09:14:56","slug":"presstv-us-opens-federal-inquiry-into-catholic-church-sex-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-opens-federal-inquiry-into-catholic-church-sex-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US opens federal inquiry into Catholic Church sex abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US Justice Department has opened an investigation into child sex abuse by hundreds of Catholic priests in the state of Pennsylvania, following the recent publication of a report on decades of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Pennsylvania.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Catholic dioceses in the cities of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Erie and Allentown said Thursday they had received federal subpoenas following a state grand jury report in August that alleged over 300 Catholic priests in Pennsylvania had sexually abused children over 70 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The dioceses said they were cooperating with the investigation but declined further comment.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press first reported on Thursday the Justice Department investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The sex abuse report made public two months ago by Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro after a two-year investigation contained graphic examples of children being sexually abused by clergymen.<\/p>\n<p>The report cited 301 priests, some of whom&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/19\/577431\/US-Justice-Department-child-sex-abuse-Catholic-priests-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Justice Department has opened an investigation into child sex abuse by hundreds of Catholic priests in the state of Pennsylvania, following the recent publication of a report on decades of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Pennsylvania. The Catholic dioceses in the cities of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Erie and Allentown said Thursday they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-381600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}