Catholic clergy sexually abused nearly 1,000 Massachusetts children over decades, report finds

No new indictments from eight-year investigation as state attorney general says church knew about abuse More than 270 Catholic clerics sexually abused nearly 1,000 children across three Massachusetts dioceses over several decades, according to a report released by the state’s attorney general’s office on Wednesday. The eight-year-long investigation did not result in new indictments, the office said, claiming that some conduct identified was not a crime under Massachusetts law at the time it occurred, and that in other cases the applicable statute of limitations had expired. In the US, call or…