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Last week, Frosh filed a motion to release the 463-page report, which identifies 158 priests who were either “credibly accused” of sexual abuse or who were accused and never publicly identified by the Archdiocese.
The report also identifies more than 600 victims.
"We believe that transparency is necessary to rebuild the trust that has been damaged by evil acts of abuse committed by representatives of the Church and by historic failures of Church leadership to respond adequately to those acts,” a spokesperson for the Archdiocese said.
“Transparency should also include a responsible and accurate reporting of events—both events that are shameful for the Church as well as events that demonstrate progress in taking new and important steps to protect children and provide assistance to survivors.”
The Archdiocese cited an interview Frosh did this week with WYPR, to which he said that "to the best of (his) knowledge, it is.”
“The church changed its policy dramatically in 2002 and the law by that time had mandated reports of child abuse, and the church has since then, as far as we can tell, since then followed the law, reported child sexual abuse/child abuse when it was reported to them.”
The AG launched the criminal investigation in 2019, which included hundreds of thousands of documents that date back to the 1940s, that were produced in response to grand jury subpoenas.
“We are different—different than we were in the past—yet we must be transparent in acknowledging our past,” the spokesperson continued. “To that end, the Archdiocese of Baltimore will not oppose the public release of the Attorney General’s report.”
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