{"id":164114,"date":"2026-09-30T21:47:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T05:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/30\/275-catholic-clergy-members-abused-1k-children-in-3-mass-diocese-ag-probe-says\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T21:47:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T05:47:32","slug":"275-catholic-clergy-members-abused-1k-children-in-3-mass-diocese-ag-probe-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/30\/275-catholic-clergy-members-abused-1k-children-in-3-mass-diocese-ag-probe-says\/","title":{"rendered":"275 Catholic Clergy Members Abused 1K+ Children in 3 Mass. Diocese, AG Probe Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 attorney general’s report states.<\/p>\n

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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 attorney general’s report states.<\/p>\n

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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 attorney general’s report […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":164115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}