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Redacted Report on Child Sexual Abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore is Released by Attorney General’s Office: Decades of Child Sexual Abuse and Cover-Up by Church Leadership Outlined in Attorney General’s Report

Press Release

“This Report illustrates the depraved, systemic failure of the Archdiocese to protect the most vulnerable – the children it was charged to keep safe,” said Attorney General Brown. “Based on hundreds of thousands of documents and untold stories from hundreds of survivors, it provides, for the first time in the history of this State, a public accounting of more than 60 years of abuse and cover-up. Time and again, the Archdiocese chose to safeguard the institution and avoid scandal instead of protecting the children in its care.

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Commentary 

Marilyn Mosby did not lose the Election because of Racism

Dudley Thompson

Recently, a local media outlet published an editorial claiming that Marilyn Mosby lost the primary election due to racism. Claiming Mosby lost due to her skin color undermines the democratic process and more importantly, it discounts the voters of Baltimore, most of whom are Black. The fact that a Black man, Ivan Bates, won the three-way primary further discredits the idea that race was a factor.

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