{"id":3325,"date":"2024-08-08T06:52:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T11:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.molllawgroup.com\/blog\/?p=3325"},"modified":"2024-08-08T06:52:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T11:52:32","slug":"more-clergy-abuse-victims-than-previously-known","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.molllawgroup.com\/blog\/more-clergy-abuse-victims-than-previously-known\/","title":{"rendered":"More Clergy Abuse Victims Than Previously Known"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.molllawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/church-750251_640.jpg\" alt=\"church-750251_640\" width=\"640\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.molllawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/church-750251_640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.molllawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/church-750251_640-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.molllawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/church-750251_640-168x120.jpg 168w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>The Illinois Attorney General\u2019s Office has released a <a href=\"https:\/\/clergyreport.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2023 report<\/a> on clergy abuse. In his introduction to the report, AG Kwame Raoul laid out the numbers. The Catholic diocese in the state had publicly listed only 103 substantiated child sex abusers prior to the initiation of the Office\u2019s investigation in 2019. The new report specifies that 451 Catholic clerics and religious brothers were found to be perpetrators. Their victims amounted to a minimum of 1997 children in diocese across the state. If you were the victim of clergy abuse, you may be entitled to compensation. Call the seasoned Chicago clergy abuse lawyers of Moll Law Group to determine your legal options.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact Moll Law Group About Your Claim<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The AG Office\u2019s investigation has led to significantly greater transparency around the scope of clergy abuse. In the last two decades, it\u2019s become increasingly clear that dioceses across the country and around the world purposefully shuffled priests reported to be sexual abusers of children to different parishes once there was a complaint. This resulted in many more children being abused. Knowing this information has allowed survivors not only to come forward and receive care but has also allowed justice to be sought against individual perpetrators and the authorities and system that shielded their grotesque behavior. Often child sex abusers were hiding in plain sight, as Raoul notes. Prior to progressive laws removing the statute of limitation many were left unable to hold their abusers accountable in civil court. This report allows for public accountability and may lead to healing for survivors.<\/p>\n<p>The AG\u2019s Office investigated all six of the Catholic diocese in Illinois, including in Chicago, Belleville, Joliet, Peoria, Rockford, and Springfield. When the investigation started, only two dioceses had posted a list of substantiated abusers on their website, with the Archdiocese of Chicago listing 68 abusers and the Diocese of Joliet listing 35 abusers, but a few months in, the other four dioceses also posted lists of substantiated abusers. Additionally, a clergy abuse hotline was set up. The investigators engaged in over 600 confidential contacts with survivors of child sex abuse by Illinois Catholic clerics.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.molllawgroup.com\/blog\/more-clergy-abuse-victims-than-previously-known\/#more-3325\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Attorney General\u2019s Office has released a 2023 report on clergy abuse. In his introduction to the report, AG Kwame Raoul laid out the numbers. 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