ERIE – Bishop Lawrence T. Persico sat in front of 23 angry grand jury members in April and apologized.
“I said that I was sorry that they had to sit there and listen for two years to hear all that,” said the Most Rev. Persico, who heads the diocese of Erie. “Well, they were upset. I can understand that. They are trying to get an understanding of what happened.”
The grand jury investigation into allegations spanning several decades of child sexual abuse includes Erie and five other Pennsylvania dioceses, Allentown, Greensburg, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh and Scranton.
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