Updated on December 14, 2020 at 7:25 pm
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A task force that probed reports of decades-old abuse and even claims of homicide inside a former Catholic orphanage released a report Monday that was more than two years in the making.
The lengthy document recognized many years of trauma and abuse suffered by children at the defunct St. Joseph s Orphanage in Burlington, but could not make a case for the most serious allegations by some former residents. The criminal case is closed, said Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan, who announced there were no findings to back a murder charge. We reserve the right to reopen it, should new information emerge.