child victims were identifiable. pennsylvania s attorney general josh shapiro said the church used words like horse play and wrestling to cover up what was rape and sexual abuse. the report stated that most of the victims were boys but there were girls also that were victims, some were teens, some were even younger. shapiro also said that many of the bishops and priests that covered up the abuse are currently still in the catholic church and have been promoted to cardinals and bishops. they wanted to cover up the coverup. they thought to do the same thing senior church leaders in the diocese we investigated have done for decades bury the sexual abuse by priests upon children and cover it up forever. reporter: grand jurors have recommended changes to pennsylvania law, the most notable being to eliminate the statute of limitations for the sexual abuse of children. sexual abuse committed by two priests outlined in this report
the church officials routinely and purposefully described the abuse as horse play and wrestling and inappropriate contact. it was none of those things. it was child sexual abuse. including rape committed by grown men, priests against children. the stories of abuse by men who are given the highest level of trust are grotesque. those entrusted to minister to their communities used gold crosses, necklaces, symbols of their faith to mark their victims, making them easier to target. a child was stripped naked and forced to stand on a bed and pose as christ on the cross. one priest confessed to raping at least 15 boys, some as young as seven years old. another abused five sisters from the same family. and please pay attention. the numbers we are about to go through are both stunning and
claims he help jerry sandusky. following the scandal, spanier and his attorney are opening up. spanier exclusively spoke to abc s josh elliott. reporter: do you feel like you failed those kids? i wish in hindsight that i would have known more about jerry sandusky and his terrible, terrible hidden past so that i could have intervened because it would have been my instinct to do so. reporter: spanier acknowledges that in february of 2001, he was told a penn state staffer had seen jerry sandusky in the locker room with a boy, engaging in what spanier says was described as horse play. he claims he was never told, the horseplay was at all sexual in nature. when you hear horseplay, what what do you think it is? i guess i was thinking back to my own childhood where horseplay involved throwing water around, snapping towels, i
as a matter of fact, it is only because of mike mcqueary s testimony that two other penn state officials, moaning not sandusky, but the athletic director and the vice president were charged. so if mcqueary s testimony is found incredible, not believable, the case against sandusky may still stand. where it will really do harm is to the prosecution of schultz and curley, the other two individuals. the distwinge between hearing and see thing alleged attack on this chilled, alleged rape of this child, would be significant because i can imagine mcyear i don t the witness stand, have you the defense attorney who will say what do you mean i-sounds like? what does that sound like? he falls apart there. look, in the grand jury summary, the 23-page summary, and i should point out just that, it is a summary but there s very graphic detail that is presented in terms of what he saw. and, you know, you then have this whisper down the lane where all of a sudden it becomes interpreted as horse pla
well, i could say that i have done some of those things. i have horsed around with kids. i have shourd after workouts. you re going to hear more from jerry sandusky throughout the hour. the heart of the occupy movement now wiped clean. these are shots of new york s zuccotti park being cleared of protesters in a police sweep early this morning. over 100 people were arrested. tents were pulled up at the stakes, and now mayor michael bloomberg says the campout is over. there s not going to be any more sleeping in the park. protesters have had two months to occupy the park with tents and sleeping bags. now they ll have to occupy the space with the power of their arguments. but a new york judge says police can t legally keep people from actually setting up those tents. so now protesters are heading back to the park with legal documents in hand. we ll have the very latest developments. it was a pause, right? that s what presidential candidate herman cain that s how he