马萨诸塞州总检察长报告：三个天主教教区275名神职人员被指涉性侵、受害者逾千人
波士顿消息——马萨诸塞州总检察长安德里亚·乔伊·坎贝尔（Andrea Joy Campbell）办公室10月1日公布一份调查报告。据Law.com与相关法律界媒体报道，这项始于2019年的调查认定，在福尔河（Fall River）、斯普林菲尔德（Springfield）和伍斯特（Worcester）三个天主教教区，约一个世纪里共有275名神职人员被指涉及儿童性侵，估计受害儿童超过1000人；调查人员在报告中确认了944名幸存者，审阅文件超过30万页，并访谈了100多人。
报告指出，数十年间，教区管理层在知情的情况下把被指控的神职人员调往新的堂区，既未提醒教友，也未通知执法部门，部分人员在接受所谓治疗后回到岗位，却缺乏有效监督。报告同时认为，三个教区至今在培训、指控调查、对被指控人员的监督以及记录保存等儿童保护关键环节仍有不足。
总检察长办公室称，这是对这三个教区制度性失职的首次公开全面梳理。报告提出多项建议，包括以幸存者为中心、采用创伤知情方式处理个案，提高被指控神职人员名单的透明度。10月7日，代表幸存者的Jenner律师事务所公开呼吁州议会修改法律、消除幸存者追责的障碍，包括取消儿童性侵民事索赔的时效限制。
需要注意的是，报告中的人数包括未经可信度筛选的指控，总检察长办公室也提醒，由于幸存者未举报、教区记录不全，实际规模无法精确统计。三个教区的回应与后续整改，将是这起马萨诸塞州本期最受关注公共事件的下一步。
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Massachusetts AG Report: 275 Clergy Accused in Three Catholic Dioceses, More Than 1,000 Victims
BOSTON — Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell's office released an investigative report on October 1. According to Law.com and legal-press reporting, the inquiry, begun in 2019, found that across the Roman Catholic Dioceses of Fall River, Springfield and Worcester, some 275 clergy members were accused of sexually abusing children over roughly a century, with the estimated number of child victims exceeding 1,000. Investigators identified 944 survivors, reviewed more than 300,000 pages of documents and interviewed more than 100 people.
The report says diocesan leaders for decades transferred accused clergy to new parishes without warning parishioners or notifying law enforcement, and that some returned to ministry after treatment without adequate supervision. It also finds continuing shortcomings in training, investigations, supervision of accused clergy and recordkeeping.
The attorney general's office described the report as the first public accounting of institutional failures in the three dioceses. Its recommendations include survivor-centered, trauma-informed practices and greater transparency around accused clergy. On October 7, Jenner Law, which represents survivors, publicly urged the Massachusetts Legislature to remove legal barriers to accountability, including the civil statute of limitations for child sexual abuse claims.
The report cautions that its counts include allegations not filtered by credibility assessments, and that underreporting and incomplete diocesan records mean the full scope cannot be determined. Responses from the three dioceses and any follow-up reforms are the next steps in one of Massachusetts' most closely watched public stories of the period.
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