Sweeping investigation reveals decades of scandals within Catholic Diocese of Peoria
The Illinois Attorney General's Office released a sweeping report last month which detailed sexual abuse claims against 450 clerics within the state's Catholic churches victimizing almost 2,000 children.
The Catholic Diocese of Peoria had a litany of transgressions cited by the attorney general's office, including covering up instances of sexual abuse, mishandling cases and mistreating survivors.
Here's what we found about the Peoria diocese's connections to the investigation.
51 clerics cited in investigation
There were 51 former clerics who were linked to abuse of children over the past 70 years, according to the attorney general's office. Those clerics in the Catholic Diocese of Peoria encompassed 26 counties, stretching from Rock Island in northwest Illinois to Vermillion County on the Indiana border.
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