Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown in 2023 released a 456-page report into the Archdiocese of Baltimore that detailed decades of allegations of sexual abuse and cover-ups.
Prosecutors may not disclose the names of more than a dozen clergy and laypeople accused of hiding or failing to report child sexual abuse within the Archdiocese of Baltimore, the Maryland Supreme Court ruled Monday.
These are people who did not themselves abuse children but are accused in an attorney general’s report of failing to stop it, concealing the behavior or engaging in otherwise problematic conduct. They have not been charged with crimes, and they challenged a decision by the lower court that would disclose their identities.
Their names are blacked out from the grand jury investigation into the history of child sexual abuse within the Archdiocese of Baltimore. In 2023, Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown released the 456-page report, describing how 156 priests and other personnel perpetrated “horrific and repeated abuse” while church leadership turned a blind eye.
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