More than 1,000 children — and possible many more — were molested by hundreds of Roman Catholic priests in six Pennsylvania dioceses, while senior church officials took steps to cover it up, according to a landmark grand jury report released Tuesday Time. A lawsuit filed last week claims the Catholic diocese in Springfield was aware a top official was emotionally and sexually abusing a woman on church property. Troy Casteel was the director of family ministry for the Springfield-Cape Girardeau Catholic Diocese as recently as 2017, the lawsuit says.
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