Church leaders told him not to “worry about it.” The church paid tuition, salary and living expenses for another priest even after he confessed to abusing boys.Investigators told the courts they uncovered a history of “pervasive” sexual abuse by the priesthood of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, as well as a coverup and “complicit silence” by church leaders.The attorney general’s office identified 158 priests, most of them already known, within the archdiocese accused of the “sexual abuse” and “physical torture” of more than 600 victims over the past 80 years, according to the court records.“Although no parish was safe, some congregations and schools were assigned multiple abusive priests and a few had more than one sexually abusive priest at the same time.” The attorney general’s office has asked the courts to allow the release of its much-anticipated grand jury investigation into the Archdiocese of Baltimore.I think the church now has a responsibility.” The Maryland report is expected to resemble the bombshell 2018 investigation in Pennsylvania and span hundreds of pages with allegations of child sex abuse tracing back decades."