(CBS) HARRISBURG, Pa.-- Pennsylvania officials have released a landmark grand jury report that identifies more than 300 "predator priests" who molested children in six dioceses. It also accuses church leaders of taking steps to cover up the abuse.
The report emerged from one of the nation's most exhaustive investigations of clergy sexual abuse. The report echoes the findings of many earlier church investigations around the country in its description of widespread sexual abuse by clergy and church officials' concealment of it.
The grand jury scrutinized abuse allegations in dioceses that minister to more than half the state's 3.2 million Catholics.
Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the former longtime bishop of Pittsburgh who now leads the Washington archdiocese, said ahead of the report's release that he expected to be criticized in it.
Catholic leaders were bracing for the report's release and it was expected to contain names and details that have never been released before.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
