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Maryland — The Attorney General's Report (2023)

The Maryland Attorney General's report on child sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, covering 156 people determined to have been the subject of credible allegations of abuse.

Issuing office
Office of the Maryland Attorney General (Anthony G. Brown)
Report
Report on Child Sexual Abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore
Released
Printed March 2023; released (interim, redacted) April 2023; less-redacted interim version released September 26, 2023
Scope
Archdiocese of Baltimore; the 1940s through 2002
Headline figure
156 people; over 600 children known abused
Posture
Credible allegations as determined by the Attorney General — expressly not findings of guilt

The Attorney General’s Report on Child Sexual Abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, issued by Attorney General Anthony G. Brown, is the product of an investigation the Maryland Office of the Attorney General launched in 2018, examining criminal allegations of child sexual abuse by clergy, seminarians, deacons and employees of the Archdiocese. Its path to publication ran through the courts. The report — dated April 4, 2023, and printed for the Attorney General’s office by The Younts Design Group in a 500-copy run on March 8, 2023 — was publicly released in April 2023 as an interim version with redactions. In July 2023, Judge Robert Taylor Jr. authorized release of a less-redacted version, the redactions dropping from 158 to 60, but stayed his ruling pending appeal. On September 26, 2023, Attorney General Brown released that less-redacted interim version; it is the governing version, and the one this archive works from. The litigation is not over: a January 15, 2025 ruling held that the case is not moot — the names of people who are not abusers remain at issue — and the complete unredacted report is not yet public.

What the report found

The report covers the Archdiocese of Baltimore only, and abuse from the 1940s through 2002. It includes, in its own framing, every current or former Catholic clergy member, seminarian, deacon, member of a Catholic religious order, or other employee of the Archdiocese who has been the subject of credible allegations of child sexual abuse in Maryland known to the Attorney General’s office — 156 people in all, determined to have been the subject of credible allegations of abuse.

The report states the scale of the harm in one sentence, quoted here exactly: “Over 600 children are known to have been abused by the 156 people included in this Report, but the number is likely far higher.”

The report also states that the report itself does not constitute a criminal indictment.

The posture of every name

"The accusations of wrongdoing described in this Report do not constitute findings of guilt."

That caveat is the posture of this source, and every Maryland entry in this archive carries it. A name in the report stands as a person determined by the Attorney General to have been the subject of credible allegations of abuse — not as a person found guilty. The report is for informational purposes, based on material obtained from the Attorney General’s email and phone hotline, victim and witness interviews, open-source media, electronic documents provided by the Archdiocese in response to Grand Jury subpoenas, and reporting letters from the Archdiocese.

The redactions

Of the 156 people included in the report, only 154 names are printed. Two entries remain redacted by court order in the revised release and appear as numbers only. This archive’s standing rule is plain: a redacted identity is never reconstructed, inferred, or hinted at here.

Five leadership figures are discussed in the report’s Church Leadership section only as Official A through Official E. They are not entries on the report’s List of Abusers, and they are not carried in this archive as abuser-list entries.

Separately, Appendix A lists 43 further men — priests, including members of orders, who served in some capacity or resided within the Archdiocese of Baltimore but committed sexual abuse outside of Maryland. They are not part of the 156, and they are carried in this archive with Appendix A’s own framing, including the bodies that listed each man as credibly accused and the location of the abuse, exactly as Appendix A prints them.

In this archive

Most of the 156 were already in the Directory from the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s own list, including the 37 the Archdiocese itself files on its Attorney-General-Report sub-list. The report’s remaining names stand in the Directory as Tier 2 entries sourced to this report. Matched entries are annotated to record the report; they are never re-postured by it.

The report’s account of abuse and cover-up in Baltimore — its summary states that priests and other Archdiocese personnel engaged in repeated abuse while Archdiocese leadership looked the other way — mirrors the playbook documented on The Pattern.

Sources

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