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马萨诸塞州神职人员性侵报告涉及944名儿童,但不会新增起诉

这份调查记录列出三个天主教教区中270多名被指控的神职人员,并将机构失职置于核心位置。坎贝尔主张取消民事诉讼时效的做法仍是一项提议。

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马萨诸塞州已将涉及944名儿童的指控记入公开记录。此次调查不会因此在法庭上新增任何被告。司法部长安德里娅·坎贝尔发布的神职人员性侵报告记录了三个教区中针对270多名天主教神职人员的指控,但坎贝尔表示,报告不会带来新的起诉。这正是这份调查记录的核心矛盾:大量关于涉嫌侵害和机构失职的记录,却没有新的刑事起诉。5 18

坎贝尔于2026年9月30日星期三发布报告。调查于2019年启动,涉及福尔里弗、斯普林菲尔德和伍斯特教区。她的结论不只是针对个别神父的指控:教区知道儿童正遭受侵害,却往往未采取适当行动加以制止。机构的决策应当处于这则报道的核心,而非背景之中。2 1

关键事实

  1. 944三个教区指控统计中涉及的儿童 518
  2. 270多名被指控的天主教神职人员 518
  3. 0此次调查预计新增的起诉 5

统计范围很重要。尽管一些报道将其描述为全州范围的调查记录,944是这三个教区涉及儿童人数的合计,并非马萨诸塞州所有天主教教区的已确认总数。它也不是刑事案件、侵害事件或起诉数量。同样,270多名指的是被指控的神职人员,而非定罪人数。调查报告记录了一项指控,并不意味着该行为就已被法院裁定为犯罪。5 18

HeyDay News无法独立查阅报告的实质内容,也无法查阅坎贝尔新闻发布会的完整发言。现有报告摘录只包含部分目录,并未列出调查结论。报道证实了大致规模和起诉结果,但具体统计方法、部分定义以及不起诉理由仍未得到核实。这些局限不应被醒目的数字掩盖。13

教区数字实际统计的是什么

据《电讯与公报》报道,伍斯特教区相关数据为216名儿童和90名被指控的神职人员。《伍斯特卫报》则将相同数字表述为216名幸存者,以及涉及90名神职人员的指控。后一种措辞保留了一个重要区别:记录指控不等于认定个人负有刑事罪责。11 20

关于福尔里弗,《科德角时报》报道称有469人和92名神职人员被指控实施侵害。现有报道措辞没有分别确认这469人的年龄,也没有说明统计规则。WWLP报道称,斯普林菲尔德有93名被指控的神职人员,受害者一方的统计数字为259,但现有段落在说明这259人的类别之前便已中断。未经核实便把这些措辞不同的数字赋予统一定义,会造成误导。15 14

三个受害者一方的数字相加为944。神职人员数字相加为275项,与汇总报道所称的270多名相符。但算术无法证明这些条目代表275名不同的人:是否有神职人员被计入多个教区的数据,仍未确定。相加也不能证明三个教区采用了相同的纳入标准。14 15 20

这些指控跨越数十年,但尚未确认确切的起始年份和结束年份。《波士顿环球报》称,更广泛的调查记录涵盖一个世纪;ABC News称,范围超过70年;《伍斯特本周》称,伍斯特教区相关时期超过60年。这些说法可能涉及不同的子集或时间衡量方式。不能负责任地将其压缩成一个已经核实的日期区间;调查于2019年启动,也不代表所调查的侵害始于2019年。23 24 16

机构失职,以及尚未完成的信息披露

坎贝尔关于教区知情的结论,使问题不再只是哪些人受到指控,还包括儿童需要保护时,相关机构采取了什么行动。但现有证据没有提供逐起事件的完整记录,没有指出所有负有责任的官员,也没有确定每项教区调查结论所依据的具体行为。若将三个教区一概描述为调职、隐瞒记录或无视投诉,便超出了目前可以核实的范围。1 13

有一项具体的信息披露问题已经得到证实。《伍斯特本周》报道称,伍斯特仍是马萨诸塞州唯一拒绝公开发布可信地被指控对儿童实施性侵的神职人员名单的教区。“可信指控”的认定并不等同于刑事定罪。尽管如此,教区是否公开该名单,仍是一个独立的机构透明度问题,并不取决于是否有新的起诉。16

伍斯特教区9月30日的声明转刊了主教罗伯特·约瑟夫·麦克马纳斯的道歉;这份道歉最初发布于教区2022年的报告中。它并非2026年新作出的道歉。6 27

作为你们的主教,对于自1950年3月教区成立以来,教区内神父侵害未成年人的行为,我深感抱歉。在许多同仁的帮助下,我将继续履行承诺,竭尽所能确保此类侵害不再发生。

主教罗伯特·约瑟夫·麦克马纳斯 6

1950年3月指的是教区成立时间,并非坎贝尔调查所确认的首次侵害日期。新声明称,司法部长的报告是在对伍斯特、福尔里弗和斯普林菲尔德进行大陪审团调查后发布的。声明现有内容表达的是防止侵害的一般承诺,并未提供经核实的新保障措施、实施日期或独立监督详情。对于公开名单问题是否作出完整回应,以及另外两个教区是否作出内容相当的实质性回应,目前均未得到证实。6

没有起诉,不等于解释了原因

法律结果比其原因更明确。据Axios报道,此次调查不会带来新的起诉;州议会大厦新闻社报道称,没有提出任何指控。没有经过核实的个案说明能够证实为何无法提起诉讼。若无调查结果佐证,不能将刑事追诉时效、嫌疑人已故、证据缺失或证人无法出庭说成原因。报告目录中关于刑事起诉限制的标题本身并未提供这类分析。5 18 13

同样,没有新的起诉并不能证明此前从未有过起诉,也不能证明所有指控都已被证伪,或被指控者已获免责。公开调查记录与刑事判决回答的是不同问题。

坎贝尔还在新闻发布会上透露,自己是童年性侵幸存者。她当时的确切原话尚未得到证实。现有报道没有指出她遭受的侵害与神职人员有关,也没有将她列为报告中的944名儿童之一。她的披露为这场发布增添了个人层面,但并未提供有关本次调查中任何个别指控的证据。29 1

她提出的下一步涉及民事司法:她呼吁立法者取消儿童性侵受害者提起民事诉讼的时效限制。WCVB报道了这一立场,但这仍是一项提议,并非已经生效的法律变更,也不是对刑事起诉决定的解释。目前没有经核实的法案编号、完整立法文本、追溯适用条款、听证日期或表决日期。此类变更是否会使较早的索赔重新获得提起资格,尚不清楚。30

本报告查阅的来源

C-SPAN于9月30日播出的《华盛顿今日》报道 1;《波士顿环球报》的调查报道 2;WBUR关于报告发布的报道 3;NewBostonPost的汇总报道 4;Axios关于指控和起诉的报道 5;伍斯特教区9月30日的声明 6。

Western Mass News关于三个教区的报道 7;NBC Boston关于消息发布的报道 8;《海峡时报》的调查报道 9;ArcaMax关于报告的报道 10;《电讯与公报》关于伍斯特的报道 11;Yahoo News发布的报告报道 12。

WBUR托管的报告PDF摘录 13;WWLP关于斯普林菲尔德的报道 14;《科德角时报》关于福尔里弗的报道 15;《伍斯特本周》关于调查结果和信息披露的报道 16;Boston 25关于报告发布的报道 17;州议会大厦新闻社关于汇总数据和起诉情况的报道 18。

BishopAccountability.org转载的伍斯特调查要点 19;《伍斯特卫报》关于指控的报道 20;Boston 25关于民事诉讼改革的报道 21;新英格兰公共媒体关于三个教区的报道 22;《波士顿环球报》的报告发布页面 23;ABC News的调查报道 24。

Forth上司法部长发布内容的列表 25;WPRI关于报告的报道 26;罗伯特·约瑟夫·麦克马纳斯的传记条目 27;Boston.com此前关于伍斯特未列出姓名的侵害报告的报道 28;《波士顿环球报》关于坎贝尔披露的报道 29;WCVB关于改革的报道 30;CBS Boston的调查报道 31;WCVB关于报告发布的报道 32。

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  1. Massachusetts has documented sexual abuse allegations involving 944 children. More than 270 Catholic clerics are accused, but the investigation will produce no new indictments. The dioceses knew children were being abused and too often failed to stop it. Will this public accounting lead to a change in survivors’ ability to sue?
  2. The 944-child total covers three Catholic dioceses: Fall River, Springfield and Worcester. It is not an established total for every Catholic diocese in Massachusetts, despite descriptions of the accounting as statewide. And it counts children, not 944 separate criminal cases, incidents or indictments. More than 270 is the number of accused clerics, not convictions. Documenting an allegation does not establish that a court adjudicated it or convicted the accused.
  3. Fall River’s reported tally is 469 people and 92 accused clergy. The ages of all 469 people and the rules used to count them are not separately established. Springfield’s figures are 93 accused clergy and 259 on the victim side, but the complete category label for those 259 people remains unverified. Worcester’s tally is 216 children and allegations involving 90 clergy connected to the diocese; the 216 people are also described as survivors. These figures establish the reported scale, but their definitions are not interchangeable without the underlying counting rules.
  4. The three victim-side figures add to 944. The clergy figures add to 275 entries, consistent with the overall description of more than 270. But that arithmetic does not establish 275 distinct people: possible overlap between diocesan counts remains unresolved. Nor does it establish identical criteria for including allegations or survivors. Descriptions that round the clergy count to 270 lose that precision, and descriptions that equate accusations with proven abuse go beyond what the verified counting and credibility criteria establish. The substantive findings and complete news-conference remarks remain unavailable for independent examination, leaving methodology and some definitions unverified.
  5. The investigation began in 2019, long after the abuse it examines. Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell released the report on Wednesday, September 30, 2026. A Tuesday label attached to that date is a weekday error, not a different release date. The allegations span decades, but exact first and last years are not established. Descriptions range from more than six decades for Worcester to more than 70 years, or the course of a century, for the broader accounting. Those spans may measure different subsets or periods; they cannot be combined into one verified date range.
  6. Dioceses knew children were being abused by priests and too often failed to take appropriate action to stop it. That puts institutional decisions, not just individual accusations, at the center of the investigation. But a complete incident-by-incident account and the identity of every responsible official remain unverified. A uniform pattern of transfers, concealed records or ignored complaints across all three dioceses is not established.
  7. Worcester remained the only Massachusetts diocese refusing to publicly release a list of clergy credibly accused of child sexual abuse. That is a concrete disclosure issue separate from criminal prosecution. A credible-accusation designation is not a conviction, but withholding a public list leaves an institutional transparency question unanswered. A complete response to that issue is not established, nor are comparable substantive responses from Fall River and Springfield.
  8. Worcester Bishop Robert Joseph McManus’s apology was originally issued in 2022 and republished in the diocese’s September 30 response. It was not a newly delivered apology in 2026. Its reference to March 1950 identifies the diocese’s founding, not the investigation’s first established abuse date. The response identifies the new accounting as following a grand jury investigation of Worcester, Fall River and Springfield. Its prevention commitment is general: specific new safeguards, implementation dates and independent oversight are not verified.
  9. Campbell also publicly disclosed at the news conference that she is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. Her exact words are not established. Nothing in that disclosure establishes that her abuse involved clergy or places her among the 944 children. It adds a personal dimension to her push for survivors’ access to accountability, without supplying evidence about an individual allegation in this investigation.
  10. No new indictments will result from this investigation, and no charges were brought as a result of it. The outcome is clearer than the explanation. An earlier account’s inability to establish the charging outcome is not evidence that charges were filed. The substantive criminal-prosecution analysis remains unavailable for independent examination. Criminal time limits, deceased suspects, missing evidence and unavailable witnesses cannot be stated as the reasons without supporting findings. And no new indictments does not mean there were never earlier prosecutions, that every allegation was disproved or that the accused were exonerated.
  11. Campbell is calling for lawmakers to eliminate the civil statute of limitations for child sexual abuse victims. That concerns survivors’ ability to sue; it is not an enacted change and does not explain the criminal charging decision. Publishing allegations, prosecuting a crime and pursuing a civil claim are different routes to accountability. This report does not itself award compensation, create a new right to sue or bring a new criminal case.
  12. The answer to whether this accounting will change access to civil justice remains unresolved. Campbell has proposed removing the civil time limit, but legislative action is not established. No verified bill number, complete legislative text, retroactivity provision, hearing date or vote date is available. Whether any change would revive older claims remains unknown.

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