BALTIMORE — Time has moved on. Many are gray-haired now, and their abusers long dead or otherwise beyond being prosecuted.
But with Wednesday’s release of the Maryland attorney general’s sweeping report on decades of child sex abuse in the Baltimore archdiocese, these now grown Catholic schoolchildren feel a measure of vindication — however delayed, however incomplete.
“It’s been a long time coming,” said Linda Malat Tiburzi, a Baltimore woman who was among the students raped in the 1970s by their teacher, John Merzbacher, at Catholic Community Middle School in South Baltimore.
