Illinois' attorney general on Tuesday will discuss his office’s more than four-year investigation into the alleged sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy in the state going back decades — a probe launched by his predecessor after she found the church's own investigation to be seriously lacking.
Kwame Raoul continued Lisa Madigan's investigation after he took over from her as the state's top law enforcement official in 2019. Madigan issued a blistering preliminary report on the state's investigation in 2018 just before she left office, saying Catholic dioceses in Illinois had not released the names of at least 500 clergy who had been accused of sexually abusing children.
