it says that over theelast 70 priests abused more than 1000 children in pennsylvania. joining me now, doug herbert. joining meit'')s the first timen investigation on this scale in the u.s. >> by a government agency. it's also important to say in we recently saw in australia a four-year government inquiry. intooinstitutional responses to child sexual abuse. across society. not juss within the church. wwat we are seeing here is a giant state run by the attorrey general's office inquiry that took two years. 500,000ved examining half a million documents. internal documents frrmmthe archives in the state of pennsylvania. : dozens of testimonial wittesses to the stand. including the bishop of the county -- sixyuri of pennsylvania is a diocese were the subjects of this report. a quarter of pennsylvania's is catholic. 1.7 millionncatholics are within the churches that were investigated in this inquiry. this was massive by any account. we have seen ever since 2002 when the allegations in the boston church came to light. that gave way to a major ilm called spotlight which invest