HARRISBURG, Pa. — A report on allegations of decades of child sexual abuse at the hands of clergy members and efforts to cover it up in six of Pennsylvania’s Roman Catholic dioceses is expected to be released in the coming days.

The findings are the result of an almost two-year grand jury investigation.

Public disclosure of the findings has been delayed while about two dozen people named in the report pursue legal challenges. They contend the report is inaccurate and releasing it in its current form would violate their constitutional rights to their reputations and to due process of law.

The state Supreme Court has agreed to consider those claims and scheduled the matter for oral argument in September. In the meantime, the court has ordered identifying information regarding those challenges to be redacted and the nearly 900-page report to be released.

The justices last week appointed a senior jurist, McKean County Judge John Cleland, to serve as a special master who will sort out disputes over what must be blacked out.

The court said if the challengers didn’t object to redactions made by the attorney general’s office, the report would be released by last Wednesday. That date came and went without the report’s release.

Associated Press