LINCOLN- The Nebraska Attorney General's Office released its report on clergy sex abuse in the Catholic Church, finding 258 documented victims across the three dioceses in Nebraska.

Attorney General Doug Peterson said many of the cases found during the three-year-long probe were gut-wrenching. Few had been prosecuted.

He said no additional prosecutions could come from the cases found in the report because the statute of limitations on filing charges has passed or because the alleged perpetrator has died. But Peterson expressed hope that at least victims' voices had been heard.

“We have been unable to bring our own justice system to bear on these predators,” Peterson said. “That’s extremely frustrating.”

He said he would support legislation to change Nebraska’s statute of limitation laws.

The 182-page report found that the Lincoln Diocese had 97 victims, the Omaha Diocese had 158 victims, and the Grand Island Diocese had three victims. Two priests, Msgr. Leonard Kalin, who served on the campus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and an Omaha priest, the Rev. Daniel Herek, committed many of the abuse and misconduct cases, Peterson said.

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