5 things the feds are looking for on Pa. Catholic priest abuse that were already found A York Daily Record analysis shows federal investigators should have no trouble finding what they are looking for.

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Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania are again handing over their secret archives and confidential records in a new investigation launched by U.S. Attorney William McSwain in Philadelphia.

A York Daily Record analysis shows federal investigators should have no trouble finding what they are looking for.

The Associated Press, which first reported the federal investigation Thursday, said McSwain wants to know if priests, bishops, seminarians or others committed any federal crimes.

McSwain's subpoenas seek evidence of:

Clergy taking children across state lines for illicit purposes

Sexual images or messages sent on a phone or computer

Clergy telling anyone not to contact police

Reassigning suspected predators

Using money or other assets as part of the scandal

Federal prosecutors will find all of that and more, based on what state authorities discovered in Attorney General Josh Shapiro's investigation.

Below are some examples of the evidence state prosecutors collected, but it is a small portion of what investigators might collect.

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Reassigning suspected predators

Nearly all 301 priests named in a Pennsylvania grand jury report in August were moved from parish to parish after bishops learned they were accused of child sex abuse. At least 40 of those priests had confessed to their crimes.

They had long careers, were traded from parish to parish by the dioceses that concealed their crimes safely past the expiration date of when they could be prosecuted. Many of their new assignments included Catholic grade schools, where they were in close proximity to more children and potential victims.

In May 2000, a Pittsburgh priest admitted to touching 500 kids and targeting "at least" 1,200. He was reassigned multiple time and 15 years later abused at least one more.

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In another case, a state trooper in 1972 saw a priest sexually abusing a teen boy in a car on the side of the road. He gave the priest "a lecture and sent him on his way."

That priest, Thomas J. Bender of the Allentown diocese, admitted his abuse to church officials and continued to serve as a priest. He was reassigned nine times before being dismissed from the priesthood in 2005.

Bender in 2006 was arrested in Long Island, New York, for trying to meet a 14-year-old boy for sex. He was sentenced to up to 10 years in prison and lifetime probation. Bender is out of prison now and remains on the sex offender registry in the state of New York.

The Allentown diocese knew of the Rev. Michael Lawrence's pedophilic behavior as early as 1970. A Pennsylvania grand jury found an evaluation among church records that said Lawrence was "a mysterious type who craves the attention of younger students" and he showed "a little too much interest in younger students."

Almost a year later, a 12-year-old boy accused Lawrence of sexual abuse.

Records show Lawrence confessed and was sent to treatment, only to be reassigned two years later at a Catholic high school, where he taught religion.

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Sexual images or messages sent on a phone or computer

In front of the grand jury, the Rev. Samuel B. Slocum admitted to teaching a boy how to hide communications on social media by deleting text messages and photographs.

Some of the text messages that Slocum sent to the boy were sexually suggestive. In one instance, Slocum texted, "I always knew there was something special about you, but I never knew what it was ...," and, "I'm trying not to say bad stuff but you're pushing it."

Slocum bought the boy items from Abercrombie and Fitch and would later make the victim negotiate to get them. In a text exchange, Slocum told the boy that a package arrived. When the boy texted back and asked what it was, Slocum replied, "It's in my bedroom, it came from the post office today. You can start negotiations anytime..."

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Clergy taking children across state lines for illicit purposes

When the Rev. Ronald Yarrosh was released from state prison in November 2005 as a convicted and registered sex offender, he remained a priest in the Allentown diocese. The diocese gave him a place to live, while noting that he was a "moderate to high risk" to again use child pornography and/or solicit prostitutes.

A year later, in November 2006, authorities discovered Yarrosh had taken trips to New York City with a 7-year-old child and was in possession of pornography. Because of that, he was sentenced 4 to 10 years in state prison for violating probation. Seven months later, the diocese removed him from the priesthood.

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Clergy telling anyone to not contact police

A boy said in June 1984 he was abused by two priests serving in the Allentown diocese after his family's house had burned down. He said he was sexually abused by a Carmelite priest, Father David Connell, and physically abused by a Carmelite brother, Timothy Johnson. When the victim told Johnson he was going to report the abuse to the police, he said, Johnson told him not to report the abuse to police. "At this point Johnson began to severely beat the victim with a big leather belt and told the victim that if he reported the abuse to the police, he would beat him even worse," the grand jury report states.

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Using money or other assets as part of the scandal

The Rev. Henry J. Marcinek, a Greensburg priest, gave a victim his car, money and gifts, and sexually abused him during trips to Sea World and Geauga Lake amusement parks in Ohio, according to the grand jury report. The abuse occurred in 1972 and was reported in November 2007.

The Rev. William O'Malley, a Pittsburgh diocese priest, in April 1991 gave boys gifts, let them use his credit card and took them on at least one trip to the Bahamas, though O'Malley denied any wrongdoing. O'Malley also had a joint bank account with a boy and bought furniture for him at the rectory.

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What happens now?

All eight dioceses in Pennsylvania released statements Thursday saying they are fully complying with federal authorities, just as they had with state authorities in Shapiro's investigation.

A day after decades-long hopes were dashed because the state Senate did not advance a statute of limitations reform bill, this federal investigation may offer hope to victims. But can it bring justice?

What can the federal investigation accomplish beyond what Shapiro's statewide look revealed?

“The United-States government just has broader powers, deeper financial means and more person-power to conduct an investigation,” said Mitchell Garabedian, an attorney in Boston who's represented thousands of survivors of clergy sexual abuse.

Garabedian said priests have taken individuals across state lines to abuse them. They’ve also used computers to send naked images of children.

Statute of limitations, he said, will still be an issue.

“But because of the broad reach of the federal government, they may be discovering even more claims of clergy sexual abuse, which can be prosecuted,” he said.

Daily Record staff writer Dylan Segelbaum contributed to this report.