The Colorado Attorney General’s Office has released a review of sex abuse within the Colorado Catholic church, naming 52 priests. However, the identities of many church officials who either covered up or ignored allegations of Catholic Church child sex abuse have been kept confidential.

Two major investigative documents from the Colorado Sun counted 37 predator priests who were either covered for or ignored by the Colorado Catholic church. Officials may have ignored victims when they tried to come forward with their stories, chose not to investigate, or did not bring reports of suspected abuse to law enforcement. In many cases, the Colorado Sun reports, priests accused of abuse were warned about their behavior, but were ultimately allowed to continue working as members of the clergy.

During the independent investigation, which was spearheaded by former Colorado U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer beginning in Feb. 2019, a total of 212 people who had been abused by priests as children (from young children to teenagers) between 1950 and 2000 came forward with their stories. Of these 212 victims, 113 were abused by just 14 priests after the church had already been warned about their abusive behavior.

While the investigation named the priests who had been credibly accused of abuse during this investigation, the scope of the investigation did not include revealing the names of the church officials who covered up or otherwise protected abusive priests, according to Attorney General Phil Weiser.

This is unlike the massive Pennsylvania grand jury report that, in turn, prompted this review in Colorado, which named those who covered up abuse. But in Colorado, without permission of the governor to use a grand jury, the investigation was stymied.

“We had to make a judgment call about how to scope this report,” Weiser is quoted as saying in The Colorado Sun. “We prioritized what priests were abusers, (victims) getting compensation.”

Some survivors of clergy sexual abuse within the Colorado Catholic church don’t believe that everything that could be done to bring justice for the victims has been done.

“Clearly they didn’t hold everyone accountable,” said Neil Elms. Elms was just eight years old when he alleges he was raped by Monsignor Lawrence St. Peter in the 1980s at Holy Family School in Denver, The Colorado Sun quotes him as saying.

St. Peter rose to a high rank within the Denver Archdiocese, and despite “numerous, reliable, consistent reports” that he was abusing boys, St. Peter was not removed from the clergy.

Indeed, per the report, St. Peter’s misconduct with children was “an open secret.” Yet those who reportedly ignored or actively covered up the abuse, failing to protect these children, have not been named.

“These are individuals who thought it was in their best interest not to go to the police,” Elms said. “That’s like knowing that my friend committed a murder and not telling anybody. Give me a break. Nowadays, that’s an accessory. I just feel like the agreement that the AG had with the church was a mistake. Now who is covering up [for] who?”

St. Peter was not the only suspected child predator in the Colorado Catholic church—nor even the most well-known.

That appellation goes to Father Harold Robert White. Investigators found that the Denver Archdiocese had known about his history of child abuse from the very beginning of his career. His alleged child sex abuse began even before his ordination in 1960. Investigators have located 70 victims.

Instead of reporting White’s abuse or removing him from the clergy, the Denver Archdiocese chose to cover up the abuse and put more children at risk. “When he had sexually abused enough children at a parish that scandal threatened to erupt, the Denver Archdiocese moved him to a new one geographically distant enough that White was not known there.”

No other action was taken against White, the report says. “The Denver Archdiocese repeated this cycle at least six times and never once restricted his ministry, or removed him from ministry, or sent him off for genuine psychiatric evaluation and care.”