August 29, 2026

PA Grand Jury: ZERO Cipolla secret archive files & no new accusers came forth

Preview:  The 2018 Pennsylvania Grand Jury Inquest opened wide the doors, windows & curtains of SIX Pennsylvanian Roman Catholic dioceses.  It was so productive that it revealed the molestations of 301 priests upon 1,000 children.  

This grand jury inquest was so competent that, if anyone actually had been molested by Anthony Cipolla and had his accusations kept in a hush-hush secret archive file, then that person had an open avenue to come forth and go through the process of testifying against Cipolla on record.  

This also meant that any secret archive detailing any sexual abuse accusations against Cipolla would have been uncovered and made part of the record, via subpoena.  

Well, no new face came forth to accuse Cipolla, and it turned out that no such "secret molestation archive against Cipolla" was in existence.  Moreover, Cipolla was NEVER shifted to another nearby diocese ... or to any nearby state ... to hide any sexual wrongdoing.  Randy Engel was wrong about him, in her defamatory assessment of him. 

 Moreover, Anthony Cipolla was NEVER found with child pornography. 

All in all:

[1] Only Diane Thompson in the late 1970s accused Cipolla through two young sons, while she was in desperate need of apartment rent money.  In fact, she accused Cipolla shortly after she asked Cipolla for money and got none.  Moreover, the accusation came at the last week of the month, and such a week is often near rent payment due dates.

... [2] Only Tim Bendig in the late 1980s accused Cipolla, but not until after Bendig was expelled from the seminary and was denied a request for charity money from the Pittsburgh diocese ... and only after Anthony Cipolla told the Padre Pio Prayer Group people to stop sending money to a Tim Bendig who was now in desperate need for money. 

The Scorecard
 
~After all of these decades, no one from the youth groups of 1972 to 1976 ever accused Cipolla of any sexual wrongdoing.
 
~No one amongst his wide array of Padre Pio Prayer Group altar servers of the 1980s ever accused him of anything wrongful ... except for a financially destitute Tim Bendig, in 1987 and then again in 1988.
 
Concerning the Pittsburgh diocesan parishes where Cipolla was assigned: 
 
~No one from St Bernard Parish in Mt Lebanon ever accused Cipolla.
~No one from Immaculate Conception Parish, in Washington PA, ever accused him.
~No one from St Philomena's Parish in Beaver PA ever accused Cipolla.
~No one from St Agatha Parish in Bridgeville PA ever accused him.
~No one from St Philip Parish in Crafton PA ever accused Anthony Cipolla of molestation ... according to the investigators and record hunters.  
 
In addition, Cipolla was NEVER found to have possessed or have used child pornography. 
 
Needless to say, the PA Grand Jury of 2018 would have found such records, if they existed, due to the power vested & invested in it.
 
Thus, any secret archive of Cipolla molesting a multiplicity of children did NOT exist, as Randy Engel conjectured that it would.  All of the evidence and witness accounts in the wide open statewide Grand Jury Inquest shows that Cipolla was NOT a serial molester being shifted from parish to parish, to cover-up any type of molestation habit or sexual impropriety.  
 
So, if you website operators out there ... and newspaper editors and TV producers and magazine publishers ... insist on claiming that Cipolla showed all the signs of a schizophrenic child molester who was arrested, arraigned, and then let go after a DA strong-armed a Diane Thompson into "dropping the charges" that were never filed in the first place, then this conversation can be continued with the involvement of a magistrate here and a magistrate there who will be vested with the power to make the conversation have meaning ... an expensive meaning.
 
That which would be needed to initiate the civil court legal process is someone or some entity with Article III Standing.  If you don't know what that is, you can easily look it up and get an answer. 
 
And remember, Warren "Bud" Droz told the 2018 Grand Jury under oath that the only reason why he believed everything said to him by a twelve year old Frank Labiaux in late July of 1978 was that Droz believed that no twelve year old youth would ever lie to a police officer.  That is super bogus police work, and it's expected to come from someone going through police officer burn out.  Case Closed. 
 
Cipolla was stationed here at one time.  No accusations against Cipolla here.
 
The Great Hypocrisy of putting Cipolla in the Spotlight
 
Website after website puts Cipolla in neon lights, always insinuating that he, at the least, molested three youths for dozens and even hundreds of times.
 
However, there was one priest whom Wuerl reinstated who ended up being accused of molesting about 20 high school students.  It was John S Hoehl.  Why did he not get the amount of negative press that Cipolla got?
 
As another point of hypocrisy, there was the Fr Leo Burchianti who had a monthly stipend from Wuerl, while living in the St Jean Vianney House for the rest of his life.  Burchianti was surmised to have molested eight male youths.  
 
Meanwhile, the number of molestation victims at the hands of Fr John Wellinger is attached to a question mark. 
 
And of course, the Richard Zula who received a monthly check from Wuerl was once charged with 130 counts of child sexual abuse and even the possession of child pornography.  Yet, Cipolla was the one made out to be Wuerl's greatest monster, by the media and the internet.
 
 
Now for the major hypocrisy of Randy Engel, in her damning of Cipolla, in his parish assignment record
 
Randy stated that Spokesman Fr Ron Lengwin stated that the average priest's first assignment is about five years.  My multiple expert sources did not agree.
 
None the less, according to Randy Engel, if you are a priest whose first parish assignment was five years long, then you are a good man who was never accused of molestation, and therefore never had to be moved to different parishes, to cover-up your habit of molestation.
 
Well, Fr Richard Zula's first parish assignment lasted 5 years.  Yet, he was a monster.  Therefore, Randy Engel, in her assessment, is wrong.
 
 
THE IMMACULATE MISCONCEPTION
 
Plus, at the very start of one of the sections of Randy Engel's 2016 three-part article, she had a damning declarative statement about Cipolla's state of mental health which was instantly able to be proven FALSE.
 
Q:  And what exactly is this asinine & defamatory assertion that comes out of the starting gate in one of Engel's 2016 declaratory statements?

ANS:  Her mention that Anthony Cipolla was most probably a psychotic or schizophrenic? 

Q:  What makes her initial assertion an asinine one which instantly signals to the reader that the 2016 article is nothing more than a list of defamatory lies, written by a gossipy hag?

ANS:  Anthony Cipolla was analyzed by TWO board-certified & licensed psychiatric institutions which included personnel who held an MD and a medical license.  Both institutions DID NOT diagnose Cipolla as being either schizophrenic or psychotic.

In fact, the New York City institute gave Cipolla a clean bill of mental health, while the Maryland Clinic simply diagnosed him as having Clinical Depression & Suicidal Tendencies.  That is much much different than schizophrenia and/or psychosis.

And remember, Randy Engel does NOT have an M.D. attached to her name, and she was NOT the operator of a psychiatric facility. 

Usually, a person with the suicidal tendency diagnosis is treated with compassion.  In fact, people refrain from bringing any amount of grief or trauma upon that person which would compel him to suicide.  But not Randy Engel.

Of course, Engel, in her self-righteous & holier-than-art-thou mindset, made herself out to be far more knowledgeable and enlightened than all of the degree-earning & license-holding professionals at those two clinics. 

Cipolla also had a serious heart condition which included surgery.  I previously mentioned the neuropathy and diabetes of Cipolla.  This means that his medical condition was such that he was in no condition to molest anyone.  

So, Randy Engel's "good good New Jersey friend" didn't need to traumatize Cipolla to death, so as to protect children from being molested by him ... by a man who was never indicted or arrested or arraigned or placed in the witness box for any type of molestation charge.

Due to the scouring of information done in 2018, during the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Inquest, it turned out that there actually was no secretly held Cipolla archive file detailing a serial molester, during his first five years of priesthood ministry.  The PA Grand Jury concluded that there was zero sexual abuse accusations against Cipolla in his first five years of priesthood ministry.

This is important to note, because Engel claimed that Cipolla's parish assignment record was the definitive and undeniable record of a molester.  But of course, the 2018 PA Grand Jury reported much differently than a Randy Engel who had zero subpoena power and zero agents working for her.  

However, Randy Engel had to push the issue and torment Cipolla with her 2016 plan of instilling widespread defamation against him, until the shock & mental trauma which was consuming him augmented into a fatal arrhythmia, while driving.  

Cipolla then crashed into a tree with heartwood so strong & wide that the car's engine literally ended up in the front seat immediately upon impact.  Simultaneously, Cipolla was thrown from the car.