How many states have launched their own probes of clergy sex abuse?

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From Wash Post story in Chi Trib today, this ambiguous line:

States including Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico and New York have now launched their own investigations.

“Including.” There are others who have launched etc.?

What Post trying to say is that these five states have launched etc. There are no others, so why “including”?

These are writers and complicit editors who doing a sentence are like the messy person who throws mud against a wall, trusting some will stick.

Sloppy, sloppy.

Published by Jim Bowman

Jim Bowman covered religion 1968-78 for the Chicago Daily News, since then has written books, articles, etc., mostly on corporate history but also on religion (Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968), and more recently on politics (Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters -- Lulu.com, Kindle). Longtime Oak Park, Illinois, resident, he lives now on Chicago's North Side, where four of his and Winnie's six children live close by.

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