I don’t know why anyone allows their children around these people.
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I don’t know why anyone allows their children around these people.
One of the really fucked up things about Christianity is that there is ample evidence in the Bible to justify the abuse of one’s children, and with the reverend’s financial resources, it’s pretty likely he’ll get away with doing this.
Funny how our so-called ‘Christian’ nation overlooks or hands out lesser sentences for child abuse, but if your only crime is puffing on a cigarette that has marijuana in it you can be jailed for decades, lose your right to vote, be barred from getting education assistance, and any number of other punishments that relegate you to second-class citizenship.
The Italian Bishop’s Conference (CIE) has issued guidelines on child protection that inform its bishops that they are ‘not obliged to report illicit facts’ of child abuse to the police.
The new guidelines were released recently after the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith advised every Bishop Conference to create a document covering Child Protection if they did not already have one.
One of the conferences that was void of such documentation was the CEI which works under Pope Benedict XVI.
In their new five page document which advised Italian Bishops on how to deal with paedophilia they failed to focus on one of the most important and obvious means of combating the crime – informing police authorities.
And with that, I will no longer tolerate anyone trying to defend the institutionalized protection of sexual predators in the Catholic Church. If they’re not ashamed enough to even try and hide it, why should anyone act as if the church is immune from criticism?
These days, you can get a deal on anything. Even salvation! Pope Benedict has announced that his faithful can once again pay the Catholic Church to ease their way through Purgatory and into the Gates of Heaven.
I wonder if they give a group rate discount to sexual predators?
Ireland’s Justice Minister Alan Shatter is planning to introduce legislation later this year that would put people in jail for 10 years if they withheld information that would help prosecute a child abuser.
Conformity to religious dogma is more important than protecting children and exposing sexual predators in the Catholic Church.
Outstanding.
I shouldn’t be shocked that so many leaders of the Catholic Church brush things like this aside, but really, something this vile was simply hidden away in a secret file? If something like this ever came across my desk, not only would I be calling the police, I’d have to restrain myself from taking a baseball bat and bashing this monster’s head in.
Catholics, how is it that you can support an organization that systematically covers up the rape and abuse of children? Here in Kansas City, there are legal proceedings underway to hold a bishop accountable for knowingly protecting a sexual predator. (As in, he knew definitively the priest had abused children and did not notify the authorities.) In Philly, there are two dozen priests under the microscope for their actions. Even the Pope himself has been involved in the transfer of priests and coverups of sexual abuse
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia let a pastor who admitted abusing adolescent boys at a Northeast Philadelphia parish return to limited ministry in 1997 because doctors said his problem had been substance abuse, not pedophilia, jurors were told today.
Catholics, how very kind of you not to report confessed child molesters to the authorities. I’m sure Jesus, Mary, or whoever it is you pray to would be proud to keep company with such wretched bastards as people who cover up child rape.
BLOOMINGTON — A two-day hearing on the termination of a Bloomington police officer investigated for an incident involving a special-needs child at Stevenson School has concluded. A ruling could come before summer.
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Officer Oglesby had been placed on paid leave following a Dec. 21, 2010, incident at Stevenson Elementary School. Police reports obtained by The Pantagraph said Oglesby lifted a 7-year-old student by the throat. The officer was at the school for another incident and went into a room where the child was having a seizure, a condition his parents said causes him to scream and throw a tantrum.
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In March, the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, which also investigated the incident, placed Oglesby on its state register of “indicated” child abusers. By law, Oglesby will remain on the list for five years.
Oglesby was terminated by the City of Bloomington last May.
It must be nice to have an association with the police department. That way, if you ever viciously assault a seven year-old child, all you have to worry about is finding another job. They apparently (and inexplicably) don’t arrest you or put you behind bars with other child abusers.
Nice job, Bloomington PD. You’re lucky it wasn’t my child, or I’d have you in the courts forking over every dollar I could wring out of you for this.
…the church is now attacking victim advocacy groups in an attempt to defend sex offenders.
Classy move… you sick, monstrous bastards.
Let me just reiterate that in my own backyard, we have one of the few law enforcement districts with the cajones to go after a Bishop for endangering childen.
That makes me proud as fuck that I live here.
Bishop Finn knew that Ratigan had created child pornography and victimized children in their care, and Finn’s response was not to go to the police, but to ‘forbid’ Ratigan any contact with children.
This should be an open and shut case. Finn had a duty not just as a powerful official of the Catholic Church to protect those kids, but as a fucking human being, and he cared more about covering up the abuse and protecting the Church’s image than doing the right thing.