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Dallas police raid Catholic diocese properties in investigation of alleged sex abuse by clergy
CNN ^ | 05/15/2019 | By Ray Sanchez and Rosa Flores, CNN

Posted on 05/15/2019 1:07:04 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

Dallas police searched the headquarters of the Catholic Diocese of Dallas and other properties Wednesday as part of the church's widening sex abuse scandal, police and church officials said.

Maj. Max Geron of the special investigations division said the raids are related to five new allegations of sexual abuse that emerged after police issued an arrest warrant for a priest named Edmundo Paredes, who was previously assigned to St. Cecilia's Parish in Dallas.

Dallas authorities said they consider Paredes a fugitive.

The parish was one of the locations searched Wednesday, along with the diocese headquarters and a storage facility, Geron said.

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The raids took the diocese by surprise since church officials have been cooperating with authorities for months, according to Catholic Diocese of Dallas spokeswoman Annette Gonzales Taylor.

"We feel like we were being transparent," Gonzales Taylor told CNN.

The diocese was not subpoenaed, she said.

The watchdog group Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests praised Wednesday's searches as a sign "police and prosecutors are taking the issue of clergy abuse in Texas seriously and are not just relying on the promises of church officials."

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: catholicbashing; catholicsexabuse
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To: Lurker

“I wonder where he was “reassigned” to. Don’t you?”

Maybe Venezuela? Probably buy all the little boys and girls he wants for a few USD’s.........


21 posted on 05/15/2019 2:20:36 PM PDT by snoringbear (,W,E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: snoringbear

Maybe Venezuela? Probably buy all the little boys and girls he wants for a few USD’s.........


Close. You can get a six-pack of
boys for a roll of toilet paper.


22 posted on 05/15/2019 2:28:05 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Campion

“you start into the standard FR “HATE THE CATHOLICS” routine?“

Bite me. The RCC brought every last bit of this on themselves by covering up for these monsters for decades. If you’re looking for sympathy you’ll find it in the dictionary between sh** and syphilis.

I don’t care if they’re Catholic, Protestant, Buddhist, or Zoroastrian. Child molesters need to swing from ropes and every last enabler belongs rotting in prison for the rest of their lives.

Period.

L


23 posted on 05/15/2019 3:05:18 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

For those not familiar with Dallas - Near the point where an upscale area, a homosexual area, the ghetto and the barrio converge.


24 posted on 05/15/2019 3:12:17 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Responsibility2nd

“...the diocese headquarters and a storage facility...”

Pitiful. Some US Catholic Bishops are ignorant the seriousness of the crimes they are hiding. They do not realize that if the crimes are real, then church property will be confiscated. Either allow the police to look through files or step aside and watch the police take the church. Many Bishops are clueless.


25 posted on 05/15/2019 3:19:34 PM PDT by Falconspeed
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To: ConservativeMind

This is an abuse of state power, probably to get the local
da more publicity.


26 posted on 05/15/2019 3:39:27 PM PDT by rcofdayton
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To: Red Badger

HIS transfer? Maybe.

When a business has a lower supply than
customer demand...


27 posted on 05/15/2019 4:31:57 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: ConservativeMind

More threats, I see.


28 posted on 05/15/2019 4:54:01 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome)
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To: Responsibility2nd

FARRELL


29 posted on 05/15/2019 7:22:08 PM PDT by Hieronymus ("I shall drink--to the Pope, if you please,-still, to Conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.")
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To: ConservativeMind

Many contemporary protestants have foolishly spent lots of time and energy hating Catholics not realizing they are playing right into the Left’s hands. Maybe now that other churches are being targeted they’ll catch on.


30 posted on 05/15/2019 8:22:38 PM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: Stravinsky

I don’t see “Catholic hate” occurring.

I see hate of the sinful Catholic leadership happening, and the fact that Catholics are powerless to stop it.


31 posted on 05/15/2019 8:42:49 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind
Feel better now?

I post this and you accuse me of Catholic Bashing.

Yet one of you people post it. As a Catholic Caucus. And that's different, how?

 

[Catholic Caucus] Dallas Diocese’s Rampant Sex Abuse Culture
Church Militant ^ | May 16,2019 | Bruce Walker

Posted on ‎5‎/‎16‎/‎2019‎ ‎3‎:‎50‎:‎48‎ ‎PM by ebb tide

32 posted on 05/16/2019 2:18:51 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd ( Import the third world and you'll become the third world.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

You are correct.

It is not effectively different.


33 posted on 05/16/2019 2:42:19 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

“effectively different”?

What in the world does that mean?


34 posted on 05/16/2019 3:45:43 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome)
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