Sad? Really? It’s freakin illegal, and this perv should be tried and if convicted tossed into the general population at the largest, worst, penetentery they can find.
And then this kids parents should be flogged for leaving a twelve year old boy with a grown man.
And then the kid should get every nickel that church has, and ever will have.
His alibi's illegal? I think it's just a very sad one.
Really? The church -- and by that I mean the parish -- didn't ordain the priest and didn't select him to serve there; the bishop does that. Destroying the parish because they were unlucky enough to be saddled with a pervert pastor is a bit like shooting a sick person to kill the germs.
Do you favor shutting down and selling off public schools when a senior faculty member is discovered molesting students, or do you think we should remove (and prosecute, if possible) the guilty person and try to hire someone decent?
The people of this parish didn't molest anyone. They deserve our prayers, not our vows of revenge, financial or otherwise. Save that for the perp.