Posted on 01/02/2022 6:41:21 PM PST by marshmallow
The Diocese of Arlington’s former director for the Office of Child Protection, Father Terry Specht, was indicted last week on two charges of sexual abuse.
A grand jury in Virginia indicted Specht Dec. 20 on one count of aggravated sexual battery of a child under the age of 13 and one count of sexual abuse of a child over whom a custodial or supervisory relationship existed.
Michael Kelly, Chief of Staff for the office of Virginia’s attorney general, Mark Herring, told CNA that the maximum penalty for the first count is 20 years in prison, and five for the second.
A Dec. 28 press release from the attorney general’s office said that the complainant in the case brought the allegations against Specht in 2019. The diocese said allegations against Specht were brought to it in 2019, which were immediately referred to law enforcement. Specht was out of ministry at the time.
Specht, who is retired in Pennsylvania according to the attorney general’s office, was placed on administrative leave in 2012 after an allegation of sexual assault was brought to the diocese that year. A diocesan review board investigated the allegation, finding it “inconclusive”. The diocese said that law enforcement brought no charges in relation to the allegation.
The diocese says that after he was placed on leave, Specht requested medical retirement due to an illness, which the diocese granted him. Since then, Specht has been out of ministry and will not return. He had served as a priest since 1996.
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Hiding in plain sight??
I’m not surprised.
Why WOULD I be?
Become the new religion correspondent for CNN
They frequently attach themselves to charities designed to help children.
Ya think the church would have stopped this crap. They need to profile their staff still and get rid of the bad eggs still around. I wonder if the boys in prison will go easy on a former man of the cloth? Nah.
I guess he needs a hair shirt and due some penance in his new monk’s cell.
“They need to profile their staff still and get rid of the bad eggs still around.”
The bad eggs run the place.
Priest and Sex Abuse headlines are predictable like artcles that begin with Florida Man or Chicago Teen.
Could they find one person to take that job that wasn’t a perv?
“Ya think the church would have stopped this crap. They need to profile their staff still and get rid of the bad eggs still around. “
The foxes are guarding the hen houses ...
“Could they find one person to take that job that wasn’t a perv?”
Yep. But this one owned the dirt.
Fyi...
“They need to profile their staff still and get rid of the bad eggs still around.”
Ha!
Who would be left to say mass?
Who would sit in the little box to hear confession?
Who would sprinkle holy water on the audience?
Who would be left to misinterpret scripture?
Who would lead the people astray?
What would happen to the horse racing industry?
Who would be the layman scouts for Notre Dame football?
Just like Jerry Sandusky's "Second Mile".
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