Posted on 10/25/2023 11:47:51 PM PDT by Morgana
So LEARN from that.
Don't try to cover it up, or whine about "hit pieces smearing non-Catholic Christians" when it happens in (metaphorically) your house. Which is worse: that the staff at an apparently protestant school committed rape of a boy, or that some wretched catholic had the insufferable gall as to report on it?
I sincerely do not care where it happens. Punish the guilty (and that includes guilty of false accusation), protect the innocent. Find it, expose it, destroy it root and branch. Be absolutely brutal; in a few respects, The Inquisition had the right idea.
Anything less is contributing to the cover-up.
And that would constitute being part of the problem.
Don't be part of the problem.
BTW, FWIW: Because reasons, I'm a certified, trained, vetted, "mandatory reporter". I take this stuff very seriously.
Post # 20 is primarily a rant against Catholic sacramental theology and ecclesiology. It’s irrelevant to the present discussion. I’m simply not going to go down that rabbit hole with you.
Parents need to home school their kids. Every week a new story comes out about kids being molested in the public schools and more and more by female teachers.
The kids attending school are terrible too. The adults at the school can’t control them. Why do this to your kid? Home school them.
A very astute post. Thank you. Child abuse is utterly depraved and can ruin or end a victim's life. And false accusations are utterly evil and can ruin or end the accused's life. There must be a search for facts and due process.
The state ordered the school shut down so I think we are past “ false accusations”.
Plus SVU detectives are pretty good and figuring out when a rape victim is lying or telling the truth, even a troubled teen.
In this case it was not that the kids did not make police reports it was that the local police worked at the facility and were paid to bring back runaways. The kids were not believed so CPS was not contacted. The kids also reported abuse to the school’s doctor who did not report abuse. He is on trial now as well for sex abuse and not reporting abuse. His license is on hold until after the trial. His name is David Smock read about him here:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4041219/posts
North Mountain what was it you said about being a mandated reporter? Please tell us what happens to Mandated Reporters when they don’t report?
What it comes down to is this was a big old mess. No one was minding the store and things went off the rails.
A lot of this could have been prevented if only certain people had done their jobs.
Speaking of mandated reporters NM..The only ones at that school were the cops who sometimes worked there and the “good” doctor. The staff were not. that is another thing that needs to change about these type of schools. They all need to be mandated reporters so if they are caught not reporting child abuse they get a broomstick shoved up their ass by the legal system.
I am not saying this did not happen.
But I will say that even after a couple of years there would be physical evidence.
So, did he go to a doctor?
Which is why posting allegations as if they were fact is not the best course of action.
What I said is that I am one, which means I have a LEGAL as well as moral and ethical obligation to report abuse or suspected abuse that I might become aware of. Failure to do so can, IIRC, result in both civil and criminal action against a mandatory reporter.
Thankfully, that is not what I have done.
I’ll weigh in with, there is no such thing as public school.
It is in our day, Government school. Run by government, financed by government, overseen by the largest and most dangerous government in the land, the Federal Government.
Does government care about your children, any more than they care about you? They are raising compliant tax slaves. Confiscatory taxation is what keeps government running against everything our founders found important in life. Those running Government are far more interested in financing Yew Crane, and having an open border than they are in living under a Constitution that would shut down all of the craziness put upon the citizenry.
It’s been a long time since I have talked about the 100 most dangerous men in America, but I won’t pass up this opportunity. The US Senate should have been dumped with the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution. We already had 435 Representatives of “We the People”.
The Constitution authorizes a two year term for Representatives. The Seventeenth Amendment does not change the term of the Senate Representatives to two years. Thus in my opinion, the Seventeenth should never have been ratified. It should be nullified by as many States as are able to nullify which would be a portion of those with Republican Legislatures and willing Governors.
Restore the Tenth Amendment to it’s rightful place as the protector of State sovereignty.
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