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Posted on 11/19/2011 8:27:54 PM PST by Morgana
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The church school in Colorado Springs at the center of a sex abuse case is no longer in operation.
The Hilltop Baptist School closed last year after enrollment dropped from about 200 to 130 students.
A teacher at the former school, 32-year-old Terah Allyn Rawlings, is accused of having sex with a 15-year-old boy during the 2007-2008 school year and the following summer. She was indicted this week along with two pastors and a former principal who allegedly failed to report the abuse.
One of the pastors is her father and the other is an uncle.
(Excerpt) Read more at kdvr.com ...
Congregationalist as opposed to hierarchical Churches have no option to over ride the response of the flock. If the people walk, the institution folds.
Not that that won't produce psychological issues.
Or spread venereal diseases - some curable, others not.
Or that the conception of a child (if it happens) whether it lives and needs care, or dies through miscarriage or abortion doesn't produce devastating consequences that manifest themselves in the life of the minor involved across the years.
I see little to no concern for the victim, here. Is the victim represented by counsel? Was there a settlement in his favor for expenses related to the abuse?
But what we do see is that other Parents supported the victim over the church leadership and therefore the school was forced to close. That shows that other parents find whatever evidence there is credible and have acted on that.
We will know more after the criminal trial. Usually civil suits wait until after criminal charges wend their way through court.
Ideally churches should restore victims of abuse within their purview, but in this case the leaders were part of the problem. obviously the membership is forcing the issue and the School is already closed even though there has not yet been a trial.
I thought only Catholics did the pedophile thing. At least, that’s what I hear on Free Republic.
No trial in the media, either.
In PJ's, underwear .... or less.
Nope and nobody here says that.
All of those involved here should go to prison including those who covered it up.
By the way, where is Cardinal Law these days?
The Catholic MO is consistent: “Don’t blame us, everyone rapes children.”
Congratulations on finding one article. Meanwhile tens of thousands of children have been raped at the hands of thousands of Catholic clergy.
The John Jay report, which only covers US cases from 1950 to 2002, identified 10,667 allegations against 4,392 priests.
That’s only in the U.S. and doesn’t include cases like Rev. Murphy, 200+ abused, which were discovered after the report was published!
Include Europe and you can double that number!
Catholic sex abuse cases
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_sex_abuse_cases#Statistics_on_offenders_and_victims
Probably not the Amish or Mennonites or do you even have an list of who they are against.
Your numbers put Catholic priests as less than 40%. The interesting thing would be to list the OVER 60% who others did.
Could you post them for all to see?
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