Posted on 05/24/2010 6:00:39 AM PDT by TSgt
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — The authorities in Rio de Janeiro said Sunday that they had arrested a Polish priest and charged him with sexually abusing a 16-year-old former altar boy.
The judge who issued the arrest warrant said the priest, Father Marcin Michael Strachanowski, 44, had used his parish’s rectory as an “erotic dungeon” to carry out sex acts with boys.
The police in Rio de Janeiro State said that Father Strachanowski, who was arrested late Friday, was being held at a police station awaiting court proceedings. He is accused of handcuffing the 16-year-old to a bed “to satisfy his sexual whims,” according to state prosecutors.
It is the third case of sexual abuse involving a priest in Brazil, which has the world’s biggest Roman Catholic population, in the last two months.
In April, Msgr. Luiz Marques Barbosa, 83, and two other priests were taken into custody in northeastern Brazil and accused of abuse after a videotape surfaced of Father Barbosa having sex with a former altar boy. Also that month, in Franca, in southeastern Brazil, prosecutors charged the Rev. José Afonso with abusing altar boys ranging from 12 to 16 years old.
The Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro has relieved Father Strachanowski of his parish duties because of the criminal investigation, said Adionel Carlos da Cunha, a church spokesman. Mr. da Cunha said that church officials had been investigating Father Strachanowski for at least two years for suspected abuses of the teenager.
The archdiocese “expresses its regret over what happened, particularly with the people involved and especially to the possible victims,” Mr. da Cunha said in a statement released Friday.
Camila Donato, a spokeswoman for Rio’s civil police, said that complaints about Father Strachanowski first surfaced in 2004.
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A two year investigation yet no removal until arrest.
But so much is being done! Zero tolerance, etc...
What % of priests have a hetero orientation, and what % have a homo orientation? Celibacy aside, they are men.
Now, what % of victims abused by these priests are boys?
Why doesn’t the % of victims mirror the orientation %?
If he were allowed to marry, I’m sure he’d just have a very normal sex life. [/sarc]
“A two year investigation yet no removal until arrest.”
Sounds like the Catholic Church that we know and love.
In related news...
Vatican official left abusive priest in pastor job
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iBU9rD_mDfrtHE9qRdEwC71MqcVwD9FCAKV81
The pope’s hand-picked replacement to oversee abuse cases at the Vatican did nothing to restrict a California priest after learning in 1995 that the priest had molested a 13-year-old boy a decade earlier.
Cardinal William Levada, then archbishop of San Francisco, said in a 2005 deposition obtained by The Associated Press that he did nothing and didn’t contact police because he trusted the Rev. Milton Walsh would not re-offend and his predecessor handled the case adequately.
Levada is now the highest-ranking American at the Vatican and head of the office that defrocks pedophile priests. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger held the post before he became Pope Benedict XVI in 2005.
I believe I’ve heard that more than 80% of the victims are boys 13 years or older.
Celibacy is INSANITY. Get rid of it. It is totally man-made and not in any way a commandment or anything sacred. Seems more the work of the devil...
If not, why so many teenage male victims?
Another isolated incident.
is there such thing as a male wiener lusting heterosexual?
Does that somehow make it better?
More exposure of the male homosexual lifestyle. This is not reserved for the church, but is only reported when it involves the church.
According to Father Donald Cozzens, who wrote "The Changing Face of the Priesthood" - the number is 50% or higher.
HMMMMMM.
SIGH.
I'm guessing 50-50. There are some seminaries in the states that are 80 % gay. Lots of hanky panky goin' on over there, like a dormitory at a gay college.
The number of reported cases in the Catholic Church excludes all the cases of sexual innuendo, sexual pestering, attempts at groping etc. Sad state of affairs and sad that the bishops and other higher ups have been so gutless.
Omg.. i’m going to throw up!
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