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Obama Associates Cover Up Sex Abuse of Black Kids in Chicago [DOCUMENT LEAK INCLUDED]
Original to Free Republic | April 4, 2011 | Laurentius

Posted on 04/04/2011 6:43:27 PM PDT by Laurentius

Chicago Democrats with close ties to Barack Obama have been implicated in a massive cover-up of sexual abuse and human trafficking (1) targeting black children in poor neighborhoods. The allegations have emerged from a series of lawsuits brought by abuse victims and their families.

The crimes span a period of at least 40 years, and involve torture, kidnapping, gang rape and sexual enslavement of hundreds of African-American children.

Through the years, victims coming forward to report these crimes have faced harassment and threats from private investigators (2) and city police. (3)

These abuses unfolded during the long reign of the “Daley Machine” – a period when two Richard Daleys, father and son, ruled over the Windy City, with near-dictatorial powers. Each held the reins for more than 20 years (Richard the Elder from 1955 to 1976 and Richard the Younger from 1989 to 2011).

We now know that the Mayor’s Summer Youth Employment Program — established by Richard the Elder in 1969 — long served as a federally-funded playground for child molestors. Pedophiles working in the program preyed on black children from poor neighborhoods, often placing them on government payrolls as “phantom” or “ghost” employees, with no other duties than to satisfy their tormentors’ sexual appetites.

The widening scandal threatens to become an embarrassment for President Barack Obama, whose political career largely grew from Daley’s patronage, and whose White House is filled with Daley operatives, including William Daley, brother of the former mayor, whom Obama has appointed chief of staff.

Targeting Black Children in Poor Neighborhoods

The scandal came to light mainly through the efforts of Seattle attorney Phillip Aaron, who has been fighting Chicago’s pedophile mafia since 2001.

Aaron, who is African-American, discovered a veritable epidemic of sex abuse against impoverished black children in Chicago.

He has brought suit against the City of Chicago, the Chicago Archdiocese and Chicago Archbishop Francis George, among others. He also founded African-American Advocates for Victims of Clergy Sexual Abuse (AAVCSA), a victim support group headed by Ruby Harris.

Aaron commissioned a study which shows that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago has pursued a long-term policy of transferring child-abusing priests to African-American neighborhoods. (see box labeled “DOCUMENT LEAK” below)

The study shows that priests in Chicago who were "credibly accused" of molesting children - that is, priests who were identified as likely pedophiles in the Church's own documents - were systematically pulled from white neighborhoods and transferred to poor, black communities, over a period of several decades. The results were horrific. Perverted priests preyed on black children at will. City and church officials turned their backs on the problem, and cooperated in covering up these crimes.

In court filings, Aaron has accused the Daley political machine of working hand-in-hand with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago to obstruct investigations, intimidate witnesses and suppress media coverage of the scandal.


DOCUMENT LEAK

The Wilbon-Kopp Report:
INTENTIONAL TRANSFER OF SEXUALLY-ABUSIVE PRIESTS TO AFRICAN-AMERICAN NEIGHBORHOODS OF CHICAGO
by Arunice Wilbon and Robert Kopp


SUPPRESSED
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Download the Raw Data


Readers are urged to download copies of the Wilbon-Kopp Report as soon as possible. The PDF link may go dead at any time. It has already been removed from the Web site of the Phillip Aaron law firm, where it used to appear on the front page. The link does not appear on any other Web site. This writer managed to find the link only through a Google search, where it still appears on a cached page.



An Unholy Alliance of Church and State

In November 2006, Church lawyers settled out of court with three of Aaron’s clients for an unusually large sum, totalling seven figures. The victims – now grown men – claim they were abused, as children, by one Father Terence Fitzmaurice.

Fitzmaurice was more than a priest. He was also a city official – a supervisor for Mayor Daley’s Summer Youth Employment Program (now known as "Youth Ready Chicago"). Each summer Fitzmaurice supervised hundreds of teen workers for the city.

Mayor Richard J. Daley – father of Mayor Richard M. Daley – launched the program in 1969 to provide training and summer jobs for impoverished black and Hispanic youth. Catholic parishes around the city took part in the program, which was run in partnership with the Archdiocese of Chicago School Board.

Fitzmaurice, who was white, would scour poor neighborhoods, seeking black and Hispanic teens in need of work. Many got legitimate jobs, such as painting walls, doing yard work and helping the elderly. Others were selected for a different sort of “work.”

Court papers allege that Father Fitzmaurice maintained a “clubhouse” near his church where he invited young recruits to hang out, play air hockey or watch TV. Some were taken to a back room where they were seduced or raped by Fitzmaurice and other priests.

Aaron alleges that Fitzmaurice placed many of his young recruits on the city payroll, with no duties other than to provide sexual services for priests. In many cases, Fitzmaurice had to falsify their ages on official documents, because they were not yet 14 – the minimum age for participation in the city job program. Several of his underage recruits lived at the rectory, available round the clock for sexual abuse by Fitzmaurice and other priests.

Court filings say that one African-American boy named Peter Collins was kidnapped from a playground at the age of ten, “forced to ingest alcohol,” then gang-raped by four priests, including Father Fitzmaurice. Collins was one of the three Fitzmaurice victims, mentioned above, who received a six-figure settlement in 2006.

More than 220 victims have come forward, claiming they were molested by priests who recruited them through the Mayor’s summer work program.

Fitzmaurice retired in 1988, and died in 2009. He never faced criminal charges.


THE FORBIDDEN VIDEOS
Suppressed NBC 5 Chicago News Report, Plus Other Local Coverage

SUPPRESSED
Aired August 6, 2009
Report on Black and Latino Victims of Clergy Sexual Abuse
NBC 5 Chicago, WMAQ-TV



News reports on the Catholic Church sex-abuse scandal have saturated major media for years. Yet African-American victims are strangely absent from most accounts. On August 6, 2009, NBC 5 Chicago (WMAQ-TV) broke the taboo with a news report featuring several of Phillip Aaron’s clients, and using video interviews done Aaron’s filmmaker son, Bles Aaron. NBC 5 posted the report on its Web site, but soon pulled down the video, apparently under pressure from the Chicago Archdiocese.(4) The forbidden video can still be viewed on YouTube.


MORE VIDEOS

Aired August 16, 2009
Perspective with Monique Caradine Kitchens, MY50 Chicago, WPWR-TV
PART 1: Interview of Ruby Harris, Gigi Moore from African-American Advocates for Victims of Clergy Sexual Abuse (AAVCSA)

PART 2: Interview of David Nolan, Ruby Harris and African-American Advocates for Victims of Clergy Sexual Abuse (AAVCSA)

PART 3: Interview of Dan Nolan, Ruby Harris and African-American Advocates for Victims of Clergy Sexual Abuse (AAVCSA)

PART 4: Interview of Bles Aaron, filmmaker and documentarian for African-American Advocates for Victims of Clergy Sexual Abuse (AAVCSA)


Obama Judge Shoots Down Federal Racketeering Lawsuit

On December 10, 2009, Aaron filed suit on behalf of more than 40 victims. Defendants included the City of Chicago, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, and Chicago Archbishop Francis George, among others.

Aaron charged the defendants with racial discrimination, alleging that the Catholic Church deals more harshly with black victims of sexual abuse than with white victims. He alleged, among other things, that the Church holds black victims to a higher standard of proof, gives them smaller settlements and subjects them to intimidation at the hands of lawyers, private detectives and police.

Aaron also alleged federal racketeering, stating that federal funds had been used to facilitate pedophile activity and to pay bribes and hush money to victims and their families.

When Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman was appointed to hear the case, it seemed a good sign. A black woman who had worked in the child protection division of the Illinois Circuit Court, Coleman was nominated to the federal bench by President Barack Obama on February 24, 2010 . She seemed more likely than most to empathize with Aaron’s mostly African-American clients.

But, on January 10, 2011, Judge Coleman dismissed the suit, on dubious grounds. She denied that the crimes Aaron alleged fell under federal jurisdiction.

The Daley Connection

Perhaps the result was predictable. Born and raised in Chicago, Judge Coleman came up through the ranks of Mayor Daley’s political machine.

In fact, Daley was her boss for nearly five years. During Daley’s seven-year tenure as Cook County State’s Attorney (1981-1989), Coleman served as Assistant State’s Attorney, from 1984 to 1989.

She was a product of the Machine. Her decision on January 10 reflected that.

Regarding the Daley Machine, Chicago writer Ben Joravsky observed in 2007, “With the exception of a few political oddballs and misfits, almost everyone around here is part of Daley's team. They really have no choice. For better or worse, Daley controls the schools, parks, and police, not to mention hundreds of pay rollers and billions of property-tax dollars. If you want a zoning change, building permit, or a business license, you have to go to Daley, or at least to people he has appointed or hired. The attitude in Chicago is you can't beat him — so you might as well succumb.”

As Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel prepares for his May 16 inauguration, many Chicagoans hope the new regime will rise above the corruption of the old. But the Daley Machine has deep roots in Chicago. Emanuel himself is a Daley operative from way back.


THE LAWSUITS

CIVIL DOCKET FOR CASE #: 1:07-cv-00532
Collins v. Fitzmaurice et al

January 29, 2007


CIVIL DOCKET FOR CASE #: 1:09-cv-02842
Doe 1 et al v. Vader et al

May 8, 2009

CIVIL DOCKET FOR CASE #: 1:09-cv-07656
Doe 1 et al v. The Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, et al

December 10, 2009



Criminal Charges May Lie Ahead

Aaron’s allegations could lead to criminal charges, if proved. Prosecutors have begun dealing more harshly with clergy sex abuse, as recently demonstrated in the case of Monsignor William Lynn, an official of Philadelphia’s Roman Catholic Archdiocese. Lynn has been charged with two felony counts of child endangerment, for transferring abusive priests to other parishes while keeping mum about their crimes.

If the Chicago cases are treated with the same strictness, church and city officials who took part in the cover-up may face jail time.

CARDINAL GEORGE ANNOUNCES RESIGNATION
Mishandling of Sex-Abuse Scandals May Be Factor

A front-page story in the Chicago Tribune on March 18 announced that Chicago Archbishop Francis George will submit his resignation to the Vatican -- but not until January of next year. It's a routine procedure, said the Tribune. Cardinal George turns 75 in January. All Cardinals must submit resignation letters at age 75.

All well and good. But if the procedure is routine, why did the Tribune play this story on the front page – a full ten months in advance of the Cardinal’s anticipated resignation?

One explanation may lie in the Archbishop's mishandling of sex-abusing priests.

In a January 30, 2008 deposition, George admitted under oath that he allowed Father Daniel McCormack to stay on as pastor of an African-American parish, despite repeated warnings that McCormack was a likely pedophile, including a recommendation from the Archdiocese’s own Independent Review Board to suspend McCormack from ministry.

McCormack was considered a "rising star" in the Archdiocese, a white man with a unique “passion” for black culture. The Chicago Tribune reports that McCormack would preach to his African-American parishioners “in the rolling cadences of a black Baptist clergyman.”

McCormack was arrested in January 2006 and sentenced to five years in prison for sexual abuse of children. At least 23 alleged victims of McCormack have come forward.

The Cardinal's resignation announcement may be calculated to put some distance between George and the McCormack scandal. Perhaps it is also intended to lower his profile on law-enforcement radar screens.

No doubt, Cardinal George is keeping a wary eye on Philadelphia, where prosecutors have charged an Archdiocesan official with felony child endangerment, for keeping pedophile priests in ministry. Cardinal George and his retired colleague Bishop Raymond Goedert, have done much the same thing, as they admitted in sworn depositions.

Deposition of Cardinal Francis E. George OMI, January 28, 2008
Deposition of Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus Raymond E. Goedert, November 13, 2007



NOTES
1. Under international law, human trafficking is considered a “crime against humanity. Such crimes can be investigated by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and may be prosecuted by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Article 3, paragraph (a) of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons defines “trafficking in persons” as the “recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion… for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include… sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs.” The United States ratified the Protocol on November 3, 2005, and President Barack Obama has called upon the American people to prioritize the struggle against human trafficking. In Chicago, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart has launched a major offensive against sex trafficking. See Jan Jeffcoat, “ Sex Trafficking in Chicago: Cook County Sheriff’s Dept. Helps Raise Awareness,” FOX Chicago News/MyFoxChicago.com, March 30, 2011; “Cook County Had First Sex Trafficking Conviction Under Dart’s New Initiative,” FOX Chicago News / MyFoxChicago.com, March 31, 2011, and “Illinois and the Swedish Prostitution Model,” The Human Trafficking Project, November 27, 2009.

2. In court filings, attorney Phillip Aaron has alleged that some of his clients have been “followed and investigated by defendants’ investigators,” and that “Said investigators interviewed victims’ neighbors, friends, acquaintances…” See Jane Doe 1 et. al. v. Father Anthony Vader et. al., Complaint for Damages and Demand for Jury Trial, United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Case No. 1:09-cv-02842, May 8, 2009, paragraph 65.

3. Morgan Lord, “Alleged Sex Abuse Victims Accuse Chicago Police of Wrongdoing,” Chicago Defender, July 20, 2005

4. John Doe 1 et al., v. The Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, et al., United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Case No. 1:09-cv-07656, 12-10-09, paragraphs 62-64


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To: TribalPrincess2U

Sadly, this isn’t just a dem problem. Google ‘boystown’. The whole gov’t is corrupt with this stuff going years back. Our whole gov’t is ‘gutrot’.


181 posted on 04/05/2011 10:59:38 AM PDT by rosepetal2010
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To: Sal

Thanks for the info, Sal! I’ll check it out!


182 posted on 04/05/2011 10:59:38 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama's 2012 Slogan: "We've got what it takes, to take what you've got"!)
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To: Laurentius

The democrat party seems to be the party of despair.


183 posted on 04/05/2011 11:12:11 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Palladin

OMG! I had no idea Pfleger adopted young black boys who lived with him. I see an increasingly clear picture forming here...

WRT Wright and Man’s Country, please see my correction at #180. Wright reportedly DID protect the “privacy” of his people by running a specific dating service, but I haven’t found out who actually started Man’s Country (the physical place) over 30 years ago. See the link in #180. There’s tons of info on lots of unexpected people that explains a lot of political things.


184 posted on 04/05/2011 11:16:14 AM PDT by Sal (Islamo Bamma is the star, writer, director and producer of AS THE WORLD BURNS.)
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To: rabidralph

Or more like the newest show - “The Chicago Code.”

I’m surprised Fox had the cojones to put that one on the air.


185 posted on 04/05/2011 11:24:46 AM PDT by BuckyKat (Obama's military strategy/foreign policy = Political Onanism)
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Not for nothing that when approached by those posing to seek info, ACORN workers had no prob and seemed to have quite a solid grasp, on how to operate a pedophile sex setup.

There seems to be a rather deeply seated pattern in among the “liberal” activist groupings on the issue.

See also intergenerational intimacy (the new PC term for pedophilia and pederasty). The usual suspects are well into their game plan on “social norming” the practices.

The psych profession is largely on board. In their diagnostic bible, it’s determined such things to be victimless, and some hold it to actually be good for the children, what with all the special mentoring and whatnot that goes along with it.

And, the Greeks did it, so how can it be wrong?

Those are a bit of the reasonings behind this current outcrop of the filth.


186 posted on 04/05/2011 11:27:37 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Grimmy

BTTT


187 posted on 04/05/2011 11:35:18 AM PDT by advertising guy (.......... I don't crap anymore....... I Kathy Griffin...........)
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To: rodguy911

be sure to read all posts.....


188 posted on 04/05/2011 12:11:48 PM PDT by advertising guy (.......... I don't crap anymore....... I Kathy Griffin...........)
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To: GOPJ

From the pulpit and in the confessional. RCF (Roman Catholic Faithful) carefully documents the sins of both the Springfield Diocese (Bishop Ryan) and the Archdiocese of Chicago (Cardinal Bernardin-O). Ryan is gone —defrocked; and Bernardino is down below where the floor is paved with Bishops’ and Cardinals’ skulls.

In the confessional, when a confused young man would confess a homosexual sin, these evil men told them “It’s OK. It’s in your nature. God forgives all sins. Don’t worry about it.” (RCF interviews with homosexual men who lived at Bishop Ryan’s house and shared his bed.)

NOTE: I am a cradle Catholic. I faithfully attend Mass and receive the Sacraments...going on 80 years old. I am so sick and tired of waiting for Bishops, Popes, and Cardinals to “fix” the homo problem in the Church. Unfortunately, this will not happen in my lifetime.


189 posted on 04/05/2011 12:34:31 PM PDT by Palladin (Obama: "It's nodda war!")
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To: GOPJ

AMEN!!!


190 posted on 04/05/2011 12:41:29 PM PDT by Palladin (Obama: "It's nodda war!")
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To: Sal
Your link doesn't work. You left out the hyphen in opinion-maker.org. Try it this way:

http://www.opinion-maker.org/2010/08/why-obama-is-subjected-to-blackmails/

191 posted on 04/05/2011 12:55:22 PM PDT by Laurentius
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To: Laurentius
From this link:

Sources in Chicago’s gay community report that Obama was attracted to Man’s Country’s older white clientele because he generally enjoys being fellated by older white men. Obama would regularly be seen at Man’s Country on Wednesdays.

Obama reportedly has never engaged in reciprocal activity. The sources also confirm the allegations made during the 2008 campaign by Larry Sinclair, a Chicago visitor who revealed that in 1999 he engaged in such oral sex activity and crack cocaine use with then-State senator Obama on two occasions, once in the back of a Chicago limousine operated by Five Star Limousine Service, and the other at a Chicago area motel, the Comfort Suites in Gurnee, Illinois.

After revealing details of the encounter at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, Sinclair was arrested by Washington Metropolitan Police on a fugitive warrant issued by Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, the son of Obama’s vice presidential running mate, Senator Joe Biden. Sinclair was charged with a misdemeanor count of theft of money orders, however, the state of Delaware declined prosecution.

Beau Biden later declined to run for his father’s old Senate seat because of his duties to prosecute a major pedophilia case involving Lewes, Delaware pediatrician Dr. Earl Bradley. There are reports that Biden’s office helped to cover up Bradley’s activities, including failing to authorize search warants for Bradley’s office and computer.

192 posted on 04/05/2011 1:12:37 PM PDT by Palladin (Obama: "It's nodda war!")
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To: Sal

BTW, there is plenty of documentation about Pfleger and his adoptees. This is from Wikipedia:

FamilyIn 1981, Pfleger adopted an eight-year-old son, Lamar, in defiance of Cardinal John Patrick Cody, who had threatened to fire him if he went ahead with the adoption. Lamar graduated from college and got a job with Continental Airlines, which he lost after the September 11, 2001 attacks. He subsequently enlisted in the United States Army.[3] In 1992, Pfleger adopted another son, Beronti, who currently attends the University of Central Florida. In 1997, Pfleger became the foster father to Jarvis Franklin, who was killed by stray gunfire on May 30, 1998.[4]


193 posted on 04/05/2011 1:15:56 PM PDT by Palladin (Obama: "It's nodda war!")
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To: The Shrew; Interesting Times; maggief; STARWISE; onyx; Liz; penelopesire; Velveeta; MinuteGal
Indeed!There is work to be done.
194 posted on 04/05/2011 1:23:33 PM PDT by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: hoosiermama

Much work! Now is the time to start, right after Obama has announced his re-bid for the Presidency in 2012.

This story must be given legs—strong and fearless legs!


195 posted on 04/05/2011 1:47:06 PM PDT by Palladin (Obama: "It's nodda war!")
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To: Laurentius
If you have a ping list, please add me to it.

If you don't, please consider starting one...and adding me to it.

196 posted on 04/05/2011 1:56:01 PM PDT by Jotmo (Whoever said, “The pen is mightier than the sword”, has clearly never been stabbed to death.)
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To: CaptSkip

Don’t tell me quidam is back :-)... yes dusting off the old cobwebs....


197 posted on 04/05/2011 2:03:05 PM PDT by taildragger (( Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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To: hoosiermama

Please let me know if anything at all comes of this. The new Mayor is not likely to go after the former mayor.


198 posted on 04/05/2011 2:05:47 PM PDT by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want to be on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: Laurentius

bfltr


199 posted on 04/05/2011 2:25:33 PM PDT by BuckyKat (Obama's military strategy/foreign policy = Political Onanism)
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To: painter

Hannity’s a catholic...no way will he run with this.


200 posted on 04/05/2011 3:18:25 PM PDT by spacejunkie01
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