Delbert Acoman, right, in Seattle. Acoman, of Stebbins, Alaska, is one of 20 Alaska Natives who have joined a lawsuit claiming they were abused by Jesuit priests or those supervised by Jesuits, in remote Alaskan villages.
Posted on 04/19/2011 7:42:19 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
Frontline’s next exposé focuses on the “decades of abuse of Native Americans by priests and other church workers in Alaska,” and in one particular town they find, “nearly 80% of the town’s children were molested” by Catholic priests.
As we reported on this story just a few weeks ago, the Roman Catholic Church, as part of ongoing lawsuits, will make payments to approximately 700 male and female sexual and psychological abuse, molestation, and rape victims who were living in Alaska Native villages and Indian reservations from Montana to Washington, Idaho and Oregon, and who were “sexually or psychologically abused as children by Jesuit missionaries in those states in the 1940s through the 1990s,” according to a statement by attorneys.
The latest agreement will financially compensate 524 victims with $166.1 million in cases including accusations against 140 Jesuit priests, brothers, and nuns from the Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus, in the Pacific Northwest. Only $48 million will come from the Catholic Church, the remainder will be paid by its insurance companies.
None of the Jesuit priests are being charged with any crime related to this abuse, rape, and molestation settlement.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewcivilrightsmovement.com ...
Shouldn’t that read, “nearly 80% of the town’s children were ALLEGEDLY molested by Catholic priests...”
Never mind.
Ka-ching!
Nice to have a big payday without even appearing in court...
It's ignored because some people want to pretend that this is not a farce of an article.
why not just give it up and address the issue of Priests sexually abusing hundreds of children on a worldwide basis and the failure of the church to prosecute those who are to blame.
I can point out poor sources and decry the sex abuse scandal at the same time. Are you implying that I am ignoring the sex abuse scandal?
I provided a link to an article about this matter that was in the LA times in 2005. You conveniently ignored that.
You are using a straw man of a gay blog, that is irrelevant to the issue. It doesn’t change that the allegations are there and the church settled.
So, are you going to focus on the topic, or throw out meaningless allegations about the source?
Did you watch the program?
“As part of the settlement Jesuits agreed to send priests to speak with victims about what happened and to counsel victims that they should not feel at fault, attorney for abuse victims, Rebecca Rhoades said.
They also agreed to post on the order’s website the names of priests known to have committed abuse and to no longer refer to those who were abused as ‘ALLEGED VICTIMS.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110326/us_nm/us_jesuits_sexabuse
A little hyperbole?
Maybe Jesus was hyperbolic, too, when he suggested that destroyers of children should have a large millstone put around their necks and be cast into the depths of the sea.
The source is irrelevant if the facts are correct.
So far, for all the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth, and accusations of being *haters*, we have yet to see one shred of evidence that what was posted on this website is inaccurate or incorrect.
Excellent - and without any evidence whatsoever except the word of the recipients of big checks.
Like I said, “Ka-ching!”
There are plenty of us who are not interested in protecting the perps by calling the abused liars after the perps and those who covered for them, admitted the wrong.
Delbert Acoman, right, in Seattle. Acoman, of Stebbins, Alaska, is one of 20 Alaska Natives who have joined a lawsuit claiming they were abused by Jesuit priests or those supervised by Jesuits, in remote Alaskan villages.
It’s just another tactic to divert the attention to another issue they have in their mind to open on this thread I think...thus the topic would travel to another venue...and the thread highjacked from the serious concerns we all have on this issue of Priests abusing children within the church.
I do still wonder if people that try to divert the attention aren’t indirectly as guilty as the members in the church who knew this was going on but turned their heads instead of addressing the issue head on.
Have you read up on this?
The Catholic church admits the guilt. There is no need for a court appearance as nobody is pleading innocent who needs to be proved guilty.
One doesn’t need to prove guilt in a court of law if the wrong doers admit their guilt.
And of course, the old, *The victims are just in it for the money* line to protect the priests so they can go out and do it again.
Lets just post this link google link once more in case they overlooked it..... like they are overlooking the issue of sexual child abuse by Priests, Bishops and those who enabled the behavior.
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“Struggling to retain his composure, Delbert C. Acoman, a police officer in Stebbins, Alaska, and a plaintiff in the lawsuit, told the news conference that he and a cousin were among those abused by Father Nawn, who is now deceased.
One day after church in the summer of 1987, he said, the priest invited him to stay and ‘joking turned into physical touching. He told me to pull down my pants.’
Acoman said Nawn grabbed his penis and one of the priest’s fingernails caught on some skin.
‘Father Nawn left a scar on me. It’s going to be with me for the rest of my life ... it’s on my private area, down there. He tore a piece of skin off,’ he said.
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/39180662.html
Yes, yes, yes - I’m agreeing with you.
It’s not every day one can score a nice, tidy little pile of cash merely for making accusations.
Good for them!
They didn’t *merely* make *accusations*.
I don’t see where we’re agreeing at all. You’re stating that the victims were *alleged victims*, that they weren’t really victims, and that they are lying just to get the money.
That’s as bad as the priests who abused them.
That has nothing to do with me wanting to know if Dr. Scarpetta checked out this site before posting.
You are using a straw man of a gay blog, that is irrelevant to the issue.
It's not a straw man. It really is a gay blog. The source is relevant to the question of asking whether Dr. Scarpetta checked out the source before posting or not.
So, are you going to focus on the topic, or throw out meaningless allegations about the source?
They're not just allegations. I went to the site and looked at it about page. They are also not meaningless. Sources should always be considered. I don't believe something is true just because it is said on a gay blog. Do you?
Here are two other headlines from the source:
Catholic League’s Annual NYT Ad In Support Of Pedophile Priests
and
Pope: Pedophilia Was “Fully In Conformity With Man And Even With Children”
I know Metmom...the same o’ behavior we have seen time and again. Same accusations with an occassional different player coming into view now and then. But the lines are always the same. The real question is which side of the issue of child abuse do they stand on? or is the cover-up still in play by the members of the church as it has been in the past?
Hundreds of thousands of children have been abused by clergy. They cried out for help when they were children, and they were ignored.
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