"Native Alaskan Rena Abouchuk, of Kelso, reads a statement Wednesday in front of Seattle University that says she was abused by priests as a child in Alaska."
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 ...
Always interesting to peruse someone’s posting history to see an agenda.
Duplessis Orphans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplessis_Orphans
U.S. deaf-boys abuse scandal echoes in Italy
http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-03-26/news/19477766_1_sexual-abuse-priests-abuse-scandal
Dr. Scarpetta says she found it on google news.
I heard google was left-leaning, but I am still surprised that they would link to a gay blog like this.
For full disclosure, I don’t use google news, so I don’t know what does and doesn’t come up there and how the site works.
I think you might be interested in this story posted from a gay blog.
"Native Alaskan Rena Abouchuk, of Kelso, reads a statement Wednesday in front of Seattle University that says she was abused by priests as a child in Alaska."
Instead of just trying the typical deflection technique of discrediting the source, why don’t you refute the claims in the article?
Are they wrong? Inaccurate? Misrepresented? Outright lies?
Sorry... this number just doesn’t sound believable.
facts rarely matter when there's an agenda to promote.
Could we just pause and take a deep breath? I'm Jewish so I don't really have any knee-jerk reason to defend the Church and its priests. But I do have Catholic friends who I think would now admit to "strange" treatment and ALL deny that anything untoward ever happened to them of their friends so far as they knew. It's not the same way with TEACHERS.
ML/NJ
Ironic that your post should immediately follow post 17 with it’s charitable Catholic content.
Any stick you can find.
Remember, you’re not protected by Alex in News/Activism. You bullies are going to get an earful.
Let’s rock.
I am very sad for the children. To whom could they go in that wilderness who would believe them?
Same with the Indian Missions in the US. The poorest, most vulnerable children. The Mission gave them food and clothing. If they didn’t show up, they wouldn’t eat.
They had to endure the perversity of freakish men with no recourse.
Milions? The settlement should have been in the billions.
No one can give them back their childhood.
Truer words were never spoken. Scarpetta and her gang have read Alinsky’s book.
Crap? Is it really?
Can you provide the sources that disprove the content of the thread?
Or is attacking the messenger and discrediting the source the only ammunition you have in your arsenal?
The only crap in this whole thing is the priests who molest the kids and the fact that this sort of thing has been going on in the Catholic church for over a thousand years.
And all of a sudden we should believe the RCC when it claims that it's doing something about it?
Why?
If nothing has changed in a thousand years, why should we expect it to change now?
Its been proven, court of law and all that stuff.
Prove they didn’t happen, you are making the outrageous claim.
Sorry, and I’m neither Catholic nor Jesuit and have no need to defend either... but this just smells. 80% of the children? C’mon... that stretches credulity. I’m not buying it.
LOL.
This is gonna a long thread.
Also, it will probably still be going on after Lent ends, allowing the people who’ve been taking off Lent to join in.
Can you PROVE it? You people are acting like typical ‘Rats. All of a sudden you’re latching on to PBS and gay blogs to further your blind hatred.
INDEED.
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