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It's a difficult situation, but I think even if the parents don't want the police involved, you still have to involve them. The child is the victim, not the parents.

Believe me no is more saddened by this whole controversy (well obviously other than the victims) than me. I was an altar boy and as it happens there was an abusive priest at my Church.

Thank God he didn't try to touch me (I would really miss my dad--- he would have shot the pervert dead and would have spent a few years in the state pen), but I found out years later that this priest molested a classmate of mine. This was almost 20 years ago, he was arrested a couple of years ago for molesting an altar boy and only then did his other victims come forward. Did my bishop have any suspicions and let this priest continue on? I don't know and frankly the fact that I have to wonder is depressing.

The devil couldn't contrive a better way to divorce people from the Church than by letting evil men wear priestly robes.

The statute of limitations laws apply to many of these cases, which is why they cannot be prosecuted, and which it's important to pursue the more recent cases in order to sink the perps according to law.

"The devil couldn't contrive a better way to divorce people from the Church than by letting evil men wear priestly robes."

The marxist, Antonio Gramsci, wrote the game plan for the devil but he will not succeed.

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