Posted on 11/24/2009 5:44:21 AM PST by markomalley
An advocacy group for child victims of sexual abuse by clergy on Monday criticized the Church of the Nazarene’s response to a lawsuit.
The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests points to the lawsuit in Oklahoma that accuses the church of complicity in the sexual abuse of five girls by an elementary church pastor in that state. Specifically, SNAP decries a church response that asserted, in part, that any injuries or damages suffered by the plaintiffs were caused or contributed to by their own conduct.
“This is just despicable,” SNAP spokeswoman Judy Jones said Monday in front of the former Nazarene headquarters at 6401 the Paseo. “This is just re-abuse of those victims.”
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The lawsuit claims that church officials were aware that the pastor, Ryan Wonderly, was obsessed with child pornography and still placed him in positions of proximity to children. The church has denied those allegations. Wonderly was sentenced in 2005 to 35 years in prison for indecent and lewd acts with children and for rape by instrumentation.
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How would the church know about his obsession with child porn? Unless he was using the church’s computer there’s no way for them to know for sure.
“rape by instrumentation” ?
First they claimed guns shot people.
Now, it appears someone is trying to make a case for instruments raping people.
Perhaps some wind instruments might be so chargeable, but the obvious suspect, the organ, is manifestly incapable of rape by “instrumentation”.
Impossible! Sanctified Nazarines can not sin! I had a Nazarine tell me he hadn’t sinned in twenty years and that was thirty years ago so I guess he hasn’t sinned in fifty years now!
I belonged to a Nazarene church some years ago, the minister of music was accused of inappropriate touching of a young girl.
He denied it but he was barred from the church and his ministerial program was terminated.
An announcement was made in the church the next Sunday and the police called to investigate.
So this is not a universal position of that denomination
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