Prosecutor Debra L. Blasius said the state will argue that James R. Blume receive a 10-year prison term when he is sentenced March 26. Blume, 64, was charged with two counts of sexual assault against a child. He decided to enter guilty pleas Friday rather than take the case to trial and was found guilty by Waukesha County Reserve Judge Patrick L. Snyder. Blume was charged in July with sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy in the winter of 1979 at the Sleepy Hollow Motel in Elm Grove. The second sexual assault charge was added after another man came forward in October after hearing that Blume had been accused of molesting the 13-year-old boy. The man, now 41, told Elm Grove Police that Blume had sexually assaulted him between April 1982 and January 1984, starting when he was a 14-year-old boy. Blume can be prosecuted for the offenses three decades later because he didn't remain in Wisconsin long enough for the six-year statute of limitations then in place to expire. Both victims told police they were sexually assaulted a number of times by Blume. "WAUKESHA, Wis. — A former member of the Brothers of the Holy Cross religious order who later became a Catholic priest pleaded guilty Friday and was convicted of sexually assaulting two boys in the Elm Grove area, one in the late 1970s and the other in the early 1980s.
Now we await the cacophony of protest that this article is four years old or the rapes took place years ago.
But most of us are now hip to the way Rome operates, what with Crimen Sollicitationis and Ratzinger's letter in 2001 all threatening excommunication to any victim who tells anyone but church authorities about the sexual assault he suffered.
And don't forget Ratzinger's rule that says the church has jurisdiction and the oath of secrecy must be maintained for 10 years past the victim's 18th birthday.
In this case, the victims would have been 28 before they could come forward with their accusations.
How many young men don't make it to their 28th birthday because of the sins committed on them by pederast priests who are protected by Rome while the victims languish in pain and suffer further humiliation at the hands of RC apologists who refuse to believe them and ridicule them as opportunists?
Rome knows no shame. If Ratzinger cried at all (which I doubt) they would have been tears for himself and what lies ahead for all those who destroy children and then lie about it.
Let’s look at the entire article:
According to the complaint, the victim, now 43, had never told anyone about the incidents until he confided to his girlfriend last year. He later told family and decided to report the matter to police. He told investigators that Blume was kind and generous to him, and took him on trips out of state and to ski in Wisconsin. During the trips, they stayed in motels or at Blume’s parents’ home in Indiana, and Blume would assault him while they slept, the victim told investigators.
At least one time, Blume told him to consider it their secret and not to tell anyone, the complaint indicates.
Earlier this year, Elm Grove police Detective Craig Mayer flew to Florida to interview Blume, who told him he had worked as a brother for the Catholic Church and lived at the St. Charles Boys Home in Wauwatosa before leaving in 1978. He became a priest in 1980 but told Mayer he was forced to take a leave of absence in 1989.
Blume admitted knowing the victim and taking him and other boys on trips, but he denied ever sleeping next to the victim. When Mayer urged him to clear his conscience, Blume told the detective the assault might have happened, but he could not recall it, the complaint says.
Blume taught religious education classes at St. Luke’s parish in Brookfield in the 1970s, according to Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, which tracks sexual abuse cases.
Two civil suits were filed against Blume in the 1990s in Indiana, according to the group, and Blume was officially removed from the priesthood last year.
LaVoy said his client has not been a priest since 1989 and is technically retired.
THE (SO-CALLED) VICTIM, NOW 43.
Anyone could be accused of anything 30-40 years after the fact, and have a difficult time proving their innocence. I have to wonder about that detective, as well.
Clear your conscience! Tell me everything, old man.