Posted on 05/15/2019 7:07:21 PM PDT by marshmallow
Seeking files on abusive priests
DALLAS (ChurchMilitant.com) - The Dallas diocese — long wracked by clerical sex abuse scandals — was raided by Dallas police officers wielding a 42-page search warrant at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Police investigators conducted searches of three facilities, including a warehouse, St. Cecilia's parish and the diocese's headquarters. The warrant became necessary, said Dallas Special Investigations Division Major Max Geron, because of perceptions the diocese was withholding information critical to their outside investigation.
The police investigation was prompted by an affidavit from last August in which credible accusations of sexual abuse were leveled against Fr. Edmundo Paredes, the pastor at St. Cecilia Catholic Church in the Dallas diocese city of Oak Cliff.
According to the affidavit, Paredes allegedly molested at least three boys in the 1990s. Paredes is also accused of stealing from the parish. Paredes' location has been unknown since last August, but some sources say he may have returned to his native home in the Philippines.
Thirty-one men appeared on a list of priests credibly accused of sexual molestation in the diocese since 1950 that was publicly issued by the diocese last January. However, Dallas police said they weren't allowed to coordinate their efforts with the investigation team hired by the diocese, leading Dallas detectives to conclude that the diocese wasn't fully cooperative.
Detectives are also seeking information related to five other priests suspected of sexually abusing minors, said Geron in a Wednesday afternoon press conference.
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FARRELL
“Thirty-one men appeared on a list of priests credibly accused of sexual molestation in the diocese since 1950 that was publicly issued by the diocese last January.”
The church is running this head-fake all around the country. They identify mostly long-dead homosexual pedophiles, wipe their hands clean and say, “Nothing more to see here!”
We don’t need another Catholic bashing thread.
Noooooooooooooooo...not again! How does this denomination still have any members?
What about Farrell?
Because we have faith in Jesus ... not the man in the pulpit.
While he has been off to Rome for a couple of years, I’m guessing that the warrant is going to be looking at things that reach back that far, reverberating into the Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life.
If you’ve read through the Old Testament, you would be asking the same thing about Judaism at the time of Our Lord.
It goes back further than Farrell. Grahman was Bishop when most of the incidents occurred.
Farrell still would have been in the know.
I imagine it goes back a fair bit further before Grahman.
I have heard a good sea story about when Fort Worth and Dallas were split back in 1969. Someone, I believe the chancellor at the time, got wind of what was going to happen well ahead of time and did a massive personnel shift, with most of the problem cases ending up in one side of the diocese, and he ending up in the other. Over the next several years, the priestly attrition rate between the two dioceses diverged greatly.
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