Posted on 09/06/2019 8:56:43 PM PDT by marshmallow
PHILADELPHIA - Federal prosecutors filed their first charges Thursday in a sweeping investigation of child sexual abuse by clerics in Pennsylvania, accusing a former Catholic priest of lying to the FBI about whether he knew an accuser and his family.
Robert Brennan, 81, was arrested in Maryland and was expected to be arraigned Thursday afternoon in Philadelphia, authorities said.
Brennan told FBI agents in April that he did not know accuser Sean McIlmail from his years at a northeast Philadelphia parish from 1993 to 2004, according to the indictment.
Brennan was indicted on related state sexual assault charges in 2013, but the case was dropped when McIlmail died of a drug overdose before trial.
His family has settled a lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Philadelphia for an undisclosed sum.
A former lawyer for Brennan did not return calls seeking comment.
A 2005 Philadelphia grand jury report said that Brennan was repeatedly named in complaints about inappropriate behavior around children. He was suspended by the church and moved to Perryville, Maryland. He was defrocked in 2017.
Former District Attorney Seth Williams, who charged Brennan in 2013 only to drop the charges after the young man died, said he had hoped to “have brought Father Brennan to justice.” However, he said he didn’t have the evidence to pursue the sex abuse charges.
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Long overdue.
LEO has been putting up with lies from these pedophiles and pederasts for far too long.
Now it’s time to pursue Federal RICO charges all the way to the Vatican.
It would be nice to see 3/4 of Hollywood, 1/2 of the big names in Wall Street finance, and 7/8 of the democrat machine from top to bottom all named in a RICO sweep.
The Catholic Church was methodically corrupted by the Satanic DC/NYC/Hollywood syndicate over a period of a hundred years.
Unless that syndicate is brought to justice, there's no hope of draining the DC swamp, cleaning up the Catholic Church, or exposing and getting rid of the scum who pass themselves off as non-Catholic Christians while doing the bidding of the syndicate that serves Satan.
Defuse the public anger with intense media focus on the Catholic Church and the real purveyors Satanism will remain in power and we may not get another chance to fight them.
JMHo
They can’t get Clinton, McCabe, or Comey for lying to the FBI, but they did snag a priest - I feel so much safer......
ping!
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