Posted on 10/08/2020 11:24:59 AM PDT by ebb tide
October 8, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) Victims of clerical sex abuse testify that Kamala Harris repeatedly refused to release church records on abusive priests while she was district attorney of San Francisco.
The claims come amidst allegations that Harris previous political campaigns received substantial donations from law firms and lawyers representing the San Francisco archdiocese.
Many of the law firms and lawyers who were representing the archdiocese on a variety of legal matters including priests that had been identified as possible culprits gave large contributions [to Harriss political campaign]. Some of them had never given contributions to a race like this before, but they loaded up her campaign coffers, said Peter Schweizer in an August 13 interview with Alex Marlow of Sirius XMs Breitbart News Daily, as reported by Breitbart on the same date. Schweizer is author of Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by Americas Progressive Elite and president of the Government Accountability Institute.
Harris office claimed that her decision to withhold records was made to protect the identity of the victims. Victims and their attorneys say, however, that this is a bogus explanation. What she was saying was utter nonsense, said Bay Area attorney Michael Meadows to the Associated Press in June 2019. All she had to do was redact any identifying information.
Harris basically put [the records] under seal so that [they] could never be released publicly, said Schweizer in his Breitbart interview.
Harris predecessor, former San Francisco DA Terence Hallinan, had previously planned to publicly release these files against the wishes of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Kraychik reported. Hallinan believes that the records should be released under the California Public Records Act.
My policy was and still would be that when I received any sort of materials like that they would become public records, said Hallinan to San Francisco Weekly in 2005. Those are materials that should be brought out to the public.
Schweizer said in his interview with Marlow that as DA responsible for all prosecutions in the San Francisco area, Between 2004 and 2011, [Harris] did not prosecute a single case of priests sexual abuse period.
To put that in the context of how stunning that is, if you look at the top 50 metropolitan areas in the United States at that time, all 50 prosecuted at least one case, the sole exception being Kamala Harris in San Francisco.
Rick Simons, attorney and court-appointed coordinator for clergy abuse cases filed in Nothern California, noted that Harris was also atypical within the California Bay area for her refusal to assist with sex abuse cases. Of all the DAs in the Bay Area, shes the only one who wouldnt cooperate with us, Simons said.
Joey Piscitelli is one of the survivors of abuse by priests within the San Francisco jurisdiction. He was molested multiple times by a priest while he attended Salesian High School.
I just gave up on Catholicism. I gave up on God. I lost all sense of spirituality, said Piscitelli in an exclusive interview with The Intercept, shared in June of 2019.
When Harris became San Francisco DA, Piscitelli said he wrote a letter to her asking for help or accessibility to the file of his abuser. I didnt get any response, he said.
In 2010, when Harris was running for state attorney general and highlighting her work for victims of sexual abuse, Piscitelli wrote her a second letter urging her to release records on accused clergy to help other alleged victims who were filing lawsuits.
We all know you can redact the names of the children from the documents, he wrote. Nobody is being fooled.
At about the same time, the San Francisco Weekly renewed a previous public records request for the church documents on sexual abuse. Harris remained obstinate in her refusal to release them, continuing to claim that it was in order to protect the identities of the victims.
Its just a flat-out insult, said Piscitelli.
Schweizer noted in his Breitbart interview, Many of the law firms and lawyers who were representing the archdiocese on a variety of legal matters including priests that had been identified as possible culprits gave large contributions [to Harriss political campaign]. Some of them had never given contributions to a race like this before, but they loaded up her campaign coffers.
Harris campaign has since made a statement to the Associated Press insisting that she is a staunch advocate of sex abuse victims. She has remained silent about protests that she has helped cover up sex abuse.
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In addition to the Archdiocese of San Francisco she also gave the Jesuits ant Saint Ignatius High School a pass on sex abuse allegations. Saint Ignatius High alumni are very influential. Jerry Brown went there. Saint Ignatius is not owned or operated by the archdiocese. Read about Father Linder, S.J.
Things got so bad out there that some ‘law makers’ wanted to
Securing the perv vote.
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