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FBI Opens Sweeping Probe of Clergy Sex Abuse in New Orleans
AP ^ | 6/29/22 | Jim Mustian

Posted on 07/03/2022 6:02:56 PM PDT by marshmallow

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The FBI has opened a widening investigation into sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in New Orleans going back decades, a rare federal foray into such cases looking specifically at whether priests took children across state lines to molest them, officials and others familiar with the inquiry told The Associated Press.

More than a dozen alleged abuse victims have been interviewed this year as part of the probe that’s exploring among other charges whether predator priests can be prosecuted under the Mann Act, a more than century-old, anti-sex trafficking law that prohibits taking anyone across state lines for illicit sex.

Some of the New Orleans cases under review allege abuse by clergy during trips to Mississippi camps or amusement parks in Texas and Florida. And while some claims are decades old, Mann Act violations notably have no statute of limitations.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events
KEYWORDS: fbi; gregoryaymond; lawrencehecker; neworleans; patrickwattigny

1 posted on 07/03/2022 6:02:56 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Clergy sex abusers won’t shoot back.


2 posted on 07/03/2022 6:06:18 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: marshmallow

This is a cover operation to distract the public from the fact that the actual mission of the FBI is to serve as the Stasi for the Democrat party and their Deep-State operatives.


3 posted on 07/03/2022 6:08:00 PM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: marshmallow

Never mind hysterical abortion rights protestors destroying and burning down church after church across the land.
Those crimes will go unsolved, uninvestigated but for the most cursory examinations.


4 posted on 07/03/2022 6:08:03 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: coloradan

Spearheaded by McCabe, Brennan, Comey, et. al.

Shiny thing over here, quick!


5 posted on 07/03/2022 6:11:39 PM PDT by sasquatch
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To: marshmallow

ABUSE TRACKER

A digest of links to media coverage of clergy abuse.

http://www.bishop-accountability.org/AbuseTracker/


6 posted on 07/03/2022 6:12:25 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: marshmallow

Why don’t they open one in DC?


7 posted on 07/03/2022 6:13:10 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: marshmallow

What about Hunter’s laptop?

What about video evidence shown in 2000 Mules?

What about investigating vote counting machines?

I guess FBI chief Wray is working hard on those as well.


8 posted on 07/03/2022 6:16:16 PM PDT by entropy12 (Trump/DeSantis & MAGA! are the only way to keep USA viable.)
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To: marshmallow

How about opening a probe into the public schools. I hear there’s more action going on there.


9 posted on 07/03/2022 6:32:17 PM PDT by punknpuss
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To: marshmallow

The new grab of prime real estate in prime locations.


10 posted on 07/03/2022 6:35:34 PM PDT by blackdog (Cooler King Joe, killing a winning nation every day. )
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To: marshmallow

Surprised that the fbi has any resources left after arresting all the pedos from Gisele’s client list


11 posted on 07/03/2022 6:48:10 PM PDT by daku
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To: coloradan

That would explain why they haven’t named or indicted a single client of Epstein/Maxwell.


12 posted on 07/03/2022 6:48:51 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: marshmallow

FBI needs a probe.


13 posted on 07/03/2022 6:57:15 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: marshmallow

They are probably planting evidence on priest laptops.


14 posted on 07/03/2022 7:09:07 PM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: marshmallow

“going back decades.” Are these priests still alive?


15 posted on 07/03/2022 7:14:56 PM PDT by mom.mom (...our flag was still there.)
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To: marshmallow

Meanwhile... nothing on Hunter or those on Epstein’s flight log


16 posted on 07/03/2022 7:15:29 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: lurk
FBI needs a probe.

There are still some who feel that the bulk of the FBI are decent, hardworking, honest, and lawful people! If there are, why don't they come forward to save this nation?

17 posted on 07/03/2022 7:36:30 PM PDT by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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To: marshmallow

But they avoid pride parades with naked men and women grooming children.


18 posted on 07/03/2022 7:55:55 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: coloradan

Bingo!

Distract from their framing of Donald Trump.


19 posted on 07/04/2022 5:32:30 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus (The trouble with socialism is that you soon run out of other people's zoo animals to eat.)
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To: marshmallow

Yet, they never manage to do one in DC and somehow never got the time to investigate the underage sex patrons of Epstein Island.


20 posted on 07/04/2022 8:27:55 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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