Posted on 04/25/2004 7:29:09 AM PDT by csvset
Don't you have a television? It's because that's what the Catholics, and priests especially do in their spare time - kill babies, dogs and nuns.
It looked as if it was a satanic ceremony. It also looked, (look up the article) "as though she had been sexually assaulted, but investigators said yesterday they found "no evidence of any sexual activity."
The bottom line is she was killed, or, as you have said, "the DEAD sister is a FACT."
Satanism is real, it is deadly and it likely is part of this case.
Sure, sure.
When was the last time a bunch of Catholic priests put you in a coffin filled with cockroaches, forced you to eat a human eyeball, and penetrated you with a snake? Everybody who watches television knows these are the things the Catholic priests do in their spare time. And, of course, every Catholic FReeper knows, the Pope is to blame for it.
On the second thought, I still think it's a bunch of heavy baloney.
According to another priest who was ordained the same year,1964,the accused priest was somewhat an unknown among the priests in the diocese.
The interviewed priest said that most of the diocesan ordinands that year (1964) graduated from Mount St. Mary seminary in Cincinatti. Robinson graduated from a seminary in Orchard Lake Mich. Cardinal Dearden was the archbishop of Detroit at the time. However,I do not know where in Michigan Orchard Lake was/is,nor do I know the name of the seminary that was/is located there.
I also checked whether Bernardin was in Cincinatti but in 1964,he was not even a bishop.
However, there still could be something demonic going on. A thorough investigation by competent authorities is in order. That deranged cults exist and that some target Catholic institutions are phenomena that I have some experience with. In the "real world."
Granted, in all those day-care child abuse cases of the 80s, the therapists themselves implanted the notion in the children's minds. I'm in Boston, and Gerald Amirault is only now, after 17 years, about to be released. He was convicted in spite of absolutely no physical evidence to back up the children's stories.
In the present case, though, the woman's claims did nothing except, through the occurrence of this priest's name, re-open the case. He was not arrested on the basis of her story. The priest had originally been a suspect, but without the development of the blood transfer imaging (IIRC the term) the police couldn't prove it at the time.
When investigators took the old evidence out of storage in December, "we noticed something that was startling and apparent to us," Detective Forrester said.I don't see what this means, and why it suddenly, after 24 years, became "evidence."The discovery involved "blood transfer patterns" that, the detectives said, conclusively placed the murder weapon at the scene of the homicide.
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Investigators believed in 1980 that the murder weapon belonged to Father Robinson, but at the time did not have the technology to prove that the weapon had been at the crime scene, according to the detectives.
"Blood transfer patterns" is a rarely used technology that analyzes the patterns made when a weapon or other object is laid down, they said.
Detective Terry Cousino, who works in the police scientific unit and draws composite sketches, was able to spot the pattern because "he has an artist's eye," Mr. Ross said.
Investigators contacted "one of the most renowned experts in the country" on blood transfer patterns "and that expert has supported our theory in this case," Detective Forrester said.
I googled it and found here an explanation: "Bloodstain pattern interpretation is a discipline, which utilizes the sciences of biology, physics and mathematics. . . . The study of bloodstain patterns and the consideration of the physical processes in the distribution of these patterns to reconstruct details of activities at scenes of violence have recently emerged as a recognized forensic skill. . . ."
"Low velocity impact [bloodstains include] blood transfer patterns caused by hair, swipes, hand, foot or bloody object impressions."
The document at the link is in pdf format, so I was switching back and forth typing a few words at a time and I restricted myself to the gist of it. (My eyes are crossing now!)
I see you were busy while I was googling. See my post above -- it only recenly emerged as a "recognized forensic skill." It does seem almost as much art as science, but there are apparently recognized scientific checks on unrestrained imagination.
There is also mention of the murder "weapon" in the article, "Investigators determined that the killer used a small knife."
Another article "Quiet cleric not well-known..." in the Toledo Blade says the following,
The Rev. Gerald John Robinson was born in Toledo, ordained in Toledo, and served as a priest in Toledo for nearly 40 years. But he is a quiet man and a loner and few priests or neighbors seem to know him very well. "He was not much of a socializer," said the Rev. Joseph Jaros, a retired Toledo priest.Father Robinson, charged Friday night with the murder of a nun, was ordained in 1964, the same year as the Rev. Martin Donnelly. But Father Donnelly said last night that he does not really know Father Robinson.
Most of the priests in the class of 1964 went to Mount St. Mary Seminary in Cincinnati, while Father Robinson attended seminary in Orchard Lake, Mich., Father Donnelly said.
Edward and Martha Wesley, who live around the corner from Father Robinson's tidy brick home at 1401 Nebraska Ave., said they rarely talked to him.
"It was a shock," Mr. Wesley, 85, said of the cleric's arrest.
Mrs. Wesley, 83, said she and her husband used to chat with Father Robinson's parents, Mary and John, both now deceased, and that Mary Robinson was a member of the Altar Society at St. Hyacinth Church and was proud to have a son in the priesthood.
"People I know say that Father Robinson is good to the elderly," Mrs. Wesley said. "As far as I know, he was very well liked by the elderly."
The Wesleys, who have lived on Kopernik Avenue since 1950, said they sometimes saw the priest mow the grass or work in his flower-lined yard, but that he rarely, if ever, interacted with neighbors.
One woman who has lived next door to the priest for eight years said Father Robinson basically ignored her and her family.
The 66-year-old priest never said a word, not even a "hello," said Jackie Powell.
Jim Floyd, business manager of St. Joseph's Parish in Sylvania, barely remembers Father Robinson, who served as associate pastor there from 1989 to 1990.
"He's very devout. Kind of quiet," Mr. Floyd said. "He seemed like a nice enough guy."
Father Robinson has been serving St. Joseph's, making hospital calls to visit sick parishioners and serving Mass at nearby nursing homes, Mr. Floyd said.
Attorney John Thebes, hired yesterday to represent Father Robinson, said he has known the priest since he was a child when Father Robinson served as associate pastor of Christ the King Church from 1969 to 1972.
"The community at large, everybody to a person, says he's a gentle guy, a nonviolent person, and that this is really out of character," Mr. Thebes said.
Victims' group faults reaction by local dioceseThe woman's allegations (eating an eyeball, penetrating with a snake, killing dogs, children, etc.) are listed in post #20
Priest accused of killing nun on radar for a year, SNAP says...SNAP [Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests] co-leaders Claudia Vercellotti and Jon Schoonmaker said the diocese didn't follow its own protocol when it failed to place Father Robinson on leave after he was mentioned in an allegation of abuse against another priest or when the murder case was reopened.
"Father Gerald Robinson has been on the radar for over a year," Ms. Vercellotti said.
SNAP leaders also called upon Bishop Leonard P. Blair to launch an outreach effort throughout the diocese -through such means as church bulletins, the diocese Web site and the diocese's weekly newspaper - to notify area Catholics about abuse allegations against Father Robinson and clerics whose cases have not been made public.
Sally Oberski, diocese spokesman, said Father Robinson remained in his position for good reason after the woman's allegation that ultimately led to the reopening of the murder case...
And, of course, there is a jail picture of Fr. Gerald Robinson,
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