Posted on 04/24/2016 7:07:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
ROME — Just what is it that the Vatican does not get about predator priests? Apparently a lot.
Father Joseph Jeyapaul is a priest from India who admitted to raping two adolescent girls in Minnesota when he served the Crookston diocese from 2004 to 2005.
After being charged with the abuse, which included rape and forcing at least one of the girls to perform fellatio on him, he fled home to India, where he was eventually arrested on an Interpol warrant. He was then extradited back to Minnesota, where he admitted his heinous crimes and entered a plea bargain in which, in exchange for a lighter sentence, he copped to molestation of one of the girls.
Jeyapaul was suspended from the priesthood and served a year and a day in prison in Minnesota, then was deported back to India after his release last July. The Minnesota diocese where he worked also settled a civil lawsuit with the victims in which one accused him of systematic abuse in the confessional of the Blessed Sacrament Church in Greenbush, Minnesota, where he would then tell the girl it was her fault, that she had made him “impure.”
How much more proof would one need that the man cannot be trusted with minors?
Apparently, Jeyapaul’s rap sheet is not enough to kick him out of the priesthood for good. In February, the Vatican approved lifting his suspension from the priesthood and agreed that he could be reassigned to a new parish in India. That parish even made him the diocesan head of its commission for education.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
Father Sebastian Selvarajan, secretary of Bishop House, Ooty and spokesperson for the Diocese, told Hindustan Times that Jeyapaul was not given any job or assignment or reinstated as was being alleged. He has been simply given a residence, a permit to stay, that is all, he said.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/ooty-diocese-denies-reinstating-priest-punished-in-us-for-minors-abuse/story-MjylI6yyMgJVmEHgqt9J5H.html
I knew this was a click bait title. Its Yellow journalism at its finest. He's not reinstated or anything. So They've no idea what they're talking about.
Any answer you'd give would at least put some data on the table.
You've made some mighty bold claims.
It's now time to put up or shut up.
Not really. The priestly and ruling classes have been fleecing and controling the gullible and powerless for at least 10,000 years. In that time how many gods have gone by the wayside? 25,000? 50,000? Conservative estimates to be sure. Today there are 3-4 thousand belief systems in play. They can't all be true. When an old system no longer becomes profitable it's cast aside or re-purposed and a new one takes it's place.
Can one?
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