Posted on 02/11/2011 7:11:53 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg
A grand jury on Thursday accused the Archdiocese of Philadelphia of failing to stop the sexual abuse of children more than five years after a grand jury report documented abuse by more than 50 priests.
The new report said a senior church official charged with investigating allegations of sexual abuse by priests had in fact allowed some of those accused to remain in posts that gave them continued access to children. It charged him with endangering the welfare of minors and accused three priests and a teacher of raping two boys between 1996 and 1999.
“By no means do we believe that these were the only two parishioners who were abused during this period,” the report said.
At least 37 priests who are subject to “substantial evidence of abuse” are still in roles that bring them into contact with children, the new report said, and 10 of those have been in place since before 2005, when the last grand jury made its allegations...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
In one city.
From the article...
“The rapist priests we accuse were well known to the Secretary of Clergy, but he cloaked their conduct and put them in place to do it again,” the grand jury said.The report also charged Msgr. William Lynn, secretary of clergy in the archdiocese under former Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua, with endangering the welfare of children by allowing “dangerous” priests to remain in place. Monsignor Lynn was responsible for investigating abuse allegations from 1992 to 2004.
This devastating appraisal is not from a slanted media or disgruntled Protestants, but from the grand jury itself.
Let the empty excuses commence.
I have no problem with going after anybody who hurts children, but a simple accusation is NOT enough....take these people to a regular trial....but they won't and you know why?....there is no evidence...
muck rackers looking for loot....that's what most of this is....its not about right and wrong....its about money...
I don’t know if the article linked to this but it is the original grand jury report. I think it is the whole document if not you can go to Bishop Accountablity. It is a good site and has many original source documents.
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/reports/2005_09_21_Philly_GrandJury/Philly_01.pdf
This is the report from 2005. To say I am disgusted and angry at what these men did and what the Bishops did to hide their crimes would be a vast understatement. All I can say is that there is a hell and God never sends anyone there without justification. He has it here. I know as a Christian I should pray they repent but honestly I just don’t have the heart to do so. I want them to suffer. IF not in the afterlife at least here now. Financially and in every other way possible. I want them to know the pain and fear those children felt. I want them to crawl on their knees over broken glass with dung in their mouths and fire clutched in their hands. I want their tears to salt the earth.
God damn them to hell.
Sounds reasonable to me.
I should add if guilty of the charges.
muck rackers looking for loot....that's what most of this is....its not about right and wrong....its about money...
May God open the eyes of the blind. They are complicit.
Oh, and maybe you should look up the meaning of "muckracker" unless you want to keep using it incorrectly.
The word is quite appropriate for what newspaper articles like this are hoping to do.
We can be a little more discerning than blowing up the entire continent.
The guilty need to be tried and convicted, not hidden like Rome does when it shuffles around pederast priests from one church to another, hiding them from police and parents, and permitting them to rape again.
KNOWINGLY permitting them to rape again, as this article makes clear.
Here is the current report. I’ve not read it yet.
http://www.phila.gov/districtattorney/PDFs/clergyAbuse2-finalReport.pdf
I think the Bible gives a rather graphic and appropriate vision of what awaits non repentant sinners. What a conflict. Knowing I should want all men to turn from sin and be with Christ in Glory and my total anger over the horror of their crimes and longing they be justly punished.
But who is not deserving of hell’s justice? In Christ alone can we claim to be worthy of heaven. I pray He eases the pain of the victims and moves my heart to mercy. But if He delay in lifting my anger for just a bit, that’s o.k. by me.
Umm, any imbecil can accuse anyone of anything. Thats why there’s a process due.
Kill them all; let God sort them out.
Hunh. You know all those teachers and coaches we’re always reading about who seduce their students? When will any city anywhere accuse itself of “failing to prevent” that abuse? Guess that would because conflict of interest, Hunh?
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Ugh, guess what? We’re not even talking about “prevention” here. We’re talking about covering up sexual abuse and permitting pederast priests to continue to rape children.
Protestant ministers and public school teachers who molest children generally get reported to police and sent to jail. There are protocols in place which demand accusations go directly to the police.
Not so with Roman Catholic priests. Rome has made it an excommunicable offense to go to anyone other than someone within the church hierarchy with accusations against a priest.
And as we’ve seen over and over, these accusations get ignored, buried and denied by RC apologists who yell “it’s all about the money!”
Do Roman Catholics have any concept of how disgusting that response it when it is leveled at EVERY accusation made against these pederast priests who not only are protected, but very often receive a promotion?
Why do you think grand juries are so furious with these RC dioceses after they see the evidence?
BECAUSE ROME HIDES PEDERAST PRIESTS AND FACILITATES THEIR CONTINUING ABUSE OF CHILDREN.
The city of brotherly love, no less.
Indeed, there’s nothing new under the sun.
IBTPPD (In before the pedophile priest defenders)
There is no due process in Rome. That’s the point. Rome is a fiefdom of one. For decades these dioceses have refused to go to the police with the many MANY accusations against its pederast priests.
Instead, Rome tells everyone “they’ll handle it.”
And as we’ve seen, Rome ignores these accusations, instead blaming the victims with indignant cries of “it’s all about the money.’
And they did, forthwith.
I was too late I see.
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