Posted on 06/27/2013 11:24:02 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
Italian investigators have opened an inquiry into claims by a convicted paedophile priest that an underage prostitution ring has been operating inside the Holy Roman Church with clergymen hiring rentboys for sex inside churches.
Don Patrizio Poggi, 46, told Italian authorities that a former Carabinieri pimped boys for nine clergymen.
Poggi, who served a five-year sentence for abusing teenage boys while he was a parish priest at the San Filippo Neri church in Rome, said he made the allegations to "protect the Holy Church and the Christian community."
The boys were chosen because they were starving and desperate, he claimed, according to Il Messaggero newspaper.
The former policeman used to recruit the boys, mostly eastern European immigrants, outside a gay bar named Twink near Rome's Termini train station. He reportedly sat in his Fiat Panda - marked "Emergency Blood" to avoid parking fines - to make his selection.
He was helped in the recruitment process by a friend who ran a modelling agency. He lured underage boys into prostitution through "false work offers for modelling and acting roles", Poggi said.
The agent also looked for rentboys at gay discos, saunas and gyms across Rome. An accountant was also said to be involved.
The boys were paid 150-500 (£130-£425) to perform sex acts in church premises across the capital.
Poggi also accused the former Carabinieri of selling consecrated hosts for satanic rites.
Poggi reportedly presented documentary and photographic evidence to police in the company of two senior Vatican clergymen who vouched for his credibility.
Poggi identified the nine clergymen, including two senior church officials and a religion lecturer. Three people have been placed under formal investigation.
The allegations were rejected by the Vatican. Cardinal Agostino Vallini, head of the Catholic Vicariate of Rome, said the priest made false claims out of a desire for vengeance and personal resentment.
The Vatican refused to reinstate Poggi after he served his term.
"The cardinal expresses his full confidence in the magistracy and declares himself full convinced that this slander will be demolished, demonstrating Poggi's claims to be untrue," Vallini said.
"God will hold everyone accountable for their deeds."
I saw that.
I also see that Quix’s opus thread seems to have been purged.
Whatever.
I know what I saw.
Well, that’s definitive.
As I recall, the poster in question posted somewhat... “zany” ideas about UFOs and the like, and the postings were considered spamming, and was told in no uncertain terms, on multiple occasions, to knock it off.
As well, again, if I recall correctly, the poster also published on another site a rather nasty opus that, in part, questioned Jim Robinson's mental health and provided a pseudo-diagnosis of JimRob’s supposed mental problems. JimRob published the opus here at FR:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2902837/posts?page=1
I don't remember whether this came before or after the poster's banning, but in either case, it certainly made any chance at reinstatement a bit unlikely, LOL.
In addition to being, more or less, a final burning of bridges with FR, this, of course, was an egregious violation of the poster's supposed professional ethics, as the poster claimed to be a clinical psychologist. An alternative explanation is that the poster was not really a clinical psychologist, and thus, no violation of professional ethics occurred, merely fraud.
It would be nice to think that the poster was banned for rabid, irrational anti-Catholicism, but alas, that is not a bannable offense here on FR.
sitetest
Apparently, he hadn't the guts to post it here.
In any case, RegulatorCountry, it IS definitive.
You're welcome.
Definitive of what precisely?
Welcome “back.”
I was just wondering what happened to that crazy old coot. Thanks for the heads up.
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