Posted on 11/27/2020 6:54:07 PM PST by marshmallow
A prestigious New York City priest has been accused by a Bronx woman of forcible touching.
Ashley Gonzalez, a 22-year-old who worked as an overnight security guard at St. Michael the Archangel Church on West 34th Street in Manhattan, is calling for the arrest of 75-year-old Father George William Rutler.
"It was like a monster," said Gonzalez describing her alleged encounter Rutler. News 12 obtained video she recorded that she said shows Rutler watching pornography on his computer in front of her.
News 12 has blurred the alleged sexually explicit video.
"He looked at me with a smile, looked away, and he put his hand inside his pants, and he was playing with himself," Gonzalez said, recalling her second day on the job at the church on Nov. 4. She said she tried to leave the pastor's office, but he slammed the door shut. "He aggressively threw himself on me and grabbed me sexually, aggressively, and I was fighting him off of me," Gonzalez said, who added that she sent frantic text messages to her mother begging for help.
"That was the scariest part too. I had no one to help," Gonzalez said.
She called on Black Ops Private Investigators to help her file a police report for forcible touching. They're now calling for Father Rutler's arrest.
"Why is he still here? He should not be here. He is a threat to the parishioners," said Manuel Gomez, of Black Ops Private Investigators.
In response, the Archdiocese of New York wrote in part, "although Father Rutler has denied acting inappropriately with the security guard, he has voluntarily stepped aside from the parish, and is not currently serving as a priest..." and added that they are fully cooperating in the investigation.
Rutler is a host on Eternal Word Television Network, which told......
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Bullshit.
I smell a load of ...
According to the Dallas charter the US Bishops have signed, a priest is immediately removed if an accusation has a semblance of possibility. Once removed, he is rarely to be returned to public ministry regardless if there is no legal case.
How much you wanna bet we are going to hear that someone connected to the Vatican cooked it up?
Pressed a little hard with that small portion of the Host as he placed it on her tongue, did he?
You’re being attacked AND texting?? I think not.
Obviously targeted by the enemy. Prayers for Fr. Rutler.
He is the holiest man the most dignified and the most faithful devout Catholic I am acquainted with.
This is just the enemy talking. I knew as soon as I read the headline. They’re after anyone good.
On 911 He ran from midtown to downtown to ground zero in order to help. To administer any help he could. Absolution for the dying firefighters
No one should give this fake news the time of day.
Rutler is an outspoken conservative in the Church. He leads a Tridentine mass as well as an ordinary mass at St. Michael’s.
It’s laughable to think that a 22 year old security guard could be manhandled by a 75 year old man. I smell a Cardinal Pell-like set-up to get Fr. Rutler, who has already been banished to a backwater parish because of his outspokenness.
Hmmm.
"Celebrating Fr. George Rutler"
(By the way, I too think this charge against him is a crock of demoncrap doo-doo.)
Here's one of Fr. Rutler's song talks:
Okay, she’s a security guard and instead of slapping him or punching him or kneeing him, she texted her mother for help? Why not just run out of there? Doesn’t pass the smell test.
Who sent her there to try to hurt Fr. Rutler? Dolan & Co.?
That is what this thing against Father Rutler sounds like.
I wonder if she found her job on Craigslist.
$$$
Unlike the usual pattern, this involved an ADULT FEMALE!!!
Which means he’ll be harshly punished for heterosexual activity.
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