Post by respect77 on Aug 18, 2018 5:41:21 GMT
Probably many of you have heard about the latest pedophilia scandal in the Catholic Church, as it was all over the news this week. If not, then here it is in a nutshell:
A grand jury in Pennsylvania released a 1,300-page report on Tuesday detailing allegations that nearly 1,000 children were sexually abused by 300 "predator priests" over the last 70 years.
The report claims that the Roman Catholic Church spent decades covering up claims against leaders in the church, including bishops, archbishops, and cardinals across six dioceses in Pennsylvania.
Victims were said to include girls and boys, many prepubescent, and some manipulated with alcohol or pornography. Some were allegedly groped; raped orally, vaginally, and anally; and forced to masturbate their assailants.
Within the report, there are specific details about several of the abuse cases, including claims of a child pornography ring, pregnancy cover ups, and more.
These are some of the most damning claims in the report:
In Greensburg, Pennsylvania, a priest allegedly impregnated a 17-year-old girl, forged a pastor's signature on a marriage certificate, and divorced the girl months later. Despite having sex with a minor, fathering a child, and being married and divorced, the priest stayed in ministry after finding a "benevolent bishop," the grand jury report said.
A priest in Greensburg groomed middle school students for oral sex by telling them Mary had to "bite off the cord" and "lick" Jesus clean after he was born, according to the grand jury.
The grand jury discovered a "ring of predatory priests" who would share information about their victims and were "exchanging the victims amongst themselves," according to the report. The ring of priests also allegedly produced child pornography and used whips, violence, and sadism in raping their victims.
A priest in Frackville sexually abused a 14-year-old altar boy in the 1970s and is said to have dragged him across the floor by his underwear and beaten him with a metal cross, according to the grand jury. After leaving the church to get married, the priest was reportedly given a reference by the diocese for a job at Walt Disney World, where he worked as a train driver in the Magic Kingdom for 15 years.
Within the Erie diocese, a priest confessed to orally and anally raping at least 15 boys, some as young as seven years old. When the bishop later met with the abuser, he called the priest a "person of candor and sincerity" and applauded him "for the progress he had made" in controlling his "addiction." Years later, the abuser was finally removed from the priesthood.
Some priests would allegedly give their victims crosses, not just as a grooming technique, but as a "visible designation that these children were victims of sexual abuse."
In Harrisburg, a priest allegedly abused five sisters from the same family, as well as some of their relatives, in the 1980s. He also collected samples of their urine, pubic hair, and menstrual blood, according to the report.
One priest allegedly raped a seven-year-old girl while visiting her in the hospital after she had her tonsils removed.
Another priest forced a nine-year-old boy to give him oral sex, "then rinsed out the boy's mouth with holy water to purify him," according to the grand jury.
A priest in Scranton discovered he had been HIV-positive for years while he was serving prison time for abusing children, according to the report.
One Pennsylvania priest admitted to molesting boys, but denied reports from two girls who said they had been abused, saying "they don't have a penis," the grand jury said.
In Allentown, a priest admitted to sexually molesting a boy, but he was left in ministry for several years after asking for help, the grand jury said.
www.thisisinsider.com/catholic-church-grand-jury-report-here-are-the-most-shocking-claims-2018-8
There is no denying the fact that this problem within the Catholic Church is systemic. It is enabled by the Church's culture of cover-up - rather than reporting and dealing with such crimes they just help cover it up. The Pope issued a statement about how sorry he was and how horrific these crimes are, but that's too little. Will they finally do some real soul searching and change this culture of enabling child abuse? Will there be some real action this time? Because this has been going on for decades and there haven't been any real changes. This documentary was made 12 years ago, it is about a priest who abused many children (he admitted it later), but the church instead of kicking him out and report the crime to law enforcement, just covered up his crimes and whenever he was caught in something they just moved him to the next diocese where he then abused other children and it went on like that for many years.
This was made 12 years ago and apparently nothing has changed ever since.
And from a religion POV I don't know how anyone can still look up at this intitution and look for their advice in matters of moral and ethics? You cannot even say any more that these are isolated cases. It seems to be rampant and epidemic. Moreover the cover-up is systemic.
- A grand jury in Pennsylvania released a 1,300-page report on Tuesday detailing sex abuse allegations against 300 Catholic priests who are said to have abused nearly 1,000 children.
- The report claims that the Roman Catholic Church spent decades covering up claims against leaders in the church.
- In the report, there are specific details about several of the abuse cases, including claims of a child pornography ring, pregnancy cover ups, and more.
A grand jury in Pennsylvania released a 1,300-page report on Tuesday detailing allegations that nearly 1,000 children were sexually abused by 300 "predator priests" over the last 70 years.
The report claims that the Roman Catholic Church spent decades covering up claims against leaders in the church, including bishops, archbishops, and cardinals across six dioceses in Pennsylvania.
Victims were said to include girls and boys, many prepubescent, and some manipulated with alcohol or pornography. Some were allegedly groped; raped orally, vaginally, and anally; and forced to masturbate their assailants.
Within the report, there are specific details about several of the abuse cases, including claims of a child pornography ring, pregnancy cover ups, and more.
These are some of the most damning claims in the report:
In Greensburg, Pennsylvania, a priest allegedly impregnated a 17-year-old girl, forged a pastor's signature on a marriage certificate, and divorced the girl months later. Despite having sex with a minor, fathering a child, and being married and divorced, the priest stayed in ministry after finding a "benevolent bishop," the grand jury report said.
A priest in Greensburg groomed middle school students for oral sex by telling them Mary had to "bite off the cord" and "lick" Jesus clean after he was born, according to the grand jury.
The grand jury discovered a "ring of predatory priests" who would share information about their victims and were "exchanging the victims amongst themselves," according to the report. The ring of priests also allegedly produced child pornography and used whips, violence, and sadism in raping their victims.
A priest in Frackville sexually abused a 14-year-old altar boy in the 1970s and is said to have dragged him across the floor by his underwear and beaten him with a metal cross, according to the grand jury. After leaving the church to get married, the priest was reportedly given a reference by the diocese for a job at Walt Disney World, where he worked as a train driver in the Magic Kingdom for 15 years.
Within the Erie diocese, a priest confessed to orally and anally raping at least 15 boys, some as young as seven years old. When the bishop later met with the abuser, he called the priest a "person of candor and sincerity" and applauded him "for the progress he had made" in controlling his "addiction." Years later, the abuser was finally removed from the priesthood.
Some priests would allegedly give their victims crosses, not just as a grooming technique, but as a "visible designation that these children were victims of sexual abuse."
In Harrisburg, a priest allegedly abused five sisters from the same family, as well as some of their relatives, in the 1980s. He also collected samples of their urine, pubic hair, and menstrual blood, according to the report.
One priest allegedly raped a seven-year-old girl while visiting her in the hospital after she had her tonsils removed.
Another priest forced a nine-year-old boy to give him oral sex, "then rinsed out the boy's mouth with holy water to purify him," according to the grand jury.
A priest in Scranton discovered he had been HIV-positive for years while he was serving prison time for abusing children, according to the report.
One Pennsylvania priest admitted to molesting boys, but denied reports from two girls who said they had been abused, saying "they don't have a penis," the grand jury said.
In Allentown, a priest admitted to sexually molesting a boy, but he was left in ministry for several years after asking for help, the grand jury said.
There is no denying the fact that this problem within the Catholic Church is systemic. It is enabled by the Church's culture of cover-up - rather than reporting and dealing with such crimes they just help cover it up. The Pope issued a statement about how sorry he was and how horrific these crimes are, but that's too little. Will they finally do some real soul searching and change this culture of enabling child abuse? Will there be some real action this time? Because this has been going on for decades and there haven't been any real changes. This documentary was made 12 years ago, it is about a priest who abused many children (he admitted it later), but the church instead of kicking him out and report the crime to law enforcement, just covered up his crimes and whenever he was caught in something they just moved him to the next diocese where he then abused other children and it went on like that for many years.
This was made 12 years ago and apparently nothing has changed ever since.
And from a religion POV I don't know how anyone can still look up at this intitution and look for their advice in matters of moral and ethics? You cannot even say any more that these are isolated cases. It seems to be rampant and epidemic. Moreover the cover-up is systemic.
Church officials followed a “playbook for concealing the truth,” the reports states. The patterns were similar enough that FBI analyses of the church’s responses yielded seven rules, basically, an institutional guide to covering up abuse. Here are seven principles the jurors note:
- Make sure to use euphemisms rather than real words to describe the sexual assaults in diocese documents. Never say”rape”; say “inappropriate contact” or “boundary issues.”
- Don’t conduct genuine investigations with properly trained personnel. Instead, assign fellow clergy members to ask inadequate questions and then make credibility determinations about the colleagues with whom they live and work.
- For an appearance of integrity, send priests for “evaluation” at church-run psychiatric treatment centers. Allow these experts to “diagnose” whether the priest was a pedophile, based largely on the priest’s “self-reports” and regardless of whether the priest had actually engaged in sexual contact with a child.
- When a priest does have to be removed, don’t say why. Tell his parishioners that he is on “sick leave,” or suffering from”nervous exhaustion.” Or say nothing at all.
- Even if a priest is raping children, keep providing him housing and living expenses, although he may be using these resources to facilitate more sexual assaults.
- If a predator’s conduct becomes known to the community, don’t remove him from the priesthood to ensure that no more children will be victimized. Instead, transfer him to a new location where no one will know he is a child abuser.
- Finally, and above all, don’t tell the police. Child sexual abuse, even short of actual penetration, is and has for all relevant times been a crime. But don’t treat it that way; handle it like a personnel matter, “in house.”
qz.com/1356796/how-the-catholic-church-concealed-priests-sexual-abuse-of-children/