Catholic Church Opposes Removing Statute of Limitations for Child Rape

[Catholic_Lady]

Also, there's a reason I stopped posting on AF. Being pregnant makes me extra emotional and quite frankly I don't want to deal with being outnumbered with the negativity/hostility thrown my way and directed at my values and my people, especially given what went down last month. Nothing wrong with disagreement and discussion, just wrong time wrong place for me.

I was made aware of this thread and was asked to put in my 2 cents by a friend, and so I did. I don't have much left to say. I'm not going to sit here as the only Catholic on an atheist forum and defend myself during this stage of my life.

[Homeless Nutter]

[...]I was made aware of this thread and was asked to put in my 2 cents by a friend, and so I did. I don't have much left to say. I'm not going to sit here as the only Catholic on an atheist forum and defend myself during this stage of my life.

You're right. Defending sex abuse of children is not a job for a woman. That's probably why you're not allowed to be a priest...

[Redbeard The Pink]

The statute of limitations is probably the primary reason that people get away with child rape; of course the Catholic Church opposes it.

[Minimalist]

And it has nothing to do with gathering evidence.  There is no statute of limitations on murder, for example.

http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-law...tions.html

Not all crimes are governed by statutes of limitation. Murder, for example, has none. Sex offenses with minors, crimes of violence, kidnapping, arson, and forgery have no statutes of limitation in a number of states. In Arizona and California crimes involving public money or public records have no statutes of limitation. While in Colorado, treason has none.

So justice is also a matter of where you are.... in addition to who you are.  Ah.  'Murrica.

We are full of shit about everything.

[robvalue]

I'm surprised to learn it still has a SoL anywhere. But then I should stop being surprised considering how many surprising things I've learnt lately.

God needs protection of outdated secular laws to avoid bankruptcy

[vorlon13]

Vatican archives document abuse cases going back 1500 years.

I realize it sounds snarky, but this problem will never go away, and a serious look needs to be given towards accepting the reality of pedophile priests and regulating/accepting/controlling the abuse rather than this futile battle against it.

Kids can be selected, evaluated, possibly even be compensated (or their parents) and the priests would be required to observe some guidelines when they are doing it.

Assigning a specific kid to a specific priest would be a start. Just reining in the number of kids affected could be accomplished relatively quickly and easily with just a little bit of supervision and control instead of the anything goes 'unsystem' we have now. Priests would need to be screened for communicable disease (pay attention Jewish circumcising rabbis!) and the kids could be medical screened when assigned and evaluated periodically too.

May not be a perfect solution, but it is looking more and more like we just don't have any more options.

[robvalue]

I agree. It's clearly what God wants. Many Catholics are happy to pay for it to keep happening, and to send their kids along for the ride. If it's going to happen, let's do it properly.

[vorlon13]

Well, looks the priest shortage has been fixed now . . . . .

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