RE: Damned Pervert Priests - and other assorted Holy Scumbags
December 21, 2023 at 1:17 am
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2023 at 1:18 am by Fake Messiah.)
Two alleged abuse survivors win first challenge against Australian Catholic church’s legal tactics
Earlier this year, two survivors, one of whom is dying, were blocked from suing the Armidale diocese over abuse they allege they suffered from alleged prolific paedophile priest David Joseph Perrett.
The two men, both Indigenous, alleged they were abused during camping trips from an Aboriginal mission in the mid-1970s.
Police investigated their allegations and found enough evidence to charge Perrett, but he died in 2020 while awaiting trial for more than 100 offences relating to the abuse of almost 40 young children.
His death also prompted the church to seek and obtain a permanent stay – or a permanent halt to proceedings – which stopped the pair’s civil proceedings by arguing the passage of time and loss of witnesses left it unable to have a fair trial.
A Guardian Australia investigation this year found such tactics have been commonly adopted by the church in cases where perpetrators have died, either to defeat active claims before the courts or to low-ball survivors in settlement negotiations.
The approach ignores the significant barriers that cause decades-long delays in abuse cases. It also causes profound harm to an already vulnerable group.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/dec...al-tactics
Earlier this year, two survivors, one of whom is dying, were blocked from suing the Armidale diocese over abuse they allege they suffered from alleged prolific paedophile priest David Joseph Perrett.
The two men, both Indigenous, alleged they were abused during camping trips from an Aboriginal mission in the mid-1970s.
Police investigated their allegations and found enough evidence to charge Perrett, but he died in 2020 while awaiting trial for more than 100 offences relating to the abuse of almost 40 young children.
His death also prompted the church to seek and obtain a permanent stay – or a permanent halt to proceedings – which stopped the pair’s civil proceedings by arguing the passage of time and loss of witnesses left it unable to have a fair trial.
A Guardian Australia investigation this year found such tactics have been commonly adopted by the church in cases where perpetrators have died, either to defeat active claims before the courts or to low-ball survivors in settlement negotiations.
The approach ignores the significant barriers that cause decades-long delays in abuse cases. It also causes profound harm to an already vulnerable group.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/dec...al-tactics
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
