He’s possibly the youngest clergy abuse victim now suing the Catholic church in California. Now, he’s speaking out for the first time, saying abuse within the church is not a problem of the past.
“The house is still burning,” Doe said. “I shed a lot of light on the fact that these issues haven’t been resolved. Even if they have made reformative efforts, it’s BS.”
When Doe was 10 years old, Hector David Mendoza Vela became the pastor of St. John the Baptist in San Lorenzo. It's the church where his family and many other immigrants in the area attended.
Doe was an altar boy at the time and says the priest became almost like family.
“He would ultimately sleep over at my house,” he said. “We would give him safe passage in our home. We even gave him a key. That’s how much my parents trusted him.”
Doe said Fr. Vela began spending the night at his family’s house nearly every other day. The priest often picked him up from school, and those car rides home were where Doe said he began noticing red flags.
“He’d put his hand on my lap,” said Doe, who was about 14 when the touching began. “When I started to get frustrated with it, I started to really dig my hand into my lap just to prevent him from moving his hand up even more.”
The touching followed Doe from those car rides into his home, he said, when the priest slept over at night.
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigation...s/3781895/
No, it's not over. In another part of the world, the Catholic church reinstates pedophiles to work with kids. A priest who also had accses to victim's home.
“The house is still burning,” Doe said. “I shed a lot of light on the fact that these issues haven’t been resolved. Even if they have made reformative efforts, it’s BS.”
When Doe was 10 years old, Hector David Mendoza Vela became the pastor of St. John the Baptist in San Lorenzo. It's the church where his family and many other immigrants in the area attended.
Doe was an altar boy at the time and says the priest became almost like family.
“He would ultimately sleep over at my house,” he said. “We would give him safe passage in our home. We even gave him a key. That’s how much my parents trusted him.”
Doe said Fr. Vela began spending the night at his family’s house nearly every other day. The priest often picked him up from school, and those car rides home were where Doe said he began noticing red flags.
“He’d put his hand on my lap,” said Doe, who was about 14 when the touching began. “When I started to get frustrated with it, I started to really dig my hand into my lap just to prevent him from moving his hand up even more.”
The touching followed Doe from those car rides into his home, he said, when the priest slept over at night.
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigation...s/3781895/
No, it's not over. In another part of the world, the Catholic church reinstates pedophiles to work with kids. A priest who also had accses to victim's home.
Quote:Croatia: Priest Served Prison Term for Pedophilia. Archbishop Hranic Reinstated Him To Work With Kids
For a year and a half, until last week, the priest had worked with altar boys and Catholic youth without any restrictions. As a rule, they were reinstated because, contrary to a secular verdict, a church court had acquitted them of guilt. Hranic's archdiocese apparently made the same acquittal decision, despite the rulings of three Croatian courts - the municipal, county and Supreme Courts.
During his service in the parish under Hranic's administration, the priest physically attacked a 17-year-old who was his altar boy in three different situations. Once, in the rectory, he "hugged him, kissed him on the mouth, laid down next to him and suddenly climbed on top of him and jumped on him, simulating sexual intercourse".
In addition, for more than a year, the priest, according to the conclusion of the Croatian courts, "came to his family home almost every day, went on trips with him, invited him to sleep over with him in the rectory, wrote him messages every day via SMS and Viber, telling him that he loved him, thus controlling who he hung out with and where he went out, that a woman would never satisfy him as a man, that it was him who will satisfy him ....., that he had to put oil on his mouth ......., that they were now married as husband and wife, asked him to massage him, to lie down next to him, kiss him and hug him, and when (the victim) wanted to move away from him, he put pressure on him through his mother to maintain contact and called him Judas and sent him a large number of SMS messages that, despite his behavior, he still loved him, which caused (the victim) great discomfort and concern".
https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comment...edophilia/
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"
