RE: Damned Pervert Priests - and other assorted Holy Scumbags
June 24, 2022 at 1:11 am
(This post was last modified: June 24, 2022 at 1:24 am by Fake Messiah.)
Dozens of Northern CA Priests Facing Child Sex Abuse Claims for the First Time
Dozens of Northern California Catholic priests and church employees – some still working, others retired or deceased – are being publicly accused for the first time of sexually abusing children in their care. The allegations suggest startling new depths to the decades-long scandal that continues to rock the church and its followers.
Those new accusations – and many more – have surfaced in a wave of lawsuits washing over Catholic institutions across the state, including every Northern California diocese from Fresno to Santa Rosa. Some of the new filings allege cover-ups that protected accused predators and silenced victims.
NBC Bay Area’s investigation – based on a review of nearly 140 new legal filings and interviews with more than a dozen plaintiffs, attorneys, and other sources – has so far identified more than 40 Northern California priests or church employees facing child sex abuse allegations for the first time, a number that’s almost certain to grow by the end of the year.
Other revelations include a string of new sex abuse accusations leveled against clergy and staff at schools for vulnerable Bay Area children: St. Vincent’s School for Boys in Marin County and the Hanna Boys Center in Sonoma. One such lawsuit alleges the sex trafficking of St. Vincent’s Boys to a remote Sonoma County summer camp called CYO Camp in the early 1980s, where one plaintiff states in his complaint that he was given alcohol and forced to engage in sex acts with multiple priests and other boys.
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigation...e/2925063/
In Venezuela, priests convicted of abuse have returned to ministry
The 6-year-old walked to his church with exciting news to share. He had given the matter some thought, he told the Rev. Luis Alberto Mosquera, and he had decided he wanted to be an active Catholic.
“If you want to be an altar boy, you must pass a test,” the priest responded, according to the boy. Years later, the child’s testimony about that afternoon in the parish house would prove crucial: A court concluded that Mosquera had sexually abused him.
Mosquera was convicted in 2006 of sexual abuse against a child and sentenced to more than seven years in prison. But he didn’t complete the sentence. His lawyers feared for his safety in prison and sought probation. In 2008, he was released and returned to the church in Lara state, where he is still a priest. A photo posted on his Facebook page in 2016 and reposted in 2017 shows him surrounded by children.
The 63-year-old cleric’s case is among 10 involving allegations of child sexual abuse scrutinized by The Washington Post over the past two years. The Post interviewed Catholic leaders, police, court officials and victims and reviewed police and court documents. In half of the cases, dating from 2001 to 2022, The Post found priests convicted of charges who were released early from their sentences or served no prison time at all. In at least three cases, the priests were allowed to return to ministry.
Critics see a pattern that they say suggests collusion between a corrupt judicial system and the Church to protect perpetrators rather than victims. The common element in all 10 cases: The children involved came from poor and vulnerable backgrounds.
For clergy who have abused minors, the Church’s status appears to have provided protection. A priest in Zulia, for instance, served no prison time despite being convicted of aggravated sexual abuse against a 12-year-old. A priest in Falcón state pleaded guilty to committing a carnal act against a 14-year-old but was granted house arrest with the condition that he stay away from the victim. He returned to the Church, where he continues his ministry today.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/202...sex-abuse/
High court rejects California Catholic bishops’ bid for review of California Child Victims Act
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an 11th-hour plea by nine Catholic bishops and archbishops, including Santa Rosa Bishop Robert Vasa, seeking to overturn a California law allowing people to sue over childhood sex abuse regardless of how long ago it occurred.
Citing the “ruinously expensive” cost of defending even illegitimate claims, church officials argued that reopening a three-year “look-back period” that expands the statute of limitations on such cases unconstitutionally exposes them to liability in violation of due process protections — particularly since an earlier, one-year window in 2003 prompted massive settlements the church assumed would be the last word on the sex abuse scandal.
“Since the State’s previous revival statute induced the Dioceses to take dramatic steps to pay for the last round of revived claims, the Dioceses now stand largely defenseless against this second wave,” the petition states. “The potential financial implications for the Church are thus nothing short of ruinous.”
https://www.sonomanews.com/article/news/...californi/
Dozens of Northern California Catholic priests and church employees – some still working, others retired or deceased – are being publicly accused for the first time of sexually abusing children in their care. The allegations suggest startling new depths to the decades-long scandal that continues to rock the church and its followers.
Those new accusations – and many more – have surfaced in a wave of lawsuits washing over Catholic institutions across the state, including every Northern California diocese from Fresno to Santa Rosa. Some of the new filings allege cover-ups that protected accused predators and silenced victims.
NBC Bay Area’s investigation – based on a review of nearly 140 new legal filings and interviews with more than a dozen plaintiffs, attorneys, and other sources – has so far identified more than 40 Northern California priests or church employees facing child sex abuse allegations for the first time, a number that’s almost certain to grow by the end of the year.
Other revelations include a string of new sex abuse accusations leveled against clergy and staff at schools for vulnerable Bay Area children: St. Vincent’s School for Boys in Marin County and the Hanna Boys Center in Sonoma. One such lawsuit alleges the sex trafficking of St. Vincent’s Boys to a remote Sonoma County summer camp called CYO Camp in the early 1980s, where one plaintiff states in his complaint that he was given alcohol and forced to engage in sex acts with multiple priests and other boys.
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigation...e/2925063/
In Venezuela, priests convicted of abuse have returned to ministry
The 6-year-old walked to his church with exciting news to share. He had given the matter some thought, he told the Rev. Luis Alberto Mosquera, and he had decided he wanted to be an active Catholic.
“If you want to be an altar boy, you must pass a test,” the priest responded, according to the boy. Years later, the child’s testimony about that afternoon in the parish house would prove crucial: A court concluded that Mosquera had sexually abused him.
Mosquera was convicted in 2006 of sexual abuse against a child and sentenced to more than seven years in prison. But he didn’t complete the sentence. His lawyers feared for his safety in prison and sought probation. In 2008, he was released and returned to the church in Lara state, where he is still a priest. A photo posted on his Facebook page in 2016 and reposted in 2017 shows him surrounded by children.
The 63-year-old cleric’s case is among 10 involving allegations of child sexual abuse scrutinized by The Washington Post over the past two years. The Post interviewed Catholic leaders, police, court officials and victims and reviewed police and court documents. In half of the cases, dating from 2001 to 2022, The Post found priests convicted of charges who were released early from their sentences or served no prison time at all. In at least three cases, the priests were allowed to return to ministry.
Critics see a pattern that they say suggests collusion between a corrupt judicial system and the Church to protect perpetrators rather than victims. The common element in all 10 cases: The children involved came from poor and vulnerable backgrounds.
For clergy who have abused minors, the Church’s status appears to have provided protection. A priest in Zulia, for instance, served no prison time despite being convicted of aggravated sexual abuse against a 12-year-old. A priest in Falcón state pleaded guilty to committing a carnal act against a 14-year-old but was granted house arrest with the condition that he stay away from the victim. He returned to the Church, where he continues his ministry today.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/202...sex-abuse/
High court rejects California Catholic bishops’ bid for review of California Child Victims Act
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an 11th-hour plea by nine Catholic bishops and archbishops, including Santa Rosa Bishop Robert Vasa, seeking to overturn a California law allowing people to sue over childhood sex abuse regardless of how long ago it occurred.
Citing the “ruinously expensive” cost of defending even illegitimate claims, church officials argued that reopening a three-year “look-back period” that expands the statute of limitations on such cases unconstitutionally exposes them to liability in violation of due process protections — particularly since an earlier, one-year window in 2003 prompted massive settlements the church assumed would be the last word on the sex abuse scandal.
“Since the State’s previous revival statute induced the Dioceses to take dramatic steps to pay for the last round of revived claims, the Dioceses now stand largely defenseless against this second wave,” the petition states. “The potential financial implications for the Church are thus nothing short of ruinous.”
https://www.sonomanews.com/article/news/...californi/
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"
