RE: Damned Pervert Priests - and other assorted Holy Scumbags
October 20, 2023 at 12:51 pm
(This post was last modified: October 20, 2023 at 12:57 pm by Fake Messiah.)
600 victims sued Catholic church and won't back down after Rockville Centre, NY diocese tried bankruptcy to avoid payouts.
Former St. Anne's nun 8th person charged for alleged abuses at that residential school
They were brothers Big Nose and Pigskin, Hamburger Lips and Pinching Lady, sisters Grasshopper, Skunk and Pig — aliases and Cree epithets the children of St. Anne's residential school in Fort Albany, Ont., gave their alleged abusers.
They're among 180 alleged perpetrators listed by 152 survivors in 61 lawsuits, filed against the Canadian government and Catholic Church in the early 2000s. But in some cases, like those above, the now-adult children could only recall the nicknames.
"It's really haunting, because you realize that these were names that were whispered among children, and whispered as warnings," said Charlie Angus, New Democrat MP for Timmins-James Bay, whose riding encompasses Fort Albany where St. Anne's operated.
"This was supposed to be a school. Instead it was a torture chamber, a place for pedophiles."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/st-an...-1.7001318
Quote:Diocese: Unable to reach settlement with Long Island clergy sex abuse survivors
The diocese said it had been offering the survivors an average of at least $400,000 each, but attorneys for the survivors said that was far too little. The attorneys said they expect the cases to now be sent back to state civil court, where awards could be even higher.
Attorneys for survivors said the offer was inadequate given the diocese’s assets, and that the $100 million spent on legal fees could have gone to their clients.
“For a child who was raped by their priest, $400,000 is grossly inadequate,” said Jordan Merson, a Manhattan-based attorney representing some of the survivors.
“The diocese throughout this process has continued to try to minimize and bully survivors," Merson said, "and this letter is just another example of it.”
The diocese declared bankruptcy in October 2020, saying payouts from the CVA could leave it in financial ruin. The diocese has previously paid out a total of about $62 million to 350 survivors under an “Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program” that began in 2017.
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/reli...t-ywy2wkfv
Former St. Anne's nun 8th person charged for alleged abuses at that residential school
They were brothers Big Nose and Pigskin, Hamburger Lips and Pinching Lady, sisters Grasshopper, Skunk and Pig — aliases and Cree epithets the children of St. Anne's residential school in Fort Albany, Ont., gave their alleged abusers.
They're among 180 alleged perpetrators listed by 152 survivors in 61 lawsuits, filed against the Canadian government and Catholic Church in the early 2000s. But in some cases, like those above, the now-adult children could only recall the nicknames.
"It's really haunting, because you realize that these were names that were whispered among children, and whispered as warnings," said Charlie Angus, New Democrat MP for Timmins-James Bay, whose riding encompasses Fort Albany where St. Anne's operated.
"This was supposed to be a school. Instead it was a torture chamber, a place for pedophiles."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/st-an...-1.7001318
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"
