Damned Pervert Priests - and other assorted Holy Scumbags

[Fake Messiah]

After 60 Claims of Abuse, the Diocese of Norwich Files for Bankruptcy

In February of 2019, the diocese identified 43 priests who had an “allegation of substance” made against them regarding the sexual abuse of a minor. The diocese also settled nine abuse claims for a total of approximately $7.7 million. 

Norwich is the 31st Catholic religious entity in the United States to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

https://ctexaminer.com/2021/07/15/after-...ankruptcy/

[Fake Messiah]

What? A dumb and fraudulent university based on a crank moral book has a problem with rampant sexual abuse - no way!

Liberty University 'enabled on-campus rapes:' 12 women file lawsuit

Twelve anonymous women, all of whom are former Liberty University employees or students, have signed onto the lawsuit that claims the university “enabled on-campus rapes” and suppressed complaints of sexual assault and rape.

"It just boggles my mind, that these people who claim to be Christians, cared more about covering it up than they cared about actually helping me," one plaintiff, Jane Doe 2, said in an interview.

Known as Jane Doe 2 in the lawsuit, the woman said she was sexually assaulted, reported it to Liberty, stalked by the same man, reported that to Liberty, and ultimately gang-raped – which she again reported to Liberty. However, there was no Title IX investigation or criminal charges, according to the lawsuit.

The lawsuit claims that Liberty University silenced and sometimes punished these women under their honor code, “The Liberty Way.”

While in a dormitory hall, Doe 12 says she met a soft-spoken man who she later learned was Jesse Matthew Jr., who, years later, was sentenced to four life sentences for murdering Morgan Harrington and Hannah Graham.

While in the dorm, the complaint says that man “grabbed her and carried her into a bathroom.” The complaint states that LUPD later identified that man as Jesse Matthew.

The complaint states that LUPD interrogated Doe 12 for hours, asking her to write two separate statements, and then accused her of fabricating her story when minor details were not identical.

The lawsuit claims that LUPD told Doe 12 that she could be “expelled from the camp because she was wearing pants in an academic building, which was at the time a violation of the Liberty Way," and that she’d be criminally charged with filing a false police report if she refused to withdraw her sexual assault report against Matthew.

And so on.

https://wset.com/news/abc13-investigates...g-virginia

[Angrboda]

The top administrator of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops resigned after a Catholic media site told the conference it had access to cellphone data that appeared to show he was a regular user of Grindr, the queer dating app, and frequented gay bars.

Some privacy experts said that they couldn’t recall other instances of phone data being de-anonymized and reported publicly, but that it’s not illegal and will likely happen more as people come to understand what data is available about others.

Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill has since last fall been the general secretary of the USCCB, a position that coordinates all administrative work and planning for the conference, which is the country’s network for Catholic bishops. As a priest, he takes a vow of celibacy. Catholic teaching opposes sexual activity outside heterosexual marriage.

(Washington Post)

[Fake Messiah]

Same old news

“The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany engaged in a decades-long cover-up of chronic child sexual abuse committed by its priests by employing practices described in a recent statement from former Bishop Howard J. Hubbard, who ran the diocese from 1977 to 2014.”

https://www.timesunion.com/state/article...343531.php

[LadyForCamus]

Same old news

“The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany engaged in a decades-long cover-up of chronic child sexual abuse committed by its priests by employing practices described in a recent statement from former Bishop Howard J. Hubbard, who ran the diocese from 1977 to 2014.”

https://www.timesunion.com/state/article...343531.php

This one is in my neck of the woods, sadly.

[Fake Messiah]

Don't send your kids to bathe in the pastor's house

Pastor gets 30 years in prison after setting up network of cameras to secretly film children getting undressed and bathing at his church

David Pettigrew and an accomplice set up multiple hidden cameras disguising them as hooks, clocks, charging blocks, a smoke detector, a picture frame, an air conditioner adapter and even a pen, according to charging documents from the Justice Department.

After being arrested last year, Pettigrew, 49 admitted to filming a child in his home and that he and his co-defendant secretly recorded multiple children at the Denison Church of the Nazarene in Grayson County.

"Parents and kids in Grayson County trusted Pettigrew as an educator, pastor, and friend, all the while unaware of his criminal intent."

https://www.rawstory.com/texas-pastor-ge...undressed/

[Ahriman]

I really don't like it when people single out religious people for doing bad stuff like this, predators exist in all walks of life.

[Astreja]

I really don't like it when people single out religious people for doing bad stuff like this, predators exist in all walks of life.

Yes, predators are everywhere.  However, people who claim to be following a superior divinely-mandated moral code need to adhere to a higher standard -- to walk the walk.  (Either that, or we need to just laugh uproariously as we shoo them off the moral high ground that they've usurped.)

[Ahriman]

I really don't like it when people single out religious people for doing bad stuff like this, predators exist in all walks of life.

Yes, predators are everywhere.  However, people who claim to be following a superior divinely-mandated moral code need to adhere to a higher standard -- to walk the walk.  (Either that, or we need to just laugh uproariously as we shoo them off the moral high ground that they've usurped.)

Religious people who do that stuff, should be imprisoned for life, because clearly they don't fear God's judgment, or at least not enough to abstain from the immoral behavior, so locking them up and throwing away the key, would be an appropriate thing to do.

[Fake Messiah]

so locking them up and throwing away the key, would be an appropriate thing to do.

They do that now (although not enough) because people write and talk about clergy raping kids and put pressure on them. Before, the clergy was untouchable, and it still is untouchable in too many parts of the world because people are afraid to talk about it.