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21-02-2013, 09:19

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After six years of American court appeals by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to keep 30,000 pages of internal, sealed files of priesthood sex crimes out of public scrutiny, the State Supreme Court recently ordered their release, and the documents became public for the first time. They make for startling reading, soul-jarring and shocking, an incontrovertible record of brutal and heartless rapes committed by 122 Roman Catholic priests who presented themselves to the world as the earthly agents of God. These files are a remarkable archive of criminal behaviour condoned by the Holy See, and are disturbing to read. Ray Boucher, the lead attorney for plaintiffs, said that what is revealed in the files is ‘chilling’, and ‘the irony in all of this’, he added, ‘is that in their vain attempts to protect the image of the church, they’ve tarnished it beyond repair’. Upon reading the unsealed documents, an anonymous Vatican official said that the Los Angeles Catholic priesthood ‘left a wake of devastation that is hard to comprehend’.

[SIZE=3]The sacked Cardinal[/SIZE]

As a direct result of the release of the documents, and in a move unprecedented in the American Catholic Church, Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez announced that he had relieved his predecessor, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, of all public duties over his serious mishandling of clergy sex abuse of children over the previous decades. Archbishop Gomez also announced that Auxiliary Bishop Thomas J. Curry, who worked with Cardinal Mahony to conceal child sex abusers from police, had resigned his post as a regional bishop in Santa Barbara, California. In a letter addressed to ‘My brothers and sisters in Christ’, Archbishop Gomez wrote; ‘I find these files to be brutal and painful reading. The behavior described in these files is terribly sad and evil’. Such is the nature of the Catholic priesthood the world over.

[SIZE=3]Victory for the victims[/SIZE]

Abuse victims had insisted that the Archdiocese of Los Angeles release the records as part of a settlement in 2007, which provided $660 million to 508 victims. The Vatican’s response to intense media coverage about decades of paedophilic crimes in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles was simply to say that the accusations were nothing more than ‘petty gossip of the moment’ (Cardinal Angelo Sodano, April 2010, at Easter Mass in St. Peter’s Square), but the records of the Catholic Church now released reveal something entirely different. The published files contain key information that Catholic hierarchs used delaying tactics for six years in the Courts to prevent the public release of the documents since the global settlement was announced. Now the world can read the truth about specific men in Catholic leadership with the titles of Pope, Cardinal, Bishop, and Monsignor and how they always put the avoidance of child sex abuse scandals in the Church above the safety of children.

[SIZE=3]What are they hiding?

However, it seems that the files the archdiocese released with much fanfare are incomplete and many are unaccounted for, according to the lawyers of the abuse victims. Even the number of pages that exist in the files is in contention. At the hearing before Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Emilie H. Elias in January, 2013, Mr. Hennigan, the archdiocese’s lawyer, said there were 30,000 pages, yet only 12,000 have been released, and they have missing sections, such as the names of high-ranking churchmen, and the supervisors of religious orders. In addition, many documents have had the names of particular church supervisors redacted, or blacked-out by the archdiocese’s editors, in apparent violation of the judge’s order. Terrence McKiernan, co-director of BishopAccountability.org, a victims’ advocacy group that collects and publishes documents on sexual abuse by Catholic clergy members, said; ‘They seem to be trying to protect the names of supervisors not only in Los Angeles, but in other dioceses as well’. Lawyers for the abuse victims said they were compiling a list of documents that they believe are still missing or are erroneously edited, and may file a motion in court to compel the church to release them. ‘We know we have not gotten a complete disclosure’, said Jeff Anderson, who is among the lawyers representing the victims. ‘They have removed things that should not have been removed, some of which we have seen before, so we know that they exist. It’s more deception, deceit and secrecy’.

21-02-2013, 11:56


Over een beerput gesproken...

21-02-2013, 12:03

Citaat door Handsom_Jack:
Ik hoop dat de slachtoffers de kerk helemaal kaal plukken. Het loopt in Amerika en die zijn nogal schadevergoedingsgeil.
Kapot procederen die pedobende!
Die schadevergoedingen zijn (deels?) al geweest:


Citaat:
Abuse victims had insisted that the Archdiocese of Los Angeles release the records as part of a settlement in 2007, which provided $660 million to 508 victims

21-02-2013, 15:03

Citaat door Handsom_Jack:
Er zijn vast meer dan 508 slachtoffers. Kaalplukken tot de laatste veer zeg ik! (de kerk dan he!)


Yep.


Citaat door TarifibnMaluk:
Van 30000 documenten hebben ze maar 12000 vrijgegeven, en uit die 12000 documenten blijkt dat het hier om onbeschrijflijke gruwelijkheden.

Wat er moet wel in de andere 18000 doceumnten staan, die men niet wil vrijgeven.
Ja, dat vraag ik me dan ook wel af ja...

21-02-2013, 17:00



Citaat door Gaza:
vind je leuk he
Dat de Kerk zo'n zaak verliest vind ik inderdaad, naja, bij gebrek aan een beter woord "leuk". Het laat zien hoe lang ze er van al op de hoogte zijn en wat ze hebben gedaan om de zaken in de doofpotten te krijgen.

Eigenlijk niet zo snugger van ze dat ze dat allemaal bedocumenteerd hebben.

21-02-2013, 17:14

Citaat door Seal97:
Over een beerput gesproken...
Gewoon aan de digitale schandpaal of aan het digitale kruis nagelen dat tuig.

Zou het aan die katholieken liggen.

MISbruik door priesters die constant met hun hand in andermans KRUIS zitten en het daarna met hun MANTEL der liefde proberen te bedekken. Ik ben blij dat men nu door het wierrookgordijn heen heeft gekeken en de daders open en bloot te kijk kan stellen.