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Mexico is haven for U.S. pedophile priests

Postby Rigorous Intuition » Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:12 pm

<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Mexico is haven for U.S. pedophile priests: group</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>Sep 20, 2006<br><br>MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Weak law enforcement and compliant Church authorities make Mexico a haven for U.S. pedophile priests fleeing justice, a victims' group said on Wednesday.<br><br>The Survivors' Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, which helped bring a lawsuit this week against two of North America's top cardinals, said it knows of 46 mostly U.S. priests hiding out south of the border.<br><br>"Mexico has really become a secure place because here judicial authorities don't track them down and nothing happens," said group spokesman Eric Barragan.<br><br>The U.S. Catholic Church has been tarnished by a pedophile priest scandal that erupted in Boston in 2002 and spread to almost every diocese in the nation.<br><br>Several U.S. Catholic priests have been prosecuted, multimillion dollar payouts have been made to scores of pedophile victims and church files revealed that some bishops repeatedly transferred priests accused of abusing minors to other parishes rather than reporting them to police.<br><br>Barragan said Mexican pedophile priests, to a lesser degree, often flee to the United States.<br><br>His U.S.-based group helped filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles on Tuesday that accused Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles and Mexico City's Cardinal Norberto Rivera of allowing a priest wanted for multiple sex abuse to flee California for Mexico.<br><br>Rivera is Mexico's most senior Catholic clergyman and was mentioned as an outsider candidate last year to succeed Pope John Paul II.<br><br>The suit was brought by Mexican former altar boy Joaquin Aguilar, 25, who says he was raped by Catholic priest Nicolas Aguilar in Mexico in 1994. It claims that Mahony facilitated Father Aguilar's flight to Mexico in 1988, when a U.S. warrant was issued for his arrest, without notifying law enforcement in Los Angeles.<br><br>Prosecutors were investigating allegations that he had abused more than 20 boys in the Los Angeles archdiocese.<br><br>Mahony's spokesman, Tod Tamberg, said the conspiracy charge was "preposterous and without foundation" and the Mexico City archdiocese said Rivera "feels at ease because there was no cover up."<br><br>SNAP said it had hired private investigators who tracked down Aguilar to rural southern Mexico where he has been saying Mass at a convent and three different parishes and living out of his car with no fixed address. <br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-09-20T215208Z_01_N20147765_RTRUKOC_0_US-CRIME-CHURCH-MEXICO.xml&archived=False">today.reuters.com</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> <p></p><i></i>
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Postby postrchild » Thu Sep 21, 2006 12:17 pm

"....and I've got such a long way to go......to make it to the border of Mexico....and I'm riding.. like the wind, ride like the wind"<br><br>The new Paedo Priest theme song....... <p></p><i></i>
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Postby chiggerbit » Thu Sep 21, 2006 3:22 pm

So, where DO American pedophile priests get sent when the Vatican wants to hide them out? Could it be somewhere like St. John's Abbey, near St. Cloud, Minnesota, which I believe is only a couple of miles from the location of the Jacob Wetterling abduction?<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.saintjohnsabbey.org/abbot/020512.html">www.saintjohnsabbey.org/a...20512.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>A Statement from Saint John's Abbey<br>The monks of Saint John's Abbey are vowed to mutual respect between persons and a celibate way of life. We regard sexual abuse or sexual exploitation by a member of our community to be morally reprehensible. We are profoundly sorry for the pain that has been caused by those monks of our community who have not been faithful to their vows and we commit ourselves to care for those who have been the victims of such abuse.<br><br>Allegations of sexual abuse committed by monks of Saint John's Abbey in the 1970's and 1980's have been a matter of public record for many years. When those allegations were made, each was promptly and thoroughly investigated. Considerable efforts were made to contact possible victims of abuse so that they could tell their story and receive the care they needed.<br><br>It is the policy and commitment of Saint John's Abbey to protect all children and vulnerable adults from abuse by any member of the monastic community. If such abuse occurs, our primary concern is that victims are taken seriously and receive support and healing. In addition, steps are taken to insure that those monks who have committed abuse receive psychological and spiritual care, face the issues that may have led them to abuse, change their way of living, and respect the restrictions placed on them. If they are given work assignments, their contact with others who are vulnerable is restricted and their supervisors and colleagues are informed of the allegations that were made against them.<br><br>The news media continue to report deeply disturbing allegations of sexual abuse made against Father Richard Eckroth. Each of these allegations has been investigated, and Abbot John Klassen continues to meet with those who believe themselves to be victims of abuse by Father Richard. Even though it has not yet been possible to completely establish the facts of these complex and disturbing allegations, it is the policy of Saint John's Abbey to offer pastoral care and assistance to those who have come forward with allegations. Abbot John Klassen is determined to pursue this case until it is resolved and justice is served.<br><br>More recently the news media have suggested that Father Richard may be connected with unsolved murder and kidnapping cases in the St. Cloud area. Father Richard was questioned in 1994 regarding the 1978 kidnapping and murder of Mary and Susanne Reker and passed a polygraph test. He was serving in our monastery in The Bahamas when Jacob Wetterling was abducted in 1989. Nonetheless, the Stearns County Sheriff wants to question Father Richard again. In this situation, as in every other case, Saint John's Abbey has complied with Minnesota state law and worked with local authorities. This cooperation will continue.<br><br>The wound caused by sexual abuse is deep and long lasting. When it occurs at the hands of those charged with proclaiming the Good News of Jesus Christ by their words and their manner of life, it is unconscionable. The monks of Saint John's Abbey will do everything in their power to ensure that those in pain find healing and that such pain is prevented in the future.<br><br><br><br>May 12, 2002<br><br><br><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>
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Postby chiggerbit » Thu Sep 21, 2006 3:24 pm

Note the date of this article, Thursday, September 21, 2006. You might call this an update on the Abbey's May, 2002 pronouncement above that it was doing everything it could to remediate the sexaul abuse by it's members.<br><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.users.csbsju.edu/record/archive/2006/09/07/abuse-allegations-shake-st-john%e2%80%99s-abbey/#more-306">www.users.csbsju.edu/reco.../#more-306</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Abuse allegations shake St. John’s Abbey<br>By Matt Smith<br>mssmith@csbsju.edu<br><br>Pat Marker kept it all inside for nearly 10 years.<br><br>He moved to St. John’s Prep School before his junior year of high school. Marker, now 41-years-old, says what Fr. Dunstan Moorse did to him in his late teens changed the course of his life forever.<br><br><br>Until late this August, Marker was a member of the St. John’s Abbey external review board, a group of nine professionals who assess alleged monk offenders and provide help to victims. Marker was selected because he’s a survivor of sexual abuse.<br><br>But in August, he resigned from his position following new allegations of sexual misconduct from three monks of the St. John’s monastic community.<br><br>New allegations<br><br>On July 28, Abbot John Klassen made public the names of three more monks who he said, substantial facts shows committed sexual misconduct.<br><br>“There was enough evidence to convince us it happened,” Klassen said. “I delayed this one probably longer than I should have, but nevertheless, made it public.”<br><br>Frs. Michael Bik and the late Robert Blumeyer, the Abbot said, face several allegations of sexual abuse. Two allegations of sexual harassment against Fr. Bruce Wollmering were also brought to light in 2004.<br><br>The statute of limitations is expired on each allegation, Klassen said, making it impossible to prosecute.<br><br>Klassen says that brings the total number of monk offenders at St. John’s to 10, out of the 150, currently residing at the Abbey.<br><br>Klassen said two victims just came forward in the fall of 2005 accusing Blumeyer, who died in 1983, of sexual abuse between 1969 and 1979.<br><br>But the Abbot says he’s known about the allegations against Bik since 1998, and let him continue teaching at the prep school until 2002.<br><br>“At that point [in 1998], the culture within our leadership would be to say as long as we put Michael in a situation where he is not in a residential hall, or not counseling, it should be OK,” Klassen said. “It was my call in the summer of 2002 to make his name public or not … In fact, I would say this was an error on my part.”<br><br>The delay prompted Marker’s resignation.<br><br>“They are going to either under report or minimize every chance they have,” Marker said. “And that’s exactly what’s happening.”<br><br>Marker’s story<br><br>Although Marker has considered himself a survivor since the early 1990s, he’s confident that many victims from St. John’s are holding on to the secret like he once did.<br><br>“I’m very concerned about the people who went to the prep school for one or two years and dropped out, or to the college for one or two years and dropped out,” he said.<br><br>Marker says he formed a relationship with Moorse when he moved to St. John’s after being severely homesick. The trust that was formed, he said, was violated.<br><br>“At one point we were down in the dorms of the prep school and he tried to masturbate me, and wasn’t successful, and got frustrated,” Marker said. “There was sexual contact.”<br><br>Marker says it took years for him to understand the drastic impact.<br><br>“I was very frustrated with the church, and very frustrated with my peers and not really understanding where that came from,” he said.<br><br>But in early 1990, that changed.<br><br>“I called him up on the telephone and I said, ‘Listen, I know what you did to me. I understand what you did to me now … And I need some counseling,’” Marker said. “And he said he couldn’t help me.”<br><br>Marker accuses Moorse of attempting to silence him when he feared his removal from the Abbey.<br><br>“When I was going through the low point of my life … he took advantage of that,” Marker said.<br><br>The abuse, he said, has shaped his life, making him a leading advocate for sexual abuse victims from St. John’s.<br><br>Victim’s support<br><br>Klassen said the external review board began meeting three years ago and is confident the Abbey is making strides in its work.<br><br>“What I can assure you is this is a very important and sensitive area and we are looking at this very carefully and want to err on the side of accountability,” Klassen said.<br><br>The Abbey has formed a partnership with the Walk-In Counseling Center in Minneapolis, where victims are urged to go for help.<br><br>“Our job is to be a safe place to talk and to get the ball rolling,” said Gary Schoener, executive director and contact for Abbey abuse victims.<br><br>Klassen said the Abbey asked the center for the partnership to provide professional help for victims.<br><br>“[The victims] have never been a distraction to us,” Klassen said. “They are real human beings who have suffered enormously.”<br><br>Although a settlement was reached between Marker and the monastery, Marker said that wasn’t the case with him.<br><br>“They’ve been working under a cloak of secrecy for so long and they continue to,” he said. “That’s the attitude and personality of the Abbey.”<br><br>Marker said his extensive research shows more monks will be named and more victims will come forward. That’s prompted him to create a Web site, which he says, will shed light to the on-going abuse.<br><br>But that accusation, and the Web site, Klassen said, is “a whole lot of innuendo.”<br><br>“That is totally an unfounded, false statement. I mean false,” Klassen said. “Our students can be confident that we are doing our level best with the help of skilled professionals to make sure that your education and time here is safe, and that it is an opportunity for an outstanding educational experience.” <br><br>This entry was posted on Thursday, September 7th, 2006 at 12:55 pm and is filed under News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. <br><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=chiggerbit@rigorousintuition>chiggerbit</A> at: 9/21/06 1:59 pm<br></i>
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Postby chiggerbit » Thu Sep 21, 2006 3:39 pm

First page of part one in a two-part article:<br><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1141/is_7_39/ai_95631980">findarticles.com/p/articl...i_95631980</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>First in a two-part series<br><br>Its reputation for learning and liturgy, publishing and holiness, ecumenism and even bread-making are legendary and have grown over its 146-year existence, making St. John's Abbey here--with its impressive abbey church and signature bell tower--a jewel in the Minnesota prairie landscape.<br><br>But the jewel has been tarnished with the disclosure in recent months of a history of sex abuse by a handful of monks, much of it perpetrated 20 to 40 years ago and hidden by the leadership. The revelations have shocked and saddened members of the Benedictine family and thousands of alumni of St. John's University, its prestigious St. John's Prep School and its sister campus--the College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph, Minn.<br><br>For six months, headlines and television cameras have highlighted ugly aspects of the history of St. John's Abbey, home to 196 monks, the largest Benedictine men's community in the Western world. The revelations and their aftermath have demonstrated the resolve of Abbot John Klassen to set the abbey's house in order, to punish perpetrators, apologize to and compensate victims, take personal accountability and design steps to assure that such abuses are not repeated. The abbey has won praise for its belated openness and Klassen for his courage and integrity in handling the painful sins of the past.<br><br>Advertisement<br><br>On April 15, Klassen called a mandatory meeting of all monks at which he disclosed that former Abbot John Eidenschink had sexually abused a monk during his tenure as head of the Benedictine community (1971-79) and another at an earlier date. The news "rocked" the chapter, Br. Paul-Vincent Niebauer told NCR. "It is messy, cruddy stuff and it had happened in our house," said the associate dean of students at St. John's Prep.<br><br>Many monks had not only served under Eidenschink's leadership, but had studied canon law and liturgy in his classroom over a quarter century. For some, he was novice master.<br><br>Because Klassen had been part of the monastery staff for a decade before being named abbot in 2000, he knew of two allegations of sexual abuse against the former abbot, he told NCR during a lengthy interview in his office in September.<br><br>When Klassen confronted Eidenschink, now 88 and living "on restriction" the past 10 years--most recently in the monks' retirement center, St. Raphael's Hall--the former abbot admitted the abuse. Both men were nearly in tears, Klassen recalled.<br><br>The pain Klassen is feeling, the pain he has found in the faces of his monks only reminds him "of the deeper pain I have seen in survivors of sexual abuse," he said in a recent statement announcing the abbey's settlement of a number of abuse allegations brought against several of its monks.<br><br>Monks on restriction<br><br>"It is a pain that strengthens my resolve to reach out to assist survivors wherever they are in their process of healing," Klassen told a news conference Oct. 1, at which the abbey announced the terms of the settlement. The pain he has witnessed has also bolstered his determination "to achieve healing within my own monastic community."<br><br>Nine of at least 11 abuser monks have been placed on restriction at the abbey; two have left to discern whether they still have a vocation to Benedictine life. At least two more monks are also living on restriction for sexual infractions related to pornography on the Internet or other sexual misconduct not involving another individual.<br><br>A monk placed on restriction cannot say Mass in public. He may not preach, teach or mix with students or staff in either the university or high school. He cannot use the athletic facilities, swimming pool or cafeteria, <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>but may use the library and walk the roads and byways around the monks' 2,500-acre property and lakefront.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>Allegations this year against two retired monks, Frs. Cosmas Dahlheimer, 93, and Richard Eckroth, 76, who are both living on restriction in the retirement home, prompted Klassen to go public and for the first time acknowledge that members of the abbey have committed sexual abuse.<br><br>Dahlheimer, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, has never admitted wrongdoing, but Klassen told NCR there was "compelling evidence corroborating" his abuse of two children in the 1970s.<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong> Eckroth, who took scores of area youngsters to a St. John's-owned cabin near Bemidji, Minn., between 1971 and 1976 and allegedly molested a number of them there, has denied the accusations.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>The alleged victims, now in their 30s and 40s have described sexually charged weekend trips during which Eckroth talked of nakedness and of the cabin's sauna while driving five or six boys and girls to the remote log cabin on Lake Swensen. The accusers have testified to being tricked or coerced into going naked in the sauna and in the lake.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Victims have described being fondled, assaulted, raped and sodomized by Eckroth as well as receiving death threats from him. Two of Eckroth's weekend guests in 1972, Mary and Susanne Reker of St. Cloud, Minn., were stabbed to death in 1974. Their bodies were dragged to a quarry.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=chiggerbit@rigorousintuition>chiggerbit</A> at: 9/27/06 10:39 am<br></i>
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Postby chiggerbit » Thu Sep 21, 2006 7:15 pm

Since Abbot Klassen said in 2002 they were doing everyting they could to take care of the problem, and since he waited for, what, a couple of extra years to reveal these "last" three perps, can we be allowed to suspect that they were waiting for the statute of limitations to run out? I could be wrong, don't know the details, but the timeline is suspicous here. But, what was the purpose in the delay?<br><br>2002:<br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em><br>"... We are profoundly sorry for the pain that has been caused by those monks of our community who have not been faithful to their vows and we commit ourselves to care for those who have been the victims of such abuse...."</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br><br><br>2006:<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"...On July 28 , Abbot John Klassen made public the names of three more monks who he said, substantial facts shows committed sexual misconduct.....</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"...Frs. Michael Bik and the late Robert Blumeyer, the Abbot said, face several allegations of sexual abuse. Two allegations of sexual harassment against Fr. Bruce Wollmering were also brought to light in <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>2004</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br><br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"....The statute of limitations is expired on each allegation, Klassen said, making it impossible to prosecute.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=chiggerbit@rigorousintuition>chiggerbit</A> at: 9/21/06 5:22 pm<br></i>
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<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.sctimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060824/NEWS01/108240010/1009">www.sctimes.com/apps/pbcs...40010/1009</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>COLLEGEVILLE — A former St. John's Preparatory School student launched a Web site Wednesday to help molestation victims and challenged Catholic officials in a letter to defend delays in notifying potential victims.<br><br>"There are inaccuracies in Mr. (Pat) Marker's letter," said the Rev. William Skudlarek, abbey spokesman. "We will advise him of the inaccuracies in our response to him but will not engage in a media debate with him."<br><br>Marker said his Web site, www.behindthepinecurtain.com, is intended to help victims feel "validated."<br><br>"This Web site has the potential to heal," Marker said.<br><br>The site contains more than 200 published articles about the clergy sex abuse scandal as it relates to the St. John's community, according to the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, a national advocacy group for victims.<br><br>Marker, who was molested by a St. John's priest in 1983, resigned in protest Friday from an external review board that was formed in response to a clergy sexual abuse scandal.<br><br>Last month, the Collegeville abbey publicized allegations of sexual misconduct in the 1970s and 1980s that were made against three of its monks, one of whom has died.<br><br>Disclosure<br><br>The Rev. Michael Bik, one of the three monks, was accused of misconduct with two teen-age boys in the 1970s, before he joined the abbey and before his ordination.<br><br>The abbey settled several lawsuits against its members in 2002,<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong> and St. John's Preparatory School students were told at the time to see Bik "for support,"</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> Marker said.<br><br>A year later, the review board asked about "all allegations against members of the community,"<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong> but Bik's name was not brought forward for months</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->, Marker said.<br><br>"<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Archdiocesan and abbey officials knew about allegations against Bik in 1997. ... And then the board kept the secret from the public</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->," Marker said.<br><br>Marker sent his letter Wednesday via fax and e-mail to Archbishop Harry J. Flynn of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis and Abbot John Klassen of St. John's Abbey.<br><br>In it, Marker asked Klassen "to make public your reasons for waiting nine years to publicly disclose allegations of sexual abuse against Michael Bik."<br><br>And Marker also asked Flynn in the letter "to <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>make public your reasons for never disclosing allegations of sexual abuse against Michael Bik."</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>As many as 13 priests at the abbey have faced similar allegations. And at least 26 priests in the St. Cloud diocese were accused of sexual abuse from 1950 to 2003.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>Challenge<br><br>"This type of secrecy is dangerous for kids, unhealthy for adults and hurtful to the entire Catholic community," said Marker, a 41-year-old Internet consultant from Washington.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Bik worked at two Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis before joining the monastery in Collegeville</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->.<br><br>"The abbey has frequently urged, and will continue to urge, possible victims to come forward," Skudlarek said.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Bik also worked at St. John's Preparatory School for five years after the 1997 accusation was made against</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> him. He could not be reached for comment Wednesday.<br><br>Abbey officials "knowingly allowed the perpetrator to work with children and young adults for another five years," said David Clohessy, national director of SNAP.<br><br>Bik, 57, lives at the monastery but works under restrictions set by Project Pathfinder Inc., a Twin Cities-based, private, nonprofit organization that develops recommendations for treatment.<br><br>"The abbey will continue to work closely with the external review board," Skudlarek said.<br><br>But Marker wants more. He challenged Flynn and Klassen to "make public your plan to notify every possible victim of Michael Bik."<br><br>"I am taking a proactive approach. .... I expect to fail in my quest for full disclosure, but someone has to try," he said.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>
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Postby chiggerbit » Thu Sep 21, 2006 7:55 pm

Ok, sorry to hog the thread, but let's put this in perspective. If we drew a boundary around the public school districts that were encompassed by the St. Cloud diocese, and then proceeded to inform the nation that there was credible evidence to believe that 26 teachers in that area of school districts had engaged in sexual misconduct, or even just thirteen, the whole country would be yelling that it was some sort of "teacher sex conspiracy". And then to be told that the school districts moved the teachers around, from shcool to school, to protect the perps? Can you see American parents swalliowng that meekly? So, why do these people get by with it? Oh, yeah, and let's send the victims to Mary Kay Letourneau for counseling, while we're at it. <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Mexico is haven for U.S. pedophile priests

Postby chiggerbit » Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:36 pm

Let's take a look at the infractions, not all victims of which, I believe, are minors:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.behindthepinecurtain.com/">www.behindthepinecurtain.com/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Victims<br> <br> <br>Victim001 Inappropriate Sexual Contact <br>Victim002 Under Investigation <br>Victim003 Sodomy <br>Victim004 Rubbing <br>Victim005 Under Investigation <br>Victim006a Under Investigation <br>Victim006b Oral Sex <br>Victim007a Fondling <br>Victim007b Inappropriate Sexual Contact <br>Victim007c Masturbated in Office <br>Victim008 Massage <br>Victim009 Fondling <br>Victim010a Physically Assaulted <br>Victim010b Under Investigation <br>Victim011a Uncomfortable Sexual Discussion <br>Victim011b Uncomfortable Sexual Discussion <br>Victim012 Fondling <br>Victim013 Masturbate in front of Victim <br>Victim014 Inappropriate Physical Contact <br>Victim015 Under Investigation <br>Victim016 Proposition <br>Victim017 Under Investigation <br>Victim018 Under Investigation <br>Victim019 Fondling <br>Victim020 Under Investigation <br>Victim021 Multiple <br>Victim022 Multiple <br>Victim023 Inappropriate Sexual Contact <br>Victim024a Inappropriate Sexual Contact <br>Victim024b Inappropriate Sexual Contact <br>Victim025 Under Investigation <br>Victim026a Back Rub Request at Cabin <br>Victim026b Sexual Encounter <br>Victim027 Fondling, masturbation and oral sex <br>Victim027 Request for Oral Sex <br>Victim028 Under Investigation <br>Victim029 Proposition <br>Victim030 Hand on Thigh <br>Victim031 Fondling <br>Victim032 Fondling <br>Victim033 Under Investigation <br>Victim034 Oral Sex <br>Victim035 Under Investigation <br>Victim036 Oral Sex <br>Victim037 Under Investigation <br>Victim038 Fondling <br>Victim039 Sodomy <br>Victim040 Fondling <br>Victim041 Under Investigation <br>Victim042 Under Investigation <br>Victim043 Under Investigation <br>Victim044b Inappropriate Discussion <br>Victim044b Naked Swimming; Sensual Hugs; Kisses <br>Victim044 Inappropriate Physical Contact <br>Victim045 Harassment <br>Victim046 Touch Outside Clothing <br>Victim047 Under Investigation <br>Victim048 Inappropriate Sexual Contact <br>Victim049 Under Investigation <br>Victim050 Under Investigation <br>Victim051a Inappropriate Discussion <br>Victim051b Inappropriate Discussion <br>Victim052 Grabbed genitals (outside clothing) <br>Victim053a Under Investigation <br>Victim053b Under Investigation <br>Victim054 Fondled <br>Victim055 Under Investigation <br>Victim056 Attempted Sodomy <br>Victim057 Multiple <br>Victim058 Fondling <br>Victim059 Under Investigation <br>Victim060 Proposition <br>Victim061 Under Investigation <br>Victim062 Inappropriate Physical Contact <br>Victim063 Uncomfortable Sexual Discussion <br>Victim064 Under Investigation <br>Victim065 Sodomy <br>Victim066 anal and oral sex <br>Victim067 Under Investigation <br>Victim068 Under Investigation <br>Victim069 Under Investigation <br>Victim070 Sexual Advance <br>Victim071 Under Investigation <br>Victim072 Under Investigation <br>Victim073 Sex Discussion; Proposition in Car <br>Victim074a Fondle under sheets <br>Victim074b Uncomfortable Sexual Discussion <br>Victim075 Masturbation of Victim <br>Victim076 Under Investigation <br>Victim077 Under Investigation <br>Victim078 Attacked; On Top <br>Victim079 Fondling <br>Victim080 Uncomfortable Sexual Discussion <br>Victim081 Relationship <br>Victim082 Hand in pants; Rubbed buttocks <br>Victim083 Inappropriate Kiss <br>Victim084 Under Investigation <br>Victim085 Under Investigation <br>Victim086 Under Investigation <br>Victim087 Under Investigation <br>Victim088 Under Investigation <br>Victim089 Inappropriate Physical Contact <br>Victim090 Under Investigation <br>Victim091 Passes at Novices <br>Victim092 Passes at Novices <br>Victim093 Unknown <br>Victim094 Fondling <br>Victim095 Inappropriate Sexual Contact <br>Victim096 Under Investigation <br>Victim097 Under Investigation <br>Victim098 Relationship <br>Victim099 One Year Relationship <br>Victim100 Under Investigation <br>Victim101 Relationship <br>Victim102 Hands down pants while wrestling <br>Victim103 Under Investigation <br>Victim104a Attempt to Touch <br>Victim104b Ongoing Relationship <br>Victim105 Under Investigation <br>Victim106a Sodomy <br>Victim106b Masturbation of Victim <br>Victim107 Under Investigation <br>Victim108 Unknown <br>Victim109 Fondling <br>Victim110 Under Investigation <br>Victim111 Under Investigation <br>Victim112 Inappropriate Discussion <br>Victim113 Inappropriate Discussion <br>Victim114 Inappropriate Sexual Contact <br>Victim115 Masturbate in front of Victim <br>Victim116 Ongoing Relationship <br>Victim117 Sexual Advances <br>Victim118 Affair <br>Victim119 Relationship with housekeeper <br> <br> <br><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Mexico is haven for U.S. pedophile priests

Postby chiggerbit » Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:40 pm

Photos of alleged perps. Ok, I see that the actual link with the photos doesn't connect directly, just gives teh front page again. So, click on "articles and documents", then click on this: Sep 19, 2006 - Bik, Wollmering, Moorse Photos<br>Dunstan Moorse, Photos, Bruce Wollmering, Michael Bik<br><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.behindthepinecurtain.com/">www.behindthepinecurtain.com/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=chiggerbit@rigorousintuition>chiggerbit</A> at: 9/22/06 11:42 am<br></i>
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Re: Mexico is haven for U.S. pedophile priests

Postby snowlion2 » Fri Sep 22, 2006 1:37 pm

Good diggin', Chigger. <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Mexico is haven for U.S. pedophile priests

Postby chiggerbit » Fri Sep 22, 2006 3:17 pm

See link for entire list of articles.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://ncrnews.org/abuse2006a-archives/2006_09.html">ncrnews.org/abuse2006a-ar...06_09.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>"...Roman Catholic Church officials want lawyers investigated<br>MEXICO<br>The Press-Enterprise<br><br>By ISTRA PACHECO <br>The Associated Press<br><br>MEXICO CITY<br><br>Roman Catholic Church officials asked for an investigation Thursday of two U.S. lawyers and an activist they claim are trying to extort money from the Mexican church with a lawsuit alleging Cardinal Norberto Rivera protected a pedophile priest.<br><br>Church lawyer Bernardo Fernandez de Castillo accused the Chicago-based Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests of seeking to bleed the church, "but neither the cardinal nor the archdiocese will be blackmailed," he told a news conference. "We consider this to be extortion."<br><br>U.S. lawyers, backed by SNAP, filed a lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of Mexican Joaquin Aguilar Mendez, 25, in Los Angeles Superior Court.<br><br>The suit alleges Rivera and Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony conspired to protect Catholic priest Nicolas Aguilar, who has been charged in California with 19 felony counts of committing lewd acts on a child.<br><br><br>Posted by kshaw at 08:35 AM <br>Sex Abuse Victim Under Fire from Catholic Church<br>MEXICO<br>IPS<br><br>MEXICO CITY, Sep 21 (IPS) - Joaquín Aguilar has been seeking justice since 1994, when he says he was sexually abused by a Roman Catholic priest in Mexico who is accused of molesting some 60 other boys as well. <br><br>But today, Aguilar is the target of a counterattack from the Church, and his lawyers are facing threats of being sued for slander. <br><br>"The only thing I am after is justice, and I will not rest until I obtain it; I am no longer afraid of the Church's response," the Mexican activist told IPS. <br><br>On Tuesday, Aguilar filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles, California accusing Mexican Cardinal Norberto Rivera and Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony of conspiring to protect Catholic priest Nicolás Aguilar (no relation). <br><br>The Catholic Church in Mexico was indignant over the lawsuit, flatly denied the allegations, and responded by attacking the accuser and his lawyers, who belong to the Chicago-based Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP). <br><br><br>Posted by kshaw at 08:33 AM <br>Trinity Retreat Will No Longer House Suspected Abusers<br>LARCHMONT (NY)<br>Larchmont Gazette<br><br>(September 19, 2006) Priests alleged or found to have sexually abused a minor will not be housed at Larchmont’s Trinity House as part of the New York Archdiocese Shepherd’s Program or any similar program, according to Joseph Zwilling, spokesperson for the Archdiocese. In the wake of recent media coverage about the Shepherd’s Program and resulting community concern, the one priest temporarily housed at Trinity House is no longer there and is instead being housed at a medical facility under close supervision. (See: Two Accused Priests Enter Trinity House Retreat.) The only other priest in the program scheduled for Trinity House has chosen its other option, leaving the priesthood.<br><br><br>Posted by kshaw at 08:31 AM <br>Abuse suit should go to trial, judge rules<br>KENTUCKY<br>Lexington Herald-Leader<br><br>By Frank E. Lockwood<br>HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER<br>A Fayette Circuit Court judge yesterday declined to throw out a sex abuse lawsuit against the Catholic Diocese of Covington, saying a jury should decide the case.<br><br>Judge Mary Noble set a trial date of June 4 for the civil suit.<br><br>Samuel Greywolf alleges that he was sexually abused by Father John B. Modica in the rectory of a Lexington church in the fall of 1974.<br><br>At the time, Modica was assistant pastor at Mary Queen of the Holy Rosary parish in Lexington, which was part of the Covington diocese at the time.<br><br>The priest, questioned by Greywolf's attorney, took the fifth amendment, declining to confirm or deny the allegations.<br><br><br>Posted by kshaw at 08:28 AM <br>Judge: Others can testify against priest<br>FORT COLLINS (CO)<br>Denver Post<br><br>Fort Collins - Other alleged molestation victims of a former Fort Collins Catholic priest, Timothy Evans, will be allowed to testify if he stands trial for sexual assault in Larimer County, a district judge ruled Thursday. <br><br>Evans is charged with two counts of sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust, one count of sexual assault on a child/pattern of abuse and one count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor in Larimer County, officials said. The Larimer County charges stem from activities believed to have occurred while he was at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton parish from 1998 to 2002. <br><br>Evans has been indicted on similar charges in Jefferson County. <br><br><br>Posted by kshaw at 08:26 AM <br>Detained lawyer tells of tensions in sex-abuse case<br>ST. PAUL (MN)<br>Pioneer Press<br><br>BY TAD VEZNER<br>Pioneer Press<br>During a Mexico City news conference accusing Mexico's most prominent cardinal of protecting an alleged pedophilic priest, St. Paul attorney Jeff Anderson was signaled aside by authorities.<br><br>The ensuing conversation concerned him enough that he accepted a police escort to the airport.<br><br>After the conference Wednesday, men identifying themselves as immigration officials approached Anderson and two others with him — David Clohessy, national director of Chicago-based Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, and colleague Michael Finnegan.<br><br>After reviewing their papers and asking questions for an hour, "They surrounded us, and said, 'You need to come with us.' I said, 'Wait a minute, I want to see identification,' " Anderson said when reached at his Minneapolis home Thursday night.<br><br>The man flashed his I.D. too fast for Anderson to read it and would not show it again, Anderson said. The men grabbed him by the arm and tried to get him into a black van with darkened windows, he claimed......................"<br><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Mexico is haven for U.S. pedophile priests

Postby snowlion2 » Tue Sep 26, 2006 5:57 am

And the hits just keep on comin':<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>StarTribune- 9/22/06<br><br>St. Paul attorney Jeff Anderson and colleagues arrived back in Minnesota today after being rescued by Mexico City police from a group of men who scuffled with them Wednesday at an unprecedented news conference announcing a sex-abuse lawsuit against a Mexican priest. Roman Catholic Church officials said they will ask federal authorities to investigate the three men.<br><br>Anderson, who was confronted along with colleague Michael Finnegan, victims' advocate David Clohessy and alleged abuse victim Joaquin Aguilar Mendez as they spoke to a crowd of journalists, said he is not convinced that the men were immigration officials. Clohessy said immigration authorities later said that they are, but that they acted without provocation and in a suspicious manner.<br>The group was in Mexico to talk about a lawsuit Anderson filed Tuesday in Los Angeles alleging that Mexican Cardinal Norberto Rivera and Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony conspired to protect the Rev. Nicolas Aguilar, whom they accuse of raping Mendez, now 25, in 1994.<br><br>Rivera heads the Mexico City archdiocese and was considered a candidate to replace Pope John Paul II when the pope died last year. Mahony heads the United States' largest archdiocese.<br><br>"Mexico's problem with clergy sex abuse is fivefold what it is in the United States," Anderson said. "But this is the first time a bishop or cardinal from Mexico has ever been named in a lawsuit.”<br><br>Charges of rape in California<br><br>At the Mexico City news conference, Anderson said that Aguilar, who faces 19 child-molestation charges in California, continues to celebrate mass in the state of Puebla, in central Mexico.<br><br>Although Aguilar, who is in his 60s, has been convicted of only one sex-abuse charge in Mexico, in 2003, Anderson said he molested 60 boys in Mexico from the 1970s to the 1990s.<br><br>Mendez told the Mexican journalists gathered for the news conference that he has feared for his life since going public with his accusations last year.<br><br>Anderson said that after complaints about Aguilar in Mexico, he was sent to Los Angeles in 1988 with a letter warning American officials that he had "homosexual tendencies."In just nine months in California, he raped 26 children," Anderson said. When charges were filed there, "he fled back to Mexico," Anderson said, where he continues to act as a priest in remote areas. Clohessy said the information about Aguilar's whereabouts comes from "independent and credible sources.”<br><br>Documents filed with the court gave an explicit account of the alleged rape of Joaquin Aguilar in October 1994. They said the 12-year-old had gone to the priest's room at the rectory to use a restroom, was grabbed by the priest and sodomized. It said the priest told the boy to keep quiet or his siblings would suffer the same abuse. The lawsuit says that Rivera, who presides over the 2,000-priest Mexico City diocese, conspired to move Aguilar to Los Angeles to keep him from facing trial and protected him upon his return to Mexico, and that Mahony cooperated.<br><br>On Wednesday, a spokesman for the Los Angeles archdiocese called the claim that it conspired to protect Aguilar "preposterous." Rivera's office issued a statement denying the claims or saying it does not know where Aguilar is. Mahony has denied that he received a letter warning him about Aguilar and later wrote a letter of rebuke to Rivera.<br><br>Reverence for Church<br><br>Anderson, who has filed several high-profile lawsuits in Minnesota and other states over alleged sexual abuse by Catholic priests, brothers and nuns, said that clergy abuse of children in Mexico is widespread and largely unchallenged.<br>"There's a great cultural reverence for the church there, with 90 percent of the population Catholic, and church leadership has a close relationship with government," he said. "And Rivera is considered a saint there, so people are not very open to criticism of him.”<br><br>Anderson said that near the end of the news conference, his group was accosted by "some officials who said they were immigration agents who demanded to see our papers, even though our paperwork was all fine." Amid what he called "a media frenzy," the men "pulled us toward a van they had outside until we told them to get their hands off of us." The attorneys called the U.S. embassy and the Mexico City police, who detained the men "and escorted us to the airport because they said they were concerned for our safety," Anderson said.<br><br><br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>
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Postby snowlion2 » Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:08 am

And then there's this old news:<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Friday, October 07, 2005<br> <br>Nebraska lawsuit alleges abuse by Missouri priest<br><br>JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Nebraska lawsuit accuses a Missouri priest of sexually abusing a student at a Roman Catholic boy's home there 20 years ago.<br><br>Darren Boudreau, 34, of Cheyenne, Wyo., claims in the lawsuit that he was "emotionally and mentally scarred for life" because of the alleged abuse by the Rev. Richard Colbert from approximately 1985 to 1989 at <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Father Flanagan's Girls and Boys Town</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> in Omaha, Neb.<br><br>Colbert has served at St. Anne's parish in Warsaw, Mo., since 1999 and has worked at numerous other churches, many of which also are in the Jefferson City diocese. He was at a conference Tuesday and unavailable for comment, said St. Anne's secretary Jeanne Holloway.<br><br>Diocese of Jefferson City spokesman Mark Saucier declined comment, saying church officials were unaware of the lawsuit until Tuesday and had not yet seen it. The lawsuit was filed Sept. 26 in Douglas County (Neb.) District Court, but was promoted Tuesday by the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.<br><br>The lawsuit claims Colbert developed "unhealthy, psychologically dependent relationships" with male students "to recruit them for sex." It also names Girls and Boys Town as a defendant, claiming it knew - or should have known - what Colbert was doing and should have better supervised him. Although Boudreau is the only defendant, the lawsuit claims Colbert also molested other unnamed students.<br><br>"We will continue our standard of thoroughly investigating allegations of any activity that would harm a child," said the Rev. Steven Boes, executive director of Father Flanagan's Girls and Boys Town. "Simply put, Girls and Boys Town does not tolerate abuse of children."<br><br>The suit says Boudreau suffered from a mental disorder that prevented him from suing until now.<br><br>The Jefferson City diocese said Colbert had served from 1977-1979 in Sedalia, from 1988-1992 in Pilot Grove and from 1993-1995 at St. Joseph Cathedral in Jefferson City before being assigned to a Fayette parish in 1995 and Warsaw in 1999.<br><br>The SNAP victims advocacy group said Colbert also had worked at the Society of the Precious Blood seminary in Liberty, as well as in Linton, N.D., and <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Collegeville, Minn</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->., in the 1970s before going to Nebraska City, Neb., and then Omaha in the early 1980s.<br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://heartlandvalues.blogspot.com/2005/10/nebraska-lawsuit-alleges-abuse-by.html">Link</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> <p></p><i></i>
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