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Do you have refs on those? I've seen Aquino claim the mikey thing isn't true, but seen elsewhere in what seemed a legit source that he did.
In the United States District Court
For the District of Nebraska
Paul A. Bonacci, Plaintiff 4:CV91-3037
vs
Lawrence E. King, Defendant Memorandum of Decision
Filed February 22, 1999
On February 27, 1998, I found that default judgment should be
entered against the defendant Lawrence E. King in favor of the
plaintiff, Paul A. Bonacci. A trial on the issue of the damages due
the plaintiff by that defendant was had on February 5, 1999.
Two counts are alleged against the defendant: King in the
complaint. Count V alleges a conspiracy with public officers to
deprive the plaintiff of his civil rights, designed to continue to
subject the plaintiff to emotional abuse and to prevent him from
informing authorities of criminal conduct. Count VIII charges
battery, false imprisonment, infliction of emotional distress,
negligence and conspiracy to deprive the plaintiff of civil rights.
Between December 1980 and 1988, the complaint alleges, the
defendant King continually subjected the plaintiff to repeated
sexual assaults, false imprisonments, infliction of extreme
emotional distress, organized and directed satanic rituals, forced
the plaintiff to "scavenge" for children to be a part of the
defendant King's sexual abuse and pornography ring, forced the
plaintiff to engage in numerous masochistic orgies with other minor
children. The defendant King's default has made those allegations
true against him. The issue now is the relief to be granted
monetarily.
The now uncontradicted evidence is that the plaintiff has suffered
much. He has suffered burns, broken fingers, beating of the head
and face and other indignities by the wrongful actions of the
defendant King. In addition to the misery of going through the
experiences just related over a period of eight years, the
plaintiff has suffered the lingering results to the present time.
He is a victim of multiple personality disorder, involving as many
as fourteen distinct personalities aside from his primary
personality. He has given up a desired military career and received
threats on his life. He suffers from sleeplessness, has bad dreams,
has difficulty in holding a job, is fearful that others are
following him, fears getting killed, has depressing flashbacks, and
is verbally violent on occasion, all in connection with the
multiple personality disorder and caused by the wrongful activities
of the defendant King.
Almost certainly the defendant King has little remaining financial
resources, but a fair judgment to compensate the plaintiff is
necessary. For the sixteen years since the abuse of the plaintiff
began I conclude that a fair compensation for the damages he has
suffered is $800,000. A punitive damage award also is justified,
but the amount needs to be limited because of the small effect that
such a judgment would have on the defendant King, given his
financial condition and presence in prison. I deem the punitive
damage award of $200,000 to be adequate.
Dated February 19, 1999.
By the Court /s/Warren Urborn United States Senior District Judge
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Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:http://web.archive.org/web/20050830173902/www.renewamerica.us/columns/abbott/041210
Pedophile priests took victims to morgue
Matt C. Abbott
December 10, 2004
The following information comes from journalist Lee Podles, whose book, 'A Harsh Light: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church,' is due out relatively soon.
Disturbing material, to say the least.
"Davenport-Chicago link"
"In 1948 a group of pedophile priests graduated from Kenrick Seminary in St. Louis: James Janssen, Francis Bass, and Theodore Anthony Geerts. They began a 50 year reign of abuse in Davenport with the knowledge of the three bishops of Davenport.
"They had strong connections to the Chicago area. When Bishop Hayes discovered James Janssen was an abuser, he sent Janssen to Chicago to live at St. Isaac Jogues parish in Hinsdale, to study at Loyola University, and to be treated by Father William Devlin, S. J., M. D., and J. V. P. Stewart. No one told the pastor of St. Isaac Jogues that Janssen was an abuser. Janssen worked with the Boy Scouts and families of the parish, and started abusing a twelve-year-old scout while convincing the therapists that he was cured.
"In the mid and late 1950s Janssen and Bass took Davenport boys to the Cook County Hospital Morgue, where the abusers had a contact. Janssen took his nephew James Wells (whom he had molested since he was five) to the morgue. One boy whom Bass took remembered: 'Each corpse seemed more horrible than the last. Some were decomposed. Others were frozen in bizarre and terrifying postures with their eyes and mouths wide open. Our guide stopped us often and provided details. He showed me some babies.' Bass took the boys to his uncle's house in the suburbs and molested them. Janssen told his victims that he knew men in Chicago who would pay to have sex with them: 'He also told me that I could make money letting older men perform oral sex on me and that he would show me how to make those connections in Chicago.'
"John Doe III v. Janssen, Bass, Geerts, and Diocese of Davenport CN 101428 Exhibit 49.
"Wells v. Janssen, Exhibit 38.
"Full text of morgue incident:
"Ed Thomas had gotten into trouble with the law and been ordered by the judge to start attending church, where he met Bass, who promised to guide him to 'a moral life.' Thomas, fourteen at the time, remembered this trip to the hospital:
"Somebody he knew met us. All had been arranged. As we moved deeper into the maze of dark passages, the smell of death grew thicker. There were bodies on carts parked along the walls. Father Bass had arranged for a guided tour.
"The morgue was being renovated. We arrived at a temporary wall with two doors about eight feet apart. 'Take your pick,' Father Bass said to me. I opened the door on the right. A yellow light immediately flooded the room, and I stood facing a gauntlet straight from hell. The room was stark, long, and narrow. Bunks end-to-end lined the outside walls and a double row of bunks filled the center, producing a U-shaped trail of horror ending at the door to my left on the other side of the room. The bottom bunks hit me at about the waist, and I was just tall enough to be eye-to-eye with the bodies on the top bunks. They were lying on what looked like large cookie sheets.
"Each corpse seemed more horrible than the last. Some were decomposed. Others were frozen in bizarre and terrifying postures with their eyes and mouths wide open. Our guide stopped us often and provided details. He showed me some babies...."
Matt C. Abbott is a Catholic journalist and commentator. He is a columnist for and/or contributor to RenewAmerica.us, MichNews.com, Catholic.org, TheConservativeVoice.com, Opeds.com, CatholicCitizens.org, Speroforum.com, and other sites. He is also an occasional contributor to "The Wanderer" Catholic newspaper. He can be reached at mattcabbott@hotmail.com.
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