Catholic Church in N.H. Publishes Names of Priests Accused of Sex Abuse of Minors
The Catholic Diocese of Manchester is publishing a comprehensive list of priests accused of sexually assaulting minors.
The report includes the names of priests both living and deceased dating back to 1950.
While all of the names were previously public, the Diocese says it created a website page as an act of "ownership and accountability."
"This is meant as an act of ownership and accountability," Bishop Peter A. Libasci said in a statement. "It is my hope that by making this information available, we are holding ourselves accountable to the evils of the past, and offering timely assistance, support and resources to those individuals and families who have been affected by the sexual abuse of a minor.”
The online site also includes resources for survivors of sexual abuse. The diocese says it hopes to restore trust. It’s paid nearly $30 million in recent years to compensate victims.
In response to the new web page, the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence called for eliminating the statute of limitations on child sexual abuse crimes. Amanda Grady Sexton, a spokeswoman for the coalition, noted that 52 is the average age that a survivor of child sexual abuse discloses the abuse. "It's clear that laws in New Hamsphrie must be reformed in order to protect victims of sexual abuse and to hold their offenders accountable," she said in a statement.
Bishop Peter Libasci, the leader of New Hampshire’s Catholic Church, has been accused of sexually abusing a minor in the 1980s.
A lawsuit filed in Suffolk County, N.Y., claims Libasci repeatedly abused a boy who attended a New York church where Libasci served as a priest and says the church and an affiliated school in Deer Park where Libasci also worked were negligent for allowing the abuse to occur.
The suit alleges Libasci used his position of power to abuse the child, who was 12 or 13 at the time, and that the church and the school “knew, or reasonably should have known, or knowingly condoned or covered up inappropriate and unlawful sexual activities.”
In a statement, the Diocese of Manchester said, “At this time, the status of the Bishop remains unchanged. Following standard protocol, the matter has been reported to civil authorities.”
“Because this is an ongoing matter, and out of respect for the individuals involved, the Diocese will not be providing additional information at this time but will provide updates when we are able to do so,” the statement read.
Libasci was ordained in 1978. He’s been the Bishop of Manchester since 2011, appointed by Pope Benedict XVI. Before that, he served as Auxiliary Bishop in Rockville Center, N.Y., and as a priest in multiple Long Island parishes.
Diocese of Manchester Criteria for Publication of Names of
Priests Accused of Sexual Abuse of a Minor Since 1950
All incidences of sexual abuse by these priests occurred prior to 2002. To date, the Diocese of Manchester has not received any reports of sexual abuse of a minor by a permanent deacon or bishop that meet the criteria set forth herein.
Cases Concluded
Cases That Have Been Concluded Canonically (by Laicization, Dismissal, or Sentence to Life of Prayer and Penance) or Criminally (by Plea or Conviction).
This section contains the names of priests incardinated in the Diocese of Manchester who have been found guilty of sexually abusing a minor by the Church after a canonical process or by the Government after a criminal process. With respect to the canonical process, the priests whose names are included in this section (1) admitted to sexually abusing a minor; (2) were dismissed from the clerical state; (3) voluntarily sought and obtained laicization after an admission of guilt or in lieu of dismissal; or (4) were assigned to a life of prayer and penance, with no ministry possible. With respect to criminal convictions, the priests whose names are included in this section were convicted after a criminal trial or pled guilty to sexually abusing a minor.
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Aube, Paul
Boiselle, Aime
Bulger, Albion
Chalifour, Gerald
Corriveau, Ronald
Cote, Joseph
Densmore, Robert
Fleming, Mark
Fortier, Roger
Haller, James
Jannetta, Alfred
Laferriere, Raymond
MacRae, Gordon
Maguire, Joseph
Meehan, Andrew
Nolin, John
Osgood, Donald
Pelletier, Eugene
Petit, Philip
Poirier, John
Richard, Edward
Robichaud, George
Scruton, Stephen
Shea, Leo
Talbot, Francis
Tancrede, Roland
Valliere, Romeo
Cases in Process
Cases Involving Living Diocesan Priests, But Where the Canonical Proceedings Against Those Priests Have Not Yet Been Resolved.
There has not been a final determination either under canon or civil law whether the clergy listed in this section sexually abused a minor. Consistent with the principles of the American justice system, individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Included in this section are the names of priests of the Diocese of Manchester who have been publicly accused of sexually abusing a minor, but the canonical proceedings involving those priests are not yet complete. The priests in this section are prohibited from engaging in public ministry and may not publicly identify themselves as priests.
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Stevens, Paul
Priests Accused After Laicization
Cases Involving Priests Accused After They Voluntarily Were Returned to the Lay State for Reasons Other Than Sexual Abuse of a Minor.
There has not been a final determination either under canon or civil law whether the priests listed in this section sexually abused a minor. Consistent with the principles of the American justice system, individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Included in this section are the names of priests of the Diocese of Manchester who had already voluntarily sought and were granted dispensation from the clerical state (and therefore were no longer priests) before the Diocese of Manchester received a report of an accusation that they had sexually abused a minor. For example, a priest who sought and obtained laicization to marry. Because these priests had already been returned to the lay state, the cases could not be processed canonically, but as with all cases on these lists, the cases were reported to the New Hampshire Department of Justice (Office of the Attorney General).
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Dubreuil, Patrick
Groleau, Paul
Lapointe, Alfred
Morley, David
Deceased Priests
Cases Involving Deceased Priests for Whom Criminal or Canonical Proceedings Were Not Completed.
There has not been a final determination either under canon or civil law whether the priests listed in this section sexually abused a minor. Consistent with the principles of the American justice system, individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
This section includes the names of deceased priests of the Diocese of Manchester who were accused of sexually abusing a minor for whom criminal or canonical proceedings were not completed, in many cases, because either the allegation(s) were received only after the priest's death or the priest died before the conclusion of the proceedings. This list does not contain the names of priests who were identified in reports that were investigated and where the investigation concluded that there was insufficient evidence to establish the probability that the accused priest had sexually abused a minor. This list likewise does not include priests who were accused of sexually abusing a minor if a single report has been made after the death of the priest and the report was not investigated; this may occur, for example, when a report is anonymous or when a victim declines to cooperate with an investigation. As with all cases on these lists, the cases were nevertheless reported to the New Hampshire Department of Justice.
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Authier, Charles
Beaudet, Gerard
Beaudet, Silvio
Bombardier, Wilfrid
Boulanger, Albert
Boyd, John
Burke (Burque), Albert
Connors, Richard
Constant, Alfred
Crowe, Thomas
Dowd, Karl
Downey, Denis
Dumont, Gregoire
Duval, Edouard
Gagne, J. Delphin
Gauthier, Mark
Houle, Wilfred
Joyal, Gerald
LaForest, Conrad
Lamothe, Francis
Lamothe, Harvey
Leclerc, Maurice
Lower, Richard
Mann, Hubert
McMullen, Francis
Memolo, Rocco
Neighbor, Russell
Neiman, William P.
Sands, Joseph P.
Sullivan, John J.
Sullivan, John T.
Vadeboncoeur, Paul
Veillette, Roland
Zalewski, Edward
Religious Orders/Other
Cases Involving Priests of Religious Orders, Eparchies, or Other Dioceses Who Were Assigned by the Bishop of Manchester to Ministry.
This section includes the names of priests who were assigned by the Bishop of Manchester to ministry (for example, in a parish) but who were not incardinated in the Diocese of Manchester, including priests of religious orders, eparchies, or other dioceses or archdioceses, and about whom the Diocese received an accusation of sexual abuse of a minor. Because they were not incardinated in the Diocese of Manchester, the Diocese was unable to process the cases canonically and reported the accusation to the priest’s religious superior, eparch, or bishop to process the case. The Diocese also ensured that the cases were reported to the New Hampshire Department of Justice. The priests in this section no longer are in ministry in the Diocese of Manchester. The Diocese has decided to list these names in the interest of transparency and healing.
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Breton, Philip
Landry, Leo
Lemire, J. Edmond
Genereux, Marcel (OMI)
Ledoux, Michael (OFM)
Roulier, George (OMI)
Walsh, Peter (OFM)
The Diocese of Manchester
153 Ash Street
Manchester, NH 03104
The sexual abuse scandal in Manchester diocese of New Hampshire is a significant episode in the series of Catholic sex abuse cases in the United States and Ireland.
Mgr. Odore Joseph Gendron was criticized for his management of sexual abuse cases among the clergy. He assigned Rev. Paul Aube to a Rochester parish and put him in charge of a youth program even though Aube had confessed to molesting a minor and requested to be kept away from children. Aube allegedly abused at least seven minors at Rochester.[1]
In early 2002, Bishop John McCormack publicly announced the names of 14 priests in the diocese who had been accused of sexually abusing children. In April of that same year, he was removed from his post as chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Abuse.[4] McCormack later admitted to reassigning pedophilic priests, but claimed poor file-keeping had kept him from knowing the full extent of the problem.
Despite repeated calls for his resignation,[4][5][6] including from the New Hampshire Union Leader, he has refused to do so, stating, "Pope John Paul II appointed me to be your shepherd...I will remain [to] toil ceaselessly on your behalf as bishop of Manchester."[7]
During a Mass in October 2002, several members of the congregation accused McCormack of lying about a priest he assigned to the parish without disclosing the latter's affair with a teenage boy, leading the Bishop to shout, "I'm not lying!"[8]
In 2003, the diocese reached a settlement with the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office, which was investigating the child sex abuse scandal. The settlement spared the diocese from being criminally charged. In all, in the period of 2002–03, the diocese agreed to a $15.5 million settlement involving 176 claims of sex abuse.[9][10]
The May 2003 settlement of 61 abuse claims for $6.5 million handled by Manchester attorney Ovide M. Lamontagne as counsel for the Manchester Diocese prevented the diocese from being criminally prosecuted. In December 2002, the diocese had admitted that its failure to protect children from sexual abuse may have been a violation of criminal law, becoming the first diocese in the United States to do so. Under threat of indictment by the New Hampshire Attorney General, McCormack signed an agreement acknowledging that the Attorney General office possessed evidence sufficient to win convictions as part of the settlement.[11]
Lamontagne claimed that McCormack and other prominent church members wanted a speedy settlement and, in an example of behaving "pastorally" rather than as a litigant, instructed their attorneys to take a moderate stance and eschew hardline legal tactics. Lamontagne said of the diocese's legal strategy, "That is not typical in terms of client requests."[11]
In 2005, McCormack spoke at a baccalaureate service at Trinity High School despite a student petition asking him not to attend because of his role in the sex abuse scandal.[12]
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New Hampshire Catholic Church Priest & Clergy Sex Abuse List
New Hampshire Priest Sex Abuse List: A list of Roman Catholic Priests & Clergy members of the New Hampshire Diocese accused of sex abuse and/or sexual assault of minors.
Merson Law’s New Hampshire Priest Sex Abuse List was compiled from accounts of sexual abuse by a member of the New Hampshire Catholic Church network. The names in this list are only those that have been found to be credible, however it is likely that there are names missing, due to the sheer number of accounts and the historical aversion to transparency by the Catholic Church.
This list is not endorsed by the Archdiocese, which has yet to release the names of priests found guilty through its own internal investigations.
Last Name, First Name, Diocese, Notes
Ayson, Leo Manchester, NH
One person alleged in 12/03 report to Diocese that he had been fondled by Allyson in Lebanon NH and Bradford VT on several occasions between 1946 and 1949. Complainant was between 6 and 9 at the time. Alleged events occurred in a car and at Camp Pius in Enfield NH. Died in 1989.
Argencourt, Roger Manchester, NH Also known as Br. Odillon.
Placed on leave 1/02 and sued 4/02 re abuse in 1973-1974 at Bishop Guertin H.S. He admitted abuse in court records. Also admitted abuse of another student. Second suit filed at a later date. One case settled 11/03. Authoritiesin RI were preparing to file charges re abuse at Mount Saint Charles Academy when Argencourt died in 9/02. Several other abusers at Bishop Guerin.
Aube, Paul L. Manchester, NH
Police found Aube and a boy having sex in a car in 1975. Accused in a suit filed in 4/02 of abusing a youth 1979-86 in Rochester, NH. A 5/02 suit alleged he abused a 13-year-old boy 1970-72. Placed on leave in 1994. One claim settled for $25K. At least one claim included in 11/02 $5M settlement involving 62 plaintiffs and 28 priests. Laicized by Pope Benedict XVI 5/20/05.
Ahier, Charles Manchester, NH
Named as abuser of a 12- to 13 year-old youth at Saint Charles Church and School in Dover, in a civil suit involving accusations by 16 people against 7 priests. Entire case settled in 10/02. Died in 1980. Included on the diocese’s list 7/31/19.
Beaudet, Gerard Manchester, NH
A man reported that Beaudet gave him alcohol in the early 1970s when he was 12 and then raped him. In 9/04 a woman alleged Beaudet gave her alcohol and made her perform oral sex in 1972 at age 14 at St. Albert Parish. In 4/05 the diocese said it settled claims by a man and woman who said they were abused by Beaudet as children in the 1970s. Settlement amount not disclosed. Another woman made accusations in 7/05. Beaudet died in 1982. Included on the diocese’s list 7/31/19.
Beaudet, Sylvio Manchester, NH
Accused of fondling and masturbating a 12-year-old boy at St. Marie’s in Manchester 1960-61. Died in 1/76. Included on the diocese’s list 7/31/19.BeaulieuGuyManchester, NHAlleged in multiple 2002-2004 suits to have abused at least 20 students over 20 year period at Bishop Guertin High School in New Hampshire and at Camp Fatima. He admitted abuse during depositions. Transferred to retirement home in RI in 1990. Complaints made to school officials in 1970s and 1990s. Claims included in 11/02 & 8/03 & 5/04 settlements. Multiple known abusers at Bishop Guertinuertin.Boisselle/BoiselleAimeManchester, NHThree men came forward 5/02 to allege that Boisselle had sexually abused them at Ste. Marie Church in Manchester in the early 1960s. Per documents released by the Attorney General 3/03, a college student had complained that Boisselle seduced him in 1983; there were complaints in 1995 or 1996 of youths at the rectory; the diocese knew about Boisselle having encounters with adults at gay bars and parks. At least some claims in 11/02 settlement with the diocese. Per the diocese’s list 7/31/19, Boisselle (spelled Boiselle) was assigned to a life of prayer and penance. Deceased.BombardierWilfred (Wilfrid) F.Manchester, NHOrdained for the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament Fathers in Cleveland. Did much missionary work. Joined the Manchester diocese in 1970. Was working in Albuquerque NM when accused in 1993 of abuse of two boys at St. Charles parish 1966-70. Also accused of abuse in Manchester in 1975. Admitted to short-term relationship with a male in the Philippines. First listed as retired in the 1986 Directory. Died 9/16/00. On Santa Fe archdiocese list 9/12/17. Lawsuits in Albuquerque by two men in 1/18 claiming abuse as boys by Bombardier. Accused in 11/18 suit of sex abuse beginning in 1967 of a boy, age 13, while teaching him to swim and on overnight in a cabin in the Sandia Mountains. On Manchester diocese’s list 7/31/19.BoulangerAlbert L.Manchester, NHMultiple allegations early 1960s-2003. Repeated admissions by Boulanger; sent to therapy and returned to active ministry multiple times. Also received treatment for alcohol abuse. Retired 2000. Placed on leave 2/02 when three additional accusations surfaced. Died 6/02. At least one claim included in an 11/02 settlement involving 28 priests.BoulangerMaurice R.Manchester, NHAccused of sodomy (once) and mutual oral sex (6-7 times) with one boy aged 14-15 in 1978-1979. Died 4/03.BoydJohnManchester, NHDiocese settled one case in 4/05 for an undisclosed amount after a woman alleged that Boyd molested her over 25 times when she was ages 7-8 in 1957 at St. Joseph’s School in Laconia. She said he would make her perform oral sex on him and would sometimes give her $1.50 after the abuse. Boyd died in 1968. Included on the diocese’s list 7/31/19.BulgerAlbion F.Manchester, NHAccused of molesting an altar boy on two occasions in 1974. Retired in 2001 after accusation was made. Lawsuit filed 7/02. Diocese found accusation credible. Personnel file released 3/03 notes that diocese knew in 1974 about two other claims of abuse by Bulger. At least one claim included in 11/02 settlement involving 28 priests. Per the diocese’s list 7/31/19, Bulger was assigned to a life of prayer and penance. Deceased.Burke (Burque)AlbertManchester, NHFirst named publicly as accused by the diocese on its list 7/31/19. Deceased.ChalifourGerard (Gerald) F.Manchester, NHDiocese knew of at least one instance of sexual misconduct with a minor in 1969. Police were involved in 1982 investigation after report he attempted to molest a boy in the 1960s. Retired in 1992 (after therapy) but continued to work part-time until 2002. Sued 5/02. Diocese paid three men a total of $85,000 in 2003. At least one claim in 11/05 settlement involving 28 priests. Per the diocese’s list 7/31/19, Chalifour was assigned to a life of prayer and penance.ConnorsRichardManchester, NHDied in 11/99. Scandal involving circumstances surrounding his death. Was wearing a “leather sexual device on his genitals” when he suffered a heart attack. Other priests sent to his apartment after his death removed pornography and threw it away before authorities could enter. Conflicting reports about whether child porn was found. Diocese denied coverup. At least one claim included in an 11/02 settlement involving multiple priests. Included on the diocese’s list 7/31/19.ConstantAlfredManchester, NHTwo lawsuits were filed in 5/02 with accusations that Constant sexually assaulted a girl 1945-48 and a boy 1959-62. Name first appeared with eight others on diocese’s list in 5/02. At least one claim included in an 11/02 $5M settlement involving 62 victims and 28 priests. Deceased.CorriveauRonald E.Manchester, NHPlaced on leave 3/02 when first allegations surfaced. Civil suit filed 5/02. Plaintiff said he was one of several minors drinking at party at rectory 2/82. He passed out and woke to find Corriveau fondling him. Suit settled summer 2002. Police investigated Corriveau in 2003 for possession of Internet porn. At least one claim included in 11/02 $5M settlement involving 62 claims. Laicization announced 6/05.CoteJoseph A.Manchester, NHOne of 14 active and retired priests named as abusers 2/02 in the Manchester Diocese. Cote lost his right to minister at the time the allegations against him were originally made. Named in the 2003 NH Attorney General Report. Per the diocese’s list 7/31/19, Cote was assigned to a life of prayer and penance. Deceased.CoteRoland P.Manchester, NHIn 4/02 a man accused Cote of sexually assaulting him as a teenager in the early 1980s. Cote admitted to a “sexual relationship” with the boy and to paying thim for sex, but said the boy was 18 at the time. Bishop reassigned Cote to a new parish in 6/02, but did not tell the new parish of accusations, or that there had been a financial settlement. Cote left the parish in 11/02 after a furor raised. Also admitted that he was sexually active in mid-1980s with a “couple of other people” who were about 18 years old.CroweThomasManchester, NHIn 12/02 the Manchester diocese settled with six people claiming abuse by five priests, including Thomas Crowe. Crowe allegedly abused a 13-year-old boy 1949-50 while assigned to Blessed Sacrament. The abuse was said to have included one incident of oral sex and many of kissing and grooming. Crowe was deceased by the time of the settlement.CutandaFernandoManchester, NHAccused in a lawsuit filed 8/17/17 of sexually abusing a boy repeatedly over a 3-year period, beginning when the boy was a 13-year-old student in 1984 at Immaculate Conception Apostolic School, which was a Legion of Christ boarding school in Center Harbor. The abuse allegedly included rape. The suit claims another boy was also abused. Plaintiff said he told Rev. Patrick O’Carroll at the time, who did nothing but tell him to pray “five rosaries for his sins.” Cutando said to no longer be with Legionaires, and his whereabouts are unknown.CyrLeonManchester, NHMan came forward 4/03 to allege that he was abused by Br. Cyr, a teacher at Bishop Guertin High School, in the early 1980s. Cyr denied the accusation. Atty for 4 plaintiffs filed a class action lawsuit against the school and the Order alleging abuse. One man (not original complainant) alleged abuse by Cyr multiple times from 1981 to 1983. Suit still pending 2004.DennisBrotherManchester, NHAccused on 2/28/02 of groping a 7-year-old boy at the Salesians’ Don Bosco Camp in East Barrington NH in 1970. Allegation became public when NH AG released the demand letter on 3/3/03. The Union Leader’s 3/4/03 article incorrectly identifies Br. Dennis as a priest. Br. Dennis’ last name is not known.DensmoreRobert J.Manchester, NHThree allegations against Densmore received 1985-1993. Two more later. He refused to attend inpatient treatment at St. Luke’s in 1985 but did undergo outpatient counseling. Name appeared on diocese’s 2/02 list of 14 accused priests. Privileges removed. Sued 4/02. Included in 11/02 $5M settlement involving 28 priests and three others. Per the diocese’s list 7/31/19, assigned to a life of prayer and penance.DowdKarl E.Manchester, NHFive allegations of abuse by Dowd were received shortly after his death in 2/02. One man said he and his mother reported the abuse to a pastor in 1971. Nonetheless, Dowd was allowed to serve as director of Camp Fatima, a summer camp for children, from 1968 until he retired in 1990. Many priests have been accused of abuse at the camp. At least one claim included in an 11/02 $5M settlement involving 62 victims and 28 priests.DowneyDenis P.Manchester, NHBetween 2005 and 2007 three individuals reported to the diocese that they had been molested and fondled by Downey at Our Lady of Mercy in Merrimack in the 1950s and 1960s. Accusers were between the ages of 9 and 16 when allegedly abused. Downey retired 6/68 and died 11/24/92.DubreuilPatrickManchester, NHA woman complained in 1/04 that Dubreuil sexually abused her at St. Anthony’s parish in the mid-1970s when she was ages 13-16. In 5/04 two sisters told the diocese that Dubreuil, then a deacon, had kissed and hugged them at St. Anthony’s and St. Jean’s parishes in mid-1970s. Dubreuil left the priesthood, married, and became a middle school teacher. No criminal charges filed and all investigations closed. Per the diocese’s list 7/31/19, Dubreuil was laicized prior to the accusations against him.DumontGregoireManchester, NHIn 1/03, a woman’s attorney notified the diocese that Dumont had sexually abused her at St. Anne’s parish in Berlin 1978-83, beginning when she was age 14. There were allegedly 300 instances of abuse, including oral sex. Dumont died in 1983.DuvalEdouard J.Manchester, NHNamed in the 3/03 New Hampshire Attorney General’s Report. Per his personnel file, there were complaints by parents of inappropriate behavior with boys at least since 1981 (the year he retired). In 2002 a woman accused him of abusing her son between 1979 and 1980 at St. Peter’s in Farmington. Duval’s first name is spelled Eduard in the report but appears as Edouard in the 1993 Catholic Directory and on his resignation letter..FlemingMarkManchester, NHAccused in a 2002 civil suit of abusing three brothers in the early 1980s. Assaults were reported in 1983 and case went to AG’s office; not prosecuted. Admitted to the abuse. Diocese said that Fleming was not defrocked but his right to minister was revoked. Was sent to therapy for two years. Left priesthood in 1986. Diocese did not include him in long list of accused priests released in 2/02 because it was thought he had died in 1997. He was, however, alive. Said to have gone on to become a Unitarian minister in Charlestown NH. Included on the diocese’s list released in 7/19. Laicized.FortierRoger ArmandManchester, NHBy 1984 Fortier had admitted to the Chancellor that he watched pornographic films and abused minor boys after plying them with alcohol. Arrested 1997 for molesting two boys at the rectory in the mid-1990s. Also charged with possession of child porn. Convicted 7/98 and sentenced to 30-60 years in prison for abuse of two boys. Pled guilty 11/97 to attempted abuse of a third youth; received concurrent sentence of 5-10 years. Other victims came forward 2002-2003. Defrocked 2005. Granted parole 7/6/17, parole board citing his terminal cancer. Told to live with his sister on house arrest. Release pending parole officer’s review of Fortier’s living conditions. Laicized, per the diocese’s list 7/31/19.FournierRoger E.Manchester, NHPer personnel filed released 3/03, fournier and another priest abused one youth in 1973. Investigative report reflects telephone contact with the victim in 2/02. Reports that both priests had befriended the victim and his brother after the death of their father. (In places, name is also spelled Fornier)GagneJ. DelphineManchester, NHA man told the diocese in 12/03 that, when he was age 13 or 14 in 1950, Gagne touched and fondled him in the back seat of a car while they were returning from an outing. Gagne died in 1963. The same man alleged that he was also fondled by Fr. Lirette during the same time period.GauthierMarkManchester, NHAt least one claim included in 11/02 $5M settlement between the archdiocese and 62 plaintiffs. Deceased.GenereuxMarcelManchester, NHOriginally an Oblate; may have been incardinated to diocese after 1959. A woman notified diocese 6/05 that she had been sexually molested by Genereux for two years while a student at Presentation of Mary Academy in Hudson in 1957-58. She told the school in 1958; he was quickly removed. Shortly thereafter, he saw her at a party and deliberately broke her arm. Two other alleged victims are also known. Multiple short assignments 1959-71. Died 1971.GilbertLeoManchester, NHWoman alleged in 2006 that Gilbert had molested her in approx. 1937 when she was 6. Gilbert was at Sacred Heart in Greenville at the time. Gilbert died 8/68.GregoirePaul L.Manchester, NHWoman complained to the Manchester Diocese that Gregoire had abused her when she was a minor. Abuse occurred in Seattle when Gregoire was a member of the Society of St. Suplice before he became a member of the Manchester Diocese. Diocese found the accusations credible and placed Gregoire on leave without priestly faculties. After investigation, Vatican authorized his return to active status 8/03.GroleauPaul E.Manchester, NHBy 5/02 two lawsuits had been filed that named “Grolleau” as abuser. Both plaintiffs were boys at the time of the alleged abuse in the late 1960s-early 1970s. At least one claim included in 11/02 $5M settlement involving 62 victims and 28 priests. Believe he was Diocesan Vocation Director in the 1970s and helped Gordon MacRae become a priest of the diocese, despite negative evaluations. (MacRae was later convicted of child sex abuse.) Groleau was laicized in 1989, prior to the reports against him of abuse. On the diocese’s list 7/31/19.GuthrieFrederick L.Manchester, NHArrested 11/01 in NH and charged with soliciting sex from a minor over the Internet. Retired from Boston archdiocese 7/01 and lived in MA. Also faced charges of possession of child porn on home computer in MA. In 3/04 in NH Guthrie was sentenced to three months in jail and five years probation for attempting to solicit sex over the Internet. Child porn charges were pending in MA and he was to be extradited for trial. Voluntary laicization in 2010 announced 2/11/11.HallerJames W.Manchester, NHA woman told the diocese in 11/02 that Haller had had an inappropriate relationship with her more than 20 years prior, when she was a minor. Haller admitted to the relationship, saying that he had loved the girl and wanted to leave the priesthood and marry her. Instead, he was unable to leave the priesthood and the relationship ended. Diocese said that the report was the “first and only” report about Haller. He resigned from his assignment. Not listed in 3/03 Attorney General Report on the Manchester Diocese. Assigned to a life of prayer and penance, per the diocese’s list 7/31/19.HenryBrotherManchester, NHOne man notified Diocese 7/03 that he had been sexually abused by a Br. Henry (no last name known) at Bishop Bradley High School in Manchester in 1961. Deceased.HilaryAntony MuthuManchester, NHAccused in 1995 of getting drunk and molesting girls in his home diocese of Kottar, India. One allegation was investigated and “proved.” Sent to the US by Bishop Tharmaraj, perhaps because of the allegations, where he was allowed to work despite his history. Accused 12/95 of using the confessional to scout victims and of mauling a woman during confession, rubbing his body against hers and attempting to kiss her. Manchester Bishop O’Neil deemed the claim credible. Hilary returned to Kottar 12/95.HouleWilfredManchester, NHHoule left ministry in 1981 and died of AIDS in 1987. A man filed suit against the bishop and diocese in 3/08 which alleged that he was raped at age 16 by Houle in 1977, and that he contracted AIDS as a result. Criminal charges had been filed earlier and much investigation had taken place. The man’s claims were included in an earlier settlement with the diocese; he said he was coerced into taking the settlement.JannettaAlfred L.Manchester, NHAt least one claim included in 11/02 $5M settlement involving 62 victims and 28 priests. He was shown as an active priest at that time. By 3/03 he was “recently suspended” following allegations he molested boys in the 1970s. In 1989 he was known to frequent gay bars, keep homosexual pornography in the rectory. He was preparing to go on a “gay cruise” when church officials intervened and sent him to counseling. Per the diocese’s list 7/31/19, assigned to a life of prayer and penance. Died 12/05.JoyalGerald F.Manchester, NHOne claim was included in a 10/02 $950K settlement involving 16 men who alleged that 8 different priests, including Joyal, abused them as minors. At least one claim was included in both the 11/02 $5M settlement claiming abuse by 28 priests and the 12/02 $542.5K settlement claiming abuse by 5 priests. Joyal died prior to all settlements.LaferriereRaymond H.Manchester, NH“Retired” in 1995. Removed from part-time parish work in 2002. Named by diocese in 2002 as one of 14 abusers who had received treatment and were returned to work. Before ordination, seminary warned that he had “incipient schizophrenia with homosexual overtones.” Per a 1963 complaint, he showed two boys pornography. No action taken. Other allegations received after retirement. Named in 3/3 report by AG’s office. Three plaintiffs filed two civil suits in 2002. Given a life of prayer and penance, per the diocese’s list 7/31/19.LaFlammeAlbertManchester, NHDiocese and the Order settled civil suit 5/04 with one man who alleged that he had been abused by LaFlamme 40 or more times between 1943 and 1949 at the now closed St. Louis school in Nashua. LaFlamme has died.LaForestConrad V.Manchester, NHAccused in 1990 of abuse of a boy, age 12-13. Reportedly involved sexually with adult men. Multiple treatments for “alcoholism.” Name appeared on a list of 14 accused priests released by the diocese in 2/02. Had been on sick leave since 1996. Had been working part time since 1999. Privileges were removed in 2/02. One article says he (and all the other priests on the list) had been sent for treatment and had been cleared to return to duty. Deceased, per the diocese’s list 7/31/19.LamontLeroy F/Br. JeromeManchester, NHBro. Jerome. Joined the Xaverians in 1941. Died in 1987. Named publicly as accused by the order on its list 7/12/19. Allegation reported in 2002 of abuse in the late 1960s at a summer camp in NH.LamotheFrancisManchester, NHDied in 1995/ At least 9 men filed suit in 2002 alleging abuse by Lamothe. Name on diocese’s list 2/02 list of 14 priests against whom there were credible allegations of sexual abuse. Plaintiff’s attorney described him as a “groomer.” At least one claim included in 11/02 $5M settlement involving 62 alleged victims and 28 priests.LamotheHarveyManchester, NHAt least one claim against Lamothe was included in an 11/02 $5M settlement with 62 people claiming abuse by 28 priests, two lay workers and one member of a religious order 1950s-1980s. Lamothe died 1/12/87 in Maine.LapointeAlfredManchester, NHAt least one claim included in a 11/02 $5M settlement with 62 plaintiffs alleging abuse by 28 priests, two lay workers and one member of a religious order 1950s-1980s. Lapointe had already left ministry at the time the allegations were received. Deceased, per the diocese’s list 7/31/19.LeclercMauriceManchester, NHAt least one claim was included in an 11/02 $5M settlement with 62 people claiming abuse by 28 priests, two lay workers and one member of a religious order 1950s-1980s. Leclerc was deceased by the time the allegations were received.LedouxMichael DominicManchester, NHAccused in 1/03 of sexually abusing a boy in 1987 or 1988 at St. Thomas Aquinas in Derry. Oral sex alleged with attempts in NH and MA. Claim settled. Order found accusations credible. Diocese learned that Franciscans knew of allegation in 2002 but didn’t tell the diocese. Ledoux was at parish 4/86 to 9/89. Worked as dean at Widener University for 9 years until summer 2012, when officials learned of earlier accusation. He resigned rather than being placed on leave. Denied allegation. Also worked in Pittsburgh.LemireEdmundManchester, NHOn 10/10/02 the Manchester diocese settled with 16 claimants. One of them, John Doe 12, alleged that Lemire, an extern from the Sherbrooke diocese in Quebec assigned to St Edmund’s parish in Manchester, abused him in the early 1960s. Lemire exploited a common interest in magic and stamp collecting and fondled the boy under his bathing suit during an outing. The NH AG’s audit documents revealed two allegations of abuse committed at St Aloysius of Gonzaga parish in Nashua in the late1950s. One boy was fondled twice at age 16. The other boy was forced to hold Lemire’s penis and was ‘abused many times.’ He was later abused by Fr Roland Veilette and (as an adult) by Fr Karl E Dowd. Lemire was deceased as of 2003.LiretteAlbertManchester, NHAccused in 12/03 of fondling and molesting a boy aged 13 or 14 in 1950. Alleged abuse occurred at home of priest’s mother in Manchester. Same man also made allegations against Fr. J. Delphin Gagne.LongPatricia A.Manchester, NHHoly Cross sister, took vows 1969, worked at parishes and schools in New Bedford MA, W. Franklin, Gonic, Rochester, and Concord NH. Laicized 1973. In 2008 a woman reported to the diocese sexual assault by Long 1973-78, when the woman was ages 11-15. Diocese informed law enforcement. The abuse reportedly occurred in the rectory of St. John the Evangelist in Concord, where Long lived and led the parish’s youth ministry program. Long is said to have babysat children of parishioners on weekends, and to have had her alleged victim stay with her at the rectory and sleep in her bed. Alleged victim confronted Long at age 21 in 1982, and said Long told her she thought she (the girl) was a lesbian, and wanted contact. Long left St. John’s in 1986 and married Msgr. George Murray, who was St. John’s pastor. She became a minister of the United Church of Christ in Marblehead MA, then in CT. Name later Rev. Patricia A. Dabbah.LowerRichard T.Manchester, NHAccused of inappropriate sexual conduct with a young man in 1989. He denied that accusation, underwent a psychological evaluation, and was cleared to return to work. Another man came forward in 12/02 to allege abuse by Lower as a minor in 1973 at St. Rose of Lima Parish. When advised of new allegations and decision to place him on leave, Lower disappeared and was found dead along a hiking trail two days later. Likely suicide.MacRaeGordon J.Manchester, NHPsychological problems during seminary in 1978. Pled guilty in 1988 to paying boy for sex. Received one year in jail, deferred, and sent for treatment. May have abused in 1983 but no action. Charged in 1993 with 11 counts of molestation of at least four boys. Convicted in 1994 for assault of a boy. Sentenced to 33 1/2-67 years. Civil suits filed. [See Major Account for much information and related documents.] Multiple appeals. Still in prison 2/14, continuing to deny guilt. Federal appeal case filed 2/14.MaguireJoseph T.Manchester, NHTransferred three times in first 14 months after ordination. Diocese investigated 1974 allegation. Joined Stigmatine order in 1981. Investigated by police 1986. Working in Ireland at the time and nothing done. No assignment after 1981. Faculties withdrawn 1994. Some claims in 11/02 settlement. Criminal charges filed by two men in 2003. Convicted 2004 and sentenced to 44 years in prison. Eight others offered to testify as to his crimes against them. Died in prison in 2/05. Worked in Boston.MannHubertManchester, NHDied in 1972. Alleged to have abused a 15- year-old youth in the late 1960s. Mann reportedly asked the boy to live with him at the rectory after the boy’s foster father died. Mann would allegedly give the boy alcohol and then assault him. Claim was included in an 11/02 $950K settlement involving 16 plaintiffs.McMullenFrancisManchester, NHNamed as a perpetrator of abuse in a 12/02 $542,500 settlement involving six claimants against the Diocese of Manchester and five priests. Per a document produced as part of the NH Attorney General’s report 3/3/03, McMullen was accused of molesting a girl in 1958 and a boy a short time later. McMullen was transferred to another parish after the boy’s parents complained to the Diocese. McMullen died in his 40s.MeehanAndrewManchester, NHMeehan was married for many years with grown children and grandchildren when he divorced and obtained an annulment of his marriage. He went through seminary and was ordained in 1993. During 2002 treatment at St. Luke’s (for an eating disorder), he told therapist of attraction to and past sexual behavior with 15- to 16 year-old male teens. He acknowledged 2-3 incidents of being “overly affectionate” with boys. In 5/02 the diocese would not allow him to return to active priesthood and granted him early retirement. Per the diocese’s list 7/31/19, Meehan was assigned to a life of prayer and penance. Died 3/26/17.MemoloRocco C.Manchester, NHAccused in 1/03 of sexually abusing a boy, ages 12-14, in 1976-77 at St. Michael’s in Exeter. The alleged abuse included oral sex and penetration and occurred approximately 100 times. The same man also made allegations against another priest and a teacher. Memolo spent his career in NH except for two years (1987-89) at Texas A&M University. He took sick leave in 8/93 and after 1994 was on extended leave without faculties. Deceased, per the diocese’s list 7/31/19.MorelAlbert J (Br Adrian)Manchester, NHTeacher at Bishop Guertin High School. A former student alleged that in 1981 (after he graduated) he went to Morel for counseling because of a sexual problem and that Morel told him to unzip his pants, then fondled him. The former student said he left but that next time he saw Morel, Morel hugged him and told him he loved him. The man then wrote a letter to the head brother at Bishop Guertin. Morel died 3/98.MorleyDavidManchester, NHFirst named publicly by the Manchester diocese on its list 7/31/19. A diocesan spokesperson said that the diocese received an allegation in 2011 that Morley abused 45 years prior. An internal investigation found the allegations “probable.” Morley was laicized in 1994, prior to the surfacing of allegations.NeighborRussell J.Manchester, NHAccused in 1/04 of molesting a boy, beginning when the boy was age 16 in the early 1960s. while wrestling in underwear at hotels in Boston and NY. Neighbor died in 1972.NeimanWilliam P.Manchester, NHAccused in 12/07 of repeatedly molesting a boy in 1977-78, beginning when the boy was age 15. The alleged abuse included fondling over and under clothes and occurred in a choir loft. Neiman succeeded Rev. Gerald Joyal as pastor; the same boy was allegedly abused repeatedly by Joyal in 1969-75, beginning when the boy was age 8. Neiman is deceased, per the diocese’s list 7/31/19.NolinJohn W.Manchester, NHPer 2002 articles, a woman told the diocese that Nolin abused her in the 1960s and 1970s. The diocese reportedly told her they believed her but that there was not enough evidence to take action. He was kept in ministry. Name not on list sent to Attorney General’s office; it was sent separately a month later. Sent for treatment in 1982 after admitting to a long history of involvement with adult women. [See Attorney General ‘s report for relevant documents.] Laicized 11/06, announced 1/07.OsgoodDonald MatthewManchester, NHAccused of abuse of teenage boys in at least four lawsuits in 2002. Two plaintiffs among 16 in civil suits against Diocese which settled in 2002. Allegations against Osgood began to surface within months of his ordination. Transferred several times because of behavior. Sent for treatment to NM. Left active ministry in 1968. Last listed in 1975 Official Catholic Directory. Part of NH AG’s investigation, with numerous docs from personnel file in 2003 and 2009. Included in Santa Fe archdiocese list of accused on 9/12/17; assigned to a parish in Albuquerque in 1963. Per Manchester diocese’s list 7/31/19, laicized and deceased.PelletierEugeneManchester, NHTreated for alcoholism several times and St. Luke’s. Settlement in 1995, for counseling costs, of claims he abused a boy in 1963-64. He said he could not remember abuse. Name given to prosecutors in 2/02, along with 13 other priests. Retired in 1993. Pastoral ministry had been revoked at the time allegations were first received against him .Was living at a nursing home in Manchester. Assigned to a life of prayer and penance, deceased, per the diocese’s list 7/31/19.PetitPhilip A.Manchester, NHBishop Gendron apparently destroyed records in the 1980s that detailed sexual abuse by Petit and another priest. Bishop wrote a letter in 1986 to Petit assuring him that he would destroy all documents referring to his treatment, but would keep one 1982 letter. Civil suit filed 2002 alleging abuse of a youth 1979-81. On leave 1982-2002, per Catholic Directories. Laicization announced 8/28/18.PoirierJohn R.Manchester, NHPorier was the only active accused priest on a list released by the diocese in 2/02. Allegedly solicited a boy for sex in the 1970s. Placed on leave. In 7/02, two men filed suits alleging abuse as children. Per the 2003 Attorney General’s Report, Poirier was described by church officials in 1988 as a “compulsive homosexual.” He received treatment but was still not celibate three yreas later. Began attending Sexual Addiction Support group meetings in 1994. Assigned to a life of prayer and penance, per the diocese’s list 7/31/19.RichardEdward D.Manchester, NHPlaced on leave 4/02 after diocese learned of police investigation.Two men filed suit 6/02 alleging abuse by Richard while he was at Our Lady of Mercy Church in Merrimack between 1973 and 1982. Richard retired in late 5/03. The criminal investigation was still ongoing at the time. Believe claims were settled as part of 5/03 settlement involving 61 plaintiffs. Assigned to a life of prayer and penance and deceased, per the diocese’s list 7/31/19.RobichaudGeorge H.Manchester, NHPlaced on leave 4/02. Arrested 7/02, charged with aggravated felonious sexual assault of a boy between ages 13-16 in 1984 and 1985. Victim went to police, then taped conversation with Robichaud in which Robichaud admitted he had been in recovery for 10 years. Also admitted abuse of another youth. One criminal mistrial. Retrial stopped 7/03 and charges later dropped on age issues and SOL. Civil suit filed 5/02 regarding abuse in 1982-1983. Settled in 2003. Deceased, per the diocese’s list 7/31/19.SandsJ. JosephManchester, NHOrdained for the Trappists. Incardinated 1973 into the Manchester diocese. Accused in 5/28/03 attorney’s letter of sexual abuse at St. Bernard’s in Keene in 1966-69. Age of the complainant at the time of the abuse is unknown. Sands was murdered 5/11/79 when he tried to negotiate a hostage situation in the rectory of St. Rose of Lima in Littleton, NH. He was taken hostage and killed by a couple who then shot and killed themselves.ScrutonStephenManchester, NHArrested at least twice for lewd behavior and/or indecent behavior. Sued in 1991 by one boy alleging abuse in 1986. Took sick leave in 1990. Removed from position at counselor for sex offenders at Essex County Jail in 1992 after name appeared on list of accused. Named in three suits in 2002. At least one claim in 11/02 $5M settlement involving 62 victims and 28 priests. Laicized and deceased, per diocese’s list 7/31/19.SheaLeo AlfredManchester, NHIn 1994 Shea pled guilty to assaulting a 14- year-old; sentenced to 3-6 years prison. Released on parole 1997 and “retired.” Multiple other accusers. A man filed a civil suit in 1993. Accused in 2002 civil suits of abusing two boys. Claims by six people included in 10/02 settlement with the diocese. Another settlement in 11/02 included at least one claim. Privileges were permanently removed. Per diocese’s list 7/31/19, assigned to a life of prayer and penance. Died in 10/08.ShieldsJoseph E.Manchester, NHAccused of abusing Junior HS boy on Exeter golf course in about 1974. In that year, Shields became pastor of St. Michael’s in Exeter. Same man also reported abuse by another priest and a teacher at his school. At last report Shields was in his 90s and living in FL.St. JeanGeorgeManchester, NHNH Audit shows two reports of same abuse: 1) alleged in 1/04 to the diocese by victim; and 2) reported in 3/08 by victim’s sister to Oblates. Boy said he was abused at priest’s family camp in MA in 1960 or 1961. Manchester said allegation was Boston issue; St. Jean was not in Manchester diocesan ministry, but Directory has him assigned at Colebrook NH shrine in 1960. Died 9/82. New suit filed 5/10 and another filed 7/21/10. Plaintiff in 5/10 suit murdered 9/9/11. Both suits settled 9/12. On Norwich diocese’s list 2/22/19. It notes he left the diocese in 1962.StevensPaul G.Manchester, NHA man complained in 1/03 and again in 7/04 that Stevens fondled and groped him on one occasion in 1969 or 1970 after a ski trip. A second man alleged that Stevens abused him in 1974 when he was 13. Abuse said to have occurred at Stevens’ camp in Franconia. Stevens took a leave of absence 1/87 for health reasons and later chose not to return to ministry. Per the diocese’s list 7/31/19, Stevens’ canonical case was still in process.SullivanJohn J.Manchester, NHA woman notified the diocese in 11/04 that she was fondled and digitally penetrated by Sullivan in the mid-1970s, when she was ages 6-9. Sullivan died in 10/84. Matter was then reported to police. On the Amarillo diocese’s list 1/31/19, where he worked 1/61-4/63.SullivanJohn ThomasManchester, NHOrdained for the Manchester diocese. Abused girls during assignments in NH, MI, TX, NM and AZ over a period of 35 years. Fathered a child in 1949; had arranged illegal abortion, but pregnancy did not end. Stalked a nursing student in 1952. Another pregnancy and abortion in 1956. Suspended and sent to Via Coeli in NM for treatment. Accepted by other dioceses despite history. Manchester released his personnel file 2/03. Grand Rapids paid 3 sisters $500K in 1994 for abuse by Sullivan when they were ages 7-12. Privileges removed multiple times. Died in 1999 in San Diego CA. Named in new suit filed in Arizona 6/13 against the Gallup NM diocese.TalbotFrancis A.Manchester, NHAccused in 2002 of abuse in the 1960s by at least four people. Placed on leave 10/02. One claim settled 10/02. Another settled 11/02. At least two suits filed. One suit settled 4/03. Sentenced to at least ten years in prison 3/03 after pleading guilty 12/02 to five counts of sexually assaulting a boy over a period of eight years. Not listed in the 3/03 NH Attorney General’s Report. Request for early release due to health denied 11/10. Still in prison 2/05/12. Per the diocese’s list 7/31/19, assigned to a life of prayer and penance and deceased.TancredeRoland E.Manchester, NHRetired. Placed on leave and stripped of faculties in 9/02 after accused in a lawsuit. Plaintiff’s lawyer says Tancrede admitted to the allegations. Included in the 3/03 Attorney General’s Report. Per the diocese’s list 7/31/19, assigned to a life of prayer and penance and deceased.TurcotteEugeneManchester, NHWoman notified diocese in 3/05 that Turcotte had molested her 1949-53 when she was 4-8 yrs old. Directory shows him assigned to an Oblate retreat house in Augusta ME for some of the time at issue; he was visiting family in Nashua when he allegedly perpetrated the abuse. Died 1/68.TurgeonArmand A.Manchester, NHWoman reported in 8/05 that she had been abused at age 14 by Turgeon in approx 1956 at her home and at a convent in Rochester NH. As of 2005, Turgeon was not in public ministry due to age and infirmity.VadeboncoeurPaulManchester, NHNamed as a perpetrator of abuse in a 12/02 settlement of $542.5K between the diocese and six people claiming abuse by five priests. Accused of abuse of a girl, ages 15-17, multiple times 1955-1957. Also accused of one instance of abuse of a 12-year-old boy in 1950. Vadeboncoeur died at some time prior to the settlement. (The 1988 Catholic Directory spells his name Va’de’bon’Coeur and in 1995 it is Vade Bon Coeur. It has been misspelled in other sources as Vandenboncoeur.)ValliereRomeo J.Manchester, NHAdmitted abusing two boys. Diocese settled one claim in 4/05 for undisclosed amount. A man said that as a child Valliere would give him beer and marijuana at the rectory. Valliere’s file included a 1976 letter from parent complaining about drunk youths at the rectory. Placed on sick leave in 1989 after complaints by three women in his parish. On sick leave 4/1/89 – 6/20/90 for therapy. Assigned to another parish. Placed on sick leave again from 01/26/96 until he retired in 6/01. Privileges removed in 2002. Laicized and deceased, per the diocese’s list 7/31/19.VeiletteRoland W.Manchester, NHVeilette (or Veillette) died in 1983. Named in a 5/02 lawsuit by man who alleged Vielette abuse him in 1973. Personnel file contains a 2/02 memo in which the plaintiff said he was assaulted by Veilette and another priest in 1973, shortly after his father passed away. Both priests were said to have befriended him and would take him camping and give him gifts. A second man filed suit 6/02 alleging that he was assaulted by Veilette from 1956 to 1958, and that the incidents occurred in the priest’s car.VoglioJohnManchester, NHAccused 3/02 during AG investigation of repeated sexual abuse of a 12-year-old boy in 1982 at Camp Don Bosco in NH. Voglio was a counselor at the camp. Abuse included oral sex. Later in 1982, Voglio wrote to the alleged victim from OH, saying that he was going on to become a priest. A John Voglio was ordained a Salesian priest in 1987 and worked in a Salesian HS and a parish in NY archdiocese. Investigative memo does not confirm that brother and priest are the same person. John Voglio is included on the NY archdiocese’s list 4/26/19. The Salesian and NY priest appear to be the same. The list notes Voglio was removed from ministry and laicized.WalshPatrick, L.C.Manchester, NHAccusations made in 2002 that Walsh abused at least a youth at high school in Center Harbor NH 1992-1993, per records released by NH Atty General’s office 3/03.WilfortJeanneManchester, NHAccused in 1999 of sexually abusing a nun, age 27, in the Winnipeg archdiocese 1978-79. Wilfort was then superior of the order’s Western Canada Province. Abuse allegedly included digital penetration and was represented as therapeutic. Complainant had been recruited from the Manchester NH diocese during a retreat by Wilfort. The Vatican investigated the charges in 2000. Complainant filed suit in 2002, but when she died in 2004, the suit was dismissed. Other victims are alleged, ages unspecified.ZalewskiEdwardManchester, NHA woman notified the diocese in 5/07 that Zalewski “hugged her to his body” at St. Joseph church in Lincoln in 1956, when she was approximately age 12. He died in 1976.
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Cardinal Gregory of Washington DC was a leader in the coverup of clergy crimes in IL.
Cardinal Gregory of Washington DC was a leader in the coverup of clergy crimes in IL.
Philly Archdiocese accused of covering up priest's sexual abuse allegations, transferring him out of state
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — The Archdiocese of Philadelphia is being accused in a civil suit of transferring a priest with known sexual abuse allegations to Tennessee and covering up the alleged crimes.
The plaintiff suing the archdiocese is identified as a 22-year-old Jane Doe. She says church officials failed to disclose previous sexual abuse allegations against Reverend Kevin McGoldrick when he worked in Philadelphia.
In 2017, when the 22-year-old was at a Roman Catholic college in Nashville, Tennessee, McGoldrick invited her to his rectory for dinner.
According to the complaint, when the priest and the plaintiff were alone, McGoldrick gave her bourbon until she was so drunk that she threw up.
He is accused of telling her his life in the priesthood feels lonely and proceeding to grope and kiss her as she faded in and out of consciousness.
Stewart Ryan, the lawyer representing the plaintiff, says the woman still “seriously suffers from the trauma of that encounter that was inflicted upon her as a result of the assault but also as a result of the way she was treated by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia."
Ryan said she petitioned the Philadelphia Archdiocese for information on prior abuse allegations but was ignored.
"The Archdiocese of Philadelphia, despite finding her account credible, repeatedly refused to provide her information or acknowledge the reality that, in fact, there had been prior accusations that were investigated by the archdiocese before he was ever sent to Nashville in the first place."
The plaintiff's lawyers say there are still grounds to sue, regardless of Pennsylvania's statute of limitations, which allows victims up to two years to report their case, because the plaintiff wasn't made aware of previous allegations against the defendant until September 2022.
KYW Newsradio reached out to the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. They said they will not comment on pending litigation.
Cardinal Gregory of Washington DC was a leader in the coverup of clergy crimes in IL.
Cardinal Gregory of Washington DC was a leader in the coverup of clergy crimes in IL.
Cardinal Gregory of Washington DC was a leader in the coverup of clergy crimes in IL.
Illinois dioceses tolerated decades of abuse by clergy, report finds
May 23 (Reuters) - Some 2,000 Illinois children were sexually abused by Roman Catholic clergy between the 1950s and 2010s, the state attorney general said in a report released on Tuesday that also detailed how abuse was often tolerated and concealed by Church leaders.
The 696-page report, released by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, substantiated claims of abuse made against 451 Catholic clerics and religious brothers in the state's six dioceses. At least 1,997 children were sexually abused over the past seven decades, the report said.
The report published for the first time the names of 149 clergy and religious brothers who it said had been the subject of credible allegations of sexual abuse.
It was initiated in 2018 by Raoul's predecessor Lisa Madigan, who accused the Church of underreporting cases when it initially identified 103 abusers among its ranks.
The report joins a long list of investigations across the world into sexual abuse within the Catholic Church and the frequent practice of covering up for abusers and transferring them to new assignments, thereby putting more children at risk.
The abuse scandals have shredded the Church's reputation and been a major challenge for Pope Francis, who has passed a series of measures over the last 10 years aimed at holding the Church hierarchy more accountable, with mixed results.
"Decades of Catholic leadership decisions and policies have allowed known child-sex abusers to hide, often in plain sight," Raoul said.
In Illinois, investigators said they pored over thousands of files, conducted hours of interviews with leaders and fielded more than 600 victim complaints.
Many of the people who were abused cannot seek legal remedies due to the statute of limitations on crimes committed in some cases decades ago, Raoul said. The report in part was undertaken to bring some relief to victims, who he characterized as "survivors."
In a statement, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, sought to blunt criticism that the Church had failed to disclose the names of the abusers identified in the report. He said most of the 149 were members of religious orders that were not under direct supervision by dioceses.
"Survivors will forever be in our prayers, and we have devoted ourselves to rooting out this problem and providing healing to victims," Cupich said.
About 3.5 million Catholics lived in Illinois as of 2019, according to the Catholic Conference of Illinois, making up 27% of the state's population. The state's dioceses included about 950 parishes and more than 2,200 priests.
Cardinal Gregory of Washington DC was a leader in the coverup of clergy crimes in IL.
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Illinois Catholic clergy abuse report could draw lawsuits, reforms but new charges unlikely
CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois' attorney general has ended a five-year investigation into sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy in the state, releasing a nearly 700-page report that revealed the problem was far worse than the church acknowledged in 2018 at the start of the state's review.
That follows a familiar pattern — no rush of criminal charges followed the 2018 release of a bombshell grand jury report on clergy abuse in Pennsylvania or last month’s report on abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
Advocates say they believe the report will help more people feel safe to discuss what happened to them with family, friends, support groups and law enforcement. They also say it could prompt people to file civil lawsuits, even for abuse long ago. They hope legislatures take further steps enabling prosecutors to charge older sex abuse cases and toughen standards for mandatory reporting.
“I’m proud of the attorney general and what he’s done, but there’s more we can all do together,” said Larry Antonsen, a leader of the Chicago chapter of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.
Raoul said that his office referred cases with potential for criminal charges to local prosecutors but he did not know of any charges being filed.
The attorney general’s report acknowledges that Illinois limitation statutes are, despite legal changes, insurmountable hurdles to prosecuting nearly all clergy who abused children decades ago. Such statutes limiting how long after a crime a suspect can be charged are meant to ensure fairness and avoid issues such as witnesses forgetting over time and evidence going missing.
“Because the statute of limitations has frequently expired, many survivors of child sex abuse at the hands of Catholic clerics will never see justice in a legal sense,” the report says.
Into the 2000s, the Illinois limitation statute on child sex abuse was 20 years. State lawmakers passed a series of laws eliminating all statutory limits on child sex abuse, effective Jan. 1 2020, though it is not retroactive for older acts of abuse, with a few rare exceptions. Similar changes were made to filing civil claims.
The push to scratch the limitation statutes on child sexual abuse was driven partially by the 2015 case of U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert. Prosecutors said time had run out to charge him with abusing boys while he was a wrestling coach decades ago, but they did pursue a case against him on banking violations tied to the abuse.
There are also practical obstacles, even when older cases might be prosecutable. Many of the priests accused of abuse in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s are dead. So, too, are many potential corroborating witnesses.
The report also says diocese evidence files — which would form the core of any criminal case — are often woefully incomplete, disorganized and sometimes include illegible handwriting. The report says churches typically don't investigate with criminal prosecutions in mind.
“Child sex abuse investigation files from all six dioceses sometimes reveal a bias in favor of protecting the institution over searching for truth,” according to the report.
There’s also little possibility of criminal charges against church officials who helped conceal abuse, said David Clohessy, former abuse survivors network national director. Without enforcing reforms to how churches handle these cases, “external forces have been and remain the only effective way to bring even a modicum of change we’ve seen,” he said.
In a Pennsylvania case against church officials' handling of abuse complaints, a 20-year effort to convict Monsignor William Lynn of felony child endangerment ended in December with a misdemeanor no contest plea.
Lynn was the first U.S. church official to face criminal charges but his 2012 conviction was overturned twice in the next 10 years.
Civil claims, however, can move forward in Illinois if a child was sexually abused in 2014 or later. But earlier abuse falls under the law at the time.
Attorneys who have handled civil lawsuits on child sex abuse said it can be worthwhile for survivors to sue, even for older abuse not covered by state law.
Marc Pearlman, a Chicago attorney who frequently handles such cases, said attorneys can often negotiate for therapy or counseling at the church's expense. Filing suit at least gives clients an opportunity to discuss what happened to them for the first time and be believed, he said.
Michael Mertz, another attorney who concentrates on child sex abuse cases, also encouraged people who experienced abuse to get legal help and evaluate whether exceptions to the statue of limitations may apply to their case.
“Illinois law currently allows victims of childhood sexual abuse to come forward where the church fraudulently concealed involvement in the abuse,” Mertz said. “As this report shows, the church has been concealing the identities of hundreds of abusers.”
In statements released Tuesday, dioceses leaders apologized to victims and said they have made substantial changes, ensuring allegations are taken seriously and thoroughly investigated.
The archdiocese of Chicago said in its statement that it offers “care, compassion ... and even compensation to all who come forward, regardless of the statute of limitations.”
Some states have created “lookback windows” allowing people to sue no matter how long ago they say they were abused.
But in Illinois, it would take a constitutional amendment, according to a 2009 state Supreme Court decision in a lawsuit against three Catholic dioceses. The lawsuit said a priest acting as a school's guest speaker sexually abused a 14-year-old boy decades earlier.
Pearlman, though, said the Illinois investigation's release could create the chance to push a constitutional change through the Legislature and then win voters' support.
“The way to make progress is to continue to make small and medium and big changes when we have the opportunity,” he said. “ Something like the reports in Pennsylvania, in Maryland, here in Illinois, it creates an opportunity.”
Diocese of Manchester Criteria for Publication of Names of
Priests Accused of Sexual Abuse of a Minor Since 1950
All incidences of sexual abuse by these priests occurred prior to 2002. To date, the Diocese of Manchester has not received any reports of sexual abuse of a minor by a permanent deacon or bishop that meet the criteria set forth herein.
Cases Concluded
Cases That Have Been Concluded Canonically (by Laicization, Dismissal, or Sentence to Life of Prayer and Penance) or Criminally (by Plea or Conviction).
This section contains the names of priests incardinated in the Diocese of Manchester who have been found guilty of sexually abusing a minor by the Church after a canonical process or by the Government after a criminal process. With respect to the canonical process, the priests whose names are included in this section (1) admitted to sexually abusing a minor; (2) were dismissed from the clerical state; (3) voluntarily sought and obtained laicization after an admission of guilt or in lieu of dismissal; or (4) were assigned to a life of prayer and penance, with no ministry possible. With respect to criminal convictions, the priests whose names are included in this section were convicted after a criminal trial or pled guilty to sexually abusing a minor.
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Aube, Paul
Boiselle, Aime
Bulger, Albion
Chalifour, Gerald
Corriveau, Ronald
Cote, Joseph
Densmore, Robert
Fleming, Mark
Fortier, Roger
Haller, James
Jannetta, Alfred
Laferriere, Raymond
MacRae, Gordon
Maguire, Joseph
Meehan, Andrew
Nolin, John
Osgood, Donald
Pelletier, Eugene
Petit, Philip
Poirier, John
Richard, Edward
Robichaud, George
Scruton, Stephen
Shea, Leo
Talbot, Francis
Tancrede, Roland
Valliere, Romeo
Cases in Process
Cases Involving Living Diocesan Priests, But Where the Canonical Proceedings Against Those Priests Have Not Yet Been Resolved.
There has not been a final determination either under canon or civil law whether the clergy listed in this section sexually abused a minor. Consistent with the principles of the American justice system, individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Included in this section are the names of priests of the Diocese of Manchester who have been publicly accused of sexually abusing a minor, but the canonical proceedings involving those priests are not yet complete. The priests in this section are prohibited from engaging in public ministry and may not publicly identify themselves as priests.
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Stevens, Paul
Priests Accused After Laicization
Cases Involving Priests Accused After They Voluntarily Were Returned to the Lay State for Reasons Other Than Sexual Abuse of a Minor.
There has not been a final determination either under canon or civil law whether the priests listed in this section sexually abused a minor. Consistent with the principles of the American justice system, individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Included in this section are the names of priests of the Diocese of Manchester who had already voluntarily sought and were granted dispensation from the clerical state (and therefore were no longer priests) before the Diocese of Manchester received a report of an accusation that they had sexually abused a minor. For example, a priest who sought and obtained laicization to marry. Because these priests had already been returned to the lay state, the cases could not be processed canonically, but as with all cases on these lists, the cases were reported to the New Hampshire Department of Justice (Office of the Attorney General).
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Dubreuil, Patrick
Groleau, Paul
Lapointe, Alfred
Morley, David
Deceased Priests
Cases Involving Deceased Priests for Whom Criminal or Canonical Proceedings Were Not Completed.
There has not been a final determination either under canon or civil law whether the priests listed in this section sexually abused a minor. Consistent with the principles of the American justice system, individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
This section includes the names of deceased priests of the Diocese of Manchester who were accused of sexually abusing a minor for whom criminal or canonical proceedings were not completed, in many cases, because either the allegation(s) were received only after the priest's death or the priest died before the conclusion of the proceedings. This list does not contain the names of priests who were identified in reports that were investigated and where the investigation concluded that there was insufficient evidence to establish the probability that the accused priest had sexually abused a minor. This list likewise does not include priests who were accused of sexually abusing a minor if a single report has been made after the death of the priest and the report was not investigated; this may occur, for example, when a report is anonymous or when a victim declines to cooperate with an investigation. As with all cases on these lists, the cases were nevertheless reported to the New Hampshire Department of Justice.
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Authier, Charles
Beaudet, Gerard
Beaudet, Silvio
Bombardier, Wilfrid
Boulanger, Albert
Boyd, John
Burke (Burque), Albert
Connors, Richard
Constant, Alfred
Crowe, Thomas
Dowd, Karl
Downey, Denis
Dumont, Gregoire
Duval, Edouard
Gagne, J. Delphin
Gauthier, Mark
Houle, Wilfred
Joyal, Gerald
LaForest, Conrad
Lamothe, Francis
Lamothe, Harvey
Leclerc, Maurice
Lower, Richard
Mann, Hubert
McMullen, Francis
Memolo, Rocco
Neighbor, Russell
Neiman, William P.
Sands, Joseph P.
Sullivan, John J.
Sullivan, John T.
Vadeboncoeur, Paul
Veillette, Roland
Zalewski, Edward
Religious Orders/Other
Cases Involving Priests of Religious Orders, Eparchies, or Other Dioceses Who Were Assigned by the Bishop of Manchester to Ministry.
This section includes the names of priests who were assigned by the Bishop of Manchester to ministry (for example, in a parish) but who were not incardinated in the Diocese of Manchester, including priests of religious orders, eparchies, or other dioceses or archdioceses, and about whom the Diocese received an accusation of sexual abuse of a minor. Because they were not incardinated in the Diocese of Manchester, the Diocese was unable to process the cases canonically and reported the accusation to the priest’s religious superior, eparch, or bishop to process the case. The Diocese also ensured that the cases were reported to the New Hampshire Department of Justice. The priests in this section no longer are in ministry in the Diocese of Manchester. The Diocese has decided to list these names in the interest of transparency and healing.
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Breton, Philip
Landry, Leo
Lemire, J. Edmond
Genereux, Marcel (OMI)
Ledoux, Michael (OFM)
Roulier, George (OMI)
Walsh, Peter (OFM)
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Report details ‘staggering’ church sex abuse in Maryland
BALTIMORE (AP) — More than 150 Catholic priests and others associated with the Archdiocese of Baltimore sexually abused over 600 children and often escaped accountability, according to a long-awaited state report released Wednesday that revealed the scope of abuse spanning 80 years and accused church leaders of decades of coverups.
The report paints a damning picture of the archdiocese, which is the oldest Roman Catholic diocese in the country and spans much of Maryland. Some parishes, schools and congregations had more than one abuser at the same time — including St. Mark Parish in Catonsville, which had 11 abusers living and working there between 1964 and 2004. One deacon admitted to molesting over 100 children. Another priest was allowed to feign hepatitis treatment and make other excuses to avoid facing abuse allegations.
The Maryland Attorney General’s Office released the findings of their yearslong investigation during Holy Week — considered the most sacred time of year in Christianity ahead of Easter Sunday — and said the number of victims is likely far higher. The report was redacted to protect confidential grand jury materials, meaning the identities of some accused clergy were removed.
“The staggering pervasiveness of the abuse itself underscores the culpability of the Church hierarchy,” the report said. “The sheer number of abusers and victims, the depravity of the abusers’ conduct, and the frequency with which known abusers were given the opportunity to continue preying upon children are astonishing.”
Disclosure of the redacted findings marks a significant development in an ongoing legal battle over their release and adds to growing evidence from parishes across the country as numerous similar revelations have rocked the Catholic Church in recent years.
Baltimore Archbishop William Lori, in a statement posted online, apologized to the victims and said the report “details a reprehensible time in the history of this Archdiocese, a time that will not be covered up, ignored or forgotten.”
“It is difficult for most to imagine that such evil acts could have actually occurred,” Lori said. “For victim-survivors everywhere, they know the hard truth: These evil acts did occur.”
Also on Wednesday, the state legislature passed a bill to end a statute of limitations on abuse-related civil lawsuits, sending it to Gov. Wes Moore, who has said he supports it. The Baltimore archdiocese says it has paid more than $13.2 million for care and compensation for 301 abuse victims since the 1980s, including $6.8 million toward 105 voluntary settlements.
Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown, who took office in January, said the investigation shows “pervasive, pernicious and persistent abuse.” State investigators began their work in 2019; they reviewed over 100,000 pages of documents dating back to the 1940s and interviewed hundreds of victims and witnesses.
ABUSE RECALLED AS A ‘LIFE SENTENCE’
Victims said the report was a long-overdue public reckoning with shameful accusations the church has been facing for decades.
Jean Hargadon Wehner said she was abused in Baltimore as a teen by A. Joseph Maskell, a priest who served as her Catholic high school’s counselor and chaplain. She said she reported her abuse to church officials in the early ’90s, when her memories of the trauma finally surfaced about two decades after she was repeatedly raped.
“I expected them to do the right thing in 1992,” she told reporters Wednesday. “I’m still angry.”
Maskell abused at least 39 victims, according to the report. He denied the allegations before his death in 2001 and was never criminally charged. The Associated Press typically doesn’t name victims of abuse, but Wehner has spoken publicly to draw attention to the issue.
Kurt Rupprecht, who also experienced abuse as a child, said he was in his late 40s when he pieced together his traumatic memories. He said the realization brought him some relief because it explained decades of self-destructive behavior and mental health challenges, but also left him overwhelmed with anger and disbelief.
Rupprecht said his abuser was assigned to the Diocese of Wilmington, which covers some counties on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
“We’re here to speak the truth and never stop,” he said after the news conference. “We deal with this every day. It is our life sentence.”
The Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, known as SNAP, noted the report lists more names of abusers than have been released publicly by archdiocese officials. The organization called on the archbishop to explain the discrepancies.
Other investigations involving the Archdiocese of Washington and the Diocese of Wilmington, Delaware, which both include parts of Maryland, are ongoing.
ARCHDIOCESE TOOK STEPS TO PROTECT THE ACCUSED
The Baltimore report says church leaders were focused on keeping abuse hidden, not on protecting victims or stopping abuse. In some situations, victims ended up reporting abuse to priests who were abusive themselves. And when law enforcement did become aware of abuse allegations, police and prosecutors were often deferential and “uninterested in probing what church leaders knew and when,” according to the report.
The nearly 500-page document includes numerous instances of leaders taking steps to protect accused clergy, including allowing them to retire with financial support rather than be ousted, letting them remain in the ministry and failing to report alleged abuse to law enforcement.
In 1964, for instance, Father Laurence Brett admitted to sexually abusing a teenager at a Catholic university in Connecticut.
He was sent to New Mexico under the guise of hepatitis treatment and then to Sacramento, where another teenage boy reported being abused by Brett, the report said. He was later assigned to Baltimore, where he served as chaplain at a Catholic high school for boys and abused over 20 victims.
After several students accused him of abuse in 1973, Brett was allowed to resign, saying he had to care for a sick aunt. School officials didn’t report the abuse to authorities and dozens more victims later came forward. He never faced criminal charges and died in 2010.
The report largely focuses on the years before 2002, when an investigation by the Boston Globe into abuse and coverup in the Archdiocese of Boston led to an explosion of revelations nationwide. The nation’s Catholic bishops, for the first time, then agreed on reforms including a lifetime ban from ministry for any priest who commits even a single incident of abuse. While new national policies significantly improved the internal handling of reported abuse in the Baltimore archdiocese after 2002, significant flaws remained, according to the report.
Only one person has been indicted through the investigation: Neil Adleberg, 74, who was arrested last year and charged with rape and other counts. The case remains ongoing. Officials said he coached wrestling at a Catholic high school in the ’70s, then returned to the role for the 2014-2015 school year. The alleged abuse occurred in 2013 and 2014 but the victim was not a student of the school, officials said.
COURT TO CONSIDER RELEASING MORE NAMES IN THE FUTURE
Lawyers for the state asked a court for permission to release the report and a Baltimore Circuit Court judge ruled last month that a redacted version should be made public. The court ordered the removal the names and titles of 37 people accused of wrongdoing — whose names came out during confidential grand jury proceedings — but will consider releasing a more complete version in the future.
Lawmakers’ passage of a bill to end the state’s statute of limitations Wednesday came after similar proposals failed in recent years. Currently, victims of child sex abuse in Maryland can’t sue after they turn 38. The bill would eliminate the age limit and allow for retroactive lawsuits.
The Archdiocese of Baltimore has long faced scrutiny over its handling of abuse allegations.
In 2002, Cardinal William Keeler, who served as Baltimore archbishop for nearly two decades, released a list of 57 priests accused of sexual abuse, earning himself a reputation for transparency at a time when the nationwide scope of wrongdoing remained largely unexposed. That changed, however, when a Pennsylvania grand jury accused Keeler of covering up sexual abuse allegations while serving as bishop of Harrisburg in the 1980s.
Allegations of abuse in Catholic church detailed in Georgia report
NEWSBy Shelia Poole, The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionMarch 24, 2023Victim advocates critical of report, say numbers are too low
A long-awaited investigation into sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in Georgia detailed historical abuse by clergy, but the review did not uncover ongoing or active allegations of sexual abuse that could be criminally pursued.
The Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia report said none of those priests could be prosecuted because they are either deceased, have already been prosecuted or the statute of limitations expired before the review was launched.
Most of the victims were boys but there were also girls.
The report details allegations against priests ,members of religious orders and others, who at some point worked in the archdiocese and diocese, and the resolution.
The Church in the United States placed little focus on victims and no uniform policies for protecting children were in place prior to 2002, according to the report. Then the U.S. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops adopted the national “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.”
“When allegations of abuse occurred, the common response of the church was to provide therapy to the priests” usually by sending them to various facilities ” the report said.
The Church now requires all allegation of abuse of minors be reported to state welfare officials.
Roughly 70 priests, deacons and those with religious orders whose allegations were deemed credible were detailed in the report, all but 13 named.
Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr in 2019 asked the state’s Morrow-based Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council to launch the investigation.
The PAC conducted the independent third-party review of records, files, documents, and reports related to suspected child abuse cases in the possession of the Archdiocese of Atlanta and the Diocese of Savannah.
Both the Atlanta archdiocese and the Savannah diocese cooperated with investigators.
At least one of alleged abuses go back to then1940s with one victim only 4-years-old at the time of her abuse. The only time files could not be obtained was 2020 and 2021 during the Covid-19 pandemic, when church facilities were not accessible, according to the PAC.
The Most Rev. Gregory J. Hartmayer., archbishop of Atlanta, called abuse by priests, religious brothers or sisters, volunteers or employees of the Catholic Church is " unacceptable. It cannot and will not be tolerated. This archdiocese will not protect abusers and we will not allow them to have access to our communities.”
While the secular investigations generally produce the most evidence, “it’s apparent this report comes up way short,” said Mike McDonnell, a spokesman for SNAP (Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests).
He said it was vary hard to believe “knowing how meticulous church officials are with documentation and the number of Catholics served in both boundaries, that there are not more documented cases of abuse.”
Atlanta Atty. Darren W. Penn, who is representing several sexual abuse survivors, was critical of the report, although he was glad the issue of clergy sexual abuse was made public.
The report has an air of ‘this is all in the past and let’s put it behind us now’ feel about it. What we should be doing is recognizing the clear failures of the Archdiocese and the Church in general and putting our effort into finding solutions that will prevent this type of conduct from ever happening again.”
The 2019 probe was announced by Carr just months after the Archdiocese of Atlanta, released the names of 15 priests, seminarians, and those under direct authority of a religious order who were “credibly” accused of the abuse of minors.
The list was last updated Sept. 28 and has grown to contain about 30 names. The list goes back to the establishment of the archdiocese in 1956 and is still available on the archdiocesan website.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Savannah also has a list on its website that contains the names of 18 people.
It includes Wayland Brown, who served in the Savannah diocese from 1977 to 1998, was later convicted and sentenced to a 20 years in South Carolina on multiple counts of criminal sexual assault with a minor and died in 2019, according to the diocese.
The sex abuse crisis has engulfed the Roman Catholic Church in the United States and globally for decades. Molestation by priests and others in the Church was the subject of a Boston Globe newspaper investigation in 2002 that found accused priests were often moved to other churches or placed on sick leave. The report told how those accused were rarely being held accountable.
Nationally and internationally, the scandals in various archdioceses and dioceses have tested the Church.
“The credibility of the bishops who teach on matters of morality is lessened and severely damaged by their inaction when they’ve had information about clergy who are abusers and they didn’t do anything to keep that from happening again and again,” said Sandra Yocum, a professor of faith and culture at the University of Dayton. “Its impact is going to be long-term.”
Speaking to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Yocum said she recognizes that it’s the state’s duty to investigate such allegations because there could be crimes committed.
The denomination has nearly 62 million Catholics in the nation, according to the U.S. Religion Census,
Georgia is among several probes of abuse cases in the Roman Catholic Church launched by government agencies in recent years.
Such probes means that there is going to be accountability that goes beyond the confines of the Church, said Yocum.
She added: “The U.S. Catholic Church will need to cooperate with state investigations for the foreseeable future,”
Georgia Catholics by the numbers:
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta
92 parishes
9 missions
1.2 million Catholics
Roman Catholic Diocese of Savannah
57 parishes
21 missions
80,000 Catholics
Nationally:
There are nearly 62 million Catholics in the U.S., much of the growth has been in the South.
*Source: 2022 Official Catholic Directory, Roman Catholic Diocese of Savannah, U.S. Religion Census, which is conducted every 10 years by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies
How to report abuse:
Savannah: If you are a victim of abuse by clergy, an employee or a volunteer in the Diocese of Savannah, or if you know of anyone who has been a victim of such misconduct, please contact civil authorities and the Diocese Abuse Reporting Line at 1-888-357-5330.
Atlanta: If you know or suspect a case of sexual abuse, call the archdiocesan 24-hour Abuse Reporting Hotline at 1-888-437-0764. If allegation of abuse involves any member of the clergy, employee, or volunteer of the Archdiocese of Atlanta, you must contact the Office of the District Attorney and the Office of Child and Youth Protection in addition to DFCS within 24 hours, according to the website.
State of Georgia IS MIA for Twenty Years. Study Released after Georgia Elections!
May 1, 2019
Catholic Diocese from Atlanta and Savannah are cooperating with the independent investigation
Special Report: Boy Scouts, Catholic dioceses find haven from sex abuse suits in bankruptcy
Dec 30 (Reuters) - Lawmakers around the United States have tried to grant justice to victims of decades-old incidents of child sexual abuse by giving them extra time to file lawsuits. Now some of the defendants in these cases, including church and youth organizations, are finding a safe haven: America’s bankruptcy courts.
In New York, nearly 11,000 cases flooded state courts, many seeking to hold Catholic dioceses responsible for sexual abuse by clergy, after a 2019 law suspended statutes of limitations that would have otherwise barred many of the lawsuits. In response, four New York dioceses that collectively faced more than 500 sexual-abuse claims filed for bankruptcy. That halted the cases — and blocked those from anyone who might sue later — and forced the plaintiffs to negotiate a one-time settlement for all abuse claims in bankruptcy court.
The pattern has taken hold across the United States, a Reuters review of bankruptcies precipitated by mass child sexual-abuse litigation found.
Many of the defendants turning to bankruptcy court are nonprofit organizations. In court filings dating back to 2009, the Boy Scouts of America, a New York boys & girls club and 13 separate Catholic institutions each have cited state laws extending abuse victims’ right to sue as factors in their decisions to seek bankruptcy protection.
Such bankruptcies are “the counterpunch” to the state laws enabling more victims to seek justice and compensation through lawsuits, said Stephen Rubino, a lawyer who’s represented clergy abuse victims for more than 30 years.
In all, 23 states, two territories and Washington, D.C., have passed laws that suspend statutes of limitations for sexual-abuse victims who were previously prevented from suing over older cases. The suspensions typically last a year or more, allowing plaintiffs to file new lawsuits involving old abuse cases during that period. California, New York and several other states passed such laws in 2019.
Bankruptcy courts are undermining the impact of the statutes, some legal experts and victims’ advocates say. Judges overseeing these Chapter 11 filings set their own deadlines to file a sexual-abuse claim for compensation from the bankruptcy settlement.
Victims who miss the bankruptcy claims-filing deadline receive nothing or are forced to compete for limited funds set aside for unknown future claimants, the Reuters review of bankruptcies found.
“As we dramatically increase access to justice through statutes-of-limitations reform, we have more organizations going into bankruptcy because, frankly, bankruptcy law favors the organizations,” said Marci Hamilton, the founder of Child USA, a group that has advocated for laws expanding sexual-abuse victims’ rights to sue.
Child sexual-abuse victims often don’t come forward until much later in life, sometimes past the age of 50, according to several victims’ lawyers and studies on abuse disclosure. Some are not aware of bankruptcy proceedings that affect them until it is too late.
Bankruptcy claims-filing deadlines can force victims to come forward before they are ready, Hamilton said. And abuse claimants have limited leverage in Chapter 11 cases that halt their litigation and shield organizations such as dioceses, schools or youth organizations from current and future lawsuits, she said.
“The federal bankruptcy law is just defective when it comes to sexual-abuse victims,” Hamilton said. “Their voice is just stolen from them.”
Reuters identified settlements in 23 bankruptcies precipitated by child sexual-abuse scandals that halted current and future lawsuits and forced claimants to seek compensation from a trust. The cases involved the Boy Scouts, 21 Catholic organizations and USA Gymnastics. The youth gymnastics organization filed for Chapter 11 protection in 2018 amid a surge of lawsuits alleging abuse by convicted child sexual abuser Larry Nassar. (Now in prison, Nassar could not be reached for comment.)
The Boy Scouts and USA Gymnastics did not comment for this story.
The Boy Scouts and others have argued that their bankruptcy plans seek to pay claimants fairly and equitably, whereas civil litigation can result in some victims winning large jury verdicts and others receiving smaller judgments or nothing. USA Gymnastics has said it sought bankruptcy protection “to pave the way toward a settlement” with abuse survivors, who last year approved a plan paying them $380 million.
The organizations also often conduct extensive marketing campaigns to ensure that potential victims know they can seek compensation in the Chapter 11 cases, a review of the cases shows. The Boy Scouts, for instance, said on a website the group set up for restructuring that it launched a “comprehensive noticing campaign” in the media.
The Madison Square Boys & Girls Club in New York City referred Reuters to a bankruptcy-court declaration filed in June by its chief financial officer, Jeffrey Dold. Dold said the organization sought Chapter 11 protection after trying and failing to resolve about 140 pending claims of sexual abuse by club employees and volunteers between the 1940s and 1980s, all filed after the passage of New York’s claims-revival law. The club filed bankruptcy, Dold said, “to provide a forum to address those claims fairly and equitably.”
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops had no comment on the new state laws or their impact nationwide on Catholic organizations facing sexual-abuse lawsuits. In a statement to Reuters, it said it defers to state and local catholic leadership organizations on state laws and bankruptcies. The conference noted the importance of “pastoral outreach” to abuse victims and said that local dioceses have victim assistance coordinators to “assist survivors and accompany them as they seek healing.”
The nonprofit organizations’ bankruptcies don’t protect the individual abusers themselves, whom victims can still sue. But they do grant lawsuit immunity to the entities that oversaw employees or volunteers accused of abuse.
Lawyers defending organizations targeted by sexual-abuse claims, along with some plaintiffs lawyers, say bankruptcy provides a fair way to compensate victims, many of whom want to avoid the ordeal of a lawsuit and a potential trial. Moreover, organizations and insurers paying the settlements won’t agree to any deal that doesn’t shield them from additional liability, said Susan Boswell, a retired lawyer who represented dioceses in bankruptcies from Arizona to Minnesota.
“If you can’t have finality,” she said, “then you are not ever going to be able to get one of these cases done.”
America’s federal bankruptcy courts play a critical role in justice and commerce by giving businesses overwhelmed by debt an orderly process to settle with creditors during a reorganization or liquidation. Those debts can include liability from lawsuits over deadly products, fraud, sexual abuse or other wrongdoing.
The power of U.S. bankruptcy courts to grant lawsuit immunity to organizations in bankruptcy, their leaders and affiliated entities has expanded over time. And so have the legal tactics of entities seeking Chapter 11 protection: Some corporations engulfed in scandals are now creating subsidiaries solely to absorb their lawsuit liability and declare bankruptcy.
Nonprofit organizations facing sexual-abuse lawsuits have pulled another page from the corporate bankruptcy playbook: In striking settlements, they typically seek “nondebtor releases” for their associated entities, such as religious schools and individual parishes. Such releases shield people and entities from lawsuits over issues taken up in bankruptcy settlements. By piggybacking on a nonprofit’s Chapter 11 filing, its affiliated organizations or leaders often get these liability shields without having to file for bankruptcy themselves.
Judges often appoint someone to advocate for the interests of potential victims who have not yet sued or made a claim in bankruptcy court. Known as future claims representatives, these appointees are often lawyers or financial professionals who are paid by the debtor and tasked with estimating the number of future claims and the funds needed to cover them. The reality, however, is that late filers often end up competing for smaller amounts than those who meet the deadline, according to court records reviewed by Reuters and attorneys involved in the proceedings. Unknown claimants become “numbers on a chart,” Rubino said.
JUSTICE DENIED
A former Boy Scout, C, alleges a Scout leader abused him when he was a teenager. Reuters agreed to identify the former Scout, now 40, only by his first initial.
He sought compensation in the Boy Scouts bankruptcy in June, long after a deadline of November 16, 2020 for filing claims. C is now unlikely to recover much, if anything, from the $2.46 billion settlement the Boy Scouts reached with claimants alleging sexual abuse, his lawyer said. That’s because claimants who miss the deadline face a gauntlet of additional hurdles and conditions, according to C’s lawyer and a review of the Boy Scouts settlement terms.
The Boy Scouts bankruptcy reorganization plan, approved by a judge in September, halts all lawsuits against the Boy Scouts, local councils, churches and other organizations that chartered scouting activities.
The bankruptcy’s claims-filing rules take precedence over a recent law passed in California, where C says he was abused, that expanded sexual-abuse victims’ rights to sue. The bankruptcy proceedings generally trump state laws because bankruptcy courts are federal, and typically have the power to override state statutes and halt state lawsuits or court orders.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Laurie Selber Silverstein reasoned in approving the Boy Scouts settlement that it was a better solution for victims than seeking compensation in trial courts.
Silverstein declined to comment for this story. In a July opinion approving aspects of the Scouts’ reorganization plan, she noted that insurance carriers, local Scouts councils and chartered organizations would not contribute to the settlement without receiving nondebtor releases from liability. She agreed with lawyers for the Boy Scouts and some claimants that the only alternative to a settlement was a “‘death trap’ of litigation with minimal recoveries in sight.”
“These boys–now men–seek and deserve compensation,” the judge wrote, for “abuse which has had a profound effect on their lives and for which no compensation will ever be enough.”
Beyond questions of fair compensation, C said the bankruptcy is preventing him from getting his day in court against the Boy Scouts to present what happened to him.
C grew up in an unstable home in northern California. His mother considered the Boy Scouts a safe environment for her son. For years after a Scout leader allegedly abused him and other boys, C struggled with acknowledging that what had happened to him was wrong, he told Reuters. He had trusted his Scout leader.
Within the past couple of years, he spoke at length with another former Scout about the leader’s behavior, he said. The emotional conversation prompted C to reflect on the damage in his own life stemming from the abuse. He said in an interview that his own struggles relating to others began to make more sense. C lives with his mother, sometimes sleeps in his car and has struggled to find a steady career.
“I’m waiting to stand in front of a judge,” C said, and hoping for that judge to say: “‘What happened to you was wrong.’”
‘THE PRIEST WOULD NEVER DO THAT’
Some plaintiffs’ attorneys say bankruptcy proceedings can provide a better way to compensate many sexual-abuse victims than trial courts. Victims often don’t want to go through the ordeal of suing their abusers or the organizations that may have enabled them, said Dan Lapinski, a Motley Rice LLC lawyer representing Boy Scouts claimants. For them, seeking compensation through bankruptcy can allow victims to file a claim confidentially and avoid reliving their trauma in open court.
“I have clients who fall into that category” in the Scouts matter, Lapinski said, noting that these victims might not have pursued their claim at all outside of bankruptcy court.
Financial coffers of individual dioceses are usually smaller than those of large corporations, said Boswell, the retired lawyer who has represented dioceses facing abuse allegations in bankruptcies. Expensive litigation cuts into the money available for compensation, she said, but a bankruptcy reorganization can attempt to pay all claimants equitably.
Still, there is often little left for claimants who come forward later, after bankruptcy filing deadlines pass.
In January 2020, a 59-year old former altar boy named Henry attended a church service in Minnesota on a visit back to the state to see family. After the service, Henry said, the priest spoke to parishioners about the financial impact of the 2018 bankruptcy of the local Winona-Rochester diocese, caused in part by sexual-abuse claims.
Henry knew the abuse first-hand. When he was 17, a priest assaulted Henry in a pool shower after swimming, he said in an interview. He had kept what happened to himself in part because he thought nobody would believe him, said Henry, who spoke on condition that he be identified only by his middle name.
Before clergy sexual-abuse scandals emerged worldwide, his community’s attitude was “the church would never do that, the priest would never do that,” he said. “You’re kind of squelched from the get-go.”
Finding out about the bankruptcy in church that day emboldened Henry to come forward, too, he said. Two days after the priest’s comments, he contacted a lawyer who filed a late claim on his behalf. But relatively little money — a maximum of $750,000 — had been set aside for claimants who came forward after a 2019 deadline. Henry received $20,000, which he described as “an almost laughable“ amount.
Henry could receive more money later, depending on how many additional claims are filed and how a trustee who determines payouts views his claim. But a final determination won’t be made until a deadline for filing late claims passes several years from now, according to documents Reuters reviewed. The judge in the case declined to comment.
By comparison, the settlement covering the 145 sexual-abuse claimants who filed on time was nearly $28 million. That would equate to about $190,000 per victim. The amount individual claimants might receive varies, depending on factors including the duration, severity and impact of their alleged abuse, according to court documents.
“What I don’t like is that they put some arbitrary cap on anybody who filed after” the deadline, Henry said.
Peter Martin, a spokesperson for the Winona-Rochester diocese, declined to comment on its bankruptcy proceedings. Martin did not respond to inquiries about Henry’s allegations of sexual abuse.
POWER AND TRUST
Statutes of limitations exist for good reason, some legal scholars say.
Historically, states enacted them to encourage plaintiffs to file timely lawsuits based on “reasonably fresh” evidence, said Marie T. Reilly, a professor at Penn State Law in University Park, Pennsylvania. Reilly argues that allowing victims to sue long after their alleged abuse threatens the integrity of the legal system in the name of exacting retribution against institutions such as Catholic dioceses.
Over time, memories deteriorate, witnesses die and documents can go missing, she said. “The ability to mount a defense deteriorates with the passage of time,” Reilly said.
New York State Senator Brad Hoylman, a Democrat, sponsored the state’s bipartisan legislation reviving child sexual-abuse claims. He told Reuters he pushed the bill because it can be especially difficult for individuals to come forward with allegations against abusers who are often “in positions of power and trust.”
For thousands of victims with revived legal rights to seek accountability from institutions in trial courts, bankruptcy filings can be crushing.
Doug Kennedy was a teenage Boy Scouts camp staffer in upstate New York when a camp director raped him repeatedly and forced him to engage in other sexual activity, according to a lawsuit he filed. His case was halted by the Boy Scouts bankruptcy. In the years after the assaults, he told Reuters, he buried his memories of the abuse.
The man Kennedy accused of abuse, Bruce DeSandre, declined to comment through his attorney. In a court filing, DeSandre denied Kennedy’s allegations of sexual abuse and argued that New York state’s revival law was unconstitutional.
When Kennedy, now a college professor, finally came to grips with his abuse, the statute of limitations for filing a lawsuit had passed.
In January 2019, he retreated to his office at Virginia Wesleyan University, drew the shades and watched a streaming feed of the New York state legislature’s vote to change the law and allow victims like Kennedy to file lawsuits over abuse that occurred long ago.
“I broke down, completely broke down,” he said.
He thought he would finally get a chance to get accountability for what was allowed to happen to him. Later that year, in August, he filed his lawsuit against defendants including a Boy Scouts local council and DeSandre.
About six months later, the Boy Scouts filed for bankruptcy. Kennedy said his feeling of hope drained away when he heard the news.
“Bankruptcy is not justice,” he said. “Bankruptcy is business.”
Despite its expectations of holiness and celibacy, the Catholic Church has been the subject of a fair share of monastic scandal. Nearly all of these scandals, however, pale in comparison to the tales of coercion and wrongdoing that haunt the history of Maria Agnese Firrao's convent.
600 Kids Were Sexually Abused by Baltimore’s Catholic Church Over 6 Decades
600 Kids Were Sexually Abused , by Baltimore’s Catholic Church Over 6 Decades. NBC News reports that on April 5, Attorney General Anthony Brown accused Catholic Church officials in the state of attempting to cover up years of sexual abuse. Brown contends that a minimum of 600 children were victims, and some were "preyed upon by multiple abusers over decades.". 600 children are known to have been abused by the 156 people included in this Report, but the number is likely far higher, Anthony Brown, Maryland Attorney General, via statement. Time and again, members of the Church’s hierarchy resolutely refused to acknowledge allegations of child sexual abuse for as long as possible, Anthony Brown, Maryland Attorney General, via statement. When denial became impossible, Church leadership would remove abusers from the parish or school, sometimes with promises that they would have no further contact with children. , Anthony Brown, Maryland Attorney General, via statement. When denial became impossible, Church leadership would remove abusers from the parish or school, sometimes with promises that they would have no further contact with children. , Anthony Brown, Maryland Attorney General, via statement. Church documents reveal with disturbing clarity that the Archdiocese was more concerned with avoiding scandal and negative publicity than it was with protecting children, Anthony Brown, Maryland Attorney General, via statement. Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori referred to the report as a "sad and painful reminder of the tremendous harm caused to innocent children and young people by some ministers of the Church.". The detailed accounts of abuse are shocking and soul searing. It is difficult for most to imagine that such evil acts could have actually occurred. , William E. Lori, Baltimore Archbishop, via statement. For victim-survivors everywhere, they know the hard truth: These evil acts did occur, William E. Lori, Baltimore Archbishop, via statement
BALTIMORE (AP) — After Maryland lawmakers recently eliminated the statute of limitations for child sex abuse lawsuits amid heightened scrutiny of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, civil rights attorney Ben Crump announced plans Tuesday to bring a series of civil claims on behalf of victims.
The threat of litigation comes as the the archdiocese faces continued fallout from a state report released last month that found more than 150 priests and other clergy in the archdiocese sexually abused over 600 children with impunity. The report, which the Maryland Attorney General’s Office produced after a yearslong investigation, paints a damning picture of the nation’s oldest Catholic diocese.
Days after the report’s release, Gov. Wes Moore signed legislation to end Maryland’s statute of limitations for child sex abuse lawsuits effective Oct. 1. Previously, victims couldn’t sue after turning 38.
Crump, best known for representing victims of police brutality, held a news conference Tuesday outside the Baltimore Basilica with attorney Adam Slater, his partner on some earlier high-profile sex abuse cases. Several potential plaintiffs shared their stories of abuse; some overlapped with findings of the attorney general’s investigation while others presented new allegations.
“You cannot outrun the trauma that was inflicted, no matter how hard they tried,” Crump told reporters. “Many of them — for years, for decades — believed it was their fault.”
A spokesperson for the archdiocese didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday.
Marc Floto, one of the potential plaintiffs, said the attorney general’s investigation inspired him to come forward and speak publicly about childhood abuse he said caused “so many problems” in his life.
“Still to this day, I have so much anger, so much hate,” he said, sobbing silently between sentences. “The church needs to be held accountable.”
Floto displayed a printed photo of himself — in suit and tie, his blonde hair neatly combed — from around the time he said the abuse occurred.
The Associated Press typically does not name people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly.
“This little boy had his innocence stolen,” Crump said.
Floto said he wasn’t interviewed for the attorney general’s investigation but his abuser, Father James Dowdy, is named in the report.
Ordained in 1969, Dowdy served in several Maryland parishes before abuse allegations surfaced in 1991, according to the report. He denied the allegations, saying it was nothing more than horseplay with boys, and apparently he faced no consequences.
Two years later, another man reported Dowdy had sexually abused him in the 1970s and ’80s. Dowdy was then placed on leave and his ministerial faculties were removed, the report says. Church officials agreed to pay the victim’s counseling and medication costs while simultaneously bankrolling Dowdy’s therapy, health care and living expenses for years. His expenses cost the church well over $100,000, more than 10 times what the victim received, according to the report. During therapy, Dowdy disclosed many more instances of abuse. Finally, in 1977, his church employment was terminated.
The Baltimore archdiocese has already paid more than $13.2 million for care and compensation for 301 abuse victims since the 1980s, including $6.8 million toward 105 voluntary settlements.
But the recent law change, including a provision making it retroactive, could allow for a deluge of additional lawsuits.
The Maryland Catholic Conference, representing the three dioceses serving the state, opposed the measure, arguing the retroactive window was unconstitutional and citing potentially devastating impacts on the Baltimore archdiocese and other institutions. Anticipating a court challenge, lawmakers included language in the bill that would further delay lawsuits until the Supreme Court of Maryland can determine whether it’s constitutional.
Several other states have passed similar legislation in recent years, and in some cases, resulting lawsuits have driven dioceses into bankruptcy.
Also present at Tuesday’s news conference, former Maryland Sen. Tim Ferguson said he was 13 or 14 when a priest asked to take him fishing for the weekend. The guest bedroom was being renovated, the priest claimed, so they would have to share his bed.
Ferguson said he froze during the assault, then laid awake all night. He was afraid to report the abuse to his parents, worried what his father might do.
Joeing to the report.
Dozens more victims came forward after Smith’s death.
Taylor, who grew up in a devout Catholic family, said his own relatives didn’t believe him when he reported Smith’s abuse, believing priests to be infallible.
“Just a lifelong battle,” he said. “No amount of money can bring back 45 years of lost friends and family.” Taylor said his abuser, Father Thomas Smith, would take boys on beach trips and make them swim with him in “dark waters.”
Smith’s name appears multiple times in the attorney general’s report, which said he both perpetrated abuse and helped protect other abusers in congregations across the Baltimore area. He died by suicide in 1993, not long after a second victim accused him of assault and filed a lawsuit against the archdiocese. The claim was later dismissed because of the statute of limitations, but a judge found the archdiocese committed a possible dereliction of duties in its handling of abuse cases.
The lawsuit came five years after Smith admitted to church officials that he had abused multiple boys in the 1960s — a revelation that was brushed under the rug, according to the report. Shortly after learning of the abuse, then-Archbishop William Borders wrote Smith a letter praising his “many fine years of priesthood” and ordering him “not to engage in any form of youth work,” accord
CATHOLIC PRIESTS PREY ON NUNS FOR SEX FROM VIRGINS!
Pope cites new book on nun abuse in warning to superiors
CATHOLIC PRIESTS PREY ON NUNS FOR SEX FROM VIRGINS!
Women Sex Slaves of the Catholic Church is a very important documentary about a serious taboo that has been broken recently. The film shines a light on sexual abuse of nuns by priests and reveals that thousands of nuns were sexually abused for decades by priests around the world. Women have endured years of sexual predation, becoming pregnant, being forced to have abortions. Here they openly testify and break the "omerta" on a subject that has been drowning in the Catholic church for decades. From 1994 until 2015 the Vatican was alerted by internal confidential reports about churchmen that regularly rape nuns in more than 23 countries. These reports have been hushed up and the rapists continue to harm freely. With the complicity of the ecclesiastical courts, their victims have been reduced to silence, sometimes pushed to abort, often excluded from their community. Pope Francis admitted as early as February 2019, that "Priests and Bishops" had committed sexual assaults on nuns. Following the revelations of sexual abuse, more nuns have begun to speak out and denounce the attacks they have been subjected to. One can't help but be curious that the Pope makes this public statement when he knows the film will come out... It's interesting to see these nuns whose ages are different, find the courage to break the silence on camera to testify to these systemic sexual abuses. French director Marie-Pierre Raimbault collaborated with investigative journalist Eric Quintin for more than three years, to obtain the firsthand accounts of those nuns who claim they were used as sex slaves by Catholic priests. This is yet another scandal which is engulfing the Catholic Church. At a time when the Vatican has taken its most concrete steps to address a long ordeal with sex abuse and cover-ups, a growing chorus of nuns is speaking out about the suffering they have endured at the hands of the priesthood, including rape, forced abortion, emotional abuse and labor exploitation. We applaud each and every woman for her courage. It's never easy to speak up.
Pope cites new book on nun abuse in warning to superiors
CATHOLIC PRIESTS PREY ON NUNS FOR SEX FROM VIRGINS!
Shocking Confession of Sister Charlotte, Former Roman Catholic Nun
Jul 1, 2013
Sister Charlotte, a former Roman Catholic nun, spent over 22 years in a cloistered convent, hidden away from public scrutiny. She delivers a shocking and gripping testimony of abuse, torture, rape, pedophilia, and even murder; all of which she says were a daily part of convent life.
Pope cites new book on nun abuse in warning to superiors
Pope cites new book on nun abuse in warning to superiors
Pope cites new book on nun abuse in warning to superiors
Pope Francis is drawing attention to a problem that the Vatican has long sought to downplay: the abuses of power by mother superiors against nuns who have little recourse but to obey
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press
ROME -- Pope Francis on Saturday drew attention to a problem that the Vatican has long sought to downplay: the abuses of power by mother superiors against nuns who, because of their vows of obedience, have little recourse but to obey.
During an audience with members of the Vatican’s congregation for religious orders, Francis cited a new investigative expose of the problem written by a reporter for the Holy See’s media, Salvatore Cernuzio.
Francis noted that the book, “Veil of Silence: Abuse, Violence, Frustrations in Female Religious Life,” doesn’t detail “striking” cases of violence and abuse “but rather the everyday abuses that harm the strength of the vocation.”
The book, published in Italy last month, contains 11 cases of current or former religious sisters who suffered abuses at the hands of their superiors. Most were psychological and spiritual abuses and often resulted in the women leaving or being thrown out of their communities and questioning their faith in God and the church. Some ended up on the streets, others found refuge in a home for abused women.
The book follows an article on the same topic by the Vatican-approved Jesuit journal La Civilta Cattolica in 2020 and earlier reports in the Vatican’s women’s magazine about the sexual abuse of nuns by priests and exploitation of them by the male church hierarchy for free domestic labor.
The new book peels back another layer of the more insidious forms of psychological abuses committed by superiors against their own nuns, which have long been covered up by a veil of secrecy. It contains a devastatingly essay by one of the highest-ranking women at the Vatican, Sister Natalie Becquart, who said the cases must force the church to look at the sometimes toxic reality of life in religious orders, tend to the victims and prevent future abuses from occuring.
She said it also reinforces the need for the Catholic hierarchy to ensure that priests and nuns are trained in the correct way to exercise obedience and authority, saying the erroneous application of both had led to the problem.
Francis has tried to crack down on the near-absolute power enjoyed by religious and lay superiors as well as the proliferation of new religious movements, some of which have seen horrific cases of sexual, spiritual and other forms of abuse committed by their charismatic founders. The Vatican has recently imposed term limits for leaders and is applying a more rigorous process for new groups to be approved in the church.
The Jesuit pope, who knows well the dynamic of religious community life, told the members of the Vatican congregation Saturday that there is always the threat that founders of religious orders or new religious movements will assume too much power and exercise it improperly.
The risk, he warned, is that they claim to be the only ones who can interpret the particular spirit of the movement “as if they were above the church.”
Cult Crazy Catholic Nuns Too Timid to "Escape" Abusers
Cult Crazy Catholic Nuns Too Timid to "Escape" Abusers
Cult Crazy Catholic Nuns Too Timid to "Escape" Abusers
These Former Nuns Were Allegedly Abused Within The Convent Walls. Now, They Are Speaking Out.
Dec 28, 2020
Religious orders are supposed to be spiritual sanctuaries for those who join. But for these women, the order of Sisters Minor of Mary Immaculate was a nightmare of alleged abuse. Now, years later, four of those former sisters are speaking out in hopes of preventing abuse.
Cult Crazy Catholic Nuns Too Timid to "Escape" Abusers
Cult Crazy Catholic Nuns Too Timid to "Escape" Abusers
A Nun's Story: From Convent Bondage (Sexual Desire, Dating Priests, Rituals, No Bible) to Jesus
Aug 30, 2012
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A free written transcript of this message is available at https://media-cloud.sermonaudio.com/t.... Free written transcripts of this message are available in 20 languages at https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninf... video is partly based on the book "The Truth Set Us Free: Twenty Former Nuns Tell Their Stories of God’s Amazing Grace" & is available on Richard Bennett's website www.BereanBeacon.org at http://www.bereanbeacon.org/#/books/. See our playlist "Dealing with Roman Catholicism, Idolatry & the Virgin Mary" with 181 videos & counting at • Dealing with Roma... . Mary Allen spent 26 years as a Nun. She gives a personal and very descriptive account of her long life in the convent. Her coming to true Christian salvation many years after convent life is fascinating. Share this video with family, friends & nuns. "What Every Catholic Should Know" playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list.... Larry Wessels, director of Christian Answers of Austin, Texas/ Christian Debater (YouTube channel CANSWERSTV at http://www.youtube.com/user/CAnswersT... websites: http://www.BIBLEQUERY.ORG, http://www.HISTORYCART.COM, & https://www.muslimhope.com/) presents former Roman Catholic priest for 22 years Richard Bennett for this video. Larry actually attends the same church in Austin, Texas (http://dsf.org/) with Richard Bennett (website: http://www.BEREANBEACON.ORG) so the opportunity to present Richard's research is truly by God's providence. Richard Bennett is joined in studio by former nun Mary Allen for this presentation. Roman Catholic nuns, similar in tradition to ancient Rome's "vestal virgins" (the Vestals or Vestal Virgins (Vestales, singular Vestalis), were priestesses of Vesta, goddess of the hearth. The Vestals were freed of the usual social obligations to marry and bear children, and took a vow of chastity in order to devote themselves to the study and correct observance of state rituals) or Buddhist nuns, think their ascetic lifestyle will earn them eternal salvation. Even Mother Teresa felt the emptiness of this type of "works to earn salvation" writing, "How cold—how empty—how painful is my heart.—Holy communion—Holy Mass—all the holy things of spiritual life—of the life of Christ in me—are all so empty—so cold—so un-wanted. The physical situation of my poor, left in the streets unwanted, unloved, un-claimed—are the true picture of my own spiritual life, of my love for Jesus...." (Letter to Fr. Neuner, May 12, 1962, Mother Teresa, p. 232). The Dominican nuns were founded by St. Dominic even before he had established the friars. They are contemplatives in the cloistered life. The Friars and Nuns together form the Order of Preachers properly speaking. The nuns celebrated their 800th anniversary in 2006. Dominic nevertheless became the spiritual father to several Albigensian women he had reconciled to the faith, and in 1206 he established them in a convent in Prouille. This convent would become the foundation of the Dominican nuns, thus making the Dominican nuns older than the Dominican friars. Dominic sought to establish a new kind of order, one that would bring the dedication and systematic education of the older monastic orders like the Benedictines to bear on the religious problems of the burgeoning population of cities, but with more organizational flexibility than either monastic orders or the secular clergy. Dominic's new order was to be a preaching order, trained to preach in the vernacular languages. Rather than earning their living on vast farms as the monasteries had done, the new friars would survive by begging, "selling" themselves through persuasive preaching. True Christian believers have the "Spirit of truth" (John 14:17) and through that Spirit, a vital bond of union with Jesus Christ. If anyone has Christ as Savior, he or she has the Holy Spirit as Indweller (1 Corinthians 6:19-20). Anyone who claims to belong to Jesus Christ but gives no evidence of being indwelt by the Holy Spirit lacks the indisputable proof to establish his or her claim. No test could be more easily applied and none is more decisive, as Scripture explains; "now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His" (Romans 8:9). The consolation of the Holy Spirit is so basic to Christian life that the Apostle Paul calls it "everlasting consolation;" "now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace...." (2 Thessalonians 2:16). For those who are truly saved, "everlasting consolation" follows on the everlasting love, the eternal redemption, and the everlasting life that is found in the Gospel of grace (Ephesians 2:8-10). Thus living in a monastery or convent is unnecessary & hoping relics, praying to Mary, or following ascetic rules & rituals will lead to salvation is worthless (Galatians 1:6-9).
This greasy low life is still refusing to do the right thing by victims of child sex crimes in Indigenous Catholic Schools. Survivors give him a cute headdress instead of tribal justice. He needs to face real justice from the indigenous victims of child sex crimes.
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH FACES RETRIBUTION FOR GENOCIDE & RAPE
The dark legacy of Canada's residential schools, where thousands of children died
Catholic Church engages in cultural genocide against children. Child rape was no problem.
Catholic Church engages in cultural genocide against children. Child rape was no problem.
Last year, archeologists detected what they believed to be 200 unmarked graves at a residential school in Canada, bringing new attention to one of the country's most shameful chapters. Anderson Cooper reports.
Catholic Church engages in cultural genocide against children. Child rape was no problem.
Catholic Church engages in cultural genocide against children. Child rape was no problem.
Catholic Church engages in cultural genocide against children. Child rape was no problem.
600+ Unmarked Graves Found At Indigenous Residential School in Canada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBXQykkSEUM Residential school survivors reflect on a brutal legacy: ‘That could’ve been me.’ It’s been 51 years since Deedee Lerat, 60, attended the Marieval Indian Residential School on her home reservation of Cowessess in Saskatchewan, Canada. But the memories of the abuses the Salteaux Cree woman endured there still haunt her. “There was so much fear,” she says. The fear came rushing back when the Cowessess First Nation announced on June 23 that it had discovered 751 unmarked graves at the site of the school. “I would like answers,” says Lerat. “Why weren’t they reported? Why wasn’t this stopped?” She was five years old when she was forced to attend Marieval. “That could’ve been me.” Residential school survivors reflect on a brutal legacy: ‘That could’ve been me.’ (nationalgeographic.com) Canadian government asks Pope to apologize for mass graves of Indigenous children The Kamloops Indian Residential School was one of the largest in Canada and operated by the Catholic Church between 1890 and 1969 before it was closed in the late 1970s. A 2015 report from the Canadian government detailed physical, sexual and emotional abuse some of the children suffered, and in 2017, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau personally asked the Pope to consider an official apology. The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops in 2018 said the Pope could not personally apologize for the Catholic Church’s role in the residential schools. https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/556647-canadian-government-asks-pope-to-apologize-for-mass-graves-of PBS Commentators Offer Great Perspective On Catholic Church Attrocities PBS is an American public broadcast service. Wikipedia Brooks and Capehart on Indigenous boarding schools Brooks and Capehart on Indigenous boarding schools, Biden budget, child tax credit - YouTube
Canadian Indian Nation Give The Catholic Church A House Cleaning Ritual
Catholic Church engages in cultural genocide against children. Child rape was no problem.
Canadian Indian Nation Give The Catholic Church A House Cleaning Ritual
At least 9 Canadian churches set ablaze amid indigenous anger over residential schools At least nine Catholic and Anglican churches across Canada have gone up in flames amid a backlash over the country's use of church-run residential schools to forcibly assimilate indigenous children from the late 19th century until the 1970s. The majority of the church fires occurred on indigenous First Nations land. The recent discoveries of hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential schools within the last month appear to have made churches a target. WIFE OF JAILED CANADIAN PASTOR SPEAKS OUT: 'THIS ISN'T THE COUNTRY I GREW UP IN' Historically, more than 150,000 First Nations children were required to attend state-funded Christian schools as part of a program to assimilate them into Canadian society. They were forced to convert to Christianity and not allowed to speak their native languages. Many were beaten and verbally abused, and up to 6,000 are said to have died. While it's unclear how the children buried in the unmarked graves died, the discovery of their remains has ignited anger among First Nations communities across the country. The majority of the church fires have targeted Catholic churches. Sacred Heart Catholic Church, located in Penticton Indian Band in British Columbia, was destroyed in fire on June 21. A few hours later that same morning, St. Gregory Catholic Church, which sits on Osoyoos Indian Band lands, also in British Columbia, was set ablaze. On June 26, two more Catholic churches on indigenous land were burned to the ground: Our Lady of Lourdes Chopaka and St. Ann's Church. That same day, St. Paul, an Anglican church in British Columbia, was set on fire. The church survived that fire with only minor damage, but a second blaze on July 1 destroyed the building. Authorities were called to a blaze at Siksika First Nation Catholic Church on June 28, but were able to extinguish the fire before it caused major structural damage. St. Jean Baptiste Paris Church burned to the ground on June 30. Videos posted online showed the Alberta church engulfed in flames. At least 9 Canadian churches set ablaze amid indigenous anger over residential schools | Fox News As At The Least 20 Canadian Church Buildings Burn, Politicians And Others ENDORSE The Arson – JP For as houses of worship, some of which serve immigrant and American Indian communities, are set alight by arsonists, a civil libertarian tweeted “Burn it all down.” What’s more, some politicians have, incredibly, tacitly or explicitly endorsed this sentiment.
ORPHANGE HOUSES OF HORRORS
JESUIT EDUCATORS SPECIALIZE IN CHILD RAPE AND GENOCIDE
Canadian Indian Nation Give The Catholic Church A House Cleaning Ritual
Murder, Rape, Abuse, and Attempted Drownings Were Life In Catholic Convent Hell!
Catholic Church Tries To Hide Bodies Of 800 Children - Children Of Shame Tuam, a name that traumatized the whole of Ireland in the spring of 2014, when a hidden mass grave containing the remains of some 800 children was discovered on the former grounds of a home for single mothers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwRuCGCaQqg We Saw Nuns Kill Children: The Ghosts of St. Joseph's Catholic Orphanage By Christine Kenneally, Buzzfeed, Senior Contributor Buzzfeednews.com August 27, 2018 Sally figured the boy fell from the window in 1944 or so, because she was moving to the “big girls” dormitory that day. Girls usually moved when they were 6, though residents of St. Joseph’s Orphanage in Burlington, Vermont, did not always have a clear sense of their age — birthdays, like siblings and even names, being one of the many human attributes that were stripped from them when they passed through its doors. She recounted his fall in a deposition on Nov. 6, 1996, as part of a remarkable group of lawsuits that 28 former residents brought against the nuns, the diocese, and the social agency that oversaw the orphanage. I watched the deposition — all 19 hours of grainy, scratchy videotape — more than two decades later. By that time sexual abuse scandals had ripped through the Catholic Church, shattering the silence that had for so long protected its secrets. It was easier for accusers in general to come forward, and easier for people to believe their stories, even if the stories sounded too awful to be true. Even if they had happened decades ago, when the accusers were only children. Even if the people they were accusing were pillars of the community. But for all these revelations — including this month’s Pennsylvania grand jury report on how the church hid the crimes of hundreds of priests — a darker history, the one to which Sally’s story belongs, remains all but unknown. It is the history of unrelenting physical and psychological abuse of captive children. Across thousands of miles, across decades, the abuse took eerily similar forms: People who grew up in orphanages said they were made to kneel or stand for hours, sometimes with their arms straight out, sometimes holding their boots or some other item. They were forced to eat their own vomit. They were dangled upside down out windows, over wells, or in laundry chutes. Children were locked in cabinets, in closets, in attics, sometimes for days, sometimes so long they were forgotten. They were told their relatives didn’t want them, or they were permanently separated from their siblings. They were sexually abused. They were mutilated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o13yTTAeM30https://www.bishop-accountability.org/news555/2018_08_27_Kenneally_We_Saw.htm
This survivor was denied compensation for her abuse. The courts said she waited to long to come forward with her abuse. No one has been prosecuted for their crimes.
JESUIT EDUCATORS SPECIALIZE IN CHILD RAPE AND GENOCIDE
JESUIT EDUCATORS SPECIALIZE IN CHILD RAPE AND GENOCIDE
JESUIT EDUCATORS SPECIALIZE IN CHILD RAPE AND GENOCIDE
Native American Communities and the Clerical Abuse Crisis Archived recording of a conversation on 2/25/21, sponsored by Taking Responsibility: Jesuit Educational Institutions Confront the Causes and Legacy of the Clerical Abuse Crisis, https://www.fordham.edu/info/29908/ta... . Contact us at takingresponsibility@fordham.edu.
CATHOLIC CHURCH MADE A FORTUNE ON CULTURAL GENOCIDE
JESUIT EDUCATORS SPECIALIZE IN CHILD RAPE AND GENOCIDE
JESUIT EDUCATORS SPECIALIZE IN CHILD RAPE AND GENOCIDE
Canadian Taxpayers Pay Settlement For Catholic Church Crimes Against Children! A court ruling this year, ordering compensation to be paid, has been a source of tension between the government and indigenous activists Canada has pledged up to C$40bn ($31bn; £23.6bn) in compensation for indigenous children and families who suffered discrimination while in foster care. In September, a top court upheld a 2016 ruling that the government underfunded First Nations services compared with those for non-indigenous children. It ordered C$40,000 ($31,350; £23,340) payouts to each child who was in the on-reserve welfare system after 2006. The government initially said it would appeal the verdict. But it has come under intense public scrutiny after the discovery of over 1,100 unmarked graves at the sites of former residential schools. The child graves behind Canada's national reckoning Why Canada is reforming indigenous foster care Until as recently as 1996, Canada's residential school system separated indigenous children from their families and sent them to boarding schools where many were malnourished, beaten and sexually abused. The school system was part of attempts to assimilate indigenous children - forcing them to abandon their native languages and convert to Christianity. Media caption,"No reconciliation without truth": A survivor recounts abuse in Canadian residential school The government's compensation amount, expected to be formally announced on Tuesday, will be used to settle the 2016 tribunal, two other lawsuits, and fund long-term reforms in the indigenous child welfare system, a source told public broadcaster CBC. "Money does not mean justice, however, it signals that we are on the healing path forward," said RoseAnne Archibald, National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations. "The magnitude of the proposed compensation package is a testament to how many of our children were ripped from their families and communities," she added. Some 150,000 First Nations, Métis and Inuit children were housed in the schools, which operated between 1874 and 1996. 📷IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGESImage caption,First Nations community members gather for a vigil in Marieval after a discovery of unmarked graves The policy traumatised generations of indigenous children, who were forced to abandon their native languages, speak English or French and convert to Christianity. Christian churches were essential in the founding and operation of the schools. The Roman Catholic Church in particular was responsible for operating up to 70% of residential schools, according to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society. Earlier this year, the Vatican said Pope Francis had agreed to visit Canada to assist with reconciliation efforts. But a formal date has not been announced, and the Pope has not issued an official apology for the Church's role, despite repeated called by Canadians. Zorrow | Facebook https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59602955
Catholic Creepers Celebrate Celibacy!
French Catholic Clergy Sexually Abused 330,000 Children..Wow
Cardinal Philippe Barbarin was convicted of failing to report ! Conviction Overturned!
French Catholic Clergy Sexually Abused 330,000 Children..Wow
City of Chester News Tv France's Catholic Church had 3,000 child abusers, finds independent investigation October 3, 202111:47 PM ET THE CITY OF CHESTER PRESS PARIS — An independent commission examining sex abuse within the Roman Catholic Church in France believes 3,000 child abusers — two-thirds of them priests — have worked in the church over the past 70 years. The estimate was given by the commission president, Jean-Marc Sauvé, in an interview published Sunday in the newspaper Journal du Dimanche. The commission has been investigating for 2 1/2 years. Its full findings are scheduled to be released on Tuesday. In the interview, Sauvé did not give a figure on the number of sex abuse victims but said the report does include a new estimate. Asked about the commission's work investigating child abusers, he said: "We evaluated their number at 3,000, out of 11,500 priests and church people since the 1950s. Two-thirds are diocesan priests." He said 22 cases have been forwarded to prosecutors for alleged crimes that can still be pursued. More than 40 cases of alleged crimes that are too old to be prosecuted but that involve suspects who are still alive have been forwarded to church officials, Sauvé said. "From 1950 to 1970, the church is completely indifferent to the victims: They don't exist, the suffering inflicted on children is ignored," the newspaper quoted him as saying. "The periods that followed were different." He added: "Our objective is to furnish a concrete diagnosis of all the abuses, to identify the causes and draw all of the consequences."
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Cardinal Philippe Barbarin was convicted of failing to report ! Conviction Overturned!
French Catholic Clergy Sexually Abused 330,000 Children..Wow
Pope Francis expresses shame at the scale of child sexual abuse by clergy in France
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis expressed "shame" for himself and the Roman Catholic Church on Wednesday for the scale of child sexual abuse within the church in France and acknowledged failures in putting the needs of victims first.
The pope spoke during his regular audience at the Vatican about a report released Tuesday that estimated some 330,000 French children were abused by clergy and other church authority figures dating back to 1950.
"There is, unfortunately, a considerable number. I would like to express to the victims my sadness and pain for the trauma that they suffered,'' Francis said. "It is also my shame, our shame, my shame, for the incapacity of the church for too long to put them at the center of its concerns."
He called on all bishops and religious superiors to take all actions necessary "so similar dramas are not repeated."
The pope also expressed his "closeness and paternal support" to French priests in the face of a "difficult test,'' and called on French Catholics to "ensure that the church remains a safe house for all."
The report said an estimated 3,000 priests and an unknown number of other people associated with the Catholic Church sexually abused children, providing France's first accounting of the global phenomenon. The French church, like in other countries, has had to face up to shameful secrets that were long covered up.
At Least 3,000 Children Were Victims of Sex Abuse in French Catholic Church
There have been at least 3,000 child sex abuse victims in the Catholic Church in France stretching back decades—and it’s feared there may be many more, according to an investigation.
Last June, the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (CIASE) was set up to look into abuse claims committed by the clergy in France since the 1950s.
A hotline for victims to come forward has so far received more than 5,000 phone calls. The number of estimated victims represents an average of 40 cases per year over seven decades.
The head of the commission, Jean-Marc Sauvé, said that around 1,500 clergy and church officials carried out the abuse. He believes there are many more victims who had not yet come forward.
“I am profoundly convinced that there are many more victims,” he told reporters, adding in reference to the hotline and the commission’s own inquiries: “What we do not know is how to consolidate these two sources of potential cases.”
Around 30 percent of the victims who have come forward are older than 70 and around half are aged between 50 and 70. The commission has extended its call for victims’ testimony until the end of October. Its full report has been delayed due to the coronavirus and is expected around September or October 2021.
“We must remember this suffering, we must account for it. We are confronted with the shock of the suffering of the victims. We can only be touched and transformed by meeting these victims,” Sauvé told the radio station RTL.
The French church has been left reeling from sex abuse scandals. In January, former priest Bernard Preynat admitted abusing around 80 boys aged between seven and 10 over two decades when he was a French scout chaplain. He said that his superiors turned a blind eye to his behavior.
Preynat was jailed for five years for the crimes, which took place between 1971 and 1991. Cardinal Philippe Barbarin was convicted of failing to report the actions of Preynat but had this conviction overturned on appeal.
He said he had heard “rumors” about the priest’s behavior in 2010, but knew nothing of the abuse until he spoke to one of the victims in 2014.
Cardinal Philippe Barbarin was convicted of failing to report ! Conviction Overturned!
Dozens of Catholic Priests Credibly Accused of Abuse Found Work Abroad, Some With the Church’s Blessing
The Catholic Church allowed more than 50 U.S.-based clergy to move abroad after facing credible accusations of sexual abuse. Some continued to work with children.by Katie Zavadski, Topher Sanders, ProPublica, and Nicole Hensley, Houston ChronicleMarch 6, 2020, 6 a.m. EST
But the 178 lists made public as of January and compiled into a searchable database by ProPublica revealed a web of incomplete and often inconsistent information.Often the lists didn’t specify clergy’s current status and location. And while dioceses frequently claim to know nothing about a priest’s whereabouts, reporters with ProPublica and the Chronicle found them on church websites, in religious publications and on social media. Church leaders often failed to report allegations to police, to pursue permanent restrictions within the church, or to heed or offer warnings about priests facing allegations. In at least four cases, church leaders facilitated priests’ moving abroad.The omissions, inconsistencies and other shortcomings undercut the church’s professed desire to repair its relationship with millions of disaffected Catholics, said Anthony M. DeMarco, a California lawyer who has handled hundreds of child sex abuse cases. “Every bit of hedging that they do to protect a pedophile just undermines completely any level of trust they’re trying to build,” he said. https://www.propublica.org/article/dozens-of-catholic-priests-credibly-accused-of-abuse-found-work-abroad-some-with-the-churchs-blessing
Some Diocese Refuse To Release Names Of Ceepers!
Some Diocese Refuse To Release Names Of Ceepers!
Some Diocese Refuse To Release Names Of Ceepers!
ProPublica Publishes A List Of Catholic Predators By State
US Credibly Accused Catholic Clergy Creepers!
Search lists of U.S. Catholic clergy that have been deemed credibly accused of sexual abuse or misconduct.
178 dioceses and orders covering 64.7 million Catholics have released lists. 41 dioceses and orders covering 9.0 million Catholics have so far not released. 6,754 names of credibly accused clergy have been released so far.
ProPublica Identifies A Fraction Of Clergy Predators
Catholic Leaders Promised Transparency About Child Abuse. They Haven’t Delivered. After decades of shielding the identities of accused child abusers from the public, many Catholic leaders are now releasing lists of their names. But the lists are inconsistent, incomplete and omit key details.Where Catholics Are Still Waiting for Transparency Forty-one dioceses and eparchies serving over 9 million Catholics in the United States have not released lists. These are the 10 largest. See all dioceses and look up credibly accused clergy in our interactive database. DioceseStateCatholicsArchdiocese of the Military ServicesDistrict of Columbia1,800,000Diocese of Rockville CentreNew York1,508,515Diocese of FresnoCalifornia1,200,000Archdiocese of MiamiFlorida790,530Archdiocese of San FranciscoCalifornia444,800Diocese of Palm BeachFlorida297,070Diocese of WorcesterMassachusetts281,690Diocese of Fall RiverMassachusetts269,102Diocese of VeniceFlorida237,120Diocese of Grand RapidsMichigan222,903Catholic population numbers from the 2019 Pontifical Yearbook (Annuario Pontificio)The database also doesn’t include many accused clergy members whom bishops have yet to acknowledge, even if they’ve issued lists. An organization called Bishop Accountability has long maintained its own database of publicly accused priests, drawn from court records, news articles and church documents. The organization’s list includes more than 450 names connected to dioceses that have not released disclosures. https://www.propublica.org/article/we-assembled-the-only-nationwide-database-of-priests-deemed-credibly-accused-of-abuse-heres-how https://www.propublica.org/article/catholic-leaders-promised-transparency-about-child-abuse-they-havent-delivered
The Catholic Church Is A Gangster Group Of Perverts!
PBS is an American public broadcast service. Wikipedia Abused nuns reveal stories of rape, forced abortions
Another scandal is engulfing the Catholic Church. At a time when the Vatican has taken its most concrete steps to address a long ordeal with sex abuse and coverups, a growing chorus of nuns is speaking out about the suffering they have endured at the hands of the priesthood, including rape, forced abortion, emotional abuse and labor exploitation. Special correspondent Christopher Livesay reports.
The Hidden Children of the Catholic Church
It’s been an open secret for years. Catholic priests fathering children in breach of their vows. After suffering in silence and shame for years, those children are speaking out, demanding answers and recognition from Rome. Like other scandals it has faced, the Church has swept the issue of children of priests under the carpet. “The church operates on a system where if it can ignore you and hope you go away, then it will do that”, says one former advisor to the church. The children of priests have long suffered in silence and shame, their mothers pressured to keep quiet and keep the secret.
As San Francisco DA, Kamala Harris's Office Stopped Cooperating With Victims of Clergy Abuse
Kamala Harris, surrounded by thousands of cheering supporters, kicked off her presidential campaign in Oakland earlier this year, declaring that she has always fought “on behalf of survivors of sexual assault, a fight not just against predators but a fight against silence and stigma.” Harris specialized in prosecuting sex crimes and child exploitation as a young prosecutor just out of law school. But when it came to taking on the Catholic Church, survivors of clergy sexual abuse say that Harris turned a blind eye, refusing to take action against clergy members accused of sexually abusing children when it meant confronting one of the city’s most powerful political institutions.
A Special Band Of Brothers Rape Children
King Of Kreepers Refuses To Release Names Of Molesters
King Of Kreepers Refuses To Release Names Of Molesters
King Of Kreepers Refuses To Release Names Of Molesters
(Reuters) - Five U.S. men who say they were sexually abused as minors by Roman Catholic priests filed a federal lawsuit in Minnesota on Tuesday against the Vatican, accusing the church of concealing the identities of thousands of predator clergy members. Three brothers and two other men claimed in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in St. Paul that the Church has kept secret the identities and records of more than 3,400 clergy accused of sexual abuse, including some top church officials. The men are asking the court to require the Vatican to make the information public and report all alleged crimes to law enforcement worldwide.
Krakow Kreepers Keep It On The Down Low! Bullshit!
King Of Kreepers Refuses To Release Names Of Molesters
King Of Kreepers Refuses To Release Names Of Molesters
Catholic Church Report Says at Least 360 Children Abused by Polish Priests Over 62 Years
Poland's Catholic Church released a report on sexual abuse of minors on Monday listing 292 clergymen who allegedly abused 368 boys and girls over 62 years, the Associated Press reported.
King Of Kreepers Refuses To Release Names Of Molesters
Police Took Fifty Years To Cum For This Low Life Predator
Kansas City diocese hasn't named all priests credibly accused of sex abuse, group says
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City-St. Joseph diocese has failed to include nearly 20 priests on its list of clergy credibly accused of sex abuse even though they are named elsewhere, a victim's advocate group said Wednesday.
Those priests — including one convicted in Texas of trying to hire a hit man to kill his victim— all had ties to the diocese at one time, according to the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. The group plans to publicly release the names at an afternoon news conference.
Police Took Fifty Years To Cum For This Low Life Predator
40% of Catholic Priest are celibate. 60% are fucking somebody and not telling anyone. OK Cupid?
Police Took Fifty Years To Cum For This Low Life Predator
Former priest dies same day he is supposed to be arrested for 1972 murder of Massachusetts altar boy
A defrocked priest slated to be arrested for the 1972 murder of a Massachusetts altar boy died before he could be taken into custody and tried for the violent crime.
The remains of 13-year-old Danny Croteau were discovered almost 50 years ago, floating in the Connecticut River in Chicopee and still dressed in his clothes from the previous school day. He was last seen alive April 14, 1972 and his bludgeoned body was found the next day just a few miles from his home in Springfield.
An autopsy performed at the time revealed a rock was used to carry out the violent killing.
Richard Lavigne, the Croteau family’s parish priest, was the only suspe
ct named in the crime and after almost 50 years, investigators were finally ready to present their case against him. As officers worked to prepare an arrest warrant on Friday, they learned the ex-priest, who is also a convicted child molester, died at the age of 80.
Catholic Church Lawyers Work For Cheap Sex From Children! Courts OK Scam!
40% of Catholic Priest are celibate. 60% are fucking somebody and not telling anyone. OK Cupid?
40% of Catholic Priest are celibate. 60% are fucking somebody and not telling anyone. OK Cupid?
How The Catholic Church Shielded Billions From Its Bankruptcies
For most of the 20th century, the Catholic Church in the U.S. minimized the damage wrought by pedophile priests by covering up the abuse. Cover-ups worked when victims and their families could be intimidated or shamed into silence. But in the 1980s and ’90s, victims started filing civil lawsuits against the dioceses where the alleged incidents took place. Church leaders across the country kept these suits quiet by settling out of court and demanding nondisclosure agreements in return. Church leaders paid out about $750 million from the early ’80s through 2002, according to BishopAccountability.org, a nonprofit that tracks clergy sex abuse. Now, Dioceses of the Catholic Church are aggressively moving and reclassifying holdings to shrink the value of their bankruptcy estates.
40% of Catholic Priest are celibate. 60% are fucking somebody and not telling anyone. OK Cupid?
40% of Catholic Priest are celibate. 60% are fucking somebody and not telling anyone. OK Cupid?
40% of Catholic Priest are celibate. 60% are fucking somebody and not telling anyone. OK Cupid?
Catholic Clergy Babies Galore
Catholic Priests rely on the Catholic Church to pay for their children. You can definitely ask these women of the location of their predator priest.
Catholic scandals prompt some women who had relationships with priests to ponder whether they, too, were abused.
Richard Sipe, who researched Catholic priests in the United States, estimated in 1990 that 40 percent of priests are practicing celibacy at any given time. Vincent Doyle of Coping International, an organization that supports children of priests, said 65,000 people use his website.
Catholic Church Employees Rape Children With No Mercy
State Care Beware; Older Kids Rape Younger Boys
Creeper Camp Graduate Rapes for The Team At A Hospital Job
State Care Beware; Older Kids Rape Younger Boys
Texas boys ranch moves forward as more men discuss abuse
DALLAS — When Allan Votaw stepped onto Cal Farley's Boys Ranch in Texas in 1957, the 5-year-old hoped he and his two brothers — ages 3½ and 6 — had found a home. Instead, the now-66-year-old says, they found a "horror house" where sadistic staff members whipped children until they were bruised and bloody and children were molested by older kids."You lived in fear, you totally lived in fear," said Votaw, who said he still has nightmares from his 10 years on the sprawling ranch for at-risk youths outside of Amarillo.He railed against the ranch for years, feeling alone in his fight until reading a 2017 story in the British newspaper The Guardian that featured a handful of men — including childhood friends — describing abuse they suffered there as children.
Creeper Camp Graduate Rapes for The Team At A Hospital Job
State Care Beware; Older Kids Rape Younger Boys
Player Haters Not Welcomed Here!
VATICAN CITY -- The Legion of Christ religious order is promising accountability and transparency following damaging new revelations of sex abuse and cover-up that have undermined its credibility, a decade after revelations of its pedophile founder disgraced the order.The Legion vowed to investigate the confirmed cases of past abuse by 33 priests and 71 seminarians. TheMexico-based order said it would reach out to the victims, publish the names of those found guilty of abuse in either a church or a state court, and punish superiors responsible for “gross negligence” in the handling of abuse accusations.The measures described in a statement late Wednesday were responding to a burgeoning new scandal involving the order. The Vatican took over the Legion 10 years ago following revelations that its late founder, the Rev. Marcial Maciel, raped his seminarians, fathered at least three children and built a secretive, cult-like order to hide his double life.
In 1990, a “professional assessment” determined that Terdine was a “low risk” for acting out sexually, and then-Bishop Donald Wuerl re-assigned him as a hospital Chaplin, but restricted him from working as a pastor.Then, a second review in 2003, found that he could continue to serve both as a Chaplin and also serve Mass, restoring that privilege. It something the diocese now says it regrets.
The International Clergy Rapist Placement Agency Is Outraged! WTF
The Salesians, Jesuits and Christian Brothers, are known undercover child rape cases
The International Clergy Rapist Placement Agency Is Outraged! WTF
Caritas 'outraged' by child abuse scandal uncovered by CNN (CNN)Caritas Internationalis, a network of Catholic charitable organizations, urged its regional branches on Thursday to vet their staff and volunteers. It comes after CNN published an investigation into Father Luk Delft, a convicted abuser, who was moved to the Central African Republic by his religious order to work in a key role at the charity. https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/21/africa/caritas-internationalis-luk-delft-intl/index.html
Caritas Internationalis is a collection of Catholic Charities Hiding Rapists Priests
The Salesians, Jesuits and Christian Brothers, are known undercover child rape cases
The Salesians, Jesuits and Christian Brothers, are known undercover child rape cases
UN suspends work with Catholic charity in CAR after CNN investigation into pedophile priest New York (CNN)The United Nations has temporarily suspended its work with the Central African Republic branch of Caritas Internationalis after it emerged that the director of the Catholic charity there was a convicted pedophile. The decision by the UN comes a day after CNN reported that Father Luk Delft was appointed to a key role in Caritas despite a prior conviction for abusing children in Europe. He was only removed from his post after CNN revealed the new accusations against him to his superiors in the Salesians of Don Bosco, a religious order established specifically to protect children. https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/22/africa/un-caritas-luk-delft-intl/index.html
The Salesians, Jesuits and Christian Brothers, are known undercover child rape cases
The Salesians, Jesuits and Christian Brothers, are known undercover child rape cases
The Salesians, Jesuits and Christian Brothers, are known undercover child rape cases
Federal Prosecutors Fail to Ask Hard Questions:
While there have been a few major legal cases against congregations — the Jesuits in the northwest U.S. reached a $166 million settlement with more than 500 victims in 2011 — religious orders in general have largely “gotten a free pass,”
Catholic Priests And Nuns Rape Victims without Prosecution
Victim Tells Nun About Abusing Dead Priest And Nun Rapes Young Girl
The Catholic Church coughs up chump change for minority victims of their rapists
Pope's German Brother Runs Boys Concentration Camp For Cute Young Boys
"The secret not yet told": Women describe alleged abuse by nuns
"When Trish Cahill was 15 years old she said she confided in Sister Eileen Shaw at a convent in New Jersey. Cahill said she told Shaw things she'd never revealed to anyone about her now-deceased uncle – a priest – whom she claims sexually abused her, starting at age five."I would have done anything for her. I would have died for her," Cahill said. "She gave me everything that was lacking that I didn't even know I was lacking. I was so broken. She filled in all those pieces."She now describes that process as "grooming," saying Shaw plied her with drugs and alcohol while teaching her how to have sex with a woman. "I'm with my friends during the day. And I'm with this pedophile nun on the evenings and on the weekends, and in the summer," Cahill said. "
Pope's German Brother Runs Boys Concentration Camp For Cute Young Boys
The Catholic Church coughs up chump change for minority victims of their rapists
Pope's German Brother Runs Boys Concentration Camp For Cute Young Boys
Abuse in the Regensburg Cathedral Boys Choir
The choir was run by Georg Ratzinger, the elder brother of former Pope Benedict XVI, from 1964 to 1994, when most of the abuse is believed to have occurred.
Report find sexual abuse at one of Germany's most famous Catholic boys' choir schools
A report has found that 547 pupils at one of Germany's most famous Catholic boys' choir schools were physically or sexually abused over a 60-year period, with some boys likening the institution to a concentration camp.
The Catholic Church coughs up chump change for minority victims of their rapists
The Catholic Church coughs up chump change for minority victims of their rapists
Thousands Of Priests Get A Chance For A Second Time Around. Creepers Hiding In Plain Sight!
Lawsuit: Church pressured victims into unfair settlements
By MICHAEL REZENDES, Associated
NEW YORK (AP) — Two impoverished Mississippi men who say they were sexually assaulted by Franciscan missionaries filed a federal lawsuit Thursday claiming that Catholic officials pressured them into signing settlements that paid them little money and required them to remain silent about the alleged abuse.
The lawsuit, filed in New York, claims the church officials drew up the agreements a year ago to prevent the men from telling their stories or going to court — a violation of a 2002 promise by American bishops to abandon the use of nondisclosure agreements, as part of an effort to end the cover-up of sexual abuse within the church.
“The confidentiality provisions contained in the disputed agreements were intended to silence” the two men “in direct contradiction” to the U.S. Catholic Church’s Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, the lawsuit says.
Thousands Of Priests Get A Chance For A Second Time Around. Creepers Hiding In Plain Sight!
Thousands Of Priests Get A Chance For A Second Time Around. Creepers Hiding In Plain Sight!
Thousands Of Priests Get A Chance For A Second Time Around. Creepers Hiding In Plain Sight!
Unsupervised accused priests teach, counsel, foster children
By CLAUDIA LAUER and MEGHAN HOYER, Associated Press 1 hr ago This 2017 photo provided by the Deschutes County, Ore., District Attorney's Office shows Roger Sinclair. After Sinclair was removed by the Diocese of Greensburg in Pennsylvania in 2002 for allegedly abusing a teenage boy decades earlier, he ended up in Oregon. In 2017, he was arrested for repeatedly molesting a young developmentally disabled man and is now imprisoned for a crime that the lead investigator in the Oregon case says should have never been allowed to happen. (Deschutes County District y care centers. They foster and care for children's and gets excited about it.
Survivors Fucked By Crooked Politicians & Victim's Lawyers Again
Thousands Of Priests Get A Chance For A Second Time Around. Creepers Hiding In Plain Sight!
Survivors Fucked By Crooked Politicians & Victim's Lawyers Again
Clergy abuse victims are divided on how to secure right to file lawsuits
HARRISBURG — When child sexual abuse victims and their advocates reunited on the Capitol steps last month to rally for the right to sue their violators, something didn’t look quite right.Glaringly absent was state Rep. Mark Rozzi, a Reading Democrat who has for years been the Legislature’s loudest advocate for changing the law to give older victims of childhood sexual abuse two more years to bring civil claims. The idea has gained urgency amid the child sexual abuse scandal rocking the Roman Catholic church.Mr. Rozzi’s absence hinted at a divide that has emerged between the lawmaker and some in the victim community who once considered him their champion. Those victims, advocates, say, now feel betrayed and abandoned by him. https://www.post-gazette.com/news/faith-religion/2019/05/05/Clergy-abuse-victims-divided-on-right-to-file-lawsuits-pennsylvania-catholic-church/stories/201905050116
NH CATHOLIC CHURCH ENDORSES AYOTTE FOR US SENATE
Convent Kelly Was the Junior Varsity Captain Against Catholic Church Lawyers; Paddled in Pubic
Convent Kelly Was the Junior Varsity Captain Against Catholic Church Lawyers; Paddled in Pubic
Convent Kelly Was the Junior Varsity Captain Against Catholic Church Lawyers; Paddled in Pubic
Senator Kelly Ayotte, while serving as Attorney General, was responsible for the NH response to the Catholic Clergy crisis. Her predecessor, Peter Heed, was turfed out of office for chasing women in his office. She represented clergy abuse survivors like me. She was not hired for her standing in the legal community, and it showed.
Her management of the crisis was handled like a Catholic school girl trying to please every priest in NH. Once she took over the study, the Catholic Church sent a team of lawyers to educate her about the law. The Church attorneys were not worried about rescinding an immunity agreement for their lack of cooperation. She did not have the experience or training to deal with legal practitioners. She choked and the Church negotiated a real deal for their benefit.
Kelly decided to investigate the Church’s practices for only two years instead of the five times agreed to in their initial understanding. Once the Diocese failed to fully cooperate, they were allowed to mock her efforts with no consequences. The Church agreed to take offenders out of ministry, but a new child molester case showed the NH Diocese still moving them to another location. She did not want to make sure their pedophiles were not a danger to the community. She ignored the danger these men were to their fellow citizens. Despite knowing clergy child molesters were operating with therapy licenses in NH, she refused to investigate or protect present and future patients from being counseled by multiple child molesters. Kelly also refused to give clergy abuse survivors a voice in the study. She refused to allow victim impact statements to be entered into the study. She was afraid that survivors would have been critical of her efforts on our behalf.
Victims were an embarrassment she was unwilling to associate with during the effort. No Catholic Clergy abuse survivor was included in the lawsuit before, during or after the agreement. We understand the Catholic Church endorsed her Senate bid. She is a self-serving embarrassment to everyone in the NH community. One victim, denied justice, committed suicide once she learned our efforts in NH were not going to hold Paul Groleau accountable.
CONVENT KELLY GETS A BEAT DOWN
Convent Kelly Was the Junior Varsity Captain Against Catholic Church Lawyers; Paddled in Pubic
Convent Kelly Was the Junior Varsity Captain Against Catholic Church Lawyers; Paddled in Pubic
This Information Was Posted During KPMG Study in 2003
Kelly Ayotte was incapable of negotiating with the Catholic Church attorneys. She agreed not to talk,locate. or supervise the Catholic Church predators. Every victim’s priority is to assure themselves that their rapist is no longer a threat to children. Kelly did not even address this issue. Bishop McCormackwas responsible forsupervising their predators. As noted in the last KPMG report, the Church was not keeping children safe as described in their agreement. She also refused to let victims have a voice. Mr. Donohue from KPMG was told by Kelly to have us contact her if we had something to say. We are enclosing the e-mails between us seeking a voice for victims. She was not willing to give victims a voice. The taxpayers of NH were forced to pay for this worthless document. The report looks like a law clerk gumming someone to death. The report is more nonsense with the Catholic Church praising themselves for their minor league effort. The onlyonetobenefitfrom this study was KPMG. The taxpayers and victims got the shaft. We sent out junk mail to discuss her lazy, self-serving, no talent answer tothreehundred rape victims
SHEILA DIES DUE TO KELLY'S INACTION ON PAUL GROLEAU
Convent Kelly Was the Junior Varsity Captain Against Catholic Church Lawyers; Paddled in Pubic
NOT ONE NH CLERGY ABUSE SURVIVOR INCLUDED IN "STUDIES"
Shelia Wanted US to Tell Her Story
Sheila Dies froman Overdose Convent Kelly Shares the Blame
Sheila died from a combination of drugs fueled by sickness and despair. She asked us to tell her story. Shelia was sexually assaulted for years by her brother. She came forward and he was incarcerated for years. When she was a teenager, she was part of a youth group supervised by Father Paul Groleau. He was the Diocese Vocational Director at the time. Heestablisheda trust relationship with her in thiscapacity. When Sheila was a first-year student at Keene State, she contacted Father Paul Groleau seeking counseling support. Father Groleau gave her counseling in return for sex. He had intercourse with her, but he preferred receiving oral sex on a regular basis. He was not into regular sex since it was with a woman. They kept this schedule of events for a couple of years before she gave up on his ability to help. The Catholic Church admitted to sending their sex crime victims to their former priests with histories of sex crimes against them. Paul Groleau is a predator allowed to stay in practice for the last ten years with no marks against his record. Kelly ispersonally responsiblefor the despair that led to Sheila’s death.
"Groleau, Paul Manchester Diocesan - In 2002, civil suits were filed accusing Groleau of molesting a boy 1969–71 at St. George's inManchester andmolesting another boy 1969–73 at St. Michael's in Exeter. - Groleau was included in a settlement announced 11/26/02." Source: Bishop Accountability
NOT ONE NH CLERGY ABUSE SURVIVOR INCLUDED IN "STUDIES"
Kelly Ayotte, aka Convent Kelly, Refused To Get A List of All The Clergy Rapists In New Hampshire
NOT ONE NH CLERGY ABUSE SURVIVOR INCLUDED IN "STUDIES"
Not One Word In The Ayotte Studies From One Of The 300 Known NH Survivors
I have had the good fortune to meet Carolyn Disco in her search for justice for the abuse of her two sons by a Catholic Priest. She is a dedicated advocate for survivors of clergy abuse. She represented herself in this case against the Catholic Church. She was the only person standing next to Convent Kelly while she took years of losses against Church attorneys.
Survivors were not allowed to put victim's impact statements into the report. Survivors were not allowed any comments on the quality of the report or its outcome. Hundreds of thousands of taxpayer money to avoid survivors' voices.
Two Clergy Felons Conspired to Hide the Identity of the 73 Known Predators from New Hampshire
Kelly Ayotte, aka Convent Kelly, Refused To Get A List of All The Clergy Rapists In New Hampshire
Kelly Ayotte, aka Convent Kelly, Refused To Get A List of All The Clergy Rapists In New Hampshire
Bishop John McCormack was responsible for the rape of over a thousand children by his own account. He was the personnel director of the Boston Diocese under Cardinal Law. He was the person in charge of hiding the Priests credibly accused of child molestation. He was rewarded with a promotion to Bishop of New Hampshire.
McCormack was in charge when Attorney General Kelly Ayotte agreed to study the Diocese instead of putting him in prison for his crimes against children. He oversaw the coverup of over 73 priests accused of raping children. She never held New Hampshire responsible for publishing their list of predators.
McCormack retired at the age of 75 with no consequences for his crimes.
Our organization wrote to the judge overseeing the case between the Church and Attorney General Ayotte. We wanted the Church to list the names of their predators, identify their current location, and allow NH survivors a voice in the findings. The court told us we submitted the request on the wrong form. We contacted the Judge's office, and they could not tell us the correct form. No NH survivors were given a voice in this debacle. We got fucked one more time.
The Catholic Church and the State of New Hampshire were ordered by the court to split the cost of the studies by KPMG. No one in the Catholic Church or the State of New Hampshire has given us the cost of the combined studies. Taxpayers of New Hampshire can now know the feeling of being fucked right along with us. The New Hampshire newspapers whine about taxpayer waste and abuse but the hundreds of thousands of dollars were never mentioned anywhere.
Kelly Ayotte, aka Convent Kelly, Refused To Get A List of All The Clergy Rapists In New Hampshire
Kelly Ayotte, aka Convent Kelly, Refused To Get A List of All The Clergy Rapists In New Hampshire
Kelly Ayotte, aka Convent Kelly, Refused To Get A List of All The Clergy Rapists In New Hampshire
Attorney General Kelly Ayotte was appointed to her position as a young inexperienced attorney. Ayotte handled conducting a five-year investigation of the Catholic Church negotiated by Roger Chadwick of New Hampshire https://www.nh-criminalattorney.com/attorneys.
Roger agreed to give the Catholic Church officials immunity from criminal prosecution in exchange for this study.
Ayotte from the start was taken to court for asking too many questions. She was not even asking the hard questions. Instead of canceling the agreement, and criminally charging these felons for their crimes, she agreed to limit her investigation.
Ayotte knew the Diocese had multiple accused child molesting priests holding NH therapy licenses. She never asked for the complete list of known predators. She never allowed any NH clergy abuse survivors to speak with the KPMG during the study. In the four studies that were conducted she never allowed victims' impact statements to be a part of the record.
The only thing she wanted to do was whitewash the process for her own future political gains. The NH Diocese actually supported her candidacy for the US Senate. She is a self-serving low life.
She was turfed out of office after her first term as a US Senator. None of the major NH Newspapers were willing to ask her any questions about her history of failure to criminally prosecute Church officials. She covered up the names of the abused, failed to look into the child molesting priest current location, she refused to take therapy licenses from known clergy rapists, and she agreed to the Catholic Church supervising their predators. She failed survivors at every turn.
Below is the list of Clergy child molesters from NH released over fifteen years after her "studies".
NOT ONE NH CLERGY ABUSE SURVIVOR INCLUDED IN "STUDIES"
THE NH PRESS SPANKING CONVENT KELLY AFTER READING HER REPORT
THE NH PRESS SPANKING CONVENT KELLY AFTER READING HER REPORT
Not One Word In The Ayotte Studies From One Of The 300 Known NH Survivors
I have had the good fortune to meet Carolyn Disco in her search for justice for the abuse of her two sons by a Catholic Priest. She is a dedicated advocate for survivors of clergy abuse. She represented herself in this case against the Catholic Church. She was the only person standing next to Convent Kelly while she took years of losses against Church attorneys.
Survivors were not allowed to put victim's impact statements into the report. Survivors were not allowed any comments on the quality of the report or its outcome. Hundreds of thousands of taxpayer money to avoid survivors' voices.
THE NH PRESS SPANKING CONVENT KELLY AFTER READING HER REPORT
THE NH PRESS SPANKING CONVENT KELLY AFTER READING HER REPORT
THE NH PRESS SPANKING CONVENT KELLY AFTER READING HER REPORT
Catholic Diocese Still Falls Short on Abuse, State Audit Says
State: Plan to Protect Children Not Followed
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester has failed to ensure that priests, employees, and volunteers who work with children have passed criminal background checks or attended training aimed at preventing and identifying abuse, a state audit of the church revealed
KELLY AYOTTE, AKA CONVENT KELLY, REPRESENTS CLERGY RAPISTS
THE NH PRESS SPANKING CONVENT KELLY AFTER READING HER REPORT
Paul Groleau, former priest and rapist, is seen here counseling a survivor of child sex crimes
We were working with the NH Diocese to offer Retreats to Clergy Abuse Survivors from New Hampshire. The Diocese had a series of three Retreats offered six months apart.
Bishop McCormack attended the third and final retreat. After answering a lot of tough questions, he made the commitment to offer their retreats to all survivors in New Hampshire. The Retreat Program was to be coordinated through Catholic Charities and the Council of Churches.
At the same time New Hampshire Attorney General Kelly Ayotte, aka Convent Kelly, got involved. Once she went to court, we knew we had the junior varsity legal team. The Catholic Church lawyers did shameful things to her in court. Like a good Catholic nun, Kelly obeyed the Priest's wishes.
She refused to include one word in her reports from a NH Clergy Abuse survivor. She refused to locate the predators' priests. She refused to take away professional therapy licenses from predator priests. Instead, she gave them Ministerial Therapy Licenses. Since she seemed incapable of taking away a license, we suggested she issue a "Chicken Hawk License". She earned the name Convent Kelly.
Bishop McCormack told us that he would not continue with the promised retreats. He was going to be spending their money defending the Diocese from Kelly Ayotte and he could not afford both efforts. The NH Diocese said they had $66 million dollars in revenue that year.
Convent Kelly was later endorsed by the NH Diocese when she ran for the U.S. Senate. I guarantee you the Church would not have been so ready to further our careers had survivors done the study. One person from VOTF (Voice of the Faithful) was involved in the lawsuit. Not one NH Catholic Clergy Abuse Survivor was involved
Paul Groleau, former priest and rapist, is seen here counseling a survivor of child sex crimes
Paul Groleau, former priest and rapist, is seen here counseling a survivor of child sex crimes
Paul Groleau, former priest and rapist, is seen here counseling a survivor of child sex crimes
Paul Groleau, former priest, and rapist, is seen here counseling a survivor of child sex crimes
500 Clergy Rapists Hold State Therapy Licenses, Ayotte Protects Paul Groleau's Therapy Licenses
Attorney General Kelly Ayotte Gives a Pass to Rapists Catholic Clergy Rapists Holding Pastoral and Therapy Licenses Issued by the State of NH
A Plaintiff’s attorney informed us of Paul Groleau, a former priest with multiple molestation cases paid by the Church, in business in Manchester as a practicing therapist. He still has a therapy license todaydespiterepeated man on boy encounters. His presence was passed on to Kelly as early as February 2005. He still has both NH licenses to this day.
We filed an official complaint with the NH Mental Health Board. Ms. Mo Shyne was the volunteer investigator from the library sent toinvestigatethe case. Ms. Shyne was not sure if a child molester could hold a therapy license. She told us Paul Groleau is no danger since he onlycounsel'sold people. She alsostatedthat there was no restriction on his ability to counsel children. The Mental Health investigators find for the therapists 98% of the time. No complaints are shown against a therapist unless there is an adverse finding against him. Paul Groleau still has his licenses to this day with no adverse findings against him.
A volunteer from our organization booked a session with Mr. Groleau. In her first meeting with Mr. Groleau, she asked for counseling for the trauma she experienced as a child molestation victim. Mr. Groleau agreed to counsel our representative without acknowledging his past as a sex offender. He was prepared to traumatize our colleague for money. Paul Groleau’s picture was taken during this session. In the last of a series of retreats held by the Catholic Church, Bishop McCormack agreed to meet with the clergy abuse survivors. During thequestion-and-answerperiod, he was asked to about the therapists holding therapy licenses. He told us he would not discuss specificpeople,but he would give us initials. The initials he gave us were not those of Paul Groleau.
In short, he confirmed a second rapist with a therapy license. This information was available to Kelly before she settled with the Catholic Church about the scope and payment of this study. She refused toinvestigatethese issues as a part of the study.
Groleau, Paul Manchester Diocesan - In 2002, civil suits were filed accusing Groleau of molesting a boy 1969–71 at St. George's inManchester andmolesting another boy 1969–73 at St. Michael's in Exeter. - Groleau was included in a settlement announced 11/26/02.
Bishop Accountability Confirms
Bishop Accountability Confirms
500 Clergy Rapists Hold State Therapy Licenses, Ayotte Protects Paul Groleau's Therapy Licenses
CATHOLIC CHURCH RECEIVES GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARD
Paul Groleau, former priest and rapist, is seen here counseling a survivor of child sex crimes
CATHOLIC CHURCH RECEIVES GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARD
President Peter Heed
Peeter Club of America
Heed was bounced out office for trying to fuck every woman in the place. The DUI set him up as a drunken creeper for life.
NH Attorney General Peter Heed gave the entire Diocese a pass on criminal prosecution. He did not want to ask any tough questions. He really did not want to be outclassed by the Catholic Church attorneys. He was turfed out of office for being a low-class kind of guy. Victims were represented by a lawyer with marginal talent or one distracted by liquor and women.
Former Priest Paul Groleau was mentioned in the NH Ag Heed’s Report. Fr. Groleau was the Diocese Vocation Director. His job was to recruit people to the ministry in NH. His job placed him in constant contact with teenagers in this work. His decision to welcome Fr. McRae to the team, ushered a whole new era of cooperation amongst pedophiles. Since Fr. Groleau has multiple victims from his man on boy love days, he would have been the perfect person to hold the door open to new predators. Peter Heed knew or should have known Paul Groleau still held NH Therapy Licenses. No action was taken, and no investigation was launched.
Peter Heed seems to have been distracted from his duties as NH Attorney General. Lady problems and alcohol may have negatively impacted his efforts to hold the Catholic Church accountable. His report had an extensive list of excuses for failing to prosecute anyone from the Catholic Church. He did not mention current charges for failing to report a crime or conspiracy to protect felons from prosecution.
He did not publish the complete list of predators, he only described the abuses of six predators, he refused to let a victim put one word in his report, and he ignored the rest of the additional victim’s stories in each case. The report gave you the highlights but not a victim impact statement by all the victims of each predator.
NH Clergy Abuse Victims were not allowedparticipatebefore,during,or after the study.
REPORT ON THE INVESTIGATION OF THE DIOCESE OF MANCHESTER
March 3, 2003
Peter W. Heed Attorney General
N. William Delker Senior Assistant Attorney General
James D. Rosenberg Assistant Attorney General
Office of the Attorney General 33 Capitol Street Concord, N.H. 03301-6397 (603) 271-3671
II. PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION DURING SEMINARY AND ACCEPTANCE INTO THE PRIESTHOOD
“In 1972, Macrae entered the Capuchin Order, a religious order affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church. (B6726). In 1978, Macrae decided that he wanted to leave the Capuchin Order and become a Diocesan priest. (B6748, B6755). Rev. John P. McHugh, the director of formation at St. Anthony’s Friary in Hudson, New Hampshire wrote to
Fr. Paul Groleau, Diocesan vocation director, on May 24, 1978, to express some reservation about Macrae's 1 As discussed in further detail below, this victim was different from the victim that the Diocese was aware of in November 1983. 2 Citation is to the sentencing hearing in State v. Macrae held over the course of three days in Cheshire County Superior Court in November 1994 followed by the volume number. 3 Citation is to the State’s brief to the New Hampshire Supreme Court in State v. Macrae.
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fitness to be a priest. (B6749). While the Capuchin Order unanimously recommended Macrae for the priesthood, McHugh’s letter to Fr. Groleau is significantly qualified about the recommendation. For example, McHugh writes that it might be acceptable if Macrae took “a shot at diocesan priesthood” and that the Diocese could allow him into the seminary and “see” what happens. Finally, McHugh’s letter concludes that “[another priest on the staff suggests that perhaps Gordon could profit from some professional counselling regarding the formation of relationships necessary for ministry. (Gordon has had some therapy before.)” (B6750).
On June 8, 1978, Fr. Paul Groleau, the Diocese’s vocation director, sent Gordon Macrae for a psychological evaluation before he entered the seminary. (B3022). The evaluation begins by noting: “It appears that we are dealing with two different individuals.” One of Macrae's personalities is “well-adjusted,” the other is “insecure with evidence of serious anxiety and depression.” (B3022). He also notes: “The feelings of anxiety, insecurity, isolation, detachment, and deprivation shown, are evidence of feelings of personal inadequacy and chronic maladjustment.” (B3023). He also recognizes that “Gordon has an unresolved problem of sexual identification as heterosexual adjustment is conceived of as threatening and dangerous.” (B3023-24). The psychologist notes: “It is difficult at this time to project into the future.” (B3022). He concludes that Macrae should be accepted into the seminary on a trial basis. (B3022).
On July 27, 1978, the Rector of St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Maryland wrote to Fr. Groleau and advised him that another therapist had evaluated Macrae's psychological test results and concluded that the seminary should not accept Macrae. (B3026). The rector rejected this recommendation because he “was relying heavily on [Groleau’s] judgment and assessment.” (B3026). Based on this reasoning, the second therapist changed his recommendation to “cautious acceptance.” (B3026). The rector of the seminary left it up to the Diocese as to whether Macrae's acceptance should be conditioned on his agreement to attend counseling. He concluded that if the Diocese did not think it was necessary, “we can wait and see if Gordon’s behavior might lead us to make such a recommendation.” (B3026). That same day, the seminary sent Macrae his acceptance letter, which did not include any condition of counseling. (B3028-29).”
Macraeis serving a 33½- to 67-year sentence for raping a 15-year-old Keene boy. He pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting three other boys shortly after that conviction in 1994.
He served in that position from 2000 until 2003, when he became New Hampshire Attorney General. Heed resigned his position as New Hampshire Attorney General in 2004 following allegations of sexual misconduct.
Saving Sheila
Sheila's Original Sin
Sheila's Rape During Counseling Sessions Were Her Fault
Sheila's Rape During Counseling Sessions Were Her Fault
Sheila contacted us after hearing about our efforts to take away his professional Therapy licenses. She was obviously having great difficulty coping with the issues associated with her rape as a child. Paul Groleau treated her trauma as an opportunity to sexually assault her in counseling. During these sessions, Groleau was an ordained priest working as a licensed therapist for the NH Catholic Church.
Sheila's Rape During Counseling Sessions Were Her Fault
Sheila's Rape During Counseling Sessions Were Her Fault
Sheila's Rape During Counseling Sessions Were Her Fault
Sheila spoke to the Catholic Church about Paul Groleau's need for vaginal and oral sex to cover his counseling fees with the Church. Groleau started grooming her when she was sixteen and was able to rape her when she was eighteen. The Church told her she was not eligible for a settlement since she was able to make adult decisions when she fucked their therapist.
Sheila Wanted to Tell Her Story
Sheila's Rape During Counseling Sessions Were Her Fault
NH Horseback Riding Handout Paul Groleau Flier, Page 1, Hidding in Plain Sight
Sheila wanted to share her truth in the hope others would learn from her story. She was raped and sodomized by Paul Groleau after being raped by her brother in elementary school. We knew her depression was both severe and critical.
We brought two horses to NH to seek his arrest and license revocation. Despite our best efforts, we lost Sheila months later. She saw no way out if Groleau was able to continue as a licensed rapist.
NH Horseback Riding Handout Paul Groleau Flier, Page 1, Hidding in Plain Sight
NH Horseback Riding Handout Paul Groleau Flier, Page 3, Kelly Ayotte Allows Rapists as Therapists
NH Horseback Riding Handout Paul Groleau Flier, Page 1, Hidding in Plain Sight
The enclosed picture of Paul Groleau was taken when a survivor working with us took this picture during a counseling session. This rapist agreed to counsel her for sexual assaults against her as a child.
NH Horseback Riding Handout Paul Groleau Flier, Page 2, Dead or Alive / Give Us The List
NH Horseback Riding Handout Paul Groleau Flier, Page 3, Kelly Ayotte Allows Rapists as Therapists
NH Horseback Riding Handout Paul Groleau Flier, Page 3, Kelly Ayotte Allows Rapists as Therapists
Convent Kelly spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayers and Catholic Church money to study the Catholic Church for several years. She never told the public of those Catholic clergy rapists and their clear and present danger to the NH community.
NH Horseback Riding Handout Paul Groleau Flier, Page 3, Kelly Ayotte Allows Rapists as Therapists
NH Horseback Riding Handout Paul Groleau Flier, Page 3, Kelly Ayotte Allows Rapists as Therapists
NH Horseback Riding Handout Paul Groleau Flier, Page 3, Kelly Ayotte Allows Rapists as Therapists
Our complaint about Paul Groleau's therapy licenses is not in his file with the State Mental Health Board of NH. The Catholic Church has acknowledged at least three former priests with therapy licenses are working in NH with State issued therapy licenses.
Fr. Paul Groleau Raped Sheila In Counseling
Advocacy For Survivors Started In Nh 18 Years Ago
Zorrow's Predator and Second Cousin, Father Francis Talbot, Died In Prison In 2013. He died As A Prisoner at The State Prison where He Was The Chapla