September 03, 2010
Cardinal Will Not Resign After Covering Up Child Sex Abuse, He Says
Armagh, Northern -- Months after the revelation that he helped cover up for one of Ireland's most notoriously abusive priests, the country's top Catholic churchman, Cardinal Sean Brady, says he has "moved on" and will not resign. "I've moved on there, I think, and I got a lot of support in my decision," he told CNN in a rare interview. Brady was part of an internal church investigation into Rev. Brendan Smyth in 1975, he confirmed early this year. He did not report his findings to the police and asked two teenagers who gave him evidence to sign oaths of secrecy.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Church Abuse Scandal Flares Up as Victim Releases Tapes
BRUSSELS -- According to secretly-recorded tapes made public, a former leader of Belgium's Catholic church advised a victim of sexual abuse to remain silent until after the retirement of the perpetrator, who was both the victim's uncle and the Bishop of Bruges. The first of the two tapes, both of which were made public last weekend in the Flemish dailies De Standaard and Het Nieuwsblad, is of a conversation on 08 April 2010 between three people: the victim, whose name has not been made public; Robert Joseph Vangheluwe, 73, the former bishop of Bruges; and Cardinal Godfried Danneels, 77, the former archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels. Church authorities have verified the tapes' authenticity.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Pastor Admits To Plotting To Kill Blind Man (See Video)
BALTIMORE -- A former pastor confessed to taking out million dollar life insurance policies on a blind man, then ordering him killed. Kelly McPherson has the latest. The insurance money from a 2007 church fire was used by its pastor to hire a hitman. Pastor Kevin Pushia paid someone to kill a mentally disabled and blind man, Lemuel Wallace--all for money. Court records show he conspired to lure the trusting man out of his group home to shoot him nine times in a public bathroom.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Grand Jury Indicts Youth Pastor On Child Molestation Charges
PHOENIX -- If you read the headline to this post and think you're experiencing a case of deja vu, we assure you, you're not. Leaders of a church being accused of molesting kids is nothing new, to say the least, and the latest member of the cloth accused of feelin' up kids while leading a congregation happened here in Arizona. According to the Cottonwood Police Department, a grand jury returned a 20-count indictment alleging that 43-year-old Christopher Furey, the youth minister at the Emmanuel Fellowship Church in Cottonwood, molested several children while working as the youth pastor at the church.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Priest Jailed For Abusing Three Sisters
A Dublin-based priest has been jailed for four years for sexually abusing three sisters nearly 50 years ago. In May, Rev Eugene Lewis, a former provincial superior of the White Fathers, was convicted of indecently assaulting the young girls at their home in Co Fermanagh. Lewis was found guilty of abusing his victims on dates between 1963 and 1973 - when the girls were aged between seven and 13.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Sex Abuse Priest Jailed for Only 4 Years
Dublin based priest Rev Eugene Lewis, unanimously convicted of sexually abusing three sisters in their Co Ferrmanagh home going back almost 50 years, has been jailed for a total of four years in a Belfast Court. However, the 76-year-old disgraced former head of the White Fathers from their Cypress Grove headquaters in Templeogue Dublin, still maintains his innocence. In a statement issued through his solicitor Joe McVeigh outside Belfast's Laganside Courthouse, the paedophile priest, also placed on the Sex Offenders' Register for life, claimed that his Co Throne trial in Omagh Crown Court was a "miscarriage of justice".Click Here For The Full Story......
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Historic Italy's Waldensian and Methodist Churches Agree to Bless Filthy Abominations
The joint synod of Italy's Waldensian and Methodist Protestant churches has, as the denominations' highest governing body, agreed to authorise the blessing of same-sex couples in church under certain conditions. The Synod president, Marco Bouchard, described the 26 August decision as "a clear and firm step forward that needs to be placed into a context that will be better defined, especially the relationship between churches and homosexual couples". The synod statement said, "The words and practice of Jesus, as seen in the Gospel, call us to welcome each experience and each choice marked by God's love, freely and consciously chosen."Click Here For The Full Story......
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Heretics Survey Aims To Stop Membership Decline
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- It's the conundrum Protestant denominations with declining memberships and shrinking budgets are desperate to solve: How to stem the decades-long losses and attract new worshippers. The United Methodist Church, the third largest denomination in the country, thinks it could be closer to finding the answer. It commissioned an ambitious survey of nearly all its 33,000 U.S. churches to find out what its growing memberships are doing to keep congregations thriving.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Man Gets Death Sentence for Torture Death of 5-Year-Old
A Southern California man has been sentenced to death for sexually assaulting and beating to death his girlfriend's 5-year-old daughter. Twenty-nine-year-old Antonio Rodriguez was sentenced Thursday in a San Fernando courtroom for the 2004 attack. He was convicted in July of murder, torture and other charges. Prosecutors say Rodriguez brutalized Desarie Saravia and her 6-year-old brother for months before he molested and beat the girl in a park restroom. He'd taken the children to the park while their mother cleaned a house nearby.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Ohio Governor Commutes Death Sentence Of Condemned Killer Of 3 Who Claimed Innocence
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A condemned inmate had his life spared Thursday when Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland cited "legitimate questions" about evidence used to convict the inmate, even though the governor believes the prisoner committed the crimes. . . . Police say Keith entered an apartment in Bucyrus on the evening of Feb. 13, 1994, and sprayed it with gunfire, killing Marichell Chatman, 24; her 4-year-old daughter, Marchae; and the Marichell's aunt, Linda Chatman, 39. Three others were wounded, including siblings Quanita Reeves, 7, and Quentin Reeves, 4. Marichell Chatman was the sister of an undercover police informant whose efforts led to a drug raid weeks earlier during which Keith was arrested.Click Here For The Full Story......
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TV Confession Of Woman Sentenced To Stoning for Adultery Is Fake
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani’s confession to being an accomplice in her husband’s murder on Iranian state TV is a fabrication, her former cellmate Shahnaz Gholami (pictured) told FRANCE 24. -- The TV ‘confession’ of an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning on an adultery conviction is a fake, according to a journalist who shared a cell with her for three months. Iranian journalist Shahnaz Gholami was confined to the same cell as 43-year-old Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani before fleeing the country while on temporary release. Gholami was inprisoned for being overtly critical of the Iranian regime. Gholami now lives in exile in Paris, from where she followed the recent controversy over Sakineh’s confessions on Iranian television. Gholami believes it is a fake.Click Here For The Full Story......
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September 02, 2010
Marshals 10 'Most Wanted' Child Sex Offenders In The U.S. Arrested In Poland
Centreville Man Accused Of Child Sex Crimes Arrested In PolandAn international manhunt for a Centreville man described by U.S. Marshals as one of the most wanted child sex offenders in the country ended last week in Poland. Former Little League Baseball coach John E. Hamilton, 39, was arrested Aug. 25 by the Polish Border Guard as he attempted to cross into Poland from the Czech Republic. Hamilton is on the G8 Wanted Child Sex Offender list, making him one of the 10 most wanted child sex offenders in the U.S., according to the U.S. Marshals Service.
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Family Sues Church, Pastor For Harboring A Pedophile
The family of a 14-year-old Loomis girl molested by a youth pastor at Cornerstone Community Church in Rocklin are now suing him and the church for allowing the abuse to occur. The church is also known as Rocklin Foursquare Church and the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel based in Los Angeles. The 13-page complaint filed earlier this month seeks punitive damages for sexual abuse of a child, sexual battery, gross negligence, breach of fiduciary duty. They also want reimbursement for medical care and lost earnings. In April, Jeffery Waisner, 33 of Lincoln, was convicted of lewd and lascivious acts with a child stemming from a nearly six-month affair with the girl who was a part of his Friday night youth group. According to court documents, Waisner performed oral sex, intercourse and fondled her during incidents at his home, on trips with the church and at the church in Rocklin.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Child Rapist Appeals Ruling On Plea Deal
BALTIMORE, MD -- A former Catholic school teacher convicted of raping one of his students in the mid-1970s has filed an appeal that he hopes will improve his chances of being released from prison. A federal judge has ruled that John Merzbacher had ineffective counsel because his attorneys didn't give him a chance to accept a 10-year plea deal before his 1995 trial. Judge Andre Davis ordered that Merzbacher should be offered the plea deal again -- but he said a judge "must express a willingness" to go along with the deal. Merzbacher's appeal seeks to strike down that caveat in Davis' ruling. He says in court papers that it's not likely that a judge "would approve such a plea agreement today."Click Here For The Full Story......
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Former Altar Boy Describes Aftermath Of Alleged Abuse By Eureka Priest
SANTA ROSA, CA -- Shame and fear of ridicule kept him quiet about alleged sexual abuse by a Catholic priest in Eureka nearly 30 years ago, a Humboldt County man said Tuesday. “For a man, there is so much shame involved in saying anything,” the 38-year-old man, who declined to give his full name, said in an interview. “I tried to work past it,” said the man, a father who works in law enforcement and as a young boy wanted to become a priest himself. “I just figured it was too late to do anything.”Click Here For The Full Story......
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Montreal Religious Order Faces Potential Sex Abuse Class Action Lawsuit
A request for a class action lawsuit has been filed alleging sexual abuse at the hands of priests at the former Montreal Institute of the Deaf and the Mute. Serge D'arcy wants to sue the Institut et la Congrégation des Clercs de Saint-Viateur de Montréal, the religious order which was running the institution he was attending between 1964 and 1972. The lawsuit targets alleged acts between 1967 and 1982. D'arcy was between 9 and 15 at the time. He alleges that it started a year after he arrived at the institute, accusing priests who worked and taught there. The lawsuit is claiming $600,000 in damages for D'arcy but the global amount could go up to millions, because the lawsuit is claiming $100,000 in moral damages for each of the alleged victims, plus compensation. Serge D'arcy's lawyer Pierre Boivin says there are many alleged victims.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Man Alleges Sexual Abuse At School For The Deaf
MONTREAL -- Alleging sexual and physical abuse started when he was nine, a former resident of a school for deaf children is seeking leave to launch a class-action lawsuit against the school and the order of Catholic brothers who staffed it. If granted by the Superior court, Serge D'Arcy is seeking a total of $600,000 for alleged abuse between 1967 and 1982: $250,000 for loss of revenue; $250,000 for physical and psychological suffering; and $100,000 in punitive damages. For other victims who would become part of the class-action, the suit is seeking $100,000 in punitive damages for each, plus other compensation to be determined on am individual basis.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Group Objects To Tax Funded Abomination
God Mocking Officials Give $37,500 To Sexual Deviant Perverts!A faith-based group is objecting to $37,500 in city and county public funding being awarded to sex offenders and predators that is putting on its annual statewide festival in Columbia this weekend. “Our concern is the expenditure of public funds for a festival that is political or indecent or both,” said Oran Smith, president of the Columbia-based Palmetto Family Council. Smith, who has made his assertion on talk radio and in a news release, said using public money to support the event implies an endorsement of the homosex “lifestyle” by the city and county. “This goes beyond the public’s view of what is a permissible expenditure of tax funds,” Smith said. The sex perverts, SC Pride, says its festival is "family-oriented" and "nonpolitical" and will attract more than 8,000 visitors to downtown Columbia over the weekend.
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Dallas County DA Craig Watkins' Role In Sex Abuse Case Under Fire
Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins is under fire for his role in helping a 10-year-old girl declare that she did not want to pursue charges against the stepfather who molested her. The first-term Democrat testified in a Collin County courtroom last week about actions he took in 2006 while working as a criminal defense attorney. Watkins was subpoenaed by both the defense and prosecutors in the case of his former client, Richard Howell. On Friday, jurors took less than one hour to convict Howell. He was sentenced to eight years in prison for sexually abusing his stepdaughter by rubbing her through her clothes.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Woman Charged in Child Porn Case
Court records indicate a Hagerstown woman has been charged with sexually abusing an 8-year-old girl and possessing child pornography. Nineteen-year-old Patricia Ann Tasker was charged with numerous sex offenses and possession of child pornography on a computer. She is being held on $70,000 bail. On Aug. 16, the girl's mother went to the Washington County Sheriff's Office and told deputies that she had found a pornographic video of her daughter on Tasker's laptop.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Men Charged With Shooting 4-Year-Old Girl
Two men have been charged with shooting a 4-year-old girl during a burglary at a townhome in east Harris County. Patrick Hebert, 20, and Trent Windfont, 21, were arrested on charges of burglary of a habitation and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after the gunfire at the home in the 13500 block of Castilian near Uvalde Road about 2:50 p.m., according to the Harris County Sheriff's office. Hebert and Windfront are being held at the Harris County jail with bail of a total of $40,000 each.Click Here For The Full Story......
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New South Wales lower house Passes Homosex Child Abuse Bill -- Allows Filithy Homosexuals To Adopt Little Children
NEW SOUTH WALES, Australia -- A bill that would allow sexual deviant perverts to adopt children in New South Wales has been passed by the lower house of parliament by only two votes. Forty-six MPs voted for the child abuse bill while 44 voted against it on Thursday, following two days of debate. The controversial bill, introduced by independent Sydney MP Clover Moore, allows Sex offenders and predators to adopt a child together.Click Here For The Full Story......
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'Pedophilia' and Male Homosexuality
Family Research InstituteHomosexuals have claimed for some time that they are no more apt than heterosexuals to molest children. Over the past three decades, professional associations have chimed in to support their claim. For instance, in Romer v. Evans, a 1994 brief by the American Psychological Association, the National Association of Social Workers, and the American Psychiatric Association told the U.S. Supreme Court "there is no evidence of any positive correlation between homosexual orientation and child molestation" (pp. 23, 24). The same claims are made in most college textbooks. In fact, this position is so ingrained that two expert witnesses for State Attorney Generals' offices told me they were banned from addressing disproportionate molestation when defending Arkansas regulations against foster parenting by homosexuals (decided June 29, 2006) and Florida’s defense of its law against homosexual adoption (decided November 25, 2008).
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September 01, 2010
Cardinal Danneels Denies Cover-Up Charges, Says He Was Unprepared For Meeting
BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Cardinal Godfried Danneels of Belgium has denied he intended to cover up a bishop’s sexual abuse and said he was “unprepared” for his meeting with a victim who secretly taped their conversation. His spokesman acknowledged the transcripts of the meeting but claimed they do not show enough nuance. A 42-year-old nephew of the former Bishop of Bruges Roger Vangheluwe accused his uncle of sexually abusing him. The nephew made a recording of his April 8 meeting with the cardinal, transcripts of which were published in two Belgian newspapers on Saturday. According to Reuters, the tapes feature the former head of the Belgian Catholic Church urging the alleged victim to accept a private apology or to wait a year until Bishop Vangheluwe’s retirement before making his accusations public.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Sexual Abuse and Suicide
Because the reporting on the Vangheluwe - Danneels case is in Dutch, much of the information is difficult to access. One important piece of background has recently surfaced. Tom Heneghan of Reuters wrote to Austen Ivereigh at America: What is not said in the transcripts but was reported in the other paper running the transcripts (Het Nieuwsblad) is that the victim was moved to speak out after learning that Vangheluwe had consecrated a deacon who was a child abuser. One of his victims later committed suicide.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Under-Fire Irish Cardinal Vows To Join Pope On Visit To Britain
Daily TelegraphThe senior Irish cleric facing calls to resign over cover-ups in the Catholic church has vowed to join the Pope’s forthcoming visit to Britain. Cardinal Seán Brady has faced widespread criticism over his handling of a clergy child abuse scandal, and for his refusal to apologise after a priest was allowed to evade questioning over an IRA bombing. But he defiantly told an Irish newspaper that he would not be stepping down and that he hoped to attend many of the engagements during Benedict XVI’s historic state visit to Scotland and England in three weeks’ time.
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Man Speaks About Sexual Abuse By Priest
A local man says his life has been a living hell after he realized he'd been sexually abused by a Lansing priest more than 50 years ago. He spoke out about the alleged incident. Gregory Guggemos came forward as that victim. The former attorney got a settlement worth 225,000 dollars earlier this month paid by the Lansing Diocese. Though the diocese won't admit the abuse happened, Guggemos says the sexual abuse occurred when he lived at Lansings' St. Vincent Orphanage from 1954 to 1955. He says Monsignor John Slowey, who ran the orphanage, is the man who assaulted him. Guggemos says he repressed the memories of what happened for decades. He says it wasn't until 1999 when he read several cases of sex abuse by priests throughout the United States--and visited the orphanage, that memories came flooding back.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Murder Accused Killed Sussex Vicar 'To Stop Sex Abuse'
A young lodger killed an 81-year-old vicar in his home and then dismembered his body because of his sexual abuse, Lewes Crown Court has heard. Christopher Hunnisett allegedly drowned the Rev Ronald Glazebrook in the bath at the churchman's home in St Leonards, East Sussex, in April 2001. Prosecutor Philip Katz said that Mr Hunnisett, now 26, who denies murder, was going to claim he was trying to stop the vicar sexually abusing him. He told the court: "There is evidence that the relationship between the deceased and the defendant had deteriorated to the extent that the priest wanted the defendant out of his flat and the defendant knew that." Mr Katz said there was no suggestion of sexual abuse during the original trial and Mr Hunnisett was introducing a "wholly unlikely story" at his retrial.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Ex-Priest 'Exposes' Clergy's Sex Secrets
There seems no end to Church's woes as far as "God's own country" is concerned. After ex-nun Sister Jesmi's tell-all book on the dark side of the convent life, it's now the turn of a former priest to expose what he claims "sexual anarchy among the clergy and the faithful". The book, 'Here is The Heart of a Priest' by K P Shibu, who left the Vicentian Congregation after 11 years, is autobiographical and slams the "indulgent and licentious life-style of a section of the clergy". Writing about his days with the congregation, Shibu (38) alleges, "Homosexuality and adult films had become a part of their lifestyle... a section of priests and nuns were driven by lust for power and money. Mismanagement of funds was also rampant in institutions under the order."Click Here For The Full Story......
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Former Altar Boy Accuses Oak Harbor Priest Of Sexual Abuse
SEATTLE -- Another former altar boy has come forward to accuse a now-defrocked Oak Harbor priest of sexually abusing him 30 years ago. A 42-year-old former Whidbey Island resident has filed a civil lawsuit in King County Superior Court against the Seattle Archdiocese for alleged childhood sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of Father Barry Ashwell. Ashwell served as pastor of St. Augustine Church in Oak Harbor from 1978 to 2000. The Archdiocese placed him on administrative leave when a sexual abuse allegation became public through a lawsuit in 2002.Click Here For The Full Story......
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German Bishops Order Child-Sex Charges Reported To Police - Summary
TRIER, Germany -- Germany's Catholic bishops have ordered all future allegations of child molestation to be reported to police, said Stephan Ackermann, the bishop in charge of the issue, on Tuesday. The guidelines, replacing 2002 German rules that gave church officials some discretion whether to call police over unproven allegations, are to go into force on Wednesday, said Ackermann. The church has faced criticism around the globe that it failed to properly investigate child-sex allegations against church staff, or kept the cases secret, or re-assigned guilty priests to new jobs where children were again at risk.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Man Who Settled Sex Abuse Claim Against Lansing Diocese Identifies Himself
LANSING -- Attorney Gregory Guggemos has identified himself as the man who settled a decades-old sex abuse claim against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lansing for $225,000 earlier this month. Guggemos, his voice sometimes breaking with emotion, read a 10-page statement at his attorney's office today. detailing the years-long process of recalling the abuse. Guggemos says he was abused by Monsignor John Slowey at the St. Vincent home for children while he and three siblings stayed there for portions of 1954 and 1955.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Kenyan Priest Charged With Sex Assault in Virginia Served As Chaplain in NH
A priest who had served as chaplain at a small New Hampshire Catholic college was arrested in Virginia last month and charged with sexual assault against an 11-year-old girl, two activists organizations said yesterday. The Rev. Felix Owino was arrested in Herndon, Va., which is about 25 miles west of Washington, D.C. A Fairfax County police spokesman said Owino was considered a longtime friend of the alleged victim's family. A native of Nairobi, Kenya, Owino served as chaplain of Magdalen College in Warner from June 2005 to October 2008, the college said yesterday. He was a member of the Africa-based Apostles of Jesus missionary worder.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Fla. Man Wanted In Porn Setup Of Former Priest
The Associated PressVERO BEACH, Fla. -- South Florida investigators are looking for a counselor and former Catholic priest who allegedly planted child pornography on the computer of another former priest. Alfred Justin Boulerice faces charges of trespassing, tampering with evidence and making a false report to law enforcement. The investigation began last year, when someone anonymously called police and said they saw child pornography on a computer belonging to Gerald Lamothe. He was arrested and charged, but exonerated in February after an informant told police the pictures were planted.
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Police Investigate Sex Assault on 6-Year-Old
Authorities are investigating a report that a 6-year-old girl was sexually assaulted Tuesday morning in her Coon Rapids home by a stranger who knocked on the family's door. Police say the girl was home with her teenage sibling, who was sleeping in another part of the home in the 11600 block of Unity Street. The girl told police the man said he was conducting a survey, asked her who else was in the home and then told her not to wake her teenage sibling. He reportedly assaulted the child until she began to cry. The sibling woke up and the man fled on foot, Anoka County Lt. Paul Sommer said. He said the teenager didn't get a look at the stranger.Click Here For The Full Story......
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August 31, 2010
Cardinal Urged Sex Abuse Victim To Keep Quiet, New Tapes Reveal
A former Belgian church leader privately urged a victim of sexual abuse to remain silent this past spring, at a time when the Vatican was denying the scope and scale of a pedophile scandal that has rocked the Roman Catholic Church to its core. The April 8 conversation, captured on tapes published this weekend and confirmed by church authorities as genuine, offers a rare glimpse into a transaction between church officials and victims in what has been described as a widespread practice of hushing pedophile cases.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Cardinal Danneels Urged Sex Abuse Victim to Silence: Secret Recordings
BRUSSELS -- Recordings have revealed Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels urging a victim not to reveal 13 years of sexual abuse at the hands of the cardinal’s friend and colleague Bishop Roger Vangheluwe, the recently retired bishop of Bruges. “The bishop will resign next year, so actually it would be better for you to wait,” the cardinal is heard saying. Danneels warned the victim against trying to blackmail the church and suggested that he accept a private apology from the bishop and not drag his name “through the mud.” The victim responded, “He has dragged my whole life through the mud, from five until 18 years old,” and asked, “Why do you feel sorry for him and not for me?”Click Here For The Full Story......
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Cardinal In Belgium Admits Requesting Silence From Sex Abuse Victim
Reporting from Brussels — The former head of Belgium's Roman Catholic Church acknowledged Monday that he was wrong to have urged a sexual-abuse victim to stay quiet until after the bishop who repeatedly molested him over a span of 13 years could retire. The statement by Cardinal Godfried Danneels came after secret tapes of a meeting between him and the 42-year-old victim were published over the weekend in two newspapers, causing an outcry in this predominantly Roman Catholic country. "The whole approach … was not the right one," Danneels' spokesman, Toon Osaer, told the Associated Press on Monday.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Charges Dropped Against Rural Priest Accused of Homosex Abuse in West Virginia
The charged stemmed from an alleged sexual assault in 1991. Sexual assault charges against an Ohio priest have been dropped in Roane County. Robert Poandl was suppose to go on trial Monday for the alleged abuse but instead the judge dismissed the case. A 10-year-old boy said he visited the priest at the Holy Redeemer Catholic Church Rectory in Spencer in 1991. The victim is now 28. The judge said it was unfair that some medical records had not been produced by the prosecution.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Pedophiles and Popes: Doing the Vatican Shuffle
When Pope John Paul II was still living in Poland as Cardinal Karol Wojtya, he claimed that the security police would accuse priests of sexual abuse just to hassle and discredit them. (New York Times, 3/28/10). For Wojtya, the Polish pedophilia problem was nothing more than a Communist plot to smear the church. By the early 1980s, Wojtya, now ensconced in Rome as Pope John Paul II, treated all stories about pedophile clergy with dismissive aplomb, as little more than slander directed against the church. That remained his stance for the next twenty years.Click Here For The Full Story......
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I Will Not Resign, Insists A Defiant Cardinal Brady
Cardinal Sean Brady has insisted he will not resign. Speaking in Ennis, Co Clare, the Archbishop of Armagh quashed rumours circulating in clerical circles that he had offered his resignation to Pope Benedict. According to some Church sources, Ireland’s Catholic Primate travelled to Rome before Easter to tender his resignation.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Child Rapist Merzbacher Appeals Ruling To Close Loophole
Convicted child rapist John Joseph Merzbacher has filed an appeal to close a loophole in a recent court ruling that requires he be given a fresh chance at freedom, despite his four life sentences. On July 30, federal court judge Andre M. Davis ordered that a court must now offer Merzbacher a 10-year plea deal that his attorneys never properly presented before his 1995 trial, violating his constitutional rights. But Davis added one seeming caveat that has Merzbacher nervous. "Before Merzbacher gains full relief, a judge of the [Baltimore] circuit court must express a willingness to carry out the undertaking," Davis wrote in a memorandum opinion accompanying his order.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Pa. Priest Luis Bonilla Margarito Impregnated Teen, Says Suit
ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- A 41-year-old priest who was allegedly caught on videotape having sexual relations with one of his 18-year-old female students now stands accused of fathering the young girl's baby. The parents of the high school senior suspected Rev. Luis Bonilla Margarito, an ex-chaplain at Reading Central Catholic High School, and their daughter were having sex in the basement of their home. They decided to take legal action after they say a hidden video camera recorded a sexual encounter between the couple in November 2009 confirmed their suspicions.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Abuse Victims Urged To Come Forward
ALLENTOWN, PA -- A support group for victims of abuse by priests wants others to know they're not alone. On Monday, the group urged victims to come forward and said there may be a connection to a priest who was named in a lawsuit filed in Reading just last week. They stood in front of the offices of the Allentown Diocese. SNAP stands for the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Statutory Rape & Murder: Ex-High School Coach Guilty In Teen Sex Case
TUSCOLA COUNTY, Mich. -- A former Owendale-Gagetown softball coach accused of having sex with an underage girl on his team has been found guilty by a Tuscola County jury. Cory D. Fritz, 27, of Sebewaing, was ruled guilty Monday after a three-day trial on five counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct. It took a jury of 11 women and one man four hours of deliberation to reach a verdict. Tuscola County Prosecutor Mark Reene had charged Frtiz with 20 counts. During testimony, the team member, who was 14 years old at the time, admitted to becoming pregnant while having a relationship with Fritz during her sophomore year at Owendale-Gagetown between the summer of 2005 and the spring of 2006. She also said that Fritz helped her dispose of the baby's body, but the defense questioned the existence of the baby.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Man Accused of Sexually Assaulting Girl
A Darlington man has been arrested in connection with the sexual assault of a 12-year-old girl, according to Darlington police reports. Mildenzel Davis, 19, is charged with criminal sexual assault of a minor ages 11 to 14, committing a lewd act on a child and simple possession of marijuana, Darlington Police Capt. Danny Watson said. The incident happened at the suspect's residence, and the suspect was arrested about an hour later, Watson said. The incident happened just after 7 p.m. Sunday at the suspect’s residence, and the suspect was arrested about an hour later, Watson said. The investigation continues, he said. Anyone with information about possible cases of criminal sexual assault or domestic violence is encouraged to contact the nearest law enforcement agency. In addition, the Pee Dee Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Assault, and its Elizabeth Pettigrew Durant Children's Center, provides assistance and resources designed to help victims of these crimes and can be reached at (843) 669-4600 or (800) 273-1820.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Man Sentenced to 11 Life Terms, Plus 433 Years
LONG BEACH, Calif. -- A California man convicted of attacking six women has been sentenced to 11 life terms, plus 433 years in prison. Forty-five-year-old Charles Juan Proctor was also ordered to pay $58,000 in medical expenses for two women whose necks were slit, and $10,000 to the state victims' restitution fund. Proctor was convicted Aug. 13 of 22 counts of attempted murder, mayhem, robbery and other charges.Click Here For The Full Story......
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August 30, 2010
Cardinal Danneels Condoned Sex-Abuse Silence
The former head of the Catholic Church in Belgium tried to stop a victim of sex abuse from going public with their story, Church officials have confirmed. During a meeting in April, Cardinal Godfried Danneels advised the victim to delay a public statement until the bishop who abused him had retired. Bishop Roger Vangheluwe, who was also at the meeting, admitted to the abuse in April and resigned.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Belgian Church Leader Urged Abuse Victim to Keep Silent
PARIS -- The former leader of Belgium’s Roman Catholic Church urged a victim of serial sexual abuse by a bishop to keep silent for a year, until the bishop – the victim’s own uncle – could retire, according to tapes made by the victim last April and published over the weekend in two Belgian newspapers. The tapes, which church authorities have verified as accurate, are among the more revealing documents in the continuing scandal of sexual abuse by clerics and subsequent cover-ups by the church in Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and other countries. And having a record of a cardinal’s entreating an abuse victim to keep his silence is another embarrassment for the Roman Catholic Church.
Belgian Cardinal Hides Sex Abuse Case
Roman Catholic Cardinal Godfried Danneels held a meeting with Bishop Roger Vangheluwe and the individual claiming to have been abused on April 8, advising the alleged victim to delay making a public statement. The victim secretly recorded the meeting and sent the transcripts to Belgium's De Standaard newspaper. "It might be better to wait for a date in the next year, when he is due to resign," the Cardinal is heard as having said on the tape, according to a BBC report.
Belgian Cardinal Offered To Hide Bishop's Sex Abuse Charges For A Year
As priest and bishop, Roger Vangheluwe abused a victim who finally came forward close to the end of Vangheluwe’s career. Rather than reporting it to the authorities, or making it public, Cardinal Godfried Danneels made a deal with the bishop. Cardinal Danneels would keep the allegations secret until after Bishop Vangheluwe retired a year later. In the end, the bishop retired two weeks later and expressed sorrow for abusing his victim for years.
Belgian Sex Abuse Tapes Amplify Catholic Scandals
PARIS -- Leaked tapes of Belgium's Cardinal Godfried Danneels urging a victim not to reveal he was sexually abused by a bishop are some of the most damaging documents to emerge in the scandal rocking the Roman Catholic Church. The tapes, made secretly by the victim and published in two Belgian newspapers on Saturday, show the former primate of Belgium exhorting him to accept a private apology or wait one year until the bishop retired before making his case public. Their meeting took place on April 8, at a time when the Vatican was under fire for allegedly covering up similar abuse cases by priests in other countries and shocking abuse claims dominated the news in several European states.
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Local Group Aims To Inform Catholics About Abuse By Priests
DETROIT, MI -- Members of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests leafleted mass goers at Detroit's Blessed Sacrament Cathedral Sunday, calling for local Catholic leaders to be more forthcoming about priests -- dead or alive -- who've been credibly accused of molesting minors. "We were trying to inform the parishioners that abuse does occur and we want to give parents warning signs," said Matt Jatczak, 31, a legal assistant from Livonia, who has started a SNAP group for the Detroit area, http://www.snapdetroit.org. Five group members stood outside Blessed Sacrament, the archdiocese's mother church, to catch parishioners after the 11 a.m. mass. They want Archbishop Allen Vigneron to urge any possible victims to come forward by visiting churches where abusive priests have worked; and to make information about the accused priests — such as with photos and listings of past parishes — more easily available.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Columbia Man Wins Abuse Judgment
A Columbia man who says he was sexually abused by a Catholic brother in 1985 has won a $500,000 court order. Earlier this month, a St. Louis County judge ordered Brother William C. Mueller, 71, to pay the penalty in a civil suit stemming from accusations that he abused Bryan Bacon, 40, of Columbia. The abuse is alleged to have occurred when Bacon was a 15-year-old sophomore at St. John Vianney High School in St. Louis. Bacon — now an attorney with the law office of Van Matre, Harrison, Hollis, Pitzer and Taylor — said he doesn’t expect to see a penny of compensation from the ruling and will not attempt to collect it from Mueller.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Man Sentenced for Child Sex Assault
APPLETON, Wis. -- A man from Appleton is sentenced to 12 years in prison Friday after pleading no contest to sexual assault of a child. 48-year-old James Landa will also spend 18 years extended supervision following his release. Landa and his wife were charged March 19 after a 12-year-old girl reported the sexual assaults. The victim is also a relative of the couple.Click Here For The Full Story......
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School Employee Charged with Pornography
A 47-year-old Plainfield South High School custodian was charged Friday with distribution of child pornography, officials said. Anthony Skoien, of the 2400 block of Garden Street in Joliet, was arrested at his home by federal agents assigned to the Chicago FBI's Innocent Images Task Force, FBI officials said in a news release. There is no indication that the images involved any district students or staff, officials said. In June, Skoien was identified as a "possible distributor of child pornography" over the Internet, officials said.Click Here For The Full Story......
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August 28, 2010
Suit: Priest Impregnates Pa. Teen
ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- A Pennsylvania couple secretly videotaped a Roman Catholic priest having sex with their teenage daughter in the basement of their home and are now suing, saying he got her pregnant. The lawsuit alleges that the Rev. Luis A. Bonilla Margarito carried on a sexual relationship with a teenage girl while he was the chaplain of Reading Central Catholic High School and she was a senior there. The girl's parents became suspicious and installed a camera in their basement. The lawsuit says the camera recorded the couple having sex in November 2009. The Diocese of Allentown removed Bonilla from his post after he acknowledged an "inappropriate relationship."Click Here For The Full Story......
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Columbia Man Wins Abuse Judgment
A Columbia man who says he was sexually abused by a Catholic brother in 1985 has won a $500,000 court order. Earlier this month, a St. Louis County judge ordered Brother William C. Mueller, 71, to pay the penalty in a civil suit stemming from accusations that he abused Bryan Bacon, 40, of Columbia. The abuse is alleged to have occurred when Bacon was a 15-year-old sophomore at St. John Vianney High School in St. Louis. Bacon — now an attorney with the law office of Van Matre, Harrison, Hollis, Pitzer and Taylor — said he doesn’t expect to see a penny of compensation from the ruling and will not attempt to collect it from Mueller.Click Here For The Full Story......
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New Abuse Row Over Irish Priest
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa in California is facing a second lawsuit from a man claiming he was sexually abused as a child by an Irish priest. The lawsuit filed in Sonoma County Superior Court said that Father Patrick McCabe had abused the plaintiff almost weekly during most of 1983. It claimed that diocese officials knew Fr McCabe had been accused of molesting children in his native Ireland before he was assigned to St Bernard's Church in Eureka.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Man Charged in Sexual Assault of 3 Children
A 39-year-old Austin man is facing three counts of felony aggravated sexual assault of a child after officials say he assaulted three children younger than 8, according to an arrest affidavit filed today. Rene Reyes was booked into Travis County Jail shortly after 10 p.m. Thursday and is being held on $60,00 bail, according to jail records. One of the children told a relative about the abuse in June, the affidavit said. This week, the child was interviewed at the Austin Center for Child Protection, where he reported the assault to authorities, the affidavit said.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Florida Woman Decapitated, Dismembered
Authorities are saying a 48-year-old north Florida woman was decapitated and dismembered, and her boyfriend has been charged with murder in her death. The St. Johns County Sheriff's Office said Friday that parts of 48-year-old Jan Dunn Keller were found wrapped in a tarp in a garage at a home she shared with her boyfriend, 51-year-old Timothy Dale Rose. Authorities say other body parts were found buried in a nearby wooded area.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Man Accused of Putting Infant Son in Freezer
Police say a suburban Phoenix man accused of putting his infant son in a freezer has been arrested on charges of child abuse. Chandler police say Chance Kracke told police he was high on methamphetamine when he placed his son in the freezer Aug. 16. Kracke told police he was preparing food when he put the boy on the bottom shelf of his freezer and closed the door because the kitchen floor was too dirty.Click Here For The Full Story......
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August 27, 2010
Homosexual Infested Republican Party
John Byrne / Raw Story:Raw Story revealed effort to keep sexuality quiet in 2004; Led aggressive anti-gay effort in Ohio in 2004. Ken Mehlman, the erstwhile chairman of the Republican National Committee and campaign manager for George W. Bush's 2004 reelection effort, has come out of the closet as gay in a column published in The Atlantic. Mehlman came out in a column by Mark Ambinder on the website of The Atlantic, after the blogger who outed former Idaho Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) and onetime Virginia congressman Ed Schrock revealed that Ambinder was to publish the story. Blogger Michael Rogers was the subject of the documentary "Outrage," a film about outing gays in government who have used their positions of power to advocate against gay issues, which aired earlier this year on HBO.
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Marc Ambinder tried to report on Ken Mehlman's sexual orientation years ago
The Washington Post
Marc Ambinder, the political junkie who writes for the Atlantic, says he suspected, like lots of insiders, that Ken Mehlman was gay. In fact, years before the former Republican Party chairman acknowledged his sexuality to Ambinder in an interview published Wednesday, the reporter tried to find out. And, says Ambinder, he would have outed Mehlman if he had evidence.
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Treason, Bradley Manning, and Army PC
By Jonah Knox / Accuracy in MediaI wait for General George Casey, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, to send an e-mail to me and my fellow soldiers in regards to homosexual Bradley Manning’s reported treason in the WikiLeaks scandal. You see, General Casey sent an e-mail to soldiers following Major Nidal Hassan’s jihadist massacre at Fort Hood last year in which he said that he was “. . . concerned about the potential for this speculation to cause a backlash against our Muslim Soldiers and civilians. We need to be vigilant to ensure this does not occur.”
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2nd Sex Abuse Suit Against Santa Rosa Diocese
SANTA ROSA, CA -- A man who claimed he was sexually abused as a child by an Irish priest filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa _ the second such alleging the church knew the priest was facing abuse charges in Ireland, but failed to warn the parish. The lawsuit, filed in Sonoma County Superior Court, alleged that Rev. Patrick McCabe abused the man almost weekly during most of 1983, when McCabe was assigned to St. Bernard's church as associate pastor. The alleged victim, who was 11 at the time, attended the school attached to St. Bernard's in Eureka, California. McCabe's attorney and the diocese's spokeswoman didn't immediately return calls Thursday.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Second Molestation Suit Hits Santa Rosa Diocese
SANTA ROSA -- A second man has sued the Santa Rosa Roman Catholic Diocese, claiming that he was molested by a priest sent from Ireland to work in California in the 1980s despite having been the subject of boys' complaints in his homeland. The plaintiff in the latest case, a 38-year-old Eureka man who filed suit Thursday, said he first disclosed the alleged abuse to an ex-girlfriend several years ago but had never said anything to police or church officials. He decided to sue, he said, after reading quotes from church officials in response to the arrest of Patrick Joseph McCabe, 74, earlier this month for allegedly sexually assaulting six boys in Ireland from 1973 to 1981.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Irish priest scandal: Second lawsuit filed against Santa Rosa Diocese
SANTA ROSA, CA -- A second Humboldt County man is suing the Santa Rosa Catholic Diocese, alleging he was repeatedly molested in the 1980s by an Irish priest who had been identified as a pedophile. The suit, filed Thursday in Sonoma County Superior Court, accuses the diocese of negligence and fraud for hiring the Rev. Patrick Joseph McCabe and failing to disclose his misconduct to parishioners in Eureka.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Irish Priest Sued In US
Civil Actions by two Californian men have been initiated there against former Dublin Catholic priest Patrick Joseph McCabe (74) who is already the subject of 10 warrants issued in the Irish courts for his extradition. He was remanded in custody in California this month pending the full extradition hearing which is likely to take place this autumn. One of the civil cases in California claims that Mr McCabe repeatedly molested a then 11-year-old boy at a parish at Eureka, California around 1983.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Ireland's Sons Turn Their Backs On The 'Faggot' Priesthood
The number of priestly ordinations in Ireland has dipped below England and Wales for the first time in living memory, new figures reveal. . . . The Irish church's reputation has been battered in the past five years by numerous sexual abuse scandals and repeated revelations that senior church officials deliberately covered up the crimes of paedophiles priests.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Catholic Priest Reveals Active Sex Life
A gay Catholic priest has revealed that up to half of priests, both gay and straight, are sexually active. "I have not been able to keep my vow of celibacy," the priest says, speaking exclusively to DNA Magazine's Nick Cook in the current issue. "Sometimes I need to be held and cared for - and I enjoy the sex. "I know that for a large part of the world it means I'm not a good priest, but without it I'd be a worse one."Click Here For The Full Story......
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Latest Catholic Cover-up Terrorist Priest Evades Justice
On July 31 1972 3 no warning, car bombs ripped through the village of Claudy in Northern Ireland killing 9 including an 8 year old girl. It is regarded as the worst attack of the "troubles" as the media love to refer to them. A report was released this week, which suggested the direct involvement of a catholic priest. The priest, Father James Chesney, has long been rumoured to be the "Director of Operations for the IRA" in South County Derry. Although it was known at the time that Chesney was involved, and despite being questioned, the church moved Chesney to the Republic of Ireland where he could not be bothered by the UK authorities. He died a few years later of cancer, while in his church granted exile.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Church, U.K. hid priest's role in bombing: report
The Associated Press
The British government and the Roman Catholic church colluded to cover up the suspected involvement of a priest in a 1972 bombing that killed nine people and injured 30, a new report said Tuesday. The Northern Ireland police ombudsman's report determined that Father James Chesney was the prime suspect in the blast in the village of Claudy, just outside of Londonderry and that the police chose not to pursue him. The Irish Republican Army has been blamed for the attack.
Police ombudsman confirms Claudy bombings collusion
Northern Ireland’s Police Ombudsman said in a report today the RUC, the British government and the Catholic Church protected a Catholic priest allegedly involved in the 1972 IRA Claudy bombings. Al Hutchinson’s report, released today, endorses the allegation that at the time the RUC had high-level intelligence that Father James Chesney was a senior figure in the IRA gang that planted three bombs in the Co Derry village on July 31st, 1972.
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Welfare Cash Withdrawn At Casino, Strip Club ATMs
Millions of dollars in welfare funds have for years been withdrawn from automated teller machines in casinos, strip clubs and other gambling establishments in California as the state agencies responsible for preventing it stood idly by. Since at least 2006 the state’s Department of Social Services has failed to notice that welfare recipients withdrew nearly $5 million from ATMs inside gambling venues and strip clubs. More appalling is that the California Gambling Control Commission, which oversees non-Indian tribe gaming rooms, has known about the banned practice for years but hasn't bothered to take action.Click Here For The Full Story......
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August 26, 2010
Israeli Serial Stabbings Ordered Held Without Bond In U.S.
An Israeli citizen suspected in 18 stabbing attacks across three U.S. states, including five fatal stabbings, has been ordered held without bond. Elias Abuelazam, 33, was arraigned by video in a Flint, Mich., court on Thursday on a charge of assault with intent to murder in connection with a July 27 attack. Prosecutors had asked for a $10 million bond, citing the severity of the attacks and concern that Abuelazam is a flight risk. Judge Nathaniel Perry III instead ordered him held without bond.Click Here For The Full Story......
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OU's Rabbinic Authority Says Do Not Call Law Enforcement On Child Sexual Abusers
Rabbi Yisroel Belsky says calling police or the D.A. to report child sexual abuse is wrong. Victims' families must bring their evidence to a beit din whose rabbis will decide if police and secular courts should be informed. Today's online edition of the APP has a long article on child sexual abuse in the haredi community of Lakewood, New Jersey. (The article was in Sunday's print edition.) It deals with the case of Yosef Kolko, an alleged child sexual abuser who is a nephew of the notorious pedophile Rabbi Yehuda Kolko.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Lakewood Orthodox Jewish Leaders Want Abuse Accusations Addressed
LAKEWOOD, NJ -- One man's criminal accusation that a teacher molested his young son has widened the rift in the Orthodox Jewish community over where religious rights stop and the justice system begins. Some inside the tight-knit enclave praised the child's father for bypassing religious protocols last year and reporting the alleged attack first to Ocean County prosecutors. Others believe he committed a sin because he failed to get permission from a rabbinic court before pressing charges against a fellow Jew. "The first step is to go to rabbis,'' said Rabbi Shmuel Meir Katz, a senior Dayan, or decider of Jewish law. He teaches at Beth Medrash Govoha, a yeshiva in Lakewood that is one of the foremost Jewish universities in the world. "We have our own system. We have our own laws, and as long as the Bais Din (rabbinical tribunal) feels competent on taking care of something themselves, that's our surest recourse in our circles.''Click Here For The Full Story......
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Judges Seals Records In Priest Sex Abuse Suit
PEORIA, IL. -- The deposition of a former Catholic bishop will not be released, but a lawyer intends to continue his fight to open records about allegations of sexual abuse. Peoria County Judge Joseph Vespa granted a request by the Diocese of Peoria to keep records confidential. He did allow Jeff Anderson, the Minnesota attorney for alleged victim Andrew Ward, to go through some documents to identify materials he believes should be available. Ward, who agreed to have his name publicly used, has a pending civil lawsuit against the diocese. He accuses now-deceased Monsignor Thomas Maloney of molesting him when Ward was a second-grader at Epiphany Grade School in Normal.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Mid-Michigan Clergy Homosex Abuse Cases Come to Light
LANSING MI -- Allegations of sexual abuse have prompted the Catholic Diocese of Lansing to acknowledge that up to six men have been molested by a now-deceased Laingsburg priest. The conduct of Rev. John Martin, who was the priest at St. Isidore Catholic Church in Laingsburg, Michigan, from 1941 to 1966, was initially described by two victims. The revelation prompted the church to suspect that other victims were involved, and anyone with information was asked to come forward. The abuse occurred in the 1950s and 1960s and the victims, now in their 60s and 70s, were in their teens at the time. Rev. Martin served at four other churches during his tenure as a priest, during which time he was active in the community and coached various sports. Martin died in 1968. While the church claims it is not aware of other victims, it is nearly certain that others in the Mid-Michigan area have been abused by clergy members.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Clergy Sex Abuse Victim Reaches Settlement
LANSING, MICHIGAN -- A former Michigan professional, who can no longer perform his job as a result of his emotional injuries stemming from sexual abuse he endured as a child at a Lansing orphanage, has reached a settlement with the Catholic Diocese of Lansing. For decades, the victim involuntarily repressed all memory of the crimes. With the help of an attorney, he has received a $225,000 settlement. The priest, now deceased, had never been publicly accused before. At a brief news conference, a recent $225,000 clergy sex abuse settlement involving the Catholic Diocese of Lansing and a now-deceased priest, who has never been publicly accused of abuse before, will be disclosed and discussed.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Lansing Diocese Rocked By 2nd Dead Priest Accused Of Molesting
The Catholic Diocese of Lansing was rocked today by revelations about another priest, long-dead, now accused of sexually molesting a boy decades ago. Lansing lawyer David Mittleman announced today that he has negotiated a $225,000 settlement from the Diocese of Lansing on behalf of a man who says he was molested by the late Rev. John Slowey at an orphanage in the mid-1950s. Lansing diocese spokesman Michael Diebold confirmed the cash settlement in the Slowey case.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Chaplain Charged Over Child Pornography
A chaplain at a private school for girls in Perth has been charged with child pornography offences. Police say the Reverend Matthew O'Meara has been charged with two counts of possessing child pornography. The police online exploitation sqaud arrested the chaplain after a thumb drive containing the images was found at the school. School principal Jenny Ethell says O'Meara was ordained two years ago, and joined the school at the start of the year.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Indiana Man Charged In Pa. Facebook Stalking Case
PITTSBURGH -- An Indiana man created a Facebook page in the name of an ex-girlfriend he raped in Ohio, then used it to stalk a more recent ex in Pennsylvania and threaten to distribute a secretly filmed video of them having sex if she didn't return to him, police said. Travis Allen Davis, 23, of New Castle, Ind., has pleaded not guilty, and his lawyer has said he intends to prove his innocence. Davis was arrested Aug. 15 outside the second ex-girlfriend's home in Delmont, about 25 miles east of Pittsburgh, after someone called 911 to report a man sleeping in a suspicious vehicle outside, police said. He had a .45-caliber pistol, three magazines of bullets and a box cutter, and the car had a stolen Pennsylvania license plate taped over the Indiana plate on his car, police said.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Accused Army Traitor Cruised Gay Bars
As "young conservatives" like Erick Erickson and S.E. Cupp defend Ann Coulter’s scheduled appearance at the "Homocon" pro-gay rights conference in September, new evidence about the destructive nature of the homosexual lifestyle has surfaced in the treason case of gay soldier Bradley Manning. Information developed by CNN suggests that Manning, who may have been considering a sex change, had been cruising the homosexual subculture for several years, under the noses of his military superiors, and even went to gay bars. All of this constitutes a blatant violation of the "Don't ask, Don't tell," homosexual exclusion policy that President Obama has promised to overturn.Click Here For The Full Story......
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August 25, 2010
Diocese Attempts To Seal Records In Alleged Sex Abuse Suit
PEORIA -- Information related to allegations of sexual abuse may be kept under wraps if a Peoria judge grants a request by the Catholic Diocese of Peoria to seal the records. Andrew Ward, now 22, a former student at Epiphany Grade School in Normal, filed a lawsuit in 2008 against the diocese and now-deceased Msgr. Thomas Maloney. The priest, whose service included assignments at parishes in Bloomington, Normal and Lexington, was accused of sexually abusing Ward when he was about eight years old. No criminal charges were filed against Maloney, 73, who died in August 2009. The lawsuit is still pending against the diocese. Ward has agreed to be publicly identified in the lawsuit and by the news media. In a motion filed July 21, the diocese asks that the deposition of former Peoria Bishop John Myers and other records be sealed. Myers, who was named archbishop of Newark, N.J. in 2001, was interviewed May 12 by Ward's attorney, Jeff Anderson, of Minnesota.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Lansing Diocese Identifies Deceased Priest Accused Of Abusing Boys
Lansing Catholic Bishop Earl Boyea took a rare step today to publicly identify a long-dead Catholic priest, the Rev. John Martin, as having abused six teenage boys in a parish where Martin served before his death in 1968. Boyea said he first learned about the allegations against Martin, who pastored St. Isidore in Laingsburg from 1941-1966, in June. Two men told stories about the abuse to the current pastor of St. Isidore, who relayed the information to Boyea. When Boyea learned about the initial accusations, he asked that notices be placed in the parish bulletins of St. Isidore and St. Mary Parish in Morrice (1938-1941) asking anyone with information about Martin to come forward.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Alleged Abuse Victims Oppose Settlement
Four alleged abuse victims oppose the $1.15-million out-of-court settlement offered by Bishop's College School. Forty former students launched a class action lawsuit against Bishop's for physical and sexual abuse they say they suffered at the hands of the late reverend Harold Forrester. Between 1953 and 1962, he was a teacher and house master at the school. The school proposed a settlement that would see alleged victims receive anywhere from $20,000 to $40,000 each, depending on the total number of claims and the severity of the abuse suffered.Click Here For The Full Story......
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The Cardinal Said That He Knew That The Priest Was A Very Bad Man
NORTHERN IRELAND -- The Northern Ireland Police Ombudsman, Al Hutchison, has published the findings of his “investigation into how the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) dealt with their suspicions that a Catholic priest was allegedly involved in the bombing of Claudy in County Londonderry on 31 July 1972, in which nine people were killed and more than 30 others were injured.” The Police Ombudsman’s Office has confirmed that following the bombing police held extensive Intelligence and other material, which they received from a variety of sources, from which they concluded that the priest was the IRA’s Director of Operations in South Derry and was alleged to have been directly involved in the bombings and other terrorist incidents.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Serial Killer to be Extradited to Michigan
Serial killer Nolan Ray George could be back in Michigan as early as today to face first-degree murder charges in the 1968 strangling death of a Pontiac woman after an Ohio judge ordered Monday that he be extradited. George, 67, a suspect in several unsolved murders in Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky, is accused of killing Gwendolyn Perry, 36, of Pontiac in December 1968. She was strangled to death with her silk stockings, then her seminude body was tossed into a snowy field off Giddings Road.Click Here For The Full Story......
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German Priest Charged With Raping Girl
A Roman Catholic priest has been charged in Germany with raping a 14-year-old girl two decades ago. The woman contacted her diocese in Osnabrueck in March and said she had had a sexual relationship marked by violence with the man - a chaplain at the time - for more than three years. The clergyman told the girl she would not go to heaven if she did not have sex with him, a prosecutor told AFP. The woman came forward after publicity surrounding sex abuse in the church. The priest was suspended by the church when the allegations surfaced.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Priest Charged With Rape of 14-Year-Old
German prosecutors say a Roman Catholic priest has been charged with twice raping a 14-year-old girl 20 years ago. Osnabrueck prosecution spokesman Alexander Retemeyer said the 50-year old man, then a chaplain, used force to coerce the girl into having sex with him and also threatened her with punishment by God. Prosecutors say the priest, who has been relieved of his duties by the church, has admitted sexual contacts with the girl.
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Priest Sacked From Girls' College Over Child Pornography
MELBOURNE -- A former school church priest has been sacked from a girls' college in Sydney after being charged with possessing child pornography. Reverend Matthew David O'Meara, 40, who worked at St Michael's Grammar School for three years until December last year, was sacked by Perth girls' College after the alleged discovery of pornographic images of children aged between eight and 12. Archbishop Roger Herft said O'Meara's licence had been suspended pending the outcome of the case. The priest is to appear in court on September 2, The Age reported.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Van der Sloot Confession Could Be Thrown Out
A panel of Peruvian judges is considering whether to uphold the confession of Joran van der Sloot, who is accused of killing a 21-year-old woman. The three-judge appellate panel is expected to hand down a decision in about a week. "We believe we did a good job demonstrating that there wasn't an official translator and that his attorney (at the time of the confession) did not have a document accrediting her as his attorney," van der Sloot's attorney, Maximo Altez Navarro, said.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Woman Abused by Bail Bondsman
LEXINGTON, S.C. -- A South Carolina bail bondsman has been charged with forcing a woman to cook, clean and do sexual favors for him in exchange for getting her out of jail. Lexington County Sheriff James Metts said Tuesday that 51-year-old Curtis Maroney told the 39-year-old woman he would revoke her bond if she didn't obey his commands. After five days, investigators say Maroney drove the woman to visit her children at her father's home and she called deputies.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Sexually Transmitted Infections Rose 2.5% in U.K. Last Year, Report Finds
Sexually transmitted infections in the U.K. rose 2.5 percent in 2009, reaching 482,696 from 470,701 a year earlier, according to the Health Protection Agency. Chlamydia infections increased 7 percent, and gonorrhea cases rose by 6 percent, the agency said today in an e-mailed statement.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Canadian Paediatric Society Enabling Child Rape Says Pro-Life Leader
The Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS) is urging doctors to counsel “preteens” and adolescents on the use of the abortifacient morning-after pill, while at the same time insisting that they keep the meeting completely confidential. Alissa Golob, head of Campaign Life Coalition Youth, has responded by calling the society’s approach “a recipe for enabling child rapists to continue sexually assaulting young girls behind their parents’ backs.” In a position statement released this month, the society advocates that health professionals spread awareness about the morning-after pill among teens as an “effective way” to reduce pregnancy rates. They “should routinely provide information and counselling about EC [emergency contraception] to adolescents regardless of sex or current method of contraception” the statement says, adding that the information should be given during routine visits to the doctor.Click Here For The Full Story......
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August 24, 2010
Federal Judge Denies Christian Counselling Student's Request for Injunction
On Friday, a federal judge denied student Jennifer Keeton's request for an injunction prohibiting Augusta State University from expelling her while her case is being decided, if she does not attend "diversity sensitivity training" on homosexuality. Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), a Christian legal organization representing Keeton, appealed District Judge J. Randal Hall's decision to the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit on Monday. Keeton, 24, is pursuing a master's degree in counseling at ASU. According to ADF lawyers, after her professors learned of her biblical beliefs regarding homosexual conduct, they imposed a mandatory re-education plan on her.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Lutherans Breaking With Church Over Filthy Abomination
FAIRBORN -- The Rev. Robert Forsberg didn’t expect to be starting a new church at age 63. But a controversial decision last year by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to allow non-celibate homosex ministers has splintered his former church along with hundreds of other congregations across the country. "This is probably the first time they’ve taken something that was recognized as a sin and basically made it a non-sin,” said Forsberg, former pastor at St. Mark Lutheran Church in Fairborn. “It just came to a point of, can people of conscience accept this? I just couldn’t do it."Click Here For The Full Story......
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Chaplain Accused Of Accessing Child Porn
A chaplain at a Perth private girls school has been stood down after being charged with accessing child pornography. The Police Online Exploitation Squad arrested Reverend Matthew O'Meara, 40, after a thumb-drive containing child pornography was found at Perth College, where he works. The Mt Lawley man has been charged with two counts of possessing child pornography. In a statement, police said inquiries were continuing. Reverend O'Meara has been bailed to attend Perth Magistrates Court on September 2.Click Here For The Full Story......
Posted by Editor at 04:26 AM
Priest Pleads Not Guilty To Va. Charges
Knox minister had admitted molesting same accuser in N.C.The alleged victim of a former Knoxville priest who was arraigned Monday on felony molestation charges in Virginia accused the clergyman of cowardice for declining to plead guilty at his first court appearance. Rev. William "Bill" Casey, 76, is accused of forcible sodomy and indecent liberties with a minor for allegedly molesting Warren Tucker in 1978 at Natural Tunnel State Park. He faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted on both counts and has a Jan. 26 trial date, according to the Scott County, Va., Commonwealth Attorney's Office. Casey previously has admitted and been convicted of molesting Tucker in North Carolina. He recently received 24 months' probation in the North Carolina case, and Tucker on Monday blasted him for being inconsistent in his willingness to accept responsibility for his crimes.
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Posted by Editor at 04:25 AM
Illegal Alien Charged With Sodomy In Etowah County
A gay in the United States illegally has been charged with sodomy involving two boys, according to a news release from Sheriff Todd Entrekin. Alberto Cabral Collazo, 34, Boaz, was arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree sodomy, Investigator Carla Carroll said. The alleged incident happened in April 2009, but it was not reported until June 2010. It happened at a residence located in the Boaz area of Etowah County. Instead of shooting the damned sodomite, if Collazo is convicted, once his time is served he will be turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Illegal Alien Charged with Sexually Abusing 2 Boys
An illegal immigrant is in jail tonight, accused of sexually abusing 2 boys in Boaz. 34-year-old Alberto Cabral Collazo is charged with 2 counts of first-degree sodomy. The alleged victims say the abuse happened last spring, but it was not reported until this June. If Collazo is convicted, he'll serve his time in Etowah county before being turned over to Immigration Enforcement for prosecution and deportation.
Posted by Editor at 04:25 AM
Adultery: Tiger Woods Divorce Finalized
(Exod.20:14; Lev.20:10; Prov.6:32; Gal.5:19-21)A high profile divorce is filed and final in less than 24 hours - in an unexpected place. Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren slipped into Bay County this morning to get their divorce. Back in July they signed an agreement that would waive the 20 day waiting period, making the divorce final as soon as all documents were signed. But no one expected the couple to come to a small place like Panama City.
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Adultery: Tiger Woods, Wife Officially Divorced
(Exod.20:14; Lev.20:10; Prov.6:32; Gal.5:19-21)
The divorce of Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren was finalized Monday in Bay County (Fla.) Circuit Court, lawyers for the former couple announced. "We are sad that our marriage is over and we wish each other the very best for the future," they said in a statement released by Nordegren's Washington DC-based law firm of McGuireWoods. "While we are no longer married, we are the parents of two wonderful children and their happiness has been, and will always be, of paramount importance to both of us."
Posted by Editor at 04:24 AM
'Grim Sleeper' Suspect Pleads Not Guilty
The man accused of killing ten women in South Los Angeles in the "Grim Sleeper" case has entered a not guilty plea to 10 counts of murder and one count of attempted murder. Lonnie Franklin Jr. also faces special circumstance charges making him eligible for the death penalty in California. Franklin was arrested last month for the murders which were committed between 1985 and 2007.Click Here For The Full Story......
Posted by Editor at 04:23 AM
Statutory Rape & Murder: Restaurant Manager Gets 14 Year-Old Employee Pregnant 3 Times
A few years ago there was an appalling incident in Calgary in which a 35 year-old restaurant manager had a sexual relationship with a 14 year-old employee who subsequently got pregnant on three different occasions by him. The girl had an abortion for the first pregnancy, miscarried on the second and carried the third to term. After the abortion, the girl tried to commit suicide and ended up in the hospital. This whole situation was within about a year and a half time period and the case is now in the court system.Click Here For The Full Story......
Posted by Editor at 04:22 AM
Barack Obama Elementary School Opens in Maryland
NBCThe first school in the D.C. area named after the current baby murdering, pro-homosexual Reprobate in the White House opens Monday morning as the school year begins in Prince George's County. Barack Obama Elementary School opens its doors in Upper Marlboro, Md., for the first time Monday. The school is being touted as being an environmentally friendly "green" school. There have been other schools named after Obama in the country, but this will be a first in his own backyard in the D.C. region.
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Posted by Editor at 04:21 AM
School Rejects Lesbian Couple's Daughter
BEDFORD, Texas - A Bedford couple is upset that their daughter was denied admission to a private Episcopal school. The school says it does not agree with their lesbian relationship. Jill and Tracy Harrison were married in Canada in 2006. Last month they filled out admission forms to enroll their daughter, Olivia, into St. Vincent’s Episcopal School. Jill wrote her name next to the word “mother” on the forms. She crossed out “father” and wrote in “mother” next to Tracy's name as well. School officials said they assumed Tracy was a man. But after the couple attended parent’s night, Olivia was denied admission.Click Here For The Full Story......
Posted by Editor at 04:20 AM
Man Tried to Set Wife on Fire
A Queen Anne's County man is facing attempted murder charges after police say he pumped gasoline into the passenger compartment of a car while his estranged wife was inside, then set it on fire. The woman told police that she was in the driver's seat at a Stevensville gas station when her estranged husband, Pernell Clanton Jr. of Grasonville, began pumping gas through an open window. Maryland State Police say Clanton ignited the gas, but his wife escaped just as it exploded.Click Here For The Full Story......
Posted by Editor at 04:18 AM
Man Pleads To Having Child Porn On Computer
An Upper Frederick man Monday admitted possessing child pornography on his computer. David B. Gardner, 52, of the 3200 block of Locust Lane, entered an open plea in Montgomery County Court to a felony charge of sex abuse of children - possessing child pornography. An open plea means there is no agreement on a sentence. Gardner's sentencing will be postponed until the probation office completes a background check on him and until a sexually violent predator assessment is completed. Gardner could be sentenced to a maximum 3 1/2 to 7 years and/or fined up to $15,000.Click Here For The Full Story......
Posted by Editor at 04:17 AM