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Related: About this forumConspiracy of Silence, 1994. (Catholic Sex Abuse)
The news lately is in fact, not new. This has been going on forever. In DC. Pulled at the last minute by Discovery Channel due to pressure from DC and the White House.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)Seems the video post dates the investigations however.
John1956PA
(2,654 posts)In 1987, I was shocked. The idea of a priest exploiting a minor for sex had never occurred to me. Sadly, as the eighties came to a close, I learned from reading news articles that about 2% of priests had been engaging minors in sexual acts for some time. However, I took some solace in the fact that the depravity was now out in the open and that steps were apparently being taken to purge the sex offenders from the ranks of active priests.
In the mid 1990s, cardinal Bernardin of Chicago faced an allegation which ultimately proved to be unfounded. At that time, I thought that the news of sex abuse in the church was at an end.
In 2002, The Boston Globe published its investigative series about the Diocese of Boston having reassigned sex abusers rather than reporting them to authorities. I was angry that high-placed church officials had covered up abuse of minors by priests.
Over the past fifteen years in Pennsylvania, the Johnstown-Altoona Diocese and the Greensburg Diocese faced lawsuits by victims of sex abuse by priests. Sadly, I saw most of those suits dismissed because of the elapse of the filing deadline mandated by the statute of limitations.
Now, the Pennsylvania Grand Jury has issued findings regarding cover-ups by the remaining four Pennsylvania Dioceses. I am no longer shocked by revelations of cover-ups, but am am still disturbed by them. It seems to me that the most egregious cover-ups occurred in the 1960s through 1980s. I am in favor of the Pennsylvania legislator opening a filing window for old cases currently barred from court because of the prevailing statute of limitations.
ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)Who was a foster child, cared at a Catholic home. We were driving and passed what was my favorite house in midtown, and she told me she was passed around a group of men when she was a young teen. Her foster father, priests, and other church related people. Said her brothers were as well.
She told me story after story about being sexually abused by church related people. The funny thing was, she kept in contact with the church and visited often. Her brother ended up joining a cult, and me and her rescued him under the cover of night. We had to leave his wife, who was locked in a shed for a month or more. She refused to leave.
Religion is weird.