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Related: About this forumHere Are the Worst Abuses by Catholic Priests from the PA Grand Jury's Report (GRAPHIC WARNING)
http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/08/15/here-are-the-worst-abuses-by-catholic-priests-from-the-pa-grand-jurys-report/WARNING THE DESCRIPTIONS AND EXCERPTS BELOW ARE GRAPHIC AND MAY BE DISTURBING
Here Are the Worst Abuses by Catholic Priests from the PA Grand Jurys Report
I spent the better part of the day reading through the Pennsylvania grand jurys report about the Catholic Churchs child abuse scandal that occurred in just six dioceses: Allentown, Erie, Greensburg, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, and Scranton.
That may have been a mistake. My mind is numb. I posted something brief yesterday about the document, but that was before going through the detailed accounts of what more than 300 priests did over the course of several decades. Those accounts are so much worse than the news reports indicated because they couldnt include all these cases.
Maybe theyll think twice before ever attending another Mass or donating any of their money to a Catholic school.Father Francis Frank Fromholzer asked one girl, when she was 13 or 14, to read a story about Jesus that included the phrase, the cock crows three times. He made her repeat that phrase several times. When she left class, he leaned in and nuzzled her neck and asked the victim if she knew what a cock was.
Father Edward R. Graff was about to anally rape a child, but the victim ran away before it could happen, even though it meant running into the street, mostly nude.
Father Chester Gawronski fondled and masturbated at least 12 different children by saying he was just showing them how to check for cancer. (When one of these stories went public in 2002, Bishop Donald Trautman chastised the victim by arguing that he was only 14 when it happened, not 11 like the article said.)
Father William Presley abused three victims, one as young as 13, with choking, slapping, punching, rape, sodomy, fellatio, anal intercourse, and more.
Father Thomas D. Skotek raped an underage girl, got her pregnant, then paid for her abortion. His Bishop later said, This is a very difficult time in your life, and I realize how upset you are. I too share your grief. That letter was addressed to Skotek, not his victim.
Father Edmond Parrakow admitted to molesting approximately thirty-five male children because sex with girls was sinful and raping boys didnt violate them. One altar boy said Parrakow told them to go naked under their cassocks during Mass because God didnt want man-made clothes touching their skin during services. Parrakow now works in a shopping mall.
Father Raymond Lukac married a victim the moment she turned 18 by forging the head pastors signature on a fake marriage certificate. He eventually married her for real, had a child with her (impregnating her when she was 17), then got a divorce. He stayed in the ministry after being taken in by a benevolent bishop.
Father Robert Moslener taught middle school kids how to give blowjobs by telling them Mary had to bite off the cord and lick Jesus clean when he was born.
Father Augustine Giella abused five girls in the same family. Among other things, he collected their urine, pubic hair, and menstrual blood in a device attached to his toilet then he ingested some of it. All of this happened after he worked at a Catholic high school and had been accused of telling a student he wanted to watch her go to the bathroom.
Father Arthur Long tried having sex with a 17-year-old at a high school he worked at by saying God wanted them to express love for each other that way. When she said God would punish them, he told her, there is no Hell.
Father George Zirwas was part of a predatory priest ring that shared intelligence on victims and exchanged them with each other. They manufactured child pornography on church property, using whips, violence and sadism in raping their victims.
Father Richard Zula asked three altar boys to pose like statues and tried to tie them up with rope. Zula also used whips and leather straps on a victim after tying up the persons hands.
Father Robert N. Caparelli raped several boys as young as 10. He was eventually put in prison, where it was discovered he had been HIV-positive for years.
Monsignor Thomas J. Benestad forced a nine-year-old boy to give him a blowjob, then washed his mouth out with holy water to purify him.
Reverend David Connell served a high school boy juice. The boy later woke up with no memory of what happened, but there was bleeding from his rectum.
Reverend Edward George Ganster once dragged a child across a room by his underwear and beat him with a metal cross. He eventually quit the priesthood but not before receiving a letter of recommendation for his new job at Walt Disney World.
Father Richard J. Guiliani began abusing one girl when she was 14, forcing her to masturbate him and blow him. When she turned 18, he visited her and asked for sex and her hand in marriage. (She declined both.)
Reverend Henry Paul is the reason one little girl told her mother she knew how to French kiss.
Reverend Gerald Royer once molested a 12-year-old boy. The boys friend didnt believe it until, hidden in a closet, he witnessed the abuse himself. The victim, now 83, fought in wars, yet because of what Royer did, he could never hug or kiss his own children, who were boys. He cant shake hands with men to this day. He cant even see male doctors or dentists.
Reverend Michael G. Barletta was known to take pictures in a boys locker room and maintained a book of crotch shots.
Father Robert E. Hannon had several male victims, but his diocese dismissed allegations from one girl after Hannon denied it. His argument? He wouldnt have done it because girls do not have a penis.
Father Gerard Krebs, a teacher at a Catholic high school, was asked for advice by a student whose girlfriend was pregnant. Krebs conducted a prostate exam to see if the boy was capable of impregnating a woman. Another victim said Krebs guided him through sexual rituals to prove my faith and the fact that I was not a homosexual.
Monsignor Daniel Martin and other priests in the seminary had a fierce competition, one victim said, to molest boys who didnt have fathers or had bad relationships with them.
Brother Edmundus Murphy encouraged a victim to join their Catholic schools wrestling team and taught him different moves, naked, because thats what the ancient Greeks and Romans did. During those practices, Murphy sodomized the victim.
Father Gregory Flohr took a victim into the confessional and tied him up with rope. When the victim screamed, Flohr shut him up by shoving his penis in the victims mouth. When the victim wouldnt accept it, Flohr sodomized him with a crucifix and called him a bad boy.
Father Charles B. Guth fondled a boy and stuck his finger up the childs ass. Then he said to the boy that if their secret ever got out, the child and his mother would both burn in hell. Then he gave the boy a nickel.
Father Francis Lesniak told a victim that if he confessed his sins and wasnt too bad, hed get to suck on a strawberry lollipop or popsicle. After these confessions, which happened multiple times, Lesniak would whip his dick out and say it was a strawberry lollipop.
Father Henry J. Marcinek is the reason one victim said as an adult, I dont remember the last time I laughed. That same victim later confessed that I peed in [Marcineks] mouth, because he used to cum in mine and that he felt like he was fricking prostituting himself at the age of 12 or 13.
Father Roger J. Trott anally raped a 21-year-old man with Down Syndrome, after which the victim was reportedly hospitalized for surgery for a blockage of the lower bowel.
Reverend Francis A. Bach had so many victims, then when his diocese confronted him about a particular allegation, he said he didnt remember it, but responded, With my history, anything is possible.
Reverend James Beeman raped a seven-year-old in the hospital just after she had had her tonsils removed. He raped her again when she was 19 and pregnant.
Reverend George Koychick inappropriately touched several little girls. When confronted about it by his diocese, he admitted it, adding, it was when I was going through a touchy/feely time in my life.
Reverend Guy Marsico admitted to molesting several boys and confessing his sins to another priest. The advice was never to call police or turn himself in. Instead, he was told to Pray about it and try to get away from it. Then, when it happened again, hed receive the same advice.
Reverend Patrick Shannon molested a 16-year-old boy during a camping trip. When the boy resisted, Shannon replied, Sometime [sic] we say no when we really mean yes.
Reverend Timothy Sperber sexually abused a girl no older than 10. When she told the principal of their Catholic school that Sperber touched her in weird ways, the principal called her a demon-child for making those terrible accusations.
Reverend Frederick Vaughn abused an 11-year-old girl, wrestling with her on the floor at her familys home when her father wasnt around. One time, when she resisted, he said, I like a fighter.
Reverend Leo Burchianti once entered a bathroom with an underage boy and put his hands down the boys shorts. When the boy told Burchianti to stop tickling him, the response was, Im not trying to tickle you, Im trying to grab for something.
Reverend Anthony J. Cipolla took a 9-year-old boy to his rectory bedroom, told the child to take off his clothes, then squeezed his penis a total of 70 times before sticking a finger into his rectum. Later, even though his mother wanted to file criminal charges, she dropped them because she was threatened and harassed by church officials and told that she should let the church handle it.
Reverend David F. Dzermejko fondled a young boy on a Ferris wheel during a church festival. The boy couldnt get off the ride because Dzermejko told the operator to keep the ride going three times longer than it should have.
Reverend Bernard J. Kaczmarczyk went into the shower with a 12-year-old boy under the pretext that he needed to make sure the child was showering properly.
Reverend Anujit Kumar kissed an underage girl with his tongue and sucked her lips. When Church officials asked him about it, he was he was just trying to recruit her for the convent.
[Redacted] molested a child for years. When the victim turned 15 or 16, he asked the priest to stop and threatened to go public with what had happened. The priest grabbed him by the throat and threatened to kill him if he told anyone. He also threatened to tell the victims parents he was gay.
Monsignor Raymond T. Schultz masturbated in front of a student at their Catholic school. Afterwards, Schultz would give the kid a handkerchief to wipe the semen off his face. To this day, the victim said, he goes from sad to angry whenever he sees a white handkerchief.
Father Robert E. Spangenberg molested an underage boy several times. He also paid the victim a finders fee if he could find other young chickens for Spangenberg to have sex with.
Reverend Paul G. Spisak supposedly took pictures with underage boys in which their swim trunks were down to their ankles. His staff says they saw the pictures until they disappeared. Spisak may have destroyed the images. A couple of years ago, however, he was arrested for a camera he placed in a mall bathroom. At first he denied it. Then he said he was sick, ran inside a stall, and flushed the memory card down the toilet.
Reverend Anthony P. Conmy molested a 10-year-old girl after dropping her friend off at home. He grabbed her wrists, put his hand over her mouth, put his knee in her stomach to hold her down, then said he wouldnt kill her if she would lie quietly.
Reverend P. Lawrence Homer told a 14-year-old girl she had the body of an 18-year-old woman. He also commented on her sex hair.
And the following is why the catholic church as an entity should be disbanded:
The grand jury also noted how the Church managed to cover all these crimes up as long as they did. Leaders, they said, followed a playbook for concealing the truth that consisted of seven steps:
Use euphemisms. (Never say rape; say inappropriate contact or boundary issues.)
Dont investigate with trained personnel. (Instead, let clergy members ask the victims inadequate questions before judging their own colleagues.)
Evaluate priests at church-run treatment centers.
Never say why a priest was removed. (Just say hes on sick leave or something.)
Keep providing priests with living expenses regardless of the allegations.
Transfer the priests if his crime becomes public knowledge. (Send him to a place where no one will know he is a child abuser.)
Dont tell the police. (Keep it in house.)
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Here Are the Worst Abuses by Catholic Priests from the PA Grand Jury's Report (GRAPHIC WARNING) (Original Post)
NeoGreen
Aug 2018
OP
Plus the church heavy on demonizing gay people and being anti choice zealots leading thier
lunasun
Aug 2018
#2
What the fuck does this say about the parents that keep offering up their children
SamKnause
Aug 2018
#5
dchill
(38,518 posts)1. Just sickening.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)2. Plus the church heavy on demonizing gay people and being anti choice zealots leading thier
followers to not only think hate is Ok but in some instances, physically hurt or kill
Big smoke screens to look away from the church itself or just more social sadism promoted
Don't pray for us take care of your own house of pedos
MineralMan
(146,325 posts)3. Thanks.
Making it real. We need more of that, publicly disseminated.
edhopper
(33,606 posts)4. Same thing as my post on the Mexican Cardinal
You support the Church, you support this.
Duppers
(28,125 posts)7. "support the Church, you support this."
Amen.
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)5. What the fuck does this say about the parents that keep offering up their children
to these evil vile men ???
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)6. Names and descriptions of crimes
And nothing will happen.
Duppers
(28,125 posts)8. Couldn't get thru but a third of these.
I'd like to send these to my neighborhood's big Catholic Mafia, as my hubs & I call them.