Catholic Priest Arrested in Rape-Murder case of 16 y/o school girl

a wonderful thing - great hiding place for rapists of all sorts.

mark

....when a priest is a rapist AND a murderer. Is it? You don't see that every day. Not even among the "un-collared."

Of course, I don't think that there's anything special about him either. Just another flawed human. He has no special moral code to follow that's any more demanding to follow than any other. So I guess we should just lump him in with all the rest of us mutts, eh???


- Of course, now that he's gonna be just one of the guys, he can't use his past as a priest to try and gain sympathy, so that he might avoid his due punishment. Right?

I wonder what the church has covered up in this man's case....how many more?
Oh, yeah, religion sucks.
mark

...and the Church and this prick have been dragging their damned feet trying to make it go away.

From the article:



Must be election-time for the judge. That's about the only time I usually see politicians in South America taking action against these church predators. And even then it's rare. There's another priest (I believe he's hiding-out in Costa Rica right now), that the Vatican doesn't want tried in a court of law for rape. Even though they've already gone and excommunicated the nine-year old girl that he raped, when she got an abortion after he impregnated her. I suppose from their point of view, she is required to have her rapist's baby, especially when it's a priest's baby. You know.... so that the child can be raised up properly in the church, of course.


- Yes, religion is just so wonderful! These guys are just the best!!!

...felony for felony, is The Mafia.

- Both getting their start in Italy around the same time. Or, maybe its really just one organization. Hmmmm.....

K&R

It will be the girl's fault. :grr: He's a holy man. :sarcasm:

http://www.snapnetwork.org/legal_courts/stories/oh_robinson_guilty%20_of_murder.htm

(snip)

Priest Found Guilty; Cleric Gets 15 Years to Life in Toledo Nun’s Murder

Jury takes 6 hours to reach decision

By DAVID YONKE, BLADE RELIGION EDITOR
May 12, 2006

A murder case unsolved for 26 years was brought to an unexpectedly quick and dramatic end yesterday after jurors convicted a 68-year-old Toledo priest, Gerald Robinson, in the brutal, ritualistic murder of a nun.

The 12 jurors in the Lucas County Common Pleas Court trial deliberated just over six hours before reaching a unanimous verdict.

Robinson, wearing his clerical collar, showed no emotion as Judge Thomas Osowik read the verdict and then polled the seven female and five male jurors individually.

Judge Osowik then asked Robinson if he wished to say anything and the priest — who did not take the witness stand and never spoke during the three-week trial — declined. The jammed courtroom was eerily silent but for an immediate gasp, followed by the stifled sobs of the priest’s sister-in-law, Barbara Robinson of Toledo.

The judge immediately imposed a sentence of 15 years to life in prison; Robinson will be eligible for parole in 10½ years. The slight, balding priest was handcuffed and escorted out of the fourth-floor courtroom by court deputies. His defense attorneys announced at a press conference afterward they intend to appeal the verdict.

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This case will be featured on the ID channel soon, if I recall correctly. I saw it a couple of years ago on some channel or another. Bizarre.

The case of the priest raping and killing the girl didn't shock me.

what the motive for the killing was. The article interests me for a variety of reasons. One is that a cousin of mine was, until recently, a Mother Superior in a Catholic convent in India. (She now lives in Canada and has a live-in boyfriend. :-)) Anyway, I'm going to try to keep updated on the case. Thanks for posting about it.

In the case I posted about, the priest strongly disliked the nun, but what struck me as bizarre was the religious ritualism apparent in the murder.

(snip from article)

There (at the sancristy) the nun, who was hard of hearing, was attacked from behind. The killer wrapped a piece of cloth around her neck and choked her so tightly that he broke two bones in her neck.

Barely alive, Sister Margaret Ann was placed on the cold terrazzo floor and covered with an altar cloth.

Jurors agreed it was Robinson who used his distinctive saber-shaped letter opener to stab her nine times over the heart in the shape of an upside-down cross.

He removed the altar cloth, stabbed her 22 more times, and then “anointed” Sister Margaret Ann’s forehead with her own blood.

As a final act of degradation and humiliation, Robinson pulled the nun’s dress up to her chest and her girdle and hose down over her ankles, then penetrated her with either a cross, the letter opener, or his finger, prosecutors said.

I don't know if you're aware of it or not but that priest in the case you posted lost his appeal for a new trial last week.

Apparently a little three-way going on. Nothing wrong with that, I guess, unless the three are members of the Catholic clergy, who aren't supposed to have sex, period. :eyes:

Thanks for the update on the killer priest I'd posted about. I'm glad he lost his appeal.

The case about the priest murdering the nun will be on the ID channel tonight, October 12.