Here's a few cases of pedophilia reported inpapers from Canada to Oz so far this week!
(Got one in your town ~ send it in!)
“This question was asked by a first nation woman who spoke in court. It captures in one sentence the horror and pain experienced by the parents and children in aboriginal communities when government and church representatives appeared in cars, trucks, vans and planes, to take the children away to institutions.”
It wouldn’t be possible to do justice to the stories from the estimated 79,000 survivors in his decision, Veale stated.
However, he said, the majority of survivors found it a devastating experience; even more so for those who endured physical and sexual assaults and psychological harm."
Whitehorse Daily Star
December 19, 2006
"Two Denton County ministers have been accused in civil lawsuits of sexually abusing young girls in their congregations. One suit has been settled out of court with a payment to the female plaintiff, now an adult. The other, also filed by an adult woman alleging abuse as a teenager, is pending, but court documents show that the accused minister has admitted fathering a child with his alleged victim. As this is being written, both ministers still occupy pulpits in their respective churches ..."
Denton Record-Chronicle
December 18, 2006
"The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland, Oregon, will pay about $75 million to settle at least 170 claims of sexual abuse by its priests ...
...the Portland archdiocese had paid more than $50 million to settle 130 priest sex abuse claims going back decades."
Reuters
December 19, 2006
"To the cardinal I said, 'You're as good as the people you have around you.' They didn't make him do right. They didn't do right and it was all just coverup, coverup, coverup."
NBC (Chicago)
December 19, 2006
And how's this for a sick, sick priest ...
"In many states its illegal for a minister to have a sexual involvement with a member of their congregation, he's done it twice, in one case with a mentally challenged woman by no stretch of the imagination could consent to a sexual involvement.
The church refused to comment."
My Fox (St. Louis)
December 17, 2006
"In May, a Toledo jury found Robinson guilty of killing Sister Margaret Ann Pahl, who was choked and stabbed to death while she was preparing a hospital chapel for Easter weekend services in 1980."
Beacon Journal (Ohio)
December 18, 2006
"Epling faces one count of second-degree statutory sodomy for allegedly helping the Rev. Raymond Lambert molest a then-16-year-old girl at the Grand Valley Independent Baptist Church.
The woman testified that on one occasion Laura Epling walked in while she was performing oral sex on the pastor and showed the teenager how to do so, then had intercourse with Lambert while the teen watched."
News-Leader (Missouri)
December 19, 2006
"Few local people knew that the children were regularly denied food and clothing and a proper education as well as acceptable health care, not to mention documented cases of sexual abuse, she said."
The Chronicle Herald (Nova Scotia)
December 20, 2006
"The Pentecostal church is being sued by a Calgary couple after one of its ministers allegedly had a torrid three-year affair with a member of his flock.
A husband and wife are seeking $200,000 in general damages and an unspecified punitive amount over her sexual relationship with the pastor.
In the summer of 2002, “(the Pastor initiated the first sexual contact between himself and (the woman),” at her B.C. cabin, the lawsuit alleges.
“Several weeks later, (the pair) first had sexual intercourse with each other as initiated by (the pastor).”
Calgary Sun
December 18, 2006
"James Wright Jr.'s parents sent their 15-year-old son to Christ of the Hills monastery in Blanco County because he was acting out. They thought the Russian Orthodox monks there would give him spiritual enlightenment and maturity.
Instead, three of the monks sexually abused him over a period of 11 months from 1998 to 1999, according to a suit Wright filed against three of the monks, the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia and the nonprofit Ecumenical Monks Inc., which owns the monastery's land."
American-Statesman (Texas)
December 15, 2006
"It's important that Jeffs finally gets his day in court. The rumors have been floating around for years about sexual abuse of young girls and welfare fraud running rampant among at least some members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. At least in this one case - in which a woman has accused Jeffs of forcing her to have sexual relations with her 19-year-old cousin when she was just 14 - Jeffs gets the opportunity to refute the charges and stand up for his faith."
The Spectrum (Utah)
December 17,2006
"In our community we really treat each other as if we are really, really close friends," the 10-year-old girl explained to the police officer. The girl was talking about her religious community, the Exclusive Brethren. And she was explaining how she came to stay with a man who digitally raped and repeatedly indecently assaulted her sister."
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
December 19, 2006
"The Archdiocese of Washington has agreed to pay $1.3 million to 16 men who said they were sexually abused by eight priests between 1962 and 1982.
"Our clients were in severe distress, emotionally, psychologically, financially, and spiritually, and felt that a settlement was appropriate at this time,
The allegations raised by the men stemmed from events that occurred between 24 and 44 years ago ..."
The New York Sun
December 19, 2006
"Charles Shifflett, pastor of First Baptist Church of Culpeper, had been scheduled for four trials beginning Jan. 17 on seven felony charges of physical and sexual abuse against children."
GET THIS!!!!!!! :
Because he pleaded to the felony charge of cruelty to children, prosecutors agreed to amend the remaining six charges to misdemeanor assault and battery. The agreement means Shifflett will not serve any time in jail."
Richmond Times Dispatch (Virginia)
December 18, 2006
"Larry Reynolds, pastor of the Southmont Baptist Church in Denton, and Dale “Dickie” Amyx, pastor of the Bolivar Baptist Church near Sanger, were accused in separate lawsuits filed in June of molesting girls who sought their counseling when the girls were 14. Each also was accused of continuing to sexually exploit his position of trust with the girls for several years."
Denton Record-Chronicle (Texas)
December 17, 2006
"A judge ruled this week that a Roman Catholic high school at the center of a sexual abuse lawsuit must release information about alleged sexual misconduct between teachers and students over a ten-year period ending in 1997.
The ruling is part of a lawsuit by a former Mater Dei student who alleges she was abused by coach Jeffrey Andrade for two years starting in 1995."
CBS (California)
December 16, 2006
"A former Immaculata High School physical education teacher and coach, once described by an assistant as the "Vince Lombardi" of girls basketball at the school, was arrested and charged Thursday with sexually assaulting a female student"
Ashbury Park Press (New Jersey)
December 17, 2006
