22h news AG Josh Shapiro asks Pope Francis for help in Pa. clergy sex abuse case Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 12:51pm Liz Navratil and Angela Couloumbis
A state-wide Grand Jury was empaneled last year in Pennsylvania, tasked to "get to the bottom of" the outrageous activities of certain Catholic priests and leaders over the past...what?...70 years.
Grand juries are generally intended to review evidence produced by a District Attorney, in order to prosecute crimes that may not be amenable to customary arrest-lockemup-prosecute methods.
This particular Grand Jury has produced a tome of some 800 pages, detailing - in addition to what it is supposed to contain - activities that are not prosecutable due to the expiration of statutes of limitations, the deaths of the perpetrators, and even the deaths of the victims. What possible reason could there be to include this extraneous information?
Release of the report has been delayed by people who believe they are the victims of uncorroborated and untrue accusations in the report, which would be "cast in concrete" by this publication, with significant defamatory result. Rebutting this widely-disseminated report would require a lifetime of expensive, tedious effort, and would be futile in any event. The state Supreme Court has stepped in to stop publication of the Grand Jury report, and is apparently in a quandary because it would be unprecedented for them to go back and tell the "grand jury" to re-write the report, including only the relevant and prosecutable information.
Now the PA Attorney General (an anti-Catholic bigot, in my opinion) writes an open letter to the Pope, asking him to shame those fighting release of the report, and getting them to withdraw their objections.
Armies of lawyers around the state are salivating for the release of the report, lobbying their friends in the legislature to remove time constraints on filing civil lawsuits, and hoping to extort millions from innocent Catholic parishioners - who had nothing to do with this - and insurance companies.
One would hardly know that the percentage of Catholic malefactors (5-7%) is approximately the same as it is for men working with children in public schools, Boy Scouts, athletic teams, orphanages, and other associations dealing with children. One would hardly know that the vast majority of victims in these cases were post-pubescent males (not "little children" or girls) who were induced into homosexual activities over a period of time. It is never mentioned that essentially all of these perpetrators are "judgment proof," and all of the hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements have been made by the Catholic Faithful and insurance companies, none of which had anything to do with the crimes and torts.
In many, many ways, this whole sordid affair demonstrates the absolute worst of humanity and our culture.
A state-wide Grand Jury was empaneled last year in Pennsylvania, tasked to "get to the bottom of" the outrageous activities of certain Catholic priests and leaders over the past...what?...70 years.
Grand juries are generally intended to review evidence produced by a District Attorney, in order to prosecute crimes that may not be amenable to customary arrest-lockemup-prosecute methods.
This particular Grand Jury has produced a tome of some 800 pages, detailing - in addition to what it is supposed to contain - activities that are not prosecutable due to the expiration of statutes of limitations, the deaths of the perpetrators, and even the deaths of the victims. What possible reason could there be to include this extraneous information?
Release of the report has been delayed by people who believe they are the victims of uncorroborated and untrue accusations in the report, which would be "cast in concrete" by this publication, with significant defamatory result. Rebutting this widely-disseminated report would require a lifetime of expensive, tedious effort, and would be futile in any event. The state Supreme Court has stepped in to stop publication of the Grand Jury report, and is apparently in a quandary because it would be unprecedented for them to go back and tell the "grand jury" to re-write the report, including only the relevant and prosecutable information.
Now the PA Attorney General (an anti-Catholic bigot, in my opinion) writes an open letter to the Pope, asking him to shame those fighting release of the report, and getting them to withdraw their objections.
Armies of lawyers around the state are salivating for the release of the report, lobbying their friends in the legislature to remove time constraints on filing civil lawsuits, and hoping to extort millions from innocent Catholic parishioners - who had nothing to do with this - and insurance companies.
One would hardly know that the percentage of Catholic malefactors (5-7%) is approximately the same as it is for men working with children in public schools, Boy Scouts, athletic teams, orphanages, and other associations dealing with children. One would hardly know that the vast majority of victims in these cases were post-pubescent males (not "little children" or girls) who were induced into homosexual activities over a period of time. It is never mentioned that essentially all of these perpetrators are "judgment proof," and all of the hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements have been made by the Catholic Faithful and insurance companies, none of which had anything to do with the crimes and torts.
In many, many ways, this whole sordid affair demonstrates the absolute worst of humanity and our culture.
