FBI opens sweeping probe of clergy sex abuse in New Orleans

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By JIM MUSTIAN

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The FBI has opened a widening investigation into sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in New Orleans going back decades, a rare federal foray into such cases looking specifically at whether priests took children across state lines to molest them, officials and others familiar with the inquiry told The Associated Press.

More than a dozen alleged abuse victims have been interviewed this year as part of the probe that’s exploring among other charges whether predator priests can be prosecuted under the Mann Act, a more than century-old, anti-sex trafficking law that prohibits taking anyone across state lines for illicit sex.

Some of the New Orleans cases under review allege abuse by clergy during trips to Mississippi camps or amusement parks in Texas and Florida. And while some claims are decades old, Mann Act violations notably have no statute of limitations.

“It’s been a long road and just the fact that someone this high up believes us means the world to us,” said a former altar boy who alleged his assailant took him on trips to Colorado and Florida and abused him beginning in the 1970s when he was in the fifth grade. The AP generally does not identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/new-orleans-clergy-sex-abuse-fbi-investigation-0d0ee865d27508b7848909d8e82e87fb

[keithbvadu2]

1. It's not even shocking news anymore... just more details.

[TheBlackAdder]

11. Reality or Future Onion: Supreme Court Votes 5-4 to Legalize Catholic Priest Rape & Pedophilia.

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As an extension of the Vatican, that probably is the End-Game of this SCOTUS Court.




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[SharonAnn]

15. As the extension of Opus Dei, the extremist secretive Catholic cult.

[msfiddlestix]

20. ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ n/t

Brilliant!

[Earth-shine]

25. They won't legalize rape and pedos. They will take away the legal means to report such things.

[Skittles]

2. pass the plate for pedophiles

these same folk judge the morality of others

[mwb970]

8. Their beliefs make them better than us.

It's so obvious!

[rockfordfile]

24. I agree. They're a messed up group of people

[OnDoutside]

3. They better move fast before they switch them to a different parish...

[Cherokee100]

5. Amen

That was a common practice, when I was in Catholic schools. They were doing 'gods work'.

[OnDoutside]

6. And not just in the US either.

[keithbvadu2]

13. Standard practice was to send them away to pray and them move them around to prey.

Standard practice was to send them away to pray and them move them around to prey.

Punishment was usually for the victims for bringing bad name upon the church.

[TheJillMill]

14. Residential Schools

Three years ago, I went to an Anishinaabe Racial Justice Conference in Upper Michigan. Older people were telling their horrific boarding school memories and revealed that the sexually abusive priests were sent to the boarding schools to wreak havoc and intergenerational trauma on Native children.

[plimsoll]

16. I hadn't heard that before,

It's not really a surprise I guess, but it's still horrific

[kimbutgar]

4. Bet a lot of them are republicans!

[mwb970]

7. What IS it about organized religion?

[Escurumbele]

9. Its big business...That is what is about.

Yes, once in a while you find one person who truly believes in the mission, but its all about controlling people, forcing policy (which is part of controlling people), and making money.

[atreides1]

10. True

But then the powers that be will place that one person where they can't do any damage...or just kick them out!!!

[Joinfortmill]

12. Church is forever tainted. They need an exorcism

[OhioTim]

17. And These Are The People....

we are supposed to listen to on the abortion debate because they occupy the high ground of morals.

[Crowman2009]

18. It's obvious why the clergy oppose abortion.

There would be less children around to sexually abuse if it was legal, according to their doctrine.

[msfiddlestix]

21. ✔️

🥵

[Icanthinkformyself]

19. The church

has been a den of sexual abuse for the past two millennia. It's time to enjoin it's activities and conduct a complete and thorough review of all of it's doings over the centuries. It can go back to that religious BS when the investigation is done...in a few decades. A childhood friend had a sister who was a Sister (we called her Nun the Wiser. No we didn't) assigned to an orphanage near Pittsburgh, PA. She came home one day, told her family she was leaving the church. She later revealed why. She found out that many of the kids there were not orphans. They were the children born of 'relationships' between nuns and priests. Some nuns had abortions as well. Conservatism is a form of dementia, an illness. An, they want everyone to be sick, like them. Thankfully, the disease doesn't seem to be contagious.

[RevBrotherThomas]

22. How disgustingly unsurprising

[msfiddlestix]

23. Wonder if Cable Nooze is giving this any attention?