Pennsylvania Charges Ex-Leaders of Catholic Order With Aiding Sexual Predator

[trotsky]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/us/franciscan-friars-charged-with-abetting-sexual-abuser-in-pennsylvania.html

Three former leaders of a Franciscan religious order in Pennsylvania were charged with felonies on Tuesday for allowing a friar who was a known sexual predator to repeatedly work with children, including as a high school athletic trainer who massaged students naked, and pull some out of class for what a grand jury report called “private physical therapy sessions.”

Tuesday’s complaint was the first time members of a Roman Catholic religious order have been charged with aiding an abuser. While the church has faced thousands of lawsuits over sexual abuse by members of the clergy in the past decade, criminal prosecutions of the supervisors accused of covering up for abusers have been rare.

The complaint, filed by the state’s attorney general, Kathleen Kane, charged three leaders of the Franciscan Friars, Third Order Regulars — Giles A. Schinelli, 73, Robert J. D’Aversa, 69, and Anthony M. Criscitelli, 61 — with conspiracy to endanger children.

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“They were more concerned with protecting the image of the order and more concerned with being in touch with lawyers than with the flock that they served,” Ms. Kane said at a news conference Tuesday.

Most excellent news. This is what we need to see more of - the secular legal system stepping up where the RCC has failed.

[Act_of_Reparation]

1. Is this the part where...

...the usual suspects emerge from the shadows to say, "This isn't the same thing as pedophilia because the victims were teenagers"?

[trotsky]

2. Having seen the same repulsive defense of this bullshit time and again...

I wish I could say you were wrong, but I can't.

[Cartoonist]

3. Dawkins

'nuff said