Catholic Church in Medellin protecting 17 pedophile priests: report

[trotsky]

Even more "news that shouldn't shock anyone"....

https://colombiareports.com/catholic-church-in-medellin-protecting-17-pedophile-priests-report/

The archdiocese of Colombia’s most Catholic city, Medellin, is protecting 17 priests who have been either convicted or accused of sexually abusing children, according to W Radio.

The journalist who reported the story, Juan Barrientos, said this is “the biggest scandal of the [Catholic] Church in Colombia in the last 50 years.”

Barrientos said he became curious about the Catholic Chruch in the city after watching the award-winning film Spotlight about a US newspaper that uncovered widespread sexual abuse in the United States.

A similar cover-up of mass sexual abuse seems to be going on in Medellin, according to the journalist.

[Angry Dragon]

1. Sometimes the cover-up is worse than the crime

[COLGATE4]

2. But in this case the crime is definitely

worse than the cover up.

[Pope George Ringo II]

3. Ordinarily I'd say yes, but I think this fits the stereotype in a non-stereotypical way.

It's true that generally, when we trot out the crime/cover-up thing, we're talking about a relatively piddling thing somebody goes to extreme lengths covering up. In this case, it's a pretty horrible thing, but the cover-up is arguably even worse.

If, say, the USPS, or Exxon hired a bunch of pedophiles--and they're both big enough they certainly have--but acted in a moral and responsible manner when those pedophiles were caught, then no real blame attaches to the employer. They gave somebody a chance, that person turned out to be a monster, they let justice run its course. The crime is horrible, but it doesn't touch the employer because the employer did the right thing. Even if the employer has some other problems.

But a church covering up child molesters is actively facilitating pedophilia. As horrible as one child molester is, the RCC pedophile shuffle institutionalized the crime, put it on an assembly line, and spread it far and wide creating a culture where it was tolerated. They clearly worked to multiply the number of children impacted by this abuse, and it appears the multiplier is significantly greater than 1 compared to the number of children who would have been abused if the church had acted morally. Factor in the way it isolated the abused children, called them liars, and generally added mental abuse to the sexual, and I think there's a fair argument the cover-up actually was the worse horror with these bastards.

[Major Nikon]

4. It has to be 10 times worse in the third world

If the Catholic church was really serious about making amends, they would investigate the travel habits of known abusers. It’s not a stretch to assume lots of these shitstains were taking sabbaticals to the third world and were getting other priests’ victims loaned out to them.

[Voltaire2]

5. All over the world.

Same shit from the same institution.