Belgium hears ex-bishop Vangheluwe play down abuse

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

Former Belgian bishop Roger Vangheluwe has gone live on TV to talk about how he sexually abused two boys but does not see himself as a paedophile.

Emerging from hiding, he revealed he had molested two of his nephews, and not one, as he confessed last year before resigning as bishop of Bruges.

He does not face prosecution because the abuse occurred decades ago.

"It had nothing to do with sexuality," he said, in comments that caused indignation among politicians.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13089763

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He did this for 13 years. And is currently supposed to be undergoing "spiritual and psychological treatment". Which, to his way of thinking, is appearing on TV to say it's not a big deal molesting children. And anyway, he says he paid one victim a lot of money, so what's the problem?

[defendandprotect]

1. K/R -- outrageous --

[bethfully]

2. I seriously do not understand how this institution can

be considered a leader in morality until it cleans its own house. This is vile, disgraceful, and horrid. But most of all, it is revealing.

[patrick t. cakes]

3. the last of the mystery religions

lingers. What a monster the Roman Catholic Church has been on humanity.

[KurtNYC]

4. He is re-victimizing them with this!

He goes on TV and names a person, now an adult, whom he molested for years. To heck with the old crimes' SOL, that is a new crime right there.