The new wingnut owner of Philadelphia's newspapers: Covered up kiddie rape

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Brian Tierney, the new frontman for the Inquirer and Daily News, made a name for himself in this town by fronting for Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua. When I as a reporter tried to shine some light on what his eminence was doing with the church's money, Tierney's job was to attack me, bully my editors and make sure the truth didn't come out. He was very good at his job.

More recently, when the topic was sex abuse in the church, Tierney's role was to attack the messenger and spin the story so that Bevilacqua was the victim.

A grand jury, however, concluded that Bevilacqua and the archdiocese had committed acts so appalling they'd make Joey Merlino puke. A grand jury said in a 2005 report that the cardinal had orchestrated a systematic cover-up that managed to successfully shield from prosecution 63 pedophile priests who had committed "countless acts of depravity" against hundreds of innocent children. The grand jury was talking about serial pedophiles in collars who were allowed to orally and anally rape and molest hundreds of children.

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And where was Brian Tierney during this investigation? He was working not on behalf of the victims, but on behalf of the enablers. He attacked the messenger with a letter to the editor that accused an Inquirer reporter of being "stupid and inaccurate" and using "sneaky tactics," and he accused the newspaper of "a continual, pervasive and corrosive hostility" to the church.

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http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/view.php?id=12286#tierney

This freak has to go, and I think he's going to take so much heat for his past behavior that every tiny screwup will become national news. This is not a nice man.

[PublicWrath]

1. I'd love to see him go, too.

One of the priests raped an 11 year old, then took her for an abortion.
Another groped a girl who was in traction in the hospital after a car accident.

Bevilacqua shielded these freaks until the statute ran out. Looks like Tierney helped him do it. I'm happy that you are letting people know about this guy.