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Springfield Diocese Reaches $7M Settlement 7/23/04 By Trudy Tynan Springfield, Mass. (AP) "The Springfield Diocese on Thursday reached a proposed settlement worth more than $7 million with 46 people who accused priests of molesting them when they were children. Twenty-two of the alleged victims had sued the diocese. The others had complained to the church about having been abused but never took legal action against the diocese or their attackers. Lawyers for the plaintiffs will present the proposal to their clients, who would have 14 days to enter into binding arbitration to determine how much money each will receive, the diocese said. Most of the alleged victims say they were abused by defrocked priest Richard Lavigne in the late 1960s and 1970s. The others have accused about 20 other priests - a handful of whom are dead - of abuse that ranged from the 1950s to the early 1990s. While Lavigne is the only accused priest within the diocese to have been defrocked by the Vatican, the others have been removed from ministry by the diocese." http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-4341192,00.html
Brazil's child sex abusers feel the heat By Gibby Zobel in Sao Paulo 7/17/04 "More than 250 members of the Brazilian elite - politicians, judges, priests and businessmen among others - have been put on notice by an extraordinary national investigation into child sex rings. The inquiry accuses 20 serving politicians, including a federal deputy, two state deputies and three city mayors. Thirty businessmen are implicated, as are five priests. "Sexual exploitation in Brazil is a crime which has reached epidemic proportions," says federal deputy Maria do Rosario, the author of the parliamentary inquiry report. In one of the report's testimonies, Evelyn* told how the children would be recruited by teenagers and counted as "heads" like cattle. "I was one of the people that took them there, because I made money," she said." http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/979854FF-D028-4958-A7CE-FBDEAFC0C288.htm http://www.ecpat.net/eng/Ecpat_inter/IRC/newsdesk_articles.asp?SCID=1469
McKinney storms to win; Isakson earns Senate bid
By JIM GALLOWAY
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
07/21/04
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/election/0704nation/21main.html
....But it was the likely return of McKinney in the 4th
District that represented the starkest shift in Georgia
politics. McKinney finished just above the magic 50
percent-plus-one mark. The district has strongly
favored Democratic candidates over Republicans in
recent years, giving McKinney a substantial edge over
Republican Catherine Davis in November.
McKinney ran a low-to-the-ground campaign among the
black voters of south DeKalb County â emphasizing her
10 years' experience in Congress rather than a rematch
with Bush. Tuesday night, McKinney called her primary victory "one
of the greatest political comebacks in history." "We've got to make America, America," McKinney told supporters. "We've got to avoid any backsliding on
civil rights or human rights. We've got to get our
troops out of harm's way. We've got to turn around this
Bush economy."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,126763,00.html
Friday, July 23, 2004 AP WASHINGTONÂâÂThe images were vivid: A U.S. Army sergeant who told his troops to "rough up" two prisoners; a platoon that agreed to make prisoners jump off a bridge into the Tigris River; an interrogator who hit a prisoner in the head. Those were among the new details of abuses by U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan reported by the Army Inspector General's office. The review found 94 cases of confirmed or alleged abuses and 39 deaths, 20 of which were ruled homicides or remain under investigation. Still, Army Inspector General Lt. Gen. Paul Mikolashek concluded in Thursday's report that the abuses were the work of rule-breaking soldiers and a few officers and not the fault of Army rules or training.
Senate Democrats, pointing to deficiencies in training and inconsistencies in doctrine outlined in the Army report, immediately challenged the findings. "It is difficult to believe there were not systemic problems with our detention and interrogation operations," Michigan Sen. Carl Levin, top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said at a hastily called hearing.
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