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Court Reinstates Lawsuit Involving Priests’ Satanic Rituals
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Court Reinstates Lawsuit Involving Priests’ Satanic Rituals 10/27/07 LUCAS
COUNTY, OHIO—In a decision which will have far reaching effects in clergy
abuse cases and eerily issued just days before Halloween, the Sixth District
Court of Appeals in Ohio has reinstated a 2005 lawsuit involving alleged
satanic
rituals against a Toledo priest who was convicted last year in the 1980 murder
of a nun. Roman Catholic Gerald Robinson, now 69, was convicted in May,
2006, of the murder of a 71-year-old nun and was sentenced to 15 years to
life.
His request to remain free pending appeal was denied. Now his attorneys have
filed a new motion, asking the appellate court for the convicted murderer to
be released on a $250,000 property bond with electronic monitoring while his
appeal is pending, saying that the appeal has languished for 19 months. A
Toledo woman had brought the civil litigation against Robinson anonymously,
suing
as Survivor Doe with her husband, Spouse Doe, claiming that Robinson was
part of a group that had repeatedly raped her and tortured her in satanic
rituals when she was a child. The woman is now in her 40’s. In addition to
Robinson, defendants are Gerald Mazuchowski, a former lay minister; the Toledo
Catholic Diocese; St. Adalbert Parish where she alleges the abuse occurred and
the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales. She alleges that Robinson, Mazuchowski
and
other men dressed in nuns’ habits, used women’s names and engaged in
bizarre rituals, victimizing her. A lower court had dismissed her claim,
saying it
was barred under the statute of limitations. The Appellate Court has reversed
that decision and reinstated the woman’s claim, saying that her claim isn’t
time barred because she couldn’t identify her alleged abusers due to
repressed memory “until she saw their faces/names from the television and
newspaper
reports about them” in 2004 and 2005 at the time Robinson was arrested and
charged with the nun’s murder.
_http://www.co.lucas.oh.us/Appeals/DecisionsPDF/3400.pdf_
(http://www.co.lucas.oh.us/Appeals/DecisionsPDF/3400.pdf) In
December 2003, a woman reported to police that she had been sexually abused by
a
group of priests who performed Satanic rituals and held sadomasochistic
orgies. Following the woman’s allegations in 2003, a cold-case squad began
reviewing the nun’s murder case again. Three other women also came forward and
claimed they had been sexually abused in cult-like ceremonies involving altars
and
men dressed in robes between the late 1960s and 1986. There have been
allegations that church officials have tried to cover-up a crime. One of the
women
who came forward reached a monetary settlement with the church. The civil case
reinstated against Robinson is being brought by the woman who originally
made the allegations against him. In a letter to the Toledo diocese in 2003,
the
alleged victim detailed her allegations, describing being subjected to
Satanic ceremonies in which priests placed her in a coffin filled with
cockroaches,
forced her to eat what she thought was a human eyeball and penetrated her
with a snake “to consecrate these orifices to Satan”.She also reportedly
alleged in the letter to the diocese that the group of priests killed an
infant
and a 3-year-old child, performed an abortion on her and chopped up dogs
during
the rituals. The lawsuit alleges that Survivor Doe had been the victim of “
clerical ritual and sexual abuse” as a child beginning when she was a student
at St. Adalbert School by persons she later discovered to be Robinson and
Mazuchowski and that the Diocese and others involved aided and abetted or
covered up the actions of these priests and protected the priests while
dissuading
all such victims and their families from seeking action against them.
Survivor Doe specifically alleges that the crimes began to occur while she was
attending St. Adalbert from 1968 through 1972. She alleges she was kidnapped
against her will and “held either against her will or by beguilement in the
basement of St. Adalbert’s.” While being held there, she was used in
elaborate,
ritualistic ceremonies. The people perpetrating the crimes were dressed in nun
habits and referred to themselves with the first name of a woman and then
their own name. Robinson allegedly called himself “Mary Jerry” and Mazuchowski
called himself “Carrie Jerry.” She has recalled suppressed memories of
another yet unknown man who was referred to as Sue. After the woman left St.
Adalbert school, she alleges the abuse continued in a wooded area. Her mother,
who
also allegedly participated in the ceremonies, took her to them. The
plaintiff says she was intimidated from disclosing the events of all of the
satanic
ceremonies at the
