[cia-drugs] $18.5 million Boy Scouts case, The Man Who Sued the Pope
$18.5 Million in Liability for Scouts in Abuse Case By WILLIAM YARDLEY April 23, 2010 PORTLAND, Ore. — The Boy Scouts of America were ordered Friday to pay $18.5 million in a lawsuit that has focused new attention on the secret files the Scouts keep to document claims of sexual abuse by troop leaders and volunteersIn Multnomah County Circuit Court on Friday, a jury found the Scouts liable for $18.5 million in punitive damages in a case brought by a man who was sexually abused by an assistant troop leader in the early 1980s, when the man was about 12. The verdict was by far the largest ever against the Scouts in a jury trial. The jury could have ordered the Scouts to pay up to $25 million. The same jury last week awarded the man, Kerry Lewis, $1.4 million in compensatory damagesIn the Oregon case, about 1,000 files, from the years 1965 to 1984, were included as evidence, though the judge, John A. Wittmayer, allowed only the jury and lawyers involved to view them. Lawyers for Mr. Lewis, who is now 37, said in court that the files detailed many instances across the country in which troop leaders or volunteers were allowed to continue working with children even after the Scouts had received complaints that they had committed sexual abuse. “They hid the problem, ” Paul Mones, a lawyer for Mr. Lewis, said in closing arguments on Thursday, “and by hiding the problem, more abuse happened.” In the Oregon case, a former assistant troop leader, Timur Dykes, had admitted to molesting Mr. Lewis. Evidence has shown that Mr. Dykes, who has since been convicted in child-molesting cases, was allowed to interact with scouts even after leaders learned he had abused children. _http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/24/us/24scouts.html_ (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/24/us/24scouts.html) The Man Who Sued the Pope Houston's Daniel Shea thinks Joseph Ratzinger has a lot to answer for if he'd talk. By John Nova Lomax Apr 22 2010 Five years ago, Houston attorney/theologian Daniel Shea watched the results of the papal conclave at home. Intellectually, he knew what the dirty-gray smoke puffing out of the Sistine Chapel's chimney signaled: that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger would soon be announced as the new Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. Now, as the white-haired Pope battles a seemingly endless series of priestly sex scandals, Shea says he is still trying to get his head around his belief that he and his co-counsel Tahira Khan Merritt set the coronation in motion when they filed a Houston-based sex abuse lawsuit against Ratzinger. According to Shea, the cardinals elected Ratzinger Pope to give him the immunity that would enable him to avoid answering any questions concerning his knowledge about and handling of sex abuse cases in Houston's St. Francis De Sales church in the mid-1990s In Doe et al v. Roman Catholic Diocese of Galveston-Houston et al, Shea and Khan Merritt allege that a letter then-Cardinal Ratzinger sent to every Catholic bishop on May 18, 2001, constituted an international conspiracy to obstruct justice. This official Vatican document Ratzinger penned in his role as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith dealt with official church procedure in dealing with clerical sex abuse cases. Not only did this letter contain the cardinal's current thinking on the subject, it also cited in a footnote a top-secret 1962 Vatican document Shea would eventually flush out. This 48-year-old document, informally known as Crimen Sollicitationis, considered a smoking gun in some quarters, contains written orders from the Vatican laying bare a system for protecting child molesters. To Shea, Crimen is more than a smoking gun, it is a nuclear bomb. Many churchmen disagree as to the true meaning of Crimen. Still, it's easy to interpret that, taken together, Crimen and Ratzinger's letter of May 18 make it plain that Ratzinger wanted these cases handled by the Vatican and only the Vatican. According to Ratzinger's letter, the roles of judge, promoter of justice, notary and legal representative can validly be performed for these cases only by priests. Furthermore, the letter was co-signed by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who later went on the record as follows: In my opinion, the demand that a bishop be obligated to contact the police in order to denounce a priest who has admitted the offense of pedophilia is unfounded. The letter ordered everyone involved in these cases to keep the evidence confidential for ten years after the victims reached adulthood. The entire proceedings were to be held under pontifical secret, meaning those who broke the silence to outside authorities could be excommunicated. In fact, Shea believes that what he started with the lawsuit may eventually result in the destruction of the entire Roman Catholic Church In response to Ratzinger's sending that
[cia-drugs] Re: Wikipedophilia, Wikipedia child abuse misinformation, clergy abuse suit
I the oligarchy's CIA's drugwar should stop with marijuana now, but I haven't smoked any mj since 1977, but one head of DEA's sister smuggled mj across the border from Mexico against my advice, but we never smoked any, but I met a future DEA head and thus his sister may have smuggled mj into his condo in Santa Monica, but his brother was director for a while of this Catholic charity, SOME HOUSE, So Others May Eat, which even the gay marriage advocates might stipulate endorsement for funding since they help so many homeless people in DC, but you could give to BreadForTheCity.org instead and not really hurt, but you might want to donate what you did not spend at McDonald's to SOME since they are boycotting and may yet withdraw(whole Catholic diocese withdraw all charity work in DC!) from DC to boycott gay marriage, but not to boycott priest pedophilia, but life is complicated but not because there are any gray areas or ambiguities, hell no! http://www.google.com/search?q=catholic+boycott+dc+gay+marriage Boycott homelessness rather than Catholic charities in DC? (or boycott DC catholic charities by giving in NYC or Detroit) http://www.some.org/ Boycott catholic charities in DC by giving here instead? http://www.breadforthecity.org/ CCNV is not what it was when two black COINTELOP assassins incriminated Minister Farrakhan by hanging Mitch Snyder. The Clintons ignored representatives from CCNV at a national Dem convention at Union Station three blocks away, and then lots of homeless people were od'd with pure heroin and run over by cars during the Bush nightmare, but only Obama and Fenty could actually just close CCNV down, after Mitch essentially gave up his family and then his life to take the empty old Federal City College building and turn it into the only homeless shelter in DC where you would have your shoes stolen off your feet at night like in DC city shelters which only have security guards at the intake desk, and no lockers for you shoes, so people strip you while you sleep on the carpet(no beds!). SOME House and BreadForTheCity.org are all that is left, thanks to Obama and Fenty being able to do what Republicans could not--why go half way with empire? Dems go all the way for empire by reducing democratic consensus to injected magic memes of mass schizophrenic insanity i.e. Tavistock group dynamics. Mantras: CHANGE(more war, bailout predators, close the homeless shelter CCNV--changes Bush could not get away with!--by manipulating people through mantras/memes and other Tavistock group dynamics such as hot/cold oscillations of comfort zone and threat level and real suffering). -Bob --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, smartn...@... wrote: also Suit alleges Cardinal Mahony conspired to hide priestâs sexual abuse of children Wikipedophilia By James R. Marsh on April 20, 2010 About two years ago, rumors started floating around about Wikipedia's involvement with child pornography and the pedophile agenda. First there was a row about this image on Wikipedia depicting child nudity. Then there was the long-standing allegation by Perverted Justice that: Pedophiles have long sought to use Wikipedia to justify and promote their agenda. They organize together in order to create Wikipedia accounts and then seek to use Wikipedia's all-inclusiveness to promote their point of view. When pointed out, Wikipedians themselves often don't believe that there is an organized campaign to subvert the user-edited encyclopedia in order to promote the pedophile agenda. Well now these allegations have risen to a new level. Last week, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger reported the site's parent organization to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, saying he believes the Wikimedia Commons may be knowingly distributing child pornography. _http://www.childlaw.us/2010/04/wikipedophilia.html_ (http://www.childlaw.us/2010/04/wikipedophilia.html) related web pages Wikipedia Campaign - Wikisposure _http://www.wikisposure.com/Wikipedia_Campaign_ (http://www.wikisposure.com/Wikipedia_Campaign) Larry Sanger - Wikimedia Commons allegations of child pornography _http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vxlist=EDTECHmonth=1004\ wee k=amsg=oh60TKAnthvEwBjcWNxxSguser=pw=_ (http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vxlist=EDTECHmonth=1004\ week=amsg=oh60TKAnthvEwBjcWNxxSguse r=pw=) Erik Moeller (Wikimedia Deputy Director) and Defenses of Pedophilia _http://mashable.com/2008/05/08/erik-moeller-pedophilia/_ (http://mashable.com/2008/05/08/erik-moeller-pedophilia/) A variety of Wikipedia articles on several child abuse issues misrepresent child abuse and ritual abuse issues. Attempts to correct these articles have resulted in bullying, threats of banning editors and the outright banning of editors from Wikipedia. Several legitimate websites exposing child abuse and ritual abuse crimes have been banned from Wikipedia, including _http://abusearticles.wordpress.com_
[cia-drugs] Church scandal's next wave: Abused girls
Church scandal's next wave: Abused girls Expect numbers of women victimized by priests as children to rise over next few years, say lawyers Apr 24 2010 By Mary Ormsby But London-based lawyer Robert Talach, who represented McLauchlin and other Sylvestre victims, expects that male-female ratio to change within five to 10 years to reflect a trend that began in the 1970s when the church welcomed female altar servers. Researchers say disclosure of abuse is typically delayed for about 30 years, which means women assaulted as children are just starting to come to terms with what happened. In some of our Sylvestre cases, which are (from) the `70s, many of the women were victimized under the pretenses of `I'm training you to be one of these new, upcoming female altar servers,' said Talach, who has represented more than 100 victims of clergy abuse, most of them male. Father Donald Holmes, a modern cleric who rode a motorcycle, sported a beard, played hockey and preferred street clothes to his Roman collar, also preyed on girls as they began taking bigger roles in the church. He was convicted in 2002 of sexually abusing 12 girls around the Sudbury area between 1972 and 1984. In general, girls in Canada are four times more likely than boys to be victims of sexual offences, according to police figures reported to Stats Canada. Females are more likely to be attractive to clergy because the majority of priests are heterosexual - but some are psychologically and sexually immature, says former priest-turned-lawyer Patrick Wall. If they're going to explore sexually, they're going to explore with a little girl, said Wall, a California-based expert on Catholic clergy abuse who now works with victims. Wall's perspective on the degree of female abuse is unique. He was a Benedictine monk for 12 years, working as a fixer dispatched to tidy up messy sexual problems of priests and laymen at troubled parishes and schools. He said when a girl required surgery after rape, the code was that she needed a hernia operation. In a bizarre twinning, he counselled accused priests and heard confessions from traumatized victims. He also worked on cases where priests impregnated girls then procured abortions for them. That is so prevalent, it happens all the time, he said of the abortion runs, which in part accounts for his belief that teenaged girls are the silent majority of priest-related sexual abuse. By age 33, Wall deduced most, if not all, of the 195 parishes and hundreds of religious orders in the U.S. employed fixers like him to wipe down crime scenes that involved children. He quit religious life in disgust and scoffs at the Vatican's pledge to better protect boys and girls from its surpliced predators. _http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/800312--church-scandal-s-next-wave-abused-girls_ (http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/800312--church-scandal-s-next-wave-abused-girls)
