Catholic Priests Caught Molesting Children Again

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21 Priests Suspended in Philadelphia

The Archdiocese of Philadelphia announced Tuesday that it had suspended 21 priests from active ministry in connection with accusations that involved sexual abuse or otherwise inappropriate behavior with minors.
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The archdiocese’s action follows a damning grand jury report issued Feb. 10 that accused the archdiocese of a widespread cover-up of predatory priests, stretching over decades, and said that as many as 37 priests remained active in the ministry despite credible accusations against them.
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First time shame on them. Second time shame on us...
What's the 10th time?
 
Darat said:
Help me out here - what is a "grand jury report" and is the report available online?
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Basically they're a jury based preliminary hearing, similar to the committal proceedings at lower courts in Britain; they're intended to screen out incompetent, improper or malicious prosecutions and return an indictment (a 'True Bill') if justified by the evidence.

The USA also uses them as investigatory mechanisms ('Special Grand Juries) somewhat akin to the old English common law Coronial juries.
They're popular with elected prosecutors facing controversial cases, the decision to indict or not can be handed off to a jury.

England abandoned Grand Juries in 1933; they were replaced with dedicated public prosecutors. In fact they're defunct outside the USA, and about half of US states don't use them instead using judicial preliminary hearings.
 
catsmate1 said:
Basically they're a jury based preliminary hearing, similar to the committal proceedings at lower courts in Britain; they're intended to screen out incompetent, improper or malicious prosecutions and return an indictment (a 'True Bill') if justified by the evidence.

The USA also uses them as investigatory mechanisms ('Special Grand Juries) somewhat akin to the old English common law Coronial juries.
They're popular with elected prosecutors facing controversial cases, the decision to indict or not can be handed off to a jury.

England abandoned Grand Juries in 1933; they were replaced with dedicated public prosecutors. In fact they're defunct outside the USA, and about half of US states don't use them instead using judicial preliminary hearings.
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Thanks for that - helped my understanding.
 
Quite seriously has there been any of this kinds of reports across the world that have not found systematic abuse and cover-up by the RCC?
 
Not that I'm aware of.

Could it be that the human male was not designed by nature (or God if you prefer) to be celibate?
Too bad the leadership of the church is so resistant to change.
 
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My sympathies to the victims of these predators.

Although, I must say that I am enjoying the harsh light being shone on the RCC. The faster we deismantle this childish superstiton, the better hope there is for the poor and disadvantaged of the world.
 
Nursefoxfire said:
Why aren't these pedophiles in jail?
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Given all the various investigations over the last few years it beggars belief that the actual abusers and those that covered-up the abuse are not facing charges. (I know that in many of the reports quite a few of them are now dead, because this has been going on for decades but some are still alive.)
 
Darat said:
Quite seriously has there been any of this kinds of reports across the world that have not found systematic abuse and cover-up by the RCC?
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This clearly fall under the purview of the RICO act, though it would take a prosecutor with major huevos to pursue the rcc as a corrupt organization. Which it is.
 
That's interesting and according to Wikipedia it has been tried:

Catholic sex abuse cases

In some jurisdictions, RICO suits have been filed against Catholic dioceses, using racketeering laws to prosecute the highers-up in the episcopacy for abuses committed by those under their authority. A Cleveland grand jury cleared two bishops of racketeering charges, finding that their mishandling of sex abuse claims didn't amount to criminal racketeering. Certain lawyers and abuse advocates[who?] have openly wondered why a similar suit was not filed against archbishop Bernard Law, who escaped prosecution by going into exile in Vatican City.[9][10]
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