WHERE WAS THIS BOYS GOD?????? (page 2)

beksbks

It ain't hard to figure out IH. These bastards preyed on a trusting child. Hell, trusting parents too. It wasn't spontaneous weakness. Nothing can redeem that.

chase

prayers of reperations??? only with organized religion. cut off their dicks and fingers.

Iron Head

It ain't hard to figure out IH. These bastards preyed on a trusting child. Hell, trusting parents too. It wasn't spontaneous weakness. Nothing can redeem that.

I'm not arguing with you. Good to know that you believe in some absolutes

That video just made me sick. I have never understood how anyone could do something so disgusting to an innocent child. I disagree with beksbks' method of punishment though, as shooting is too good for scum like this. I say: give them a taste of their own medicine and stick a red hot poker up their asses and let them die that way.

Bastards.

PSacramento

Did you guys read my thread about wide spead abuses ?

PublishingCult

WHERE WAS THIS BOY'S GOD?????

This boy's god was too busy being indicted for tax fraud to protect him from Father O'Rapey.

whereami

That video just made me sick. I have never understood how anyone could do something so disgusting to an innocent child. I disagree with beksbks' method of punishment though, as shooting is too good for scum like this. I say: give them a taste of their own medicine and stick a red hot poker up their asses and let them die that way.

I'm with you Mary. Just killing them would actually be doing them a favor. Lock these pigs up and let them get gang raped for the rest of their miserable lives.

PublishingCult

"Butt sex is a lot like spinach; if you're forced to have it as a child you won't enjoy it as an adult."

-Daniel Tosh

sooner7nc

Article Tools Digg this Stumble It! MySpace Maureen Dowd / Philadelphia's avenging altar boyThe local DA says there's 'no get-out-of-jail-free card' just because someone's a priestThursday, March 17, 2011

PHILADELPHIA

The district attorney is burning a eucalyptus-spearmint candle on his desk.

"I think the press looks down upon the DA drinking Jack Daniels during the day," R. Seth Williams says with a broad smile, "so I light my little stress-relief candle."

It's understandable if the former altar boy at St. Carthage in West Philly needs to light a votive. The 44-year-old Catholic, who still attends Mass with his family at the same church, now called St. Cyprian, is the first U.S. prosecutor to charge a church official for a sickeningly commonplace sin: endangering children whom the Roman Catholic Church was supposed to protect by shuffling pedophile priests to different parishes where they could find fresh prey.

Mr. Williams, the first African American elected district attorney in Pennsylvania, was an orphan given up by his unwed mother. He was put into two foster homes before he was adopted at 20 months old by a Catholic family.

"I grew up treating the hierarchy of the church kind of like rock stars," he said in his 18th floor aerie, where he keeps a small iron crucifix and a cross fashioned from Palm Sunday fronds. "If you're going to meet the cardinal, you're supposed to kiss the guy's ring, all this stuff. But it is what it is. ... There's no get-out-of-jail-free card for raping, sodomizing, groping, doing anything wrong to kids."

Monsignor William J. Lynn, who served from 1992 to 2004 as the secretary of clergy reviewing sexual abuse cases for then-Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, appeared in court Monday. He is charged with felonies for allegedly helping the cardinal cover up molesters and transferring them to other parishes.

"It was a conspiracy of silence to ensure the church's reputation and to avoid scandal," said Assistant District Attorney Evangelia Manos.

Mr. Lynn, a round, ruddy man in black priest's garb, sat silently in court behind his two lawyers -- paid by the archdiocese -- as a cheering squad of priests and parishioners watched.

Mr. Lynn's co-defendants sat beside him: a rabbity-looking Rev. James Brennan, 47, charged with raping a 14-year-old boy named Mark in 1996 in his apartment; and the unholy alliance of a priest, the sepulchral Charles Engelhardt, 64; a defrocked priest, Edward Avery, 68; and a former Catholic schoolteacher, Bernard Shero, 48 -- all charged with raping or sodomizing the same 10-year-old altar boy 12 years ago.

Mr. Lynn's lawyer, Thomas Bergstrom, told reporters that the charges against his client were "a stretch" and that he was pleading not guilty.

And Richard DeSipio, one of Mr. Brennan's lawyers, went on the attack against his client's accuser, now 29. "Their witness is in prison in Bucks County for stealing his sister's credit card and using it," Mr. DeSipio told Mensah Dean of The Philadelphia Daily News. "He's a convicted liar."

On a local radio show on Tuesday, Mr. Brennan -- a priest suspended by the church in 2006 -- said he was uninterested in a plea deal, and his lawyer continued to paint the accuser as troubled.

Even with a global scandal that never seems to stop disgorging disgusting stories, the Philadelphia grand jury report is especially sordid.

It tells the story of a fifth-grade altar boy at St. Jerome School given the pseudonym Billy. Mr. Engelhardt plied him with sacramental wine and pulled pornographic magazines out of a bag in the sacristy and told the child it was time "to become a man," the report says.

A week later, after Billy served an early Mass, the report states that Mr. Engelhardt instructed him to take off his clothes and perform oral sex on him. Then the priest told the boy he was "dismissed."

"After that, Billy was in effect passed around to Engelhardt's colleagues," the report says. "Father Edward Avery undressed with the boy, told him that God loved him," and then had him perform sex. "Next was the turn of Bernard Shero, a teacher in the school. Shero offered Billy a ride home but instead stopped at a park, told Billy they were 'going to have some fun,' took off the boy's clothes, orally and anally raped him and then made him walk the rest of the way home."

Billy fell apart and turned to heroin.

The report says Mr. Brennan knew Mark from the time Mark was 9. When Mark was 14, the priest arranged with the boy's mother for a sleepover. "Brennan showed him pornographic pictures on his computer, bragged about his penis size and insisted that Mark sleep together with him in his bed." Then the priest raped him as he cried, according to the report.

Mark also fell apart and attempted suicide.

Out of the church's many unpleasant confrontations with modernity, this is the starkest. It's tragically past time to send the message that priests can't do anything they want and hide their sins behind special privilege.

In Seth Williams' city, the law sees no collars, except the ones put on criminals.

Maureen Dowd is a syndicated columnist for The New York Times.
First published on March 17, 2011 at 12:00 am

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11076/1132488-109.stm#ixzz1H14hNW00

whereami

^Truly appalling.

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