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brings to mind Trudeau's gay northern DS Morning Joe buddy (Seamus O'Regan) + gay hubby → pedovore child trafficking?

 

https://wearethene.ws/notable/766984JennaJ: TURDEAU & PEDOVORE ALLEY

 

BTW, gay Seamus' dad was Newfoundland Supreme Court justice. Anyone hear of / remember the Mount Cashel Catholic sex abuse scandal?

 

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Catholic workers accused of sexual abuse sometimes start over in the United States after getting special treatment from justice officials abroad.

 

Four religious brothers from one rural Canadian province, for instance, are living free in this country.

 

Two of the men are fugitiveswhom Canadian prosecutors have never tried to bring back for trial.A prosecutor who opposed one man's extradition became his attorney in a lawsuit over the alleged abuse.

 

The other two are convicts. One was let out of prison unusually early. The other was sentenced to house arrest butallowed to move to New York- where no one has the authority to supervise him - and is working in lay ministry.

 

U.S. authorities are investigating, based on The Dallas Morning News' findings.

 

"We're concerned about these matters," said Jamie Zuieback, Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman in Washington, D.C. "We're looking into what avenues can be pursued."

 

Some officials in Canada are upset, too. Vic Toews, a Parliament member who speaks for the Conservative Party on crime issues, is seeking a federal inquiry on his side of the border. He said the cases undermine his country's policy of aggressively combating child molestation.

 

Mr. Toews, a former prosecutor, said leaving the men free in the United States "gives them another opportunity to abuse."

 

The News' findings are part of a yearlong investigation intohow Catholic priests and other church workers accused of sexual abuse move from country to country.Religious leaders aren't the only ones helping them - justice officials, through direct involvement or inaction, sometimes do, too.

 

The four Canadian cases began in Newfoundland and Labrador, a sprawling province of about a half-million people in the easternmost part of the nation.

 

Anorphanagein the province was the scene ofone of the country's worst clergy abuse scandals,which authorities and church leaderscovered upwhen allegations first surfaced in the 1970s. Two top justice officials, for example, cut a deal with the Catholic order that ran the Mount Cashel orphanage. Two accused workers left Newfoundland and faced no charges, despite statements that police had taken from several victims.

 

The complaints resurfaced in the late 1980s, causing public outrage and leading to a government inquiry that documented the church-state collusion. Newfoundland's justice system later admitted it "failed in its responsibilities to these children" and convicted about a dozen members of the order, theChristian Brothers of Ireland in Canada.

 

Past still swirls

 

Controversy over the now-demolished Mount Cashel orphanage continues to this day. More than 80 victims recently won payments from the Christian Brothers' assets, but they had to surrender their right to sue Newfoundland's government.

 

And the final Mount Cashel prosecution ended a few months ago with special consideration for the guilty party.

 

Justice Seamus O'Reganrejected prosecutors' recommendation of prison time and gave John Evangelist Murphy 20 months of house arrest for fondling four boys in the 1950s. Then the judge took the extraordinary step ofletting him return to upstate New York,where he had lived for years before he was extradited for trial.

 

Had Mr. Murphy served his sentence in Newfoundland, he would have been required to wear an electronic monitor and been subject to random visits by authorities and drug testing.

 

New York authorities said they had no standing to supervise him, and a top Newfoundland corrections official conceded that little could be done to enforce the sentence.

 

"Quite frankly, we believe the court may have exceeded its jurisdiction," said Marvin McNutt, head of the Division of Corrections and Community Services in Newfoundland.

 

Justice O'Regansaid it would be inappropriate for him to comment on the sentence. In court, he cited Mr. Murphy's age and "exemplary lifestyle" since leaving Mount Cashel as reasons for his decision.

 

https://www.bishop-accountability.org/news3/2004_12_07_Egerton_TakingCover_Gerald_Chumik_5.htm

 

Also general background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Cashel_Orphanage

 

(Geography lesson: same spoopy province as where the Arrow Air crash at Gander happened: https://themichiganstar.com/2020/12/13/35-years-ago-unsolved-gander-aircrash-kills-248-101st-airborne-soldiers-8-crew/)