Anonymous ID: df5270 May 11, 2023, 4:25 p.m. No.18832161   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2197 >>2233 >>2266 >>2343 >>2389 >>2444

if child rapists deserve 'pastoral care', who deserves millstone drownings?

 

'But if you cause one of these little ones who trusts in me to fall into sin, it would be better for you to have a large millstone tied around your neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea.' (Matthew 18:6)

 

Pope calls sex abusers ‘children of God’ deserving of ‘love’

 

ope Francis raised some eyebrows while discussing sex abusers, whom he labeled “children of God” who deserve love and “pastoral care” — as well revolting “enemies” who must be punished.

 

The pontiff made his remarks last month during a private meeting with a group of Jesuit priests in Hungary, but they were only published Tuesday by La Civilta Cattolica, an Italian Jesuit journal.

 

“How do we approach, how do we talk to the abusers for whom we feel revulsion? Yes, they too are children of God. But how can you love them?” Francis was quoted as saying.

 

The 86-year-old leader of the Roman Catholic Church was responding to a question from a Hungarian Jesuit who asked: “The Gospel asks us to love, but how do we love at the same time people who have experienced abuse and their abusers?”

 

The pope acknowledged that the answer to this “powerful question” was “not easily at all.”

 

Francis explained that a sexual predator was to be condemned, “but as a brother” still deserving of love and care.

 

“There is a logic, a form of loving the enemy that is also expressed in this way,” he added. “And it is not easy to understand and to live out. The abuser is an enemy.”

 

While the pope was talking about sexual abuse writ large, the subtext to his answer is the staggering scandal that has rocked the Catholic Church involving generations of pedophile priests abusing hundreds of thousands of children all over the world.

 

As recently as last month, a Maryland state report revealed that more than 150 Catholic priests with the Archdiocese of Baltimore molested some 600 children, mostly with impunity, over the course of 80 years.

 

“When you hear what abuse leaves in the hearts of abused people, the impression you get is very powerful,” Francis told his fellow Jesuits during the April 29 meeting in Budapest, Hungary. “Even talking to the abuser involves revulsion; it’s not easy.”

 

“But they are God’s children too,” he noted, referring to sexual predators. “They deserve punishment, but they also deserve pastoral care. How do we provide that? No, it is not easy.”

 

During his 10 years on the throne of St. Peter in the Vatican, Francis has created a commission on child molestation prevention and has tightened church laws addressing clerical sexual abuse.

 

But the pontiff’s efforts to redress the crisis have been hampered by a spate of high-profile resignations from his Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.

 

Last week, Francis urged the remaining members of the panel to pursue a “spirituality of reparation” with sexual abuse survivors.

 

https://nypost.com/2023/05/11/pope-francis-calls-sex-abusers-children-of-god/

Anonymous ID: df5270 May 11, 2023, 4:37 p.m. No.18832233   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2266 >>2343 >>2389 >>2444

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Rochdale grooming: Men filmed unconscious girl's sexual assault, jury told

 

Eight men are currently on trial at Minshull Street Crown Court in Manchester

 

An unconscious teenager was filmed being sexually assaulted as members of a grooming gang laughed, a court has heard.

 

The youngster, referred to as Girl A, was 12 when the alleged abuse began in Rochdale, Greater Manchester.

 

She and another young girl, known as Girl B, were allegedly plied with drink and drugs before being sexually abused for four years by men in the town.

 

Eight defendants deny a total of 80 sexual offences between 2002 and 2006.

 

Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court heard the girls would often be picked up from outside their schools while they were still wearing their uniforms.

 

They were then sexually assaulted against a school wall, in cars, in public parks, on Saddleworth Moor and in flats and houses in Rochdale, the court heard.

 

Neil Usher, prosecuting, said the video demonstrated the defendants' attitude towards the girls.

 

"The girls were mere objects for the defendants to use, abuse, humiliate then discard," he said.

 

Mr Usher told the jury of another occasion when Girl A was urinated on by a group of men in a public park while she was being sexually assaulted.

 

Prosecutors said it had taken place because she had refused to carry out a sexual act for a gang member.

 

On another occasion she was asked to "do it for the team" and have sex with a defendant's uncle from Pakistan since he had "never had sex with a white girl".

 

It is alleged she was offered £5,000 to marry him so he could stay in the UK.

 

Jurors also heard the girl was "trapped" in a bedroom for hours and forced to perform sexual acts on men as they took turns.

 

The allegations only came to light in 2015 after Girl A, while attending a parenting course, told of being "beaten and raped". Police were then contacted.

 

She told course workers: "They did as they pleased, they made videos of me to use as blackmail.

 

"They sent the video around Rochdale anyway and I was branded a slag for it."

 

As a result of what she told the police, they spoke with Girl B, a childhood friend.

 

The court heard Girl A first met a group of young men who were friends of one of the defendants, 38-year-old Mohammed Ghani, when she was 12.

 

She said Mr Ghani allegedly sexually abused her in the presence of an 11-year-old friend.

 

Jurors also heard Girl B was 13 when her alleged abuse began.

 

Girl A would be "bombarded" with telephone calls from the men, being "on demand" every day, and encouraged to get drunk, the court heard.

 

It is also alleged she was also given as many as 10 ecstasy pills while being sexually abused.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-65563139

 

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