Anonymous ID: b8a4c7 Oct. 30, 2018, 2:41 p.m. No.3667529   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7553 >>7633 >>7801 >>7984

How Vermont’s Catholic Church hid decades of child abuse

 

URLINGTON — Before Vermont Catholic Bishop Christopher Coyne invited questions at a recent press conference pledging cooperation with a current local and state investigation of past church-related misconduct, he turned to reporters with his own inquiry.

 

“Want me to mike up?” he asked. “Any problem with the sound?”

 

Longtime observers of the statewide Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington couldn’t believe what they were hearing. They remember the church’s muzzling response regarding the late priest Michael Madden, who was charged with sexual improprieties during a 20-year career at five parishes and the local St. Joseph’s Orphanage — the latter the subject of a recent BuzzFeed story that sparked the new probe.

 

In the 1980s, a county state’s attorney tried to subpoena then-Bishop John Marshall, who served from 1972 to 1992, to testify in court. The diocese, citing the Bible and the U.S. Constitution, argued its leader was immune from such calls.

 

“In order for the church, its priests and bishops … to enjoy the constitutional right to freely exercise their ecclesiastical or religious functions,” one of its lawyers argued, “it is essential that they have independence from state authority.”

 

A judge went on to rule the diocese had to provide internal information. But the church didn’t comply with that demand either, prompting the state to drop multiple sexual assault charges against Madden in return for a no-contest plea on a single count of lewd and lascivious conduct.

 

The priest, spared prison with a deferred sentence, opted out of a state Corrections Department sex offender treatment program for a church-run alternative. There he told a therapist he had molested dozens of teenage boys — only to go on to violate his probation six times and, only because of that, serve two years in jail.

 

Vermont’s Catholic Church is making headlines this fall by agreeing to work with law enforcement, releasing past child abuse victims from nondisclosure agreements and forming a lay committee to review clergy misconduct files and publicly release the names of abusers — news in part because the state’s largest religious denomination has a decades-long history of defying court orders and outside review.

 

https://vtdigger.org/2018/10/21/vermonts-catholic-church-hid-decades-child-abuse/

 

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Anonymous ID: b8a4c7 Oct. 30, 2018, 2:43 p.m. No.3667553   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7801 >>7984

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‘They knew that this man had repeatedly acted out’

 

But the biggest shock came in June 2007 when a judge declared a mistrial after a church lawyer disregarded an agreement about what questions couldn’t be asked in front of the jury.

 

“I have never seen anyone so explicitly violate the order of the court,” O’Neill told the press at the time.

 

The diocese, for its part, said it disagreed with the decision, although one of its lawyers added, “Perhaps now on retrial we will have a different judge with a different perspective.”

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Anonymous ID: b8a4c7 Oct. 30, 2018, 2:46 p.m. No.3667587   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7592 >>7742 >>7786

Catholic Priests Ran Child Porn Ring Out Of Pittsburgh Diocese

 

New grand jury report shows Catholic priests in Pittsburgh ran an extensive child porn ring where children were sexually exploited and groomed for abuse.

 

In a growing and horrific story out of Pennsylvania, a breathtaking grand jury report released by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court documents rampant and pervasive child sex abuse in the Catholic Church, listing more than 300 accused clergy and over a 1,000 confirmed child victims.

 

The report demonstrates that hundreds of “predator priests” sexually abused more than 1,000 children in Pennsylvania for decades — all the while being protected and enabled by Roman Catholic Church leaders.

 

In one particularly heinous episode documented in the report, a group of Catholic priests in Pittsburgh ran an extensive child porn ring where children were sexually exploited and groomed for abuse. Working together, the priests would select, target, and groom young teen boys to exploit.

 

According to the grand jury report, the Revs. George Zirwas, Francis Pucci, Richard Zula, Francis Luddy, and Robert Wolk, were all part of a “ring of predatory priests” who raped children, shared intelligence on potential victims and manufactured child pornography in parishes and rectories.

 

The report notes:

 

This group of priests used whips, violence, and sadism in raping their victims.

 

Operating out of the Pittsburgh Diocese, the priests would give their targeted victims, often alter boys, big gold crosses to wear to identify the child victim as the property of the child porn ring being run by the priests.

 

https://govtslaves.info/2018/10/30/catholic-priests-ran-child-porn-ring-out-of-pittsburgh-diocese/

Anonymous ID: b8a4c7 Oct. 30, 2018, 2:54 p.m. No.3667656   🗄️.is 🔗kun

‘Human Smuggling'? Routine US Traffic Stop Suddenly Handed to Homeland Security

 

A routine traffic stop probe by deputies from South Carolina's Anderson County Sheriff's Office recently saw officials from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) swoop down and take over the investigation.

 

Federal agents were called into the matter after responding deputies suspected "possible human smuggling activity" was taking place after they spoke with the three passengers riding inside a pickup truck, according to the Anderson Independent Mail.

 

The traffic stop took place near mile marker 11 on Interstate 85 near Anderson County's unincorporated community of Townville.

 

Carissa Cutrell, a spokesperson for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, which operates under the jurisdiction of DHS, told the publication Tuesday that the passengers were being driven from Texas to Virginia and that one traveler was arrested and charged with illegal re-entry.

 

The two others were taken to a nearby bus station so that they could continue their journey to the Old Dominion state. The identities of the three individuals have not been disclosed.

 

The truck reportedly caught the attention of law enforcement officials around 4 p.m. local time on Monday after deputies witnessed the driver failing to maintain their lane, the Independent reported.

 

Anderson County Sheriff Chad McBride previously spoke on the incident late Monday, telling the Mail that federal agents became involved after a few red flags were raised as deputies approached the vehicle. "We made a traffic stop, and the persons that were stopped were of interest to the feds," McBride told the outlet. "Stop was turned over to them."

 

Although McBride later indicated that he was unable to discuss the investigation in detail since it had been turned over to federal agents, the sheriff did note that the stop wasn't related to illegal drugs.

 

The arrestee was reportedly scheduled to be arraigned on Tuesday morning, local news station Fox Carolina reported.

 

https://sputniknews.com/us/201810301069367248-routine-traffic-stop-handed-to-homeland-security/

Anonymous ID: b8a4c7 Oct. 30, 2018, 3:06 p.m. No.3667778   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7811 >>7824

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I agree but not just the synagogues also the Imam's and preachers of the Christian and Islamic faiths who abuse children.

 

There is only one true God and all the current versions of Religions were set in place to divide and control.

 

There is no denomination, there is those who follow god and righteousness and those who don't.

 

Have a look at this it'llexplain some stuff.

 

https://www.nicholson1968.com/cube-saturn-worship.html