NYT/AP: Ohio Cops Said Covered Church (abuse) Allegations

[DeepModem Mom]

Ohio Cops Said Covered Church Allegations
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: July 31, 2005


TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Police helped the Catholic Diocese of Toledo cover up sex abuse allegations for several decades, refusing to investigate or arrest priests suspected of molesting children, a newspaper reported Sunday.

The (Toledo) Blade, relying on interviews with former officers and a review of court and diocese records, found at least five instances since the 1950s of police covering up allegations of abuse.

Four former officers said Police Chief Anthony Bosch, a Catholic who headed the Toledo department from 1956 to 1970, established an unwritten rule that priests could not be arrested.

''You would have been fired,'' said Gene Fodor, who served on the force between 1960 and 1981.

In some cases that resulted in charges, authorities blocked the release of files to the public. In others, priests were transferred to different churches or sent away for treatment.


http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Church-Abuse-Ohio.html

[stepnw1f]

1. Cowards!

Everyone of them. They failed to do their duty, and that's to protect the people.

[K8-EEE]

2. It's That Liberal Toledo Culture

tainting the police AND the church!! BLAME THE LIB-RULS!

[meganmonkey]

3. That's just sick

How many kids could have been saved if these cops had done their job?

:grr:

[sasquatch]

4. Why doesn't someone do to these guys what they did to Koresh?

They're both sick bastards that need to be taken out.

[dArKeR]

5. Pope Tells Journalists To Search For 'Truth' - Worse than Watergate!

(Now I understand the second story!!!!!)

Pope Tells Journalists To Search For 'Truth'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/23/AR2005042301372.html?nav=rss_world/europe

The Vatican has sought the intervention of the U.S. State Department to declare Pope Benedict XVI immune from a sexual abuse lawsuit filed here, according to court documents.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3201751

Vatican said Monday there was no investigation under way of allegations that the Mexican founder of a conservative religious order sexually abused seminarians
http://www.winktv.com/x466.xml?URL=http://localhost/APWIREFEED/d8a8vi600.xml

Vatican Reportedly Clears Priest
Vaca, a former priest, is one of at least eight men in Mexico and the United States who have accused the Rev. Marcial Maciel Degollado of molesting them when they were teenage seminary students in the 1940s, '50s and '60s.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/22/AR2005052200966.html?nav=rss_world/europe

Despite the horrific drumbeat of child molestation revelations, however, sensible Catholics hoping for a more transparent and less sexually repressed church shouldn't hold their breath. The new pope is not only a longtime leader of vicious church attacks on "evil" gays, he also has shamefully blamed the molestation scandal on the media.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/thenation/20050524/cm_thenation/20050606scheer0524_1

Vatican Accused of Child Molestation Cover-Up
http://atheism.about.com/b/a/098516.htm

Survivors Network says the overwhelming majority of its members have never sued and are too traumatized to do so. They say they adopted their tactics after bishops promised for years to take action against guilty clergy, then never did.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7463011/page/2

Pope's Nazi past
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7576505 /

[DanCa]

6. Now you know how they managed to cover it up it so long.

Cardinals probably threatened cops with excummunication if they did anything about it the reports. I am not excusing the cops mind you. I took my excummunication like a man. You know maybe the church should worry less about the embryo and more about the human being.

[DeepModem Mom]

7. I hadn't seen an article of this nature -- had you? nt

[DanCa]

8. No - (puzzled and confused) (nt)

[ClarkUSA]

9. What does Santorum have to day to this?

After all, he accused Boston's liberialism as the reason why Catholic priests decided to molest children there.

[DanCa]

10. Crossfire or payback I guess.

Sanatorum has made himself a vocal bullseye for peoples wrath. With his justice sunday rhetoric i cant say I blame them.

[ellie]

11. This is on page one of today's Blade

and I am just disgusted, both as a Catholic and law-abiding citizen. As my DH said, how can you trust in the justice system if the police are part of the problem? Not only the police, the courts and child services also refused to do anything. My mom was a member of St. Stephens Church and remembers people complaining about Father Pinter. Nothing was done and he was allowed to move to Canada. We just saw Father Fisher at the recent St. Francis de Sales closing brunch. He served 30 days in jail and was de-frocked for his misdeeds.

[DeepModem Mom]

12. Thanks for posting this local, personal perspective, ellie. nt