Priest is horrified at body find (Polish student in Scottish church)

[muriel_volestrangler]

A Roman Catholic priest is "utterly shattered" that police looking for a missing woman have found a body in his Glasgow church.

Angelika Kluk, a 23-year-old Polish student, had been living at St Patrick's Church, where Father Gerry Nugent is the priest.
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Tobin had been doing odd jobs at the church and had been known by the congregation as Pat McLaughlin.

Police said that 60-year-old Tobin had supplied officers with a false name, address and age before vanishing just days after the student went missing.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/5394398.stm

A registered sex offender working at a church, and he gets away? The police and the church better have some good explanations for how they let that happen.

[MrPrax]

1. You mean the police?

From the story it appears that the priest and the congregation were in the dark.

If he was a registered sex offender, then it suppose to be the police that are to keep track of these people. The parish looks like it was simply helping out a homeless person. No crime in that.

It's not like a sex predator is going to be candid about his past, so the onus is on law enforcement and the the judiciary to prove this system works, as opposed to being locked up permanently OR KILLED.

That's the deal from what I understand -- either the state do something with these people or the public will do something to these people.

Let's face it...the only thing protecting these guys are the cops and courts, the public would kill them on sight if given the chance. In return for our restraint, we expect the State to do a much better job of protecting children from these sexual child predators.

(Did anyone see the steady stream of animals that wanted to have sex with that 13 year old girl on Dateline NBC last night -- come on, admit it...you didn't feel sorry for a single one of them and a few you probably thought should be taken out back and shot for the sake of efficiency)

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. I think a church should be careful about who it employs

From the accompanying piece:

Revered Neil Galbraith, minister at Old Cathcart Parish Church and chief executive of Glasgow the Caring City, said anyone working in a church should be police checked.

He said: "They should be police checked before they have any contact with the church and its people.

"People do see churches as places of sanctuary, I have had a knife held to my throat.

"We work with other agencies and to find accommodation for 24 hours while we check them."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/5394620.stm

A church is likely to have vulnerable people associated with it, and children, and they may think that someone who works at a church is more 'trustworthy'.

[demosincebirth]

3. The priest and the church had nothing to do with it, except

bad judgment in who they hire. Read the article, again.