OMG. Literally, OMG.

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By COLLEEN CURRY
Aug. 30, 2012

A well-known Catholic priest who hosts a weekly religious television show said in an interview this week that child sex abusers are often seduced by teenage boys and should not go to jail on a first offense.

The Rev. Benedict Groeschel, 79, who hosts a weekly show on Catholic television network EWTN, made the comments in an interview with the National Catholic Register. He also referred to convicted pedophile Jerry Sandusky as a "poor guy."

"People have this picture in their minds of a person planning to - a psychopath. But that's not the case. Suppose you have a man having a nervous breakdown, and a youngster comes after him. A lot of the cases, the youngster -- 14, 16, 18 -- is the seducer," Groeschel is quoted as saying in the interview, which is no longer available on the paper's website.

The interview, billed as a reflection on the 25 years since Groeschel founded the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal order, covered many topics, but has gained attention for Groeschel's comments on child sex abuse.

"Well, it's not so hard to see. A kid looking for a father and didn't have his own -- and they won't be planning to get into heavy-duty sex, but almost romantic, embracing, kissing, perhaps sleeping, but not having intercourse or anything like that. I's an understandable thing, and you know where you find it, among other clergy or important people; you look at teachers, attorneys, judges, social workers," he said.

More, if you can stand it, at http://abcnews.go.com/US/catholic-priest-rev-benedict-groeschel-defends-child-sex/story?id=17114892#.UD_McaO04eM

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1. Ah...it's all so clear to me now.

All the pedophile priests, coaches, teachers, etc. were in the midst of a nervous breakdown, making it easier for these young boys to seduce them.

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2. That's what I'm hearing him say

Guys a nut case

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3. How about "almost romantic"?

While channel surfing a couple of years ago, I stopped for a couple of minutes to listen to this guy. He was talking about nothing but abortion, calling clinics "abortuaries."

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4. "You can't make this stuff up."

Really.

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5. um, yeah

it's called self control. I've read stories of mature adults being propositioned by those "seducers", lol, and a mature adult just tells them NO. It's not that hard to say! Typical, making excuses for the priests doing the horrible things they did to those in their care/watch.

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6. One of the priests was convicted of groping a six year old "seducer."

He was sent to prison and died at the hands of his fellow prisoners. By that time, he was old enough that he did not have much longer to live anyway. That's what bothers me so much. The same for Southerners who murdered for no reason in the 40s and 50s but never got prosecuted until decades later.

Both groups got to live almost their entire lives, to ripe old ages, exactly as they pleased. Is jailing them at age really "justice at last?"

Also, murder has no statute of limitations, but many got off entirely, either because they were acquitted by sympathetic judges or juries (race murderers)and cannot be tried again or because the statute of limitations on sexual assault or statutory rape had run out before the victim came forward. So, you mess up a kid's mind and then get off scot free because he could not get it together to come forward soon enough after he turned 21.

In Massachusetts, one of the victims, still in his early 20s, killed himself not long after after a massive civil settlement between the Catholic Church and him and his fellow victims. That's how messed up some victims are.

I should add as well, many of Father Porters victims were female minors. As he put it, he just enjoyed the idea of giving a child the first sexual experience. And no, not all victims were not all in their late teens when molested, as this friar is pretending.

We also have a heart rending story of a priest who seduced a married woman. She went into such deep depression that she had a lobotomy. Cheating on your husband is one thing. Cheating on your husband with Christ on earth is a whole other level. And he continued to have sex with her, dispite the depression and the lobotomy, even though she was no longer legally capable of consenting.

He was with her when she had a medical incident--sorry, I have forgotten the nature of it--but he left her alone immediately, quietly and permanently. he never tried to get her any kind of help. She died.

Years after she died, her kids somehow pieced things together and confronted him. By then, he was in a clergy retirement home and had little to lose. Needless to say, they did not get much satisfaction from him.

They also all took DNA tests. I think only half of them were the biological children of their mother's husband.

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7. how horrific. such horrible events for so many. :( no words.... n/t

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8. Yes, not at all as "almost romantic" as this POS monk would have us believe.