Young Turks: AP Breaks New Preist Molestation Story

[CherylK]

Run time: 06:14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoziXJnBcdY   Posted on YouTube: April 10, 2010 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 16047   Posted on DU: April 12, 2010 By DU Member: CherylK Views on DU: 958

 
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100409/ap_on_re_us/us_pope_church_abuse

[ccharles000]

1. k/r

[WileEcoyote]

2. The pope covered up probably because he could be counted on covering up the matter.

That all trails eventually led back to him.

Speculation but what "better" pope to appoint than someone who was complicit and knew he had to hush things up?

[bulloney]

3. The cover-ups are also a by-product of the priest shortage.

Priest shortages have come to the point to where they're shutting down parishes. Some administrators (cardinals, bishops) in the Catholic hierarchy respond by covering the problem up instead of defrocking the offending priests and aggravating the shortage.

[Plucketeer]

4. Does anyone think that these priests are drawn to this "calling"

BECAUSE of the possibilities it affords them? Or is it that pedophile priests are just a slice of the general populace that have better access to kids they can take advantage of?

[WhoIsNumberNone]

6. I'm sure they are.

See my post below (#5) the guy was a pedophile before he was a priest. Who knows how many other victims he had. I only know of the one, but in 20 years I'm sure there must have been others.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

5. People do come after them- if and when they find out

I once knew this girl who had immigrated from South America. She was in her late 20's when I met her, and one day she revealed that she had been raped when she was 7 by a man who had been a friend of the family, and who had since become The village priest. A few weeks after this she went home to visit her family and the story came out. Reportedly her mother went ballistic when she heard. She went straight over to the priest's house, made a big scene and (if I remember correctly) even physically assaulted him. I didn't press her for too many details, but from what a gather the whole village knew within a couple of hours, and he had to leave town in a hurry.

So to answer the question- yes sometimes people do confront these guys- even decades after the fact- but only if they find out while the priest in question is still around. Since most of the victims are kids who are afraid and/or ashamed to tell anybody, often the priests have moved on before the story comes out.

Granted, we're talking a bout a third world country here- things might have to be a little more civil in the United States or Europe.