ஸ்டாக்டன் கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியார் ஒரு சிறுவனை பாலுறவு பலாத்காரம் செய்ததற்காக கைது

ஸ்டாக்டன் கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியார் ஒரு சிறுவனை பாலுறவு பலாத்காரம் செய்ததற்காக கைது

இது மாதிரி லிஸ்டு எடுத்து அலுத்து போயிற்று என்று விட்டுவிட்டேன்.

ரொம்ப நாள் கழித்து திடீரேன்று போட்டால் ஒரே நாளில் இவ்வளவு!


Stockton diocese priest hit with suit alleging sex abuse
The Associated Press
Article Launched: 04/02/2008 01:51:38 PM PDT


STOCKTON, Calif.—A priest at the Roman Catholic Diocese of Stockton faces a claim that he sexually abused a boy in the 1980s.
The Rev. Michael Kelly was a priest at the Cathedral of the Annunciation in Stockton when the alleged abuse occurred at the boy's home from 1982 to 1985.

The alleged victim is now 33 years old, but did not recall the molestation until 2006, according to the lawsuit filed March 26 in San Joaquin County Superior Court.

Kelly was placed on leave when the plaintiff's parents first contacted the diocese about the allegations last October. But in March, he returned to the ministry at St. Joachim Catholic Church in Lockeford.

Kelly calls the claims "outrageous lies," and says he intends to fight the suit.

ஒரு பெண்ணுக்கு காம தொந்தரவு தருவதாக கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியார் மீது வழக்கு

பெண்ணை கற்பழித்ததாக கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியார் மீது வழக்கு

Woman claims abuse by priest
Steve Horrell, stevehorrell@hotmail.com, The Edwardsville Intelligencer
04/04/2008

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An Edwardsville woman and her husband have filed a lawsuit against their former priest, claiming that he initiated an inappropriate sexual relationship with the woman and then followed her to Edwardsville when the couple moved here to try to get away.

The suit was filed in Madison County.

It alleges that Father Thomas R. Szydlik assaulted her when he was an assistant priest at Saint Vincent de Paul Church in Peoria. The couple attended the church from September, 2000, until June, 2006. The incidents are alleged to have occurred between November, 2004, and September ,2006, while Szydlik was employed by the Catholic Diocese of Peoria.

The suit claims the abuse began after the woman confessed to Szydlik, in a confessional, that she and her husband were having marital problems. Szydlik, the suit claims, suggested later that he "would help her fill her desire, as confessed to him, of having more children."


At that point, Szydlik began scheming to develop an inappropriate relationship with the woman, the suit alleges. The priest was her "spiritual guide at a time when she considered . . . that her faith was the only solid thing upon which she could rely. Szydlik continuously encouraged the woman to confide in him and trust in him."


Szydlik not only used and subverted Catholic doctrines of infallibility and deference to priests and the priesthood, "but the 'intent' of God to overcome and suppress (the woman's) independent judgment." The priest used e-mail, telephone, and face-to-face confrontations to groom and intimidate the woman "into submission to his desires, never missing an opportunity to lead her into believing whatever she and Szydlik did or said was 'excused' because Szydlik was saving her very soul."


In January of 2005, the woman told her husband about the relationship, and the husband confronted Szydlik, who apologized, according to the suit. Soon after, Szydlik was reassigned to another church within the diocese.


According to the Catholic Diocese of Peoria's Web site, Szydlik was placed on leave in 2006. Calls to the diocese were not returned.


At various times during the relationship, Szydlik allegedly told the woman that he would leave the priesthood and marry her after she and her husband divorced.


In 2006, the couple moved to Edwardsville to distance themselves from his advances.


The suit alleges that Szydlik followed them to Edwardsville and stayed here for three or four months to try to keep the relationship going. During that time, Szydlik continued to pursue the woman, according to the suit.


In May of 2006, the woman became pregnant but later had an abortion, at Szydlik's insistence, according to the suit.


The suit also names as defendants Daniel R. Jenky, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Peoria, and Monsignor Paul E. Showalter, Father Larry Surek, Monsignor William Watson and Patricia Gibson.


The couple is seeking in excess of $50,000 for each of 23 counts. They are being represented by Jacksonville attorney David E. Leefers.




©Edwardsville Intelligencer 2008

கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியார் தனது காதலியை கட்டாய அபார்ஷன் செய்ய வைத்தற்காக வழக்கு

கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியார் தனது காதலியை கட்டாய அபார்ஷன் செய்ய வைத்தற்காக வழக்கு

Priest accused of forcing woman to get abortion
The Associated Press

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. --The Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria says one of its priests is denying allegations in a lawsuit that he forced a woman to have an abortion after she became pregnant.

Holly Force, and her husband, Christopher, are listed as plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which was filed this week in Madison County. The lawsuit names the Rev. Thomas Szydlik, who church officials say has stepped down from the ministry until the lawsuit is resolved.

Holly Force claims Szydlik began pursuing a relationship with her in 2004 while she attended a church in Peoria. The complaint states the Forces left Peoria and moved to Edwardsville to distance themselves from Szydlik.

Force alleges she had an abortion in July 2006 due to coercion by Szydlik.

Diocese Chancellor Patricia Gibson said Szydlik told Bishop Daniel Jenky in March 2005 that he had feelings for a woman, but that no vows had been broken. Szydlik asked then to be transferred to a different parish.

The diocese lists Szydlik as a priest at Immaculate Conception parish in Nauvoo. He was ordained in 2003.

In February 2006, Szydlik obtained a leave of absence and cut off contact with the diocese, Gibson said. In September 2006, Szydlik told the bishop his relationship with the woman had ended, and asked to return to active ministry.

The bishop sent him to a therapy program, and after five months, Szydlik was allowed to return to ministry under supervision.

In its statement, the diocese said it acted decisively on every occasion as information was brought forward.

இரண்டு சிறுவர்களை பாலுறவு பலாத்காரம் செய்ததற்காக ஜெஸூட் கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியார் மீது வழக்கு

அரிஜோனாவில் இரண்டு சிறுவர்களை பாலுறவு பலாத்காரம் செய்ததற்காக ஜெஸூட் கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியார் மீது வழக்கு.

இதற்கு முன்பே இவர் லேக் ஜெனிவாவில் சிறுவர்களை பாலுறவு பலாத்காரம் செய்ததற்காக தண்டிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளார்.

Priest faces new abuse charges
Thursday, April 3, 2008, 1:39 PM
By Brian Moon

Former Jesuit Priest Donald McGuire was set to appear Wednesday for an extradition hearing on charges that he sexually abused two boys in Arizona between 1998 to 2002. However, the 77 year old was admitted to the hospital for chest pains. The Arizona charge is among the latest of numerous accusations in both the U.S. and abroad. He was convicted of molesting kids in Lake Geneva in the 1960's.

Now he's under police guard while hospitalized.

"We're extremely pleased that law enforcement is finally an appropriate and aggressive stance against these particular types of criminals," said Peter Isely, Midwest Director for Survivors Network for Those Abused by Priests.

McGuire has been a free man as he appeals his Wisconsin conviction. His extradition hearing, in Cook County Illinois, has been moved to Friday.

சர்ச்சுக்கு பொதுமக்கள் கொடுத்த பணத்தை திருடிய பாதிரியாருக்கு சிறை

சர்ச்சுக்கு பொதுமக்கள் கொடுத்த பணத்தை திருடிய பாதிரியாருக்கு சிறை

Judge orders sick priest to report to prison in May
March 28, 2008

Digg Del.icio.us Facebook Fark Google Newsvine Reddit Yahoo Print Reprints Post comment Text size: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - A federal judge has ordered a Darien priest convicted of embezzling $1 million from his parish to report to prison in May.

The Rev. Michael Jude Fay was sentenced in December to 37 months in a federal prison. He was due to report to prison next week, but sought a delay while he undergoes an experimental cancer treatment that his attorney says is not available in prison.

Attorney Lawrence Hopkins says Fay will die behind bars if he cannot complete his treatment at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

Federal Judge Janet Bond Arterton says Fay should report to prison on May 19 and provide his medical records to prison officials.




Arterton says any further request for an extension of Fay's surrender date would require a hearing.

Fay pleaded guilty to a fraud charge in September. Authorities say he set up secret bank accounts and spent the money on a lavish lifestyle. He resigned in 2006 as pastor of St. John Roman Catholic Church.

போலந்து: அல்டர் சிறுவனை கற்பழித்த கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியாருக்கு தண்டனை

போலந்து: அல்டர் பாய் என்னும் சர்ச்சில் பாட்டுப்பாடும் சிறுவனை கற்பழித்த கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியாருக்கு தண்டனை கொடுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.
Priest sentenced for molesting altar boy

27.11.2007 15:26
The District Court in Czluchow, north-central Poland has sentenced Piotr T., former parson of a parish near Czluchow, to four years in prison for molesting an altar boy and two other minors and giving them drugs.

“Additionally, the priest has also been banned from contacting the molested teenager for the next four years”, informed the spokeswoman for the District Court in Slupsk, judge Danuta Jastrzebska, quoted by “Rzeczpospolita”.

The trial of the 38-year old priest started in March this year. For the sake of the three teenagers involved, the hearings were held behind closed doors.

The indictment included nine charges, among them rape, paedophilia, providing minors with drugs and alcohol, instigating them to committing suicide as well as embezzlement of over 27,000 zlotys from the parish funds.

Prosecutors did not mange to prove the priest guilty of all charges. As judge Jastrzebska informed he was cleared of the rape and embezzlement charges.

The suicide charge will be investigated in a separate trial

கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியாரால் சிறுவயதில் கற்பழிக்கப்பட்ட அமெரிக்கருக்கு 3 மில்லியன் ஈடு

கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியாரால் சிறுவயதில் கற்பழிக்கப்பட்ட அமெரிக்கருக்கு 3 மில்லியன் ஈடு வழங்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.

இதற்கான பணம் இந்திய கத்தோலிக்கர்களிடமிருந்து வசூல் செய்யப்படுகிறதா என்று தெரியவில்லை.

US victim of pedophile priest gets 3 million dollar payout
2 days ago

WASHINGTON (AFP) — A young man who was abused as a boy by a Catholic priest has won a record three million dollars in compensation from a Pennsylvania diocese, church officials said Friday.

"Today's settlement represents the diocese's efforts to assist the victim to heal and to move on to achieve a productive and fulfilling life," the diocese of Scranton, in northeastern Pennsylvania, said in a statement.

The deal, which was reached Wednesday, is the highest-ever single amount to be paid out to a victim of a pedophile priest in the United States.

"The diocese fully accepts its responsibility toward this victim and our hope is that true healing can commence now that a settlement has been reached," the statement added.

The deal ends all the lawsuits against the diocese, which covers some 200 parishes.

The Catholic Church counts some 69 million followers across the United States, but has been rocked by the pedophile scandal which surfaced in 2002 and badly hit both its reputation and its finances.

The Scranton victim, who is now 22, has not been identified. But his abuser, former priest Albert Liberatore, was defrocked in 2006 after pleading guilty and being sentenced to 10 years in prison.

"The diocese wishes to express its deep regret and its sincerest apology to the victim and his family members who were so grievously harmed by the former priest Albert Liberatore," the statement added.

The abuse against the victim began a decade ago when he was just 12 years old, and continued until 2002. The victim finally broke his silence in 2004 and the priest was immediately suspended.

The Vatican was then asked to begin procedures to remove the priest from his ecclesiastical duties.

For decades the scale of the abuse by priests in many areas in the United States, mostly from the 1960s until the mid-1980s, remained hidden, and the victims voices went unheard.

The scandal finally broke when the Archbishop of Boston, Cardindal Bernard Law, confessed in early 2002 that he had protected a priest whom he knew had sexually abused young members of his church.

According to the group "Bishop Accountability" some 3,000 priests out of the 42,000 across the country have since been denounced. Some were legally investigated and sentenced, but no action was taken in other cases which dated back to the 1940s.

Since the beginning of the scandal, Catholic authorities in the United States have paid out close to 2.8 billion dollars in damages to victims.

Although the insurance companies have paid out part of the compensation, many dioceses have been forced sell off vast properties to cover their costs, while five have declared bankruptcy.

15 வயது பையனுடன் பாலுறவுக்கு ஒயினும் பணமும் கொடுத்த கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியார் கைது

15 வயது பையனுடன் பாலுறவுக்காக அவனுக்கு ஒயினும் பணமும் கொடுத்த கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியார் கைது.

Affidavit says Naugatuck priest gave 15-year-old boy wine, money for sex favors
BY PAUL SINGLEY REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN

WATERBURY — A Roman Catholic priest at two Naugatuck churches allegedly coerced a teenage boy into giving him oral sex several times in exchange for wine and money, according to an arrest warrant affidavit released at Waterbury Superior Court on Wednesday.

A 16-year-old boy alleged in the affidavit that the Rev. Robert J. Grant, 63, of St. Mary's and St. Hedwig's churches, paid him between $100 and $150 each time the boy performed oral sex on Grant. The affidavit also says that the boy, who was 15 when the incidents began between July and August 2006, gave Grant several back massages at St. Mary's Church in exchange for $50 each time.

Grant, who has been placed on administrative leave by the Archdiocese of Hartford, has been charged with second-degree sexual assault and risk of injury/impairing the morals of children. He is free after posting a $200,000 bond and has not entered a plea. His next court date is Sept. 12.

Grant did not want to comment Wednesday, and his attorney, William St. John of Waterbury, did not return a message Wednesday.

கொலராடோ தெருவில் நிர்வாணமாக ஓடிய கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியார்

அமெரிக்கா கொலராடோவில் தெருவில் நிர்வாணமாக ஜாக்கிங் செய்ததற்காக ஒரு கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியாரை போலீஸ் கைது செய்திருக்கிறது.

Priest faces charge after police say he went jogging naked
Associated Press - August 8, 2007 11:34 AM ET

FREDERICK, Colo. (AP) - A Catholic priest faces an indecent exposure charge after police said he went jogging in the nude about an hour before sunrise in Frederick.

The Reverend Robert Whipkey told officers he had been running naked at a high school track, and didn't think anyone would be around at that time of day.

Whipkey told officers he sweats profusely if he wears clothing while jogging. A police report indicates Whipkey told police that he knew what he did was wrong.

Whipkey did not return phone messages. Attorney Doug Tisdale told the Daily Times-Call in Longmont that Whipkey had no comment.

Police arrested the 53-year-old Whipkey on June 22nd.

The Archdiocese of Denver says it takes the incident seriously, but is awaiting the outcome of the case.

Whipkey remains an active priest.

Prosecutors say he would have to register as a sex offender if convicted of indecent exposure.

தன் மகனையே கொன்ற கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியார் கைது

ஒரு கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியார் தனக்கு மகன் இருப்பது சர்ச்சுக்கு தெரியக்கூடாது என்று கருதி மகனை கொன்றுவிட்டார். இதற்காக இந்த மெக்ஸிகோ கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியார் கைது செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளார்.

Priest jailed for murdering son


A Catholic priest in Mexico who killed his son so the Church would not know he had broken vows of celibacy has been jailed for 55 years in Mexico City.
Dagoberto Valle Arriaga had confessed in 2005 to killing his son, Oscar.

State prosecutors have not released the boy's age nor any details about his murder, but local media are reporting that he was 16 when he was killed.

Mr Valle, who was a priest in the city of Texcoco, on the outskirts of the capital, was arrested in 2006.

He was accused of kidnapping his son in September 2005 and bringing him to the central state of Guanajuato before murdering him.

The authorities released no details of how the boy was killed, but it appears that his father dumped his body in the outskirts of a city called Acambaro.

Officials said he was afraid the Church would find out about the boy's existence and remove him from the priesthood for breaking his vows of celibacy.

Celibacy is considered obligatory for Roman Catholic priests, although some Church officials have said it is not prescribed doctrine.

Roughly 150,000 men worldwide have left the priesthood to marry. The Church considers them outcasts.

இத்தாலியின் மிக முக்கியமான பிஷப் டான் பியரெனோ ஜெல்மினி சிறுவர்களை பாலுறவுக்கு பயன்படுத்தியதாக குற்றச்சாட்டு

இத்தாலியின் மிக முக்கியமான பிஷப் டான் பியரெனோ ஜெல்மினி சிறுவர்களை பாலுறவுக்கு பயன்படுத்தினார். பலாத்காரம் செய்தார் ஆகிய குற்றச்சாட்டுகளுக்காக விசாரிக்கப்படுகிறார் என்று பத்திரிக்கை செய்திகள் தெரிவிக்கின்றன.

போதை மருந்துக்கு அடிமையானவர்களுக்கு சேவை செய்வதற்காக கட்டப்பட்ட சேவை நிலையங்களில் இருப்பவர்களை இவ்வாறு பாலுறவு பலாத்காரம் செய்தார் என்றும் குற்றச்சாட்டுகள் கூறுகின்றன.

'Celebrity priest' in paedophilia probe
Published: 04 August 2007

A "celebrity" priest, founder of an organisation with more than 280 drug rehabilitation centres around the world, is under investigation in central Italy for alleged paedophilia.

Don Pierino Gelmini is one of the church's best-known faces on Italian television, a close friend of top politicians including former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, a rent-a-quote figure with right-wing views on drugs and family values.

In 2004, while still Prime Minister, Mr Berlusconi made the 80-year-old priest, founder of "Comunita Incontro", a public gift of 10 billion lira (£3.5m) for the organisation's work.

But yesterday La Stampa newspaper revealed that the priest has been under investigation, on suspicion of sexually molesting young people, for more than six months. "It seems that the accusations are numerous and coherent," the paper reported. "They revolve around a closed community in which a figure of enormous charisma seems not to have restricted himself to taking care of souls."

The priest's accusers are former residents of Comunita Incontro's centres with a history of drug use. But the magistrates have also interviewed many other possible witnesses, as well as Father Gelmini himself.

No details of the accusations have leaked to the media. Notoriously indiscreet when politicians are under investigation, in this case, perhaps thanks to the power of the church in Italian public life, the magistrates have kept the investigation under wraps.

A friend of the priest, Alessandro Meluzzi, said: "We are anguished, but are pleased to carry the cross that has been thrown on a man who has always served Christ, the church and the lowest of the low." The accusations, he added, came from "a small group of lads who were expelled from the community, who had all the typical problems of drug addicts, and of behaviour and personality as well."

As news of the investigation broke, right-wing politicians rushed to the priest's defence. Maria Burani Procaccini, spokesman on families and children for Forza Italia, Berlusconi's party, said: "In our hearts we say that Don Gelmini is a saint. And we ask the media not to murder the innocent."

5 வயது குழந்தையை வல்லுறவு செய்த பாதிரியார் !

பாரி ரையான் என்ற கத்தோலிக்க கிறிஸ்துவ பாதிரியார் ஐந்து வயது குழந்தையை வன்புணர்வு செய்ததை ஒப்புக்கொண்டார்.

Arrest warrant issued for priest who molested boy
BY TOM MCGINTY | tom.mcginty@newsday.com
August 3, 2007

A Suffolk County judge Thursday issued an arrest warrant for a former Catholic priest who recently moved to Missouri, after spending the past three years saying he was too ill to return from Maryland to Suffolk to go to jail on child molestation charges.

Barry Ryan, 58, of Palm City, Fla., confessed to abusing a 5-year-old boy while visiting a private home on Long Island in 2003.

Ryan pleaded guilty in October 2004 to sodomy, but because he was suffering from terminal liver cancer, the victim's family agreed on a sentence of only two years, possibly to be served outside of prison.

He was formally sentenced in December 2004, but Suffolk County Court Judge Ralph Gazzillo agreed to put off sending him to jail, believing he would soon die. Ryan told his victim's family at the time, "I welcome my own death. I'm sorry. I'm sorry."

But nearly three years later, Ryan is still alive and has spent much of his time at the St. Luke Institute, a church-run facility in Maryland. Gazzillo has kept delaying locking Ryan up as his attorney insisted that the former clergyman remains in poor health and that his death is imminent.

Prosecutors said the former priest on Wednesday night made what appeared to be yet another effort to avoid incarceration by making superficial cuts on his own neck, as if he were trying to kill himself.

That prompted Gazzillo yesterday to issue a warrant for Ryan's arrest -- a move that was praised by the victim's family.

Ryan's attorney, Joseph Ostrowsky of Brooklyn, said his client's condition is unstable, adding, "I do know Mr. Ryan is terrified of going to jail."

"Most people are," Gazzillo replied.

"This is such a relief," the boy's mother said outside the courtroom. "It's been a long, long time."

Ryan, who served in parishes in Brooklyn and Queens in the 1970s and 1980s, was suspended from priestly duties in 1995, following accusations that he engaged in inappropriate sexual activities while working as an Air Force chaplain in Mobile, Ala.

Staff writer Alfonso A. Castillo contributed to this story.

குழந்தையை பாலுறவு பலாத்காரம் செய்ததாக ஒரு கத்தோலிக்க கிறிஸ்துவ பாதிரியார் கைது

குழந்தையை பாலுறவு பலாத்காரம் செய்ததாக ஒரு கத்தோலிக்க கிறிஸ்துவ பாதிரியார் கைது செய்யபப்ட்டார்.

63 வயதான ரெவரண்ட் ராபர்ட் ஜே க்ராண்ட் பாதிரியார் கைது செய்யப்பட்டு 200000 டாலர் பெயிலில் விடுவிக்கபப்ட்டார்.


Naugatuck priest facing child sexual assault charge
4:08 PM EDT, August 2, 2007

NAUGATUCK, Conn. - A Roman Catholic priest was arrested Thursday on a sexual assault charge involving a child, then suspended by church officials.

The Rev. Robert J. Grant, 63, was taken into custody Thursday morning and later released on a $200,000 bond, said Police Chief Christopher Edson.

Edson said Grant was charged with second-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor. The chief said he could not elaborate because the alleged victim is a juvenile.

Grant is the pastor of St. Mary and St. Hedwig churches. A spokesman for the Archdiocese of Hartford, which oversees Naugatuck parishes, said Grant has been placed on administrative leave.

"We are deeply troubled by this morning's arrest of Father Grant," said the Rev. John Gatzak, spokesman for the archdiocese. "He will not be able to do ministry or function as a priest pending the outcome of the investigation."

The archdiocese has taken several steps in recent years to safeguard children, Gatzak said. He said every priest and employee who works with children undergoes thorough background checks as well as a mandatory program for recognizing the signs of sexual abuse.

Children at the archdiocese's schools are taught how to recognize when they are being lured, encouraged not to keep secrets, and told where to get help, Gatzak said.

"In light of all of this, it's almost inconceivable that something like this can happen today," Gatzak said.

Ordained 14 years ago, Grant has been pastor of St. Mary's since 2005 and was recently named pastor of St. Hedwig. Gatzak said a replacement for the churches had not immediately been appointed.

"Every effort is going to be made to see that the people of both parishes are served," Gatzak said.

ஆஸ்திரேலியா: படுக்கைக்கு அழைத்த கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியார்

கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியார் ஏழு வயதில் தன்னை பாலுறவு பலாத்காரம் செய்ததை ஒரு பெண்மணி கண்ணீருடன் நீதிமன்றத்தில் கூறி அழுதார்.

Priest ‘asked me into his bedroom’

24th July 2007, 6:15 WST

A 31-year-old woman broke down in tears yesterday as she told a District Court jury how a Catholic priest sexually abused her at his holiday home in Moore River more than 20 years ago.

With a public gallery of about 50 people including Perth Archbishop Barry Hickey watching, the woman said Father Richard Joseph Doyle invited her family to holiday at his two-bedroom “beach shack” when she was seven years old.

She said that while her parents were asleep early one morning in one bedroom, Father Doyle asked her to come into his bed in the home’s other bedroom to scratch his back and then put his hand inside her underpants and placed her hand on his penis.

The woman sobbed as she described how she quickly made up an excuse that she needed to get a tissue in order to leave the bed and that she could still remember specific details of the incident, including that the tissue she then went to get was yellow.

“It sounds pathetic but I had to get that frigging tissue,” she said. “That’s something that’s stuck in my head for 25 years. I just really do remember what colour that tissue was.”

Father Doyle has plead not guilty to two charges of indecently dealing with the woman, who cannot be named, in 1983 or 1984 when he was associated with the Willetton parish.

The woman said she did not tell anyone that Father Doyle had abused her until years after the incident and reported it to police only last year.

She said her family stayed at Father Doyle’s home several times but he had abused her only once.

Father Doyle told the court yesterday that there was an incident at his holiday home but claimed that he did not invite her into his bed and denied putting his hand inside her underpants or placing her hand on his penis.

Father Doyle said that when he woke early one morning, the girl was on top of him in his bed, giving him an affectionate kiss on the lips.

Father Doyle said that he was sexually aroused as he woke and that while he was still “half asleep” with the girl on top of him, he ejaculated. Father Doyle said he regretted that he let the girl lay with him in his bed for several minutes after the incident and that he did not tell her parents about the incident.

He admitted writing a letter to the girl’s father in 1993 suggesting the girl receive some financial compensation. The trial is due to conclude today.

RYAN PEDLER

போலந்து: கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியாரின் யூத வெறுப்பு பேச்சு பிரச்னையாகிறது

போலந்து கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியார் ரிட்ஜிக் யூதர்கள் மீதான வெறுப்பு பிரச்சாரத்தை தொடர்ந்து நடத்துகிறார் என்று அவர் மீது பல யூத அமைப்புகள் குற்றம் சாட்டியுள்ளன.

Stir over priest's 'anti-Semitic remarks'
The BBC's Adam Easton reports on the growing row over alleged anti-Semitic remarks made by the controversial head of a religious radio station in Poland.

Fr Rydzyk said tapes of his alleged comments have been doctored
Father Tadeusz Rydzyk, 62, allegedly called the Polish president, Lech Kaczynski, a "swindler" who had bowed to pressure from the Jewish lobby to compensate people for property lost during and after World War II.

The comments came to light last week after the weekly magazine, Wprost, published excerpts and subsequently a tape, from a private lecture it said the priest gave to students at his media centre in Torun, northern Poland.

In it, Fr Rydzyk, reportedly criticises Mr Kaczynski for his subservience to the Jewish lobby.

"You know that it's about giving $65bn," to the Jews, he allegedly said. "They will come to you and say 'give me your coat. Take off your pants. Give me your shoes'," the magazine reported.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center - an international Jewish human rights organisation - strongly rebuked the comments.

"This is outrageous, a [Nazi propaganda minister] Josef Goebbels in a collar," said Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Center.

Israel's ambassador to Poland, David Peleg, said Fr Rydzyk's comments were damaging Polish-Israeli relations.

"The tapes that have come to light are evidence that Rydzyk and his institutions are anti-Semitic and something must be done in the name of good Polish-Israeli relations," he said in an interview with Poland's Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper.

Influential

Fr Rydzyk, a priest from the Redemptorist order, has regularly courted controversy since he launched Radio Maryja in 1991.

With a blend of chat, music and religious services, the station styles itself as the "Catholic Voice in Your Home" and attracts many listeners in rural and poorer areas.

I... expected the Polish government and president would have reacted at once in a decisive way to Rydzyk's anti-Semitism

David Peleg
Israeli ambassador to Poland
But critics say it promotes xenophobic, ultra-Catholic, and at times, anti-Semitic views.

Fr Rydzyk has since gone on to create something of a media empire, including the Trwam television station, the newspaper Nasz Dziennik, and a journalism college in his headquarters in Torun.

Figures suggest Radio Maryja is steadily losing listeners with the station now attracting just over a million people or around two per cent of the daily audience.

But Fr Rydzyk's political influence has never been higher. In 2005, he urged his listeners to vote for the Law and Justice party, headed by Mr Kaczynski's twin brother, Jaroslaw.

The party won the elections and subsequently its members have become regular guests on both the radio and TV stations.

Last weekend, for the first time ever, a prime minister appeared at Radio Maryja's annual pilgrimage.

Addressing the crowd of around 150,000 people, Jaroslaw Kaczynski told them: "Here is Poland."

A day later, the magazine, Wprost, published its story.

Apart from the alleged anti-Semitic remarks, it also claimed Fr Rydzyk called President Kaczynski's wife a "witch" for her supposed support of limited abortion rights.

"You witch! I'll let you have it. If you want to kill people, do it to yourself first," he reportedly said.

Leaders reticent

Fr Rydzyk has suggested the tapes were doctored and called the story "fictitious".

The magazine says the authenticity of the tapes is beyond doubt.

Poland's Senate Speaker, Bogdan Borusewicz, has also been quoted as saying he believes the tapes to be genuine.

Despite the alleged slur, both Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski have refused to condemn the priest.

If the tape is verified as being Fr Rydzyk, then he should apologise, they said.

Many commentators here believe the twins may be reluctant to move against him.

The priest has the ability to carry perhaps more than a million votes to their side come new elections.

However, Mr Peleg is hopeful action will be taken.

"I also expected the Polish government and president would have reacted at once in a decisive way to Rydzyk's anti-Semitism. And although a few days have passed, I think this reaction will be forthcoming," he told Gazeta Wyborcza.

அமெரிக்கா, டென்வரில், கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியார் சிறுவர் வல்லுறவுக்கு தண்டனை

கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியார் டொனால்ட் ஷிஸ்லெருக்கு சிறுவர் வல்லுறவு, சிறுவரை துன்புறுத்தியது, தனது வீட்டுக்குள் சிறுவர்களை கூட்டிவந்து நிர்வாணமாக நடைபயில வைத்தார் என்பது உள்ளிட்ட 14 குற்றங்களுக்காக சிறை தண்டனை விதிக்கப்பட்டது.


Denver Jury Convicts Former Priest Of Sex Assault

(CBS4) DENVER A jury in Denver has convicted Donald Shissler of sexually assaulting children. Friday the jury convicted Shissler, 74, on a total of 14 counts involving sex assault on a child and one count of exploitation of a child.

This is Shissler's second trial on the charges. Prosecutors said Shissler set up his home as a virtual "Disneyland" to lure boys into his home then parade naked in front of them.

One boy said the abuse started when he was six years olds. Other accusers said they were in their teens when the abuse started.

Shissler will be sentenced Monday morning.

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டெலவேரில் கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியார், டயோஸீஸ் மீது சிறுவர் வல்லுறவு வழக்கு

டெல்வேரில் கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியார், டயோசீஸ் மீது சிறுவர் வல்லுறவு வழக்கு தொடங்கப்பட்டுள்ளது

Child sex abuse suit filed against diocese, ex-priest
By BETH MILLER, The News Journal

Updated Thursday, July 12, 2007 at 7:23 pm

The News Journal/FRED COMEGYS

Former Delaware Catholic priest Francis G. DeLuca.

File photo
WILMINGTON — A former Naval lieutenant who is a supervisory staff attorney for the U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta filed a lawsuit in federal court today against the Diocese of Wilmington, its bishop, St. Elizabeth’s Catholic Church, and former Delaware Catholic priest Francis G. DeLuca.

The lawsuit is the first under a new law signed Monday by Gov. Ruth Ann Minner that eliminates the civil statute of limitations in cases of child sexual abuse, and opens a two-year legal window during which victims whose cases had previously been barred by Delaware’s two-year limit can file suit.

In the lawsuit, Robert Quill claims DeLuca sexually abused him at least 300 times when he was between 13 and 19 years old.

“Due to the injuries caused by DeLuca, the federal Office of Personnel Management and the Social Security Administration have found Quill to be permanently totally disabled,” according to a release from Quill’s attorney, Thomas S. Neuberger. Quill “suffers from depression, PTSD, isolation, and the inability to form successful relationships with men or women or even his family.

Quill is seeking compensatory and punitive damages, “including $2.5 million in wage and pension loss, for his premature forced retirement from federal service as a distinguished supervisory staff attorney for the court.”

“My client is the first of many who our General Assembly unanimously decided are now able to seek legal relief for the unspeakable horror and ruined lives inflicted upon them by DeLuca and the Roman Catholic Church,” Neuberger said.

Delaware’s civil statute of limitations law for child sex abuse is the strongest in the nation, according to New York law professor Marci Hamilton, edging California by doubling that state's one-year window. About 1,000 previously barred cases were revived in California after its law went into effect in 2003.

DeLuca, 77, who was a priest in the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington for 35 years, was arrested in October and charged with sexually abusing a Syracuse, N.Y., teen over a period of five or six years.

Syracuse police say DeLuca confessed after they arrested him.

After DeLuca’s arrest, Wilmington Bishop Michael Saltarelli released the names of 20 priests against whom the diocese had substantiated allegations of child sexual abuse.

DeLuca's arrest was cited recently by Bishop Richard Malone of Portland, Maine, as his reason for releasing the names of four priests who had been removed from ministry for similar reasons. Their cases have been pending in Rome since before 2002, Malone said, and he wanted the names made public to prevent other offenses. In 2002, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops adopted a new policy of making substantive allegations against clergy public.

கொலை, கடத்தல், சித்ரவதைக்காக அர்ஜண்டைனா கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியார் கைது

அர்ஜண்டைனா ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க கிறிஸ்துவ பாதிரியார் கிறிஸ்டியன் வான் வெர்னிக் ஏழு கொலைகளிலும், 41 கடத்தல் சித்திரவதை வழக்குகளிலும் சம்பந்தப்பட்டுள்ளார்.

முந்தைய அரசாங்கத்தின் உதவியால் எந்த வித வழக்கும் அவர் மீது வராமல் தப்பித்திருக்கிறார்.

சித்ரவதைகளை மேற்பார்வையிட்டு இயேசுவுக்காக இவற்றை செய்ததாக கூறியிருக்கிறார்.

இப்போதைய அரசு முன்னாள் அரசின் மன்னிப்பை நீக்கிவிட்டு இவர் மீது வழக்கு தொடர்ந்திருக்கிறது.

Argentine priest in murder trial
By Daniel Schweimler
BBC News, Buenos Aires

An estimated 30,000 people were killed or "disappeared" during the regime
The trial is due to begin in Argentina of one of the most notorious figures of the military government in power between 1976 and 1983.
Roman Catholic priest Christian Von Wernich is accused of involvement in seven murders and 41 cases of kidnapping and torture.

He escaped prosecution under amnesty laws which were later declared unconstitutional.

Security is tight. More than 100 witnesses have special protection.

It is a trial is one the people of Argentina have been waiting a long time for.

False name

Father Von Wernich was chaplain to the Buenos Aires provincial police force, and he is accused of using his office to win the trust of prisoners before passing information to the police torturers and killers who were holding them.

He is also reported to have attended a number of torture sessions himself and reassured the police that they were doing God's work.

He escaped prosecution after the democratic governments that followed the military passed amnesty laws.

Father Von Wernich worked under a false name in Chile, but investigators tracked him down and he was arrested four years ago.

Those amnesty laws have since been declared unconstitutional and some of those responsible for the killing of an estimated 30,000 people under military rule between 1976 and 1983 are finally being brought to trial in Argentina.

But witnesses have been threatened and one, Julio Lopez, disappeared after giving evidence at a trial last year and has not been seen since.

The trial is expected to last two months.

ஐந்து சிறுவர்களை வல்லுறவு செய்ததற்கு கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியாருக்கு 5 வருடம் சிறை

ஐந்து சிறுவர்களை பலவருடங்கள் பாலுறவு பலாத்காரம் செய்ததற்கு சிக்காகோ கிறிஸ்துவ கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியார் ரெவரண்ட் டேனியல் மக்கார்மிக்குக்கு 5 வருடம் சிறைத்தண்டனை வழங்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.

இந்த சிறுவர்களின் பெற்றோர்கள், இந்த தண்டனை போதுமானதா? என்று கொதிக்கிறார்கள்.

Is 5 years enough for priest who abused boys?
REV. DANIEL MCCORMACK | Parents believe cleric, who may serve 2½ years, received special treatment, while archdiocese says perception of his crimes is worse than the reality

July 3, 2007
BY ERIC HERMAN AND SUSAN HOGAN/ALBACH Staff Reporters/eherman@suntimes.com shogan@suntimes.com

As a priest, the Rev. Daniel McCormack heard people confess their sins. On Monday, he stood before a Cook County judge and admitted his own -- while the Archdiocese of Chicago said those sins could have been much worse.

McCormack, 38, pleaded guilty to five counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse for molesting boys at St. Agatha Parish and Our Lady of the Westside School, drawing a five-year sentence from Judge Thomas Sumner. He immediately was taken into custody.

While making no apologies for McCormack, archdiocese spokeswoman Colleen Dolan said the perception of McCormack's crimes was worse than the reality. The priest admitted he pulled down the pants and fondled the genitals of five boys, but prosecutors never accused him of sexual assault, or rape.


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The Rev. Daniel McCormack stands in a security line Monday at the 26th and California courthouse. He pleaded guilty to molesting five boys.
(Brian Jackson/Sun-Times)

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• Is 5 years enough for abusive priest?"He has not been accused of rape. Never," Dolan said. "There's a big difference between abuse and assault. It wasn't assault, which is a more egregious crime."
A national victims' advocate, however, said the difference doesn't matter when it comes to the boys McCormack abused.

"There's no distinction for the victims," said the Rev. Thomas Doyle, author of Sex, Priests and Secret Codes. "If it's a sexual intrusion on a victim by a priest, it's devastating."

Wearing a short-sleeved shirt and white pants, McCormack declined to speak when the judge gave him the chance. He stood silently as prosecutors described how, between 2001 and 2006, he abused the five boys.

The victims ranged from 8 to 12 years old. With one victim, the abuse occurred "on nearly a daily basis" between September 2005 and January 2006, said Assistant State's Attorney Kathleen Muldoon.

McCormack's father hung his head as the allegations were read. A victim's mother sobbed.

Victims' advocates slammed the plea deal, noting McCormack could serve as little as 2½ years behind bars. "I would have liked to see a much longer sentence. Look at the boys -- their sentence is life," said Marc Pearlman, a lawyer for the families of two victims.

But Pearlman conceded it saved the boys from having to testify. "Putting young children through a trial, a criminal trial, is just grueling," he said.

Several parents with kids at Our Lady of the Westside said McCormack received special treatment.

"He molested all these children but has never been treated like a criminal," said Victoria Scarelli, who has a daughter at the school. "A guy right off the street would have been given the maximum sentence."

Assistant State's Attorney Shauna Boliker said that with time off for good behavior, McCormack would have served only eight months more if given the maximum sentence of seven years. Saving the victims from testifying made the deal a "no-brainer," she said.

McCormack taught and coached basketball at the West Side school. The January 2006 charges against him unleashed furious criticism of the archdiocese and Cardinal Francis George.

George will seek to have McCormack removed from the priesthood, the archdiocese said. The decision, which must come from the Vatican, could move faster since McCormack has admitted guilt. The cardinal, who was on vacation, said in a statement: "The sexual abuse of children is a sin and a crime. . . . Such misconduct by a priest or anyone else associated with the archdiocese cannot be tolerated."

Some sources claim McCormack has many more victims, and the archdiocese has documented abuse allegations against him that date back to his seminary days. But prosecutors believed they could only prove cases involving five victims.

McCormack was to be held in protective custody in the Cook County Jail Monday night and shipped to a downstate facility as soon as today, said a spokesman for the Cook County sheriff.

சிறுவர் வல்லுறவு வெளியே தெரியவந்ததால் கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியார் தற்கொலை

ரெவரெண்ட் வில்லியம் ரோஸென்ஸ்டீல் என்ற 64 வயதான கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியார் 30 வருடங்களாக சிறுவர்களை வல்லுறவுக்கு பயன்படுத்தி வந்திருக்கிறார் என்ற குற்றச்சாட்டுகளை போலீஸிடம் கொடுக்கப்போகிறோம் என்று பிலடெல்பியா பிஷப் அறிவித்து இரண்டு நாட்களில் பாலத்திலிருந்து குதித்து தற்கொலை செய்துகொண்டார்

Accused Pa. priest commits suicide
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. -- A priest committed suicide two days after his bishop said claims of sex abuse by the priest dating back more than 30 years would be turned over to police.

The Rev. William A. Rosensteel, 64, jumped from a bridge Sunday afternoon, authorities said.

Bishop Joseph Adamec of the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown announced Friday that following a diocese review, sex abuse allegations against Rosensteel dating to 1971 would be referred to police. Adamec's statement was published Monday in The Catholic Register, the official newspaper of the eight-county diocese.

Rosensteel worked in several parishes throughout the diocese, but he resigned from his most recent post after being placed on administrative leave in March.

"It is difficult to comprehend a priest taking the action that he did," Adamec said Monday. "While Father Rosensteel was facing allegations from the past, those allegations were being processed through appropriate channels."