ஸ்விட்ஜர்லாந்து கத்தோலிக்க சர்ச் சிறுவர்களை பாலுறவு பலாத்காரம் செய்யும் பாதிரிகளை பொலீஸிடம் சொல்லாமல் மறைத்ததை ஒப்புக்கொண்டுள்ளது
Church admits "complicity" in sex abuse case
Image caption: Covering up a nasty smell? The Swiss Catholic Church has admitted not reporting paedophile priests to the authorities (Keystone)Related stories
04.09.2007
The case of a Swiss priest who was moved to France by superiors who knew he had already sexually abused at least one child is rocking the Swiss Catholic Church.
On Monday the Swiss Bishops Conference announced it would review its directives for handling suspected cases of paedophile crimes by priests.
It comes after a high-ranking church official described as "complicit" the Church's failure to denounce the priest to civil authorities when it became aware as early as 1989 that he was a paedophile.
In an interview with Le Matin newspaper on Sunday, Nicolas Betticher of the diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg, explained how the Church moved the priest from Switzerland to Grenoble in France, where he admits sexually touching at least one child, his then 12-year-old nephew, in 1992.
French authorities are now investigating the 67-year-old Capuchin priest, who has lived in the Montcroix monastery in Delémont, northern Switzerland, for two years. He has not yet been arrested.
The Swiss authorities in canton Jura are also looking into whether they can still prosecute the priest for other crimes he is suspected of committing in Switzerland.
He is not the only paedophile priest identified in French-speaking Switzerland. Betticher said there were three other cases "to our knowledge".
In December the diocese made three of them public, including the current case, and paid compensation to the victims. It is believed the victim in the fourth case never made a formal claim for compensation.
The latest case is just one of a long series of accusations of child sexual abuse made against Roman Catholic priests and related Church cover-ups made around the world (see box).
"Swept under the carpet"
"We have to reassess the situation," Walter Müller, spokesman for the Swiss Bishops Conference, told swissinfo on Monday.
"The current guidelines involve a thorough selection process for those who want to be counsellors, keeping suspicious people away from pastoral care and better monitoring throughout the apprenticeship. This was not the case previously."
He added: "At the time we thought [paedophilia] was a question of education, of conscience. That was probably somewhat naive. We now know that paedophilia is hard to treat with therapy and the level of recidivism is high."
Müller admitted the Church simply had swept the assaults "under the carpet".
"We accepted a promise from those involved [not to repeat the offence] and just moved them elsewhere – as in the current case."
He said the Swiss Bishops Conference intended to re-examine its guidelines and adapt them if necessary.
Zero tolerance
Colette Marti, responsible for the "No sexual violence against children" campaign at the Swiss association for the protection of children, welcomed the Church's comments.
"This admission of guilt is definitely a positive gesture. It is a signal to the public – an institution such as the Church is saying, 'We do not accept such behaviour'," she told swissinfo.
"Having zero tolerance of sexual abuse against children and of cover-ups – that is one of the most important preventive measures."
She acknowledged that work in this area was just beginning. "It is important that everyone who works in the Church is made aware of the problem."
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Friday, December 14, 2007
டாஸ்மானியா: சிறுவரை பாலுறவு பலாத்காரம் செய்த கிறிஸ்த்துவ பாதிரியாருக்கு சிறை தண்டனை
டாஸ்மானியா: சிறுவரை பாலுறவு பலாத்காரம் செய்த கிறிஸ்த்துவ பாதிரியாருக்கு சிறை தண்டனை வழங்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.
Tasmanian paedophile priest jailed
Posted Thu Dec 13, 2007 1:20pm AEDT
Map: Burnie 7320
70 year old former priest convicted of maintaining a sexual relationship with a person under the age of 17 has been jailed in the Launceston Criminal Court.
Gregory Laurence Ferguson was sentenced today to three years imprisonment with an 18 month non-parole period.
Ferguson sexually abused a 12 year old boarder at Burnie's Marist College in 1970, when he was a teacher and priest there.
Ferguson was convicted on two other sexual abuse charges earlier this year, and was jailed for two years.
He now has a total of five years imprisonment, with a minimum non-parole period of of two and half years.
Sentencing Ferguson today, Justice Ewan Crawford said the victim had been psychologically distressed by the crime, and was still disturbed by the events at Marist College.
Justice Crawford remarked that although Ferguson suffered from poor health and no other offences had been recorded against him since 1971, a significant period of imprisonment was necessary.
He did not add Ferguson to the sexual offenders list, saying he was unlikely to re-offend.
Tags: teachers, courts-and-trials, sexual-offences, tas, burnie-7320
Tasmanian paedophile priest jailed
Posted Thu Dec 13, 2007 1:20pm AEDT
Map: Burnie 7320
70 year old former priest convicted of maintaining a sexual relationship with a person under the age of 17 has been jailed in the Launceston Criminal Court.
Gregory Laurence Ferguson was sentenced today to three years imprisonment with an 18 month non-parole period.
Ferguson sexually abused a 12 year old boarder at Burnie's Marist College in 1970, when he was a teacher and priest there.
Ferguson was convicted on two other sexual abuse charges earlier this year, and was jailed for two years.
He now has a total of five years imprisonment, with a minimum non-parole period of of two and half years.
Sentencing Ferguson today, Justice Ewan Crawford said the victim had been psychologically distressed by the crime, and was still disturbed by the events at Marist College.
Justice Crawford remarked that although Ferguson suffered from poor health and no other offences had been recorded against him since 1971, a significant period of imprisonment was necessary.
He did not add Ferguson to the sexual offenders list, saying he was unlikely to re-offend.
Tags: teachers, courts-and-trials, sexual-offences, tas, burnie-7320
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
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
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
Thursday, November 15, 2007
கத்தோலிக்க கிறிஸ்துவ பாதிரியார்களால் பாலுறவு பலாத்காரம் செய்யப்பட்ட மூன்று சகோதரர்கள்
கத்தோலிக்க சர்ச்சுக்கு வேலை செய்துவந்த ஒரு பெண்மணியின் குழந்தைகளான மூன்று சகோதரர்களை அந்த சர்ச்சின் பாதிரியார் தொடர்ந்து பாலுறவு பலாத்காரம் செய்துவந்திருப்பதை அந்த சகோதரர்கள் கோர்ட்டில் தெரிவித்தார்கள்.
இவர்கள் தங்கள் குற்றச்சாட்டுகளை கூற வரும்போதெல்லாம் இந்த சிறுவர்களை அச்சுருத்தி இவர்களது வாயை மூடவைத்தது கத்தோலிக்க சர்ச் அமைப்பு என்றும் இவர்கள் கூறியுள்ளார்கள்
Three Brothers Claim Priest Abused Them
Three Separate Lawsuits Allege Molestation Of Boys At Rectory In 1970s, Threats To Keep Them Silent
By ELIZABETH HAMILTON | Courant Staff Writer
November 14, 2007
Three brothers whose mother worked for a Catholic church in the late 1970s were all molested by a priest who threatened her job if they reported the abuse, a series of lawsuits against the Hartford Archdiocese contends.
Richard, Paul and Niles Mallory allege in separate lawsuits that Ivan Ferguson, who died in 2002 at age 68, got to know them individually when they accompanied their mother to St. Bernard's Roman Catholic Church in the Tariffville section of Simsbury in 1977 and 1978.
Ferguson, the priest in charge of youth activities and altar boys at St. Bernard's, expressed an interest in their hobbies, then took the boys up to his second-floor bedroom in the rectory at different times and molested them, the lawsuits say. In order to keep the abuse a secret, the lawsuits allege, Ferguson told each of the brothers he would have their mother fired from her job as director of religious education if they told anyone.
He also is alleged to have told Richard Mallory he would go to hell if he reported the abuse and saying, "The devil is waiting for you, sooner than you'd expect, if any word gets out."
Their lawyer, Thomas McNamara, said the abuse ranged from improper touching to sodomy. All three lawsuits were filed in New Haven Superior Court.
"The family was very poor and Ferguson knew it," McNamara said.
The prospect of their mother losing her job worried the Mallory boys, McNamara said. One of the boys, who had asthma, worried that if he told on Ferguson his family would lose health insurance and he wouldn't be able to get his asthma medicine.
Jacquelyn Mallory, who did not learn of the alleged abuse until her sons were adults, issued a statement Tuesday.
"Short of losing a child, I can't think of anything more devastating than learning that your child has been harmed for life," the statement says. "What happened to our family has profoundly changed our lives, our faith and our relationships. It was difficult to learn about the abuse and manipulation by Ivan Ferguson and it is most painful to deal with it at this time."
The brothers, who lived in New Milford at the time of the alleged abuse, now live in Florida. The most recent lawsuits were brought by Richard and Paul Mallory, who were 15 and 12 respectively, when they met Ferguson. Their older brother, Niles, who was 16, sued the church in September.
McNamara said that Ferguson "had a way of making you think he was interested in you."
In the case of Paul Mallory, who was 12 in the summer of 1978, the priest expressed an interest in baseball, which was Paul's favorite sport. Richard Mallory's hobby was astronomy, McNamara said, so Ferguson took him upstairs to his bedroom to use his telescope.
The lawsuit says the archdiocese failed to adequately supervise, monitor and investigate Ferguson. McNamara said a priest living in the rectory with Ferguson knew he was taking boys up to his bedroom and should have reported it. Another priest who was told about Ferguson's behavior with young boys by a different victim during the same time period also failed to report the abuse, McNamara said.
All three Mallory brothers have suffered serious emotional damage, as well as spiritual damage, as a result of the abuse, the lawsuits say.
Ferguson has been a subject of previous litigation against the church. The first lawsuits concerning Ferguson were brought against the Hartford Archdiocese in 1993. Three men who were students at Northwest Catholic High School in West Hartford claimed Ferguson sexually abused them between 1975 and 1978, when he was a chaplain and teacher at the school.
Two of those lawsuits were settled as part of a $22 million settlement by the Hartford Archdiocese in 2005, and one was withdrawn.
Ferguson, who was ordained in 1970, specialized in youth ministry at parishes in Derby, Bristol and Tariffville, until he joined the chaplaincy staff at Hartford Hospital in 1985. He worked in that job until 1993, when the archdiocese placed him on administrative leave and he moved to St. Thomas Seminary in Bloomfield.
The Rev. John Gatzak, a spokesman for the Hartford Archdiocese, said the church does not comment on active litigation.
But, he added, this lawsuit is "a reminder that we have to redouble our efforts so we don't repeat history."
Contact Elizabeth Hamilton at ehamilton@courant.com.
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இவர்கள் தங்கள் குற்றச்சாட்டுகளை கூற வரும்போதெல்லாம் இந்த சிறுவர்களை அச்சுருத்தி இவர்களது வாயை மூடவைத்தது கத்தோலிக்க சர்ச் அமைப்பு என்றும் இவர்கள் கூறியுள்ளார்கள்
Three Brothers Claim Priest Abused Them
Three Separate Lawsuits Allege Molestation Of Boys At Rectory In 1970s, Threats To Keep Them Silent
By ELIZABETH HAMILTON | Courant Staff Writer
November 14, 2007
Three brothers whose mother worked for a Catholic church in the late 1970s were all molested by a priest who threatened her job if they reported the abuse, a series of lawsuits against the Hartford Archdiocese contends.
Richard, Paul and Niles Mallory allege in separate lawsuits that Ivan Ferguson, who died in 2002 at age 68, got to know them individually when they accompanied their mother to St. Bernard's Roman Catholic Church in the Tariffville section of Simsbury in 1977 and 1978.
Ferguson, the priest in charge of youth activities and altar boys at St. Bernard's, expressed an interest in their hobbies, then took the boys up to his second-floor bedroom in the rectory at different times and molested them, the lawsuits say. In order to keep the abuse a secret, the lawsuits allege, Ferguson told each of the brothers he would have their mother fired from her job as director of religious education if they told anyone.
He also is alleged to have told Richard Mallory he would go to hell if he reported the abuse and saying, "The devil is waiting for you, sooner than you'd expect, if any word gets out."
Their lawyer, Thomas McNamara, said the abuse ranged from improper touching to sodomy. All three lawsuits were filed in New Haven Superior Court.
"The family was very poor and Ferguson knew it," McNamara said.
The prospect of their mother losing her job worried the Mallory boys, McNamara said. One of the boys, who had asthma, worried that if he told on Ferguson his family would lose health insurance and he wouldn't be able to get his asthma medicine.
Jacquelyn Mallory, who did not learn of the alleged abuse until her sons were adults, issued a statement Tuesday.
"Short of losing a child, I can't think of anything more devastating than learning that your child has been harmed for life," the statement says. "What happened to our family has profoundly changed our lives, our faith and our relationships. It was difficult to learn about the abuse and manipulation by Ivan Ferguson and it is most painful to deal with it at this time."
The brothers, who lived in New Milford at the time of the alleged abuse, now live in Florida. The most recent lawsuits were brought by Richard and Paul Mallory, who were 15 and 12 respectively, when they met Ferguson. Their older brother, Niles, who was 16, sued the church in September.
McNamara said that Ferguson "had a way of making you think he was interested in you."
In the case of Paul Mallory, who was 12 in the summer of 1978, the priest expressed an interest in baseball, which was Paul's favorite sport. Richard Mallory's hobby was astronomy, McNamara said, so Ferguson took him upstairs to his bedroom to use his telescope.
The lawsuit says the archdiocese failed to adequately supervise, monitor and investigate Ferguson. McNamara said a priest living in the rectory with Ferguson knew he was taking boys up to his bedroom and should have reported it. Another priest who was told about Ferguson's behavior with young boys by a different victim during the same time period also failed to report the abuse, McNamara said.
All three Mallory brothers have suffered serious emotional damage, as well as spiritual damage, as a result of the abuse, the lawsuits say.
Ferguson has been a subject of previous litigation against the church. The first lawsuits concerning Ferguson were brought against the Hartford Archdiocese in 1993. Three men who were students at Northwest Catholic High School in West Hartford claimed Ferguson sexually abused them between 1975 and 1978, when he was a chaplain and teacher at the school.
Two of those lawsuits were settled as part of a $22 million settlement by the Hartford Archdiocese in 2005, and one was withdrawn.
Ferguson, who was ordained in 1970, specialized in youth ministry at parishes in Derby, Bristol and Tariffville, until he joined the chaplaincy staff at Hartford Hospital in 1985. He worked in that job until 1993, when the archdiocese placed him on administrative leave and he moved to St. Thomas Seminary in Bloomfield.
The Rev. John Gatzak, a spokesman for the Hartford Archdiocese, said the church does not comment on active litigation.
But, he added, this lawsuit is "a reminder that we have to redouble our efforts so we don't repeat history."
Contact Elizabeth Hamilton at ehamilton@courant.com.
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