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Vatican asks for more time to produce abuse documents in John V. Doe v. Holy See (St. Paul, MN) Saying…
A former Irish priest accused of molesting four men in Humboldt County in the
1980s has been extradited to Ireland, where he faces criminal charges for sexual
misconduct, authorities said.Patrick
Joseph McCabe, 75, was turned over to Irish national police officers Sunday
night at San Francisco International Airport, the U.S. Marshals Service said
Monday.
McCabe,
who was arrested in August, had been jailed since then in Alameda County pending
extradition to his homeland.
Following McCabe’s apprehension, Greg Horne,
38, of Arcata and three unidentified men filed civil lawsuit…
At
a news conference Tuesday in St. Paul, attorneys for a New York man will
announce a new Lawsuit against St. John’s Abbey and the Order of St. Benedict
based in Collegeville, Minnesota. Also
appearing at the news conference will be a two former Benedictine monks associated
with St. John’s Abbey.
“Listening sessions.”
That is what Bishop Robert Finn and the Diocese of Kansas City – St.
Joseph offered in response to a lawsuit
revealing violation of federal child pornography laws for receiving and
distributing child pornography that was created by one of the Diocese
priests.
The parents of a minor girl filed a lawsuit today alleging that a priest in the Kansas City-St. Joseph diocese accused of possessing child pornography took nude photographs of their daughter. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court of the Western District of Missouri in Kansas City, claims that the Rev. Shawn F. Ratigan took photographs and visual images of a child under her clothing, revealing her underwear, and while the child was nude.
At
a news conference Thursday in Kansas City, prominent clergy abuse attorneys
will announce a lawsuit against the Diocese of Kansas City-St Joseph, Bishop
Robert Finn and Father Shawn Ratigan on behalf of a child who is a victim of
child pornography by Fr. Ratigan. The
lawsuit alleges that the Diocese and Bishop Robert Finn violated federal and
state child pornography and child abuse laws when they concealed evidence that
Fr. Ratigan was creating child pornography by photographing and being sexually
inappropriate with young parish girls.
State statutes of limitations provide a substantial barrier for priest sex abuse survivors seeking justice and truth after what is often decades of silence and suffering. Even more important than monetary gains, civil lawsuits give survivors an opportunity for closure and healing.State Senator Thomas Duane introduced window legislation in New York and outlined his plan in an editorial published yesterday. His proposal provides a one year window for otherwise time-barred survivors to file a lawsuit.
A 21 year-old Blaine man who says he was sexually abused at the age of 15 by
his youth group leader at a Spring Lake Park church is suing its religious
leaders.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Hennepin County District Court on the man’s
behalf by attorneys with Jeff Anderson & Associates, names defendants
Emmanuel Christian Center of the Assemblies of God in Spring Lake Park, its
former youth group leader, Paul Alan Brandon, and the Minnesota District Council
of the Assemblies of God.
The lawsuit claims the plaintiff, referred to in the complaint as John Doe
169, was sexuall…
Sexual abuse victim files lawsuit against Spring Lake Park Church Attorney: “In all aspects of this case church officials failed…
In 2008, a southern Illinois jury heard substantial evidence of a heinous, years-long diocesan cover-up of heart-breaking child sex crimes by Father Raymond Kownacki. Jurors awarded $5 million to one of the priest’s victims. Three years later, Belleville Diocese’s Bishop Braxton keeps battling relentlessly to avoid honoring the jury’s judgment and helping the priest’s victims heal.
As I pointed out in my blog, the John Jay study released earlier this week is nothing more than another misleading effort by U.S. Bishops and the Vatican to promote its self-image. The report, which is at most a review as opposed to a study, is a shameless attempt to quiet the tireless survivors and advocates who continue to demand a change in practices that imperil children.
Artist Tony Auth’s depiction that was published in this morning’s Philadelphia Inquirer captures the true meaning behind the John Jay report.
A defrocked priest accused of possessing thousands of pornographic images of children was served with a book of evidence today and sent forward for trial before a judge and jury.Oliver O’Grady (aged 65), formerly of Charlemont Street, in Dublin 2, but who is now residing at an address in Ranelagh Village, in Dublin, had been arrested on December 10 last and charged with possessing child pornography.
The Vatican’s long overdue guidelines for fighting sexual abuse of children
are, unfortunately, just that — flimsy guidelines for a global problem that
requires an unequivocal mandate for church officials to work with secular
authorities in prosecuting rogue priests.
Instead, the Vatican has
issued nonbinding guidance that punts the scandal back to the authority of
local bishops, who still will not face firm oversight or punishment for
cover-ups that recycled hundreds of abusive priests.