Despite issuing guidelines banning “offensive”
content, Amazon continued to market this abhorrent book online and through
their Kindle sales in the last week.
Fortunately, the extreme outrage that followed this discovery eventually caused
Amazon to remove the book from its catalog yesterday.
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Pope Benedict has called the Cardinals across the world to the Vatican for “a day of reflection and prayer” next week. This promises to be more of the same—all talk, no action. What the Pope should be doing is calling law enforcement from across the globe to the Vatican to investigate and prosecute those who have committed and been complicit in the sexual abuse of children.
21st lawsuit filed against Christian Brother pertaining to Brother Rose
A former high school student from Racine, Wisconsin, filed a lawsuit
against his former teacher for producing and possessing pornographic
images of the student but also included anyone who downloaded the porn
as defendants.
This lawsuit is part of a trend where victims of child pornography
are suing their perpetrators under a federal statute that provides for
damages of at least $150,000 for each image produced or possessed. That means any
person who downloaded the internet porn containing images of the
student is subject to this lawsuit. This is the third such lawsuit that
has been filed in the upper Midwest, with the other two being f
A former high school student from Racine, Wisconsin, filed a lawsuit against his former teacher for producing and possessing pornographic images of the student but also included anyone who downloaded the porn as defendants. This lawsuit is part of a trend where victims of child pornography are suing their perpetrators under a federal statute that provides for damages of at least $150,000 for each image produced or possessed. That means any person who downloaded the internet porn containing images of the student is subject to this lawsuit. This is the third such lawsuit that has been…
Complaint – Racine math teacher sued for child pornography
Joseph T. Clazmer, a math teacher at a Racine ,Wisconsin high school, is facing a lawsuit for depicting a minor child in sexually explicit productions for the purpose of distribution on the internet.
In the audience will be 200 men who are survivors of sexual
abuse. One of the themes of the show is
that sexual abuse of boys is a much larger problem than most realize. According to the National Center for Victims
of Crime, it is estimated that one in six boys will experience an episode of
sexual abuse before his eighteenth birthday.
Most are abused by either a family member or someone outside of the
family whom they know and trust.
An recent op-ed authored by Martha Escutia discussed the case of Fr. Alejandro Castillo, a priest at Our Lady of Guadalupe in Ontario, California accused of abusing a minor parishioner. The case of Fr. Castillo now reads as an eerily familiar pattern of failure in properly handling credibly accused priests among clergy and an avoidance of the justice system. News released yesterday announced that Castillo, charged with molesting a 12-year-old minor parishioner, won a reduced bail, from $1million down to $300,000. Prosecutors argued in vain to the judge that Castillo is a flight risk, as he has family in Mexico, and still poses a danger to children.
“Last Friday, a judge in San Diego ordered the Diocese of San Diego to release over 10,000 documents detailing the Diocese’s failings in its handling of child sexual abuse by its clergy. The documents come from personnel files of individual offending priests credibly accused who were known child abusers yet were moved from parish to parish, diocese to diocese, and often never removed from ministry. We commend the court for ordering these documents released, but we do so with regret that this order did not come sooner. Over the years that the church was allowe…
Milwaukee Archbishop Wants to Settle Lawsuits By Jay Olstad MILWAUKEE – Facing tough economic choices, the Archbishop of Milwaukee, Jerome Listecki wants to settle a dozen sex abuse lawsuits that may push the Diocese into bankruptcy. “In our minds, the best way to do it is go to mediation and bring both sides together in hopes of coming to a successful resolution,” said Listecki. The Archdiocese of Milwaukee will enter into mediation with several sexual abuse victims Monday in Chicago. The victims accuse the Diocese of moving pedophile priests from church to church without telling…
US judge asks Vatican to serve court paper to pope By DINESH RAMDE (AP) – 1 hour ago MILWAUKEE — A federal U.S. judge is asking the Vatican to cooperate in serving the pope and two other top officials with court papers that stem from decades-old allegations of sexual abuse by a priest in Wisconsin. The request is an incremental step in a lawsuit that accuses the officials of conspiring to keep the allegations against the Milwaukee priest quiet. The Vatican is not obliged to comply with the request. When faced with similar requests the Vatican has made service difficult, time-consum…
In the Terry Kohut case, involving the St. John’s School for the Deaf, a Federal Court in Wisconsin issued letters rogatory which request the Vatican’s assistance in serving Terry Kohut’s lawsuit on Cardinals Ratzinger (the current Pope), Sodano, and Bertone.
A deaf man is one step closer to forcing Pope Benedict and two of his top aides to answer for..