Guardian: State attorney general to release 884-page report detailing decades of sexual abuse and cover-ups by the church

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I've said this before and will say it again...

 

It's like our society doesn't want to accept the goring out that would occur with attacking child rape, trafficking, and porn with the resources it truly deserves.

 

We keep coming close then backing off, pretending it isn't everywhere.

 

https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/pentagon-declined-investigate-hundreds-purchases-child-pornography.html

 

It still needs to be done and stopping beating around the bush on the appropriateness for obstruction of Justice and or capital punishment in many of these cases.

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San Francisco’s Catholic Archdiocese Says It’s Going Bankrupt Due to Child Sexual Abuse Lawsuits

 

As Illinois reckons with new findings that, in May, identified nearly 2,000 child sexual abuse claims against Catholic clergy in the state, the San Francisco Archdiocese announced on Friday that it’s “very likely” to file for bankruptcy, and is attributing its financial ruin to a recent onslaught of child sexual abuse lawsuits against its priests and other employees spanning decades.

 

The Los Angeles Times reports that the San Francisco-based Catholic church faced more than 500 civil lawsuits alleging sexual abuse filed between 2020 and 2022. These lawsuits came as California temporarily lifted the statute of limitations on abuse allegations against churches and other institutions.

 

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone wrote in an open letter on Friday that by filing for bankruptcy, the archdiocese will be able “to deal with the hundreds of cases collectively rather than one at a time” and “reorganize its financial affairs to continue its vital ministries to the faithful and to the communities that rely on our services and charity.” Cordileone also went so far as to call child sexual abuse within the church “very rare,” claiming “the vast majority of the alleged abuse occurred in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s and involved priests who are deceased or no longer in ministry.”

 

A survivors’ rights group called SNAP has already condemned this approach and much of Cordileone’s statements, claiming the San Francisco Archdiocese is misrepresenting its finances to undercut victims and conceal the full extent of the allegations it faces from coming to light. SNAP went so far as to frame the church’s impending bankruptcy filing as a “ruse” to “pretend that they are out of money.”

 

“Everything about the bankruptcies of Catholic dioceses strikes us as wrong,” the group said in a statement. “It is all about protecting secrets first, and second, to reduce just compensation to the victims they have created.” The statement further notes that “San Francisco is one of a handful of dioceses that has not published a list of abusers.”

 

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San Francisco’s Catholic Archdiocese Says It’s Going Bankrupt Due to Child Sexual Abuse Lawsuits

 

As Illinois reckons with new findings that, in May, identified nearly 2,000 child sexual abuse claims against Catholic clergy in the state, the San Francisco Archdiocese announced on Friday that it’s “very likely” to file for bankruptcy, and is attributing its financial ruin to a recent onslaught of child sexual abuse lawsuits against its priests and other employees spanning decades.

 

The Los Angeles Times reports that the San Francisco-based Catholic church faced more than 500 civil lawsuits alleging sexual abuse filed between 2020 and 2022. These lawsuits came as California temporarily lifted the statute of limitations on abuse allegations against churches and other institutions.

 

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone wrote in an open letter on Friday that by filing for bankruptcy, the archdiocese will be able “to deal with the hundreds of cases collectively rather than one at a time” and “reorganize its financial affairs to continue its vital ministries to the faithful and to the communities that rely on our services and charity.” Cordileone also went so far as to call child sexual abuse within the church “very rare,” claiming “the vast majority of the alleged abuse occurred in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s and involved priests who are deceased or no longer in ministry.”

 

A survivors’ rights group called SNAP has already condemned this approach and much of Cordileone’s statements, claiming the San Francisco Archdiocese is misrepresenting its finances to undercut victims and conceal the full extent of the allegations it faces from coming to light. SNAP went so far as to frame the church’s impending bankruptcy filing as a “ruse” to “pretend that they are out of money.”

 

“Everything about the bankruptcies of Catholic dioceses strikes us as wrong,” the group said in a statement. “It is all about protecting secrets first, and second, to reduce just compensation to the victims they have created.” The statement further notes that “San Francisco is one of a handful of dioceses that has not published a list of abusers.”

 

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I'm sure the church has finagled its fortune away up the Catholic pyramid, and after Bankruptcy will be receiving financial support from said pyramid.

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On 8/8/2023 at 7:43 AM, China said:

San Francisco’s Catholic Archdiocese Says It’s Going Bankrupt Due to Child Sexual Abuse Lawsuits

 

As Illinois reckons with new findings that, in May, identified nearly 2,000 child sexual abuse claims against Catholic clergy in the state, the San Francisco Archdiocese announced on Friday that it’s “very likely” to file for bankruptcy, and is attributing its financial ruin to a recent onslaught of child sexual abuse lawsuits against its priests and other employees spanning decades.

 

The Los Angeles Times reports that the San Francisco-based Catholic church faced more than 500 civil lawsuits alleging sexual abuse filed between 2020 and 2022. These lawsuits came as California temporarily lifted the statute of limitations on abuse allegations against churches and other institutions.

 

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone wrote in an open letter on Friday that by filing for bankruptcy, the archdiocese will be able “to deal with the hundreds of cases collectively rather than one at a time” and “reorganize its financial affairs to continue its vital ministries to the faithful and to the communities that rely on our services and charity.” Cordileone also went so far as to call child sexual abuse within the church “very rare,” claiming “the vast majority of the alleged abuse occurred in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s and involved priests who are deceased or no longer in ministry.”

 

A survivors’ rights group called SNAP has already condemned this approach and much of Cordileone’s statements, claiming the San Francisco Archdiocese is misrepresenting its finances to undercut victims and conceal the full extent of the allegations it faces from coming to light. SNAP went so far as to frame the church’s impending bankruptcy filing as a “ruse” to “pretend that they are out of money.”

 

“Everything about the bankruptcies of Catholic dioceses strikes us as wrong,” the group said in a statement. “It is all about protecting secrets first, and second, to reduce just compensation to the victims they have created.” The statement further notes that “San Francisco is one of a handful of dioceses that has not published a list of abusers.”

 

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San Francisco Archdiocese files for bankruptcy as it faces more than 500 sexual abuse lawsuits

 

The Archdiocese of San Francisco has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as it faces more than 500 lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse.

 

“The unfortunate reality is that the Archdiocese has neither the financial means nor the practical ability to litigate all of these abuse claims individually, and therefore, after much consideration, concluded that the bankruptcy process was the best solution for providing fair and equitable compensation to the innocent survivors who have been harmed,” Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone said in a Monday news release.

 

Parishes, schools, cemeteries and related organizations and ministries are not included in the filing, according to the release.

 

“We seriously doubt that the Archdiocese of San Francisco does not have the assets to settle these lawsuits,” the Survivors Network of Abuse by Priests said in a statement. “We find it disturbing that Archbishop Cordileone claimed this is the ‘best way’ for victims’ lawsuits to be resolved.”

 

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Judge dismisses sex abuse case against ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick

 

A Massachusetts judge on Wednesday dismissed a criminal child sexual abuse case against former high-ranking Catholic cleric Theodore McCarrick, ruling that the former archbishop of Washington was incompetent to stand trial.

 

McCarrick, 93, had been charged with assaulting a 16-year-old boy at a family wedding in 1974, the first charge that McCarrick faced in criminal court since a slew of sexual misconduct accusations surfaced in 2018. He faces a second criminal sexual abuse case, involving the same alleged victim, in Wisconsin.

 

A call to McCarrick’s attorney on Wednesday was not immediately returned.

 

The downfall of McCarrick, one of the U.S. church’s most visible and connected leaders, has had major ripple effects, including anger and mistrust by laypeople and new rules from the Vatican that make it slightly easier for bishops to be held accountable. Explosive reporting showed, too, that high-ranking leaders from the United States to Rome long knew of allegations of McCarrick’s misconduct with adults. It turned out priests and laypeople wrote to Vatican ambassadors, and several harassment lawsuits against McCarrick had been quietly settled.

 

Judge Paul McCallum of the Norfolk District Court in Dedham, Mass., dismissed the case in a morning hearing Wednesday after experts for the defense and prosecution agreed that McCarrick was unable to help with his own defense, said David Traub, a spokesman for the district attorney.

 

“Under Massachusetts law, the case can’t go forward,” he said.

 

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He got off too easy.

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Maybe melt down those gold crosses and sell those silk robes if you're too bankrupt too pay. 

 

They're bankrupt all right, but not financially. 

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Baltimore Archbishop Lori considering bankruptcy after multiple lawsuits

 

Baltimore's Archbishop says the Archdiocese is considering bankruptcy as it faces a barrage of lawsuits.

 

Next month, the new state law eliminating the statute of limitations on sex abuse lawsuits takes effect and in an open letter, Archbishop William Lori says its impact could be devastating.

He said the Archdiocese's mission is both healing victims and continuing its ministry, but notes the Archdiocese does not have unlimited resources to satisfy all claims.

 

In his letter, he says the Archdiocese is considering bankruptcy reorganization to "provide a reasonable and equitable method for compensation of victim-survivors while continuing its ministry."

 

In April, Maryland's then-Attorney General released its report into child sexual abuse at the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

 

It detailed more than 600 people's account of abuse.

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Louisiana High Court Deals Devastating Blow to Sexual Abuse Victims

 

The Louisiana Supreme Court has decided to strip sexual assault survivors of an avenue of justice, ruling 3-4 that it’s the due process rights of priests and their enablers to not be held accountable in instances of sexual assault.

 

The case, Bienvenu v. Diocese of Lafayette, was brought by Douglas Bienvenu and several other plaintiffs who claimed they were sexually molested by a Roman Catholic priest during the 1970s, when they were between the ages of eight and 14. 

 

But in its majority opinion issued on March 22, the court argued that while the facts of the case were largely undisputed, the priest—and the religious institution he was a part of—was actually protected under the U.S. Constitution’s due process clause, which says that no one shall be “deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.”

 

“Given these constitutional limitations, the issue presented by this case turns on whether the revival provisions operate to disturb defendants’ vested rights,” wrote Louisiana Justice James Genovese, specifying that “we are constrained to find the statutory enactment is contrary to the due process protections enshrined in our constitution and must yield to that supreme law.”

 

The Louisiana Child Victims Act, according to the court, “cannot be retroactively applied to revive plaintiffs’ prescribed causes of action” on the basis that such an action would “divest defendants of their vested right to plead prescription.”

 

The Louisiana legislature passed the act in 2021 to establish a “look-back” window for sexual assault victims. The legislation provided victims of sexual abuse crimes from any period with an opportunity to pursue justice against their alleged abusers, so long as they filed their lawsuits before June 2024. But the  court effectively ruled that the look-back window was actually unconstitutional. 

 

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That is such bull****. Many victims of sexual abuse as children suffer from dissociative amnesia and don’t even remember what happened till they’re older. This can strip so many of their access to justice.