Priest Charged With Molesting Alter Boy

28 WBRE News ^ | 5.18.04

[ambrose]

Priest Charged With Molesting Alter Boy

A local Roman Catholic priest is charged with abusing a former alter boy. Father Albert Liberatore is charges with indecent assuat and corrpution of minors. Investigators say the alleged abuse happened in 2002 at Saint Thomas Hall at the University of Scranton, where Father Liberatore was a teacher.

At the time of the alleged abuse, he was also the pastor of Sacred Heart Church in Duryea. Court papers say the alleged victim slept in the rectory twice a week during a three year period.

[ambrose]

But they want to lecture US about 'moral failure' in Iraq???

[gilliam]

Court papers say the alleged victim slept in the rectory twice a week during a three year period.

In 2002? where were his parents? What am I missing here

[aft_lizard]

I think the molestation scandal is worse than 911 /sarcasm off

[anniegetyourgun]

I don't know why schools of journalism don't hang their heads in shame when they look at the products of their so-called education. After all, is an "alter" boy one who has been neutered or spayed, or otherwise changed? Or perhaps the idiot writer meant to suggest this was an altar boy?

It's no wonder journalism majors are the laughing stock at most universities.

[Cicero]

Altar.

[Planet]

Geez...the editing staff must be sleeping.

It's Altar boy...assault and corruption are also misspelled.

[dc-zoo]

He should experience having his balls cut off. That might deter him from any future acts of molestation.

[MHGinTN]

Frontal lobotomy

[ambrose]

3rd grade spelling from original article. I just did a cut and paste...

[dc-zoo]

That's what he needs.. "Altered Genitals".

[ColoradoSlim]

Wait a minuet, lets not jump the gun or rush to judgment.... Priests corn-dogging boys will probably be perfectly legal in Massachusetts in just a matter of weeks.

[buccaneer81]

Scranton-Wilkes Barre is the armpit of America.

[Cicero]

I didn't figure it was your style.

[SpyGuy]

The rampant spelling and grammatical errors in the media today are quite revealing about the (lack of) intellectual aptitude and education of the current crop of journalists. But then again, journalism today is not about reporting the news: it's about shaping public opinion by disseminating propaganda. So as long as a "reporter" has the "correct" mindset and writes the "correct" spin, it doesn't really matter how unskilled or ignorant he or she might actually be.

You see the REAL story is this:

Homosexual Man Charged With Molesting Boy

A local homosexual Roman Catholic priest is charged with raping and sexually abusing a former altar boy....

This is the true face of homosexuality, just as the Sept 11 terrorists are the true face of Islam.

[ex-snook]

"assuat and corrpution "

Another sample of the author's accuracy.

[joesnuffy]

Where is the papal outrage?....

[Zack Attack]

Or perhaps the idiot writer meant to suggest this was an altar boy?

Maybe he had an alterior motive for the spelling.

[CWOJackson]

Must be another Vatican foreign policy maker.

[ambrose]

The Vatican Papists can only muster outrage when Americans have the temerity to defend themselves against Mohammedian monsters.

[Monk Dimittis]

I don't know why schools of journalism don't hang their heads in shame when they look at the products of their so-called education.

It is because they have no shame, a very poor education, and they just don't care.

"Altar."

[muir_redwoods]

"Priest Charged With Molesting Alter Boy"

He altered the boy? That's beyond molestation.

[Arthur McGowan]

Scranton University is a Jesuit university. Is Liberatore a Jesuit professor, rather than a parish priest? Is the "former alter boy" a college student? All relevant info, all omitted from this story.

[dvan]

This is news? It is kind of anti-climatic. After all didn't the CHURCH promise they were going to put a stop on this kind of thing?

[jyoesting]

Is it appropriate to assign guilt to a man who has not yet stood trial?

[sinkspur]

2002? The sex abuse scandal was in full bloom in the press, and the bishops were scrambling to meet in Dallas to come up with a policy.

I'm surprised any parent, with all this going on, would allow a child to sleep in a rectory at all, much less a couple times a week.

What's the matter with these people?

[jyoesting]

Give me a break. How can you possibly attempt to assign a "true face" to such large groups of diverse individuals?

Is this the REAL story for SpyGuy?:

CONSERVATIVE forum contributor post NARROW MINDED reply

???
The man hasn't even stood trial yet and you are using him to support your notion that all homosexuals are criminal sex offenders - coupled with your far from accurate notion that people of Islamic faith are primarily radical murdering fundamentalist.

SpyGuy I'm afraid you are operating prior to gathering sufficient intelligence.