Posted on 11/12/2007 5:10:20 PM PST by JennysCool
MILWAUKEE (AP) _ A 79-year-old Roman Catholic nun from Illinois pleaded no contest Monday to indecent behavior with a child for alleged sexual encounters with two male students at a church convent and school where she was principal during the 1960s.
The nun, Norma Giannini, listed in online court records as living in Oak Lawn, Ill., and her attorney left the courthouse without comment after entering the pleas in Milwaukee County Circuit Court on the day her trial was to begin.
Giannini faces a maximum 10 years on each of two counts when sentenced Feb. 1.
"She decided to do the right thing,'' said her attorney, Nikola Kostich. "She didn't put the victims through a trial.''
Kostich said she also changed her plea because of concerns about possible lawsuits. A trial could have provided a record that could have been used in such lawsuits, though none have been filed, he said.
According to the criminal complaint, the two men told authorities they had dozens of sexual encounters with Giannini, including intercourse, while attending St. Patrick's School.
Both of the students -- James St. Patrick, now 53, and Gerald Kobs, now 55 -- attended the hearing.
St. Patrick said afterward that he began abusing alcohol and drugs after the abuse and did so for 35 years. He and Kobs "built up the courage over the years'' to come forward, he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at wlsam.com ...
GUILTY !!!
The Nun that could not do without NONE.
She’s looking down the gunbarrel and sees that she has no covering for her crimson past. I hope she understands the true nature of confession and grace.
I suspect she’s got a sh*tload more to deal with. If she get’s this sin straight, she’ll have a chance.
As my late father would say, “This world isn’t fit to live in, but there’s no place else to go.”
But that was before newspapers print the multi-millions that the archdioces' have been paying out. I went to public school and I guess that's a different horse.........They even fired one of our guidance counselors who was doing twin sisters in his van, very quietly though so he could get a job as principal inside the inner city school district. Didn't want any controversy in the uppity white burbs ya know....
Ewwwwww. Guilty!
Appropriate post! ... Love that cat ...
Ping.
Yeah ... I’m thinking this one is all about the money ... for the litigants. And if you read the whole article, the encounters seemed to be more of the “you show me yours, I’ll show you mine” variety. Only a couple of occasions of actual sex.
It’s a bad habit to mess with little kids.
Pun aside, I don’t agree with the he said/she said 40 years after the fact that could result in this woman spending the rest of her life in jail.
St. Patrick said afterward that he began abusing alcohol and drugs after the abuse and did so for 35 years. He and Kobs "built up the courage over the years'' to come forward, he said.
What she did was wrong, but these two guys are nothing but a couple of money grubbing wussies. Girls can be a little different, but I just can't see real men freetting over this.
BTW, I was seduced by female elders when I was young. I didn't spend my life greiving over the incidents.
I just love that cat,,he is so cool
I think the catholic church and the public would be far better served if the clergy could marry. You know, the way it used to be. Too bad they are more consumed by the equity problems such creates. That's the real reason the church abolished the right for clergy to marry in the first place. I'd love to see statistics per capita on religious workers allowed to marry versus those who cannot regarding sexual abuse.
Here’s a video report from WISN Chicago.
http://www.wisn.com/news/14571702/detail.html#
Check down about four inches on the right.
Good grief!
If she were innocent, I would agree with you.
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