Posted on 10/14/2011 7:01:15 PM PDT by Lazamataz
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City's Catholic bishop has become the highest-ranking U.S. Catholic official indicted on a charge of failing to protect children after he and his diocese waited five months to tell police about hundreds of images of child pornography discovered on a priest's computer, officials said Friday.
Bishop Robert Finn, the first U.S. bishop criminally charged with sheltering an abusive clergyman, and the Kansas City-St. Joseph Catholic Diocese have pleaded not guilty on one count each of failing to report suspected child abuse.
Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said Finn and the diocese were required under state law to report the discovery to police because the images gave them reason to believe a child had been abused.
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Nice to know that you accept the Church of the Painful Truth as Gospel.
Thank you for that.
Go forth and spread the message, brother or sister.
Peace.
the left treats everyone else like they're lab rats.
If you think about it, its Mengele lite.
Fight we much.
Don't remember exactly, but I do know that the Almighty seems to enjoy wigging out fundamentalists.
Nah. Mary Jane made me do it.
Cause I probably smoked a joint and then got the munchies.
He knew for 5 months? He knew about the porn, how? Did he view it? Was he viewing it for those 5 months? Then he is indeed guilty of a crime.
Sort of like harboring a wanted criminal?
Have it on very good information that the number of child abuse incidents in the NYC public school system in one recent year exceeded the number of priest-abuse cases over the entire known life of the scandal.
Not being familiar with your doctrine, I can’t stipulate to your statement. Your gratitude is premature.
I’ll go forth as directed by God, but not by you, FRiend.
Of course this will not help either:
KANSAS CITY (MO)Courthouse News Service
By JOE HARRIS October 14th 2011
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (CN) - The Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph and its Bishop Robert Finn violate U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops policies on the handling of priest sex abuse victims, a former grant writer claims. She says she was harassed and fired when the diocese learned she had been an advocate for victims of sexual abuse.
“The environment inside the Chancery office is such that recrimination, retaliation and intimidation prevents those who believe in the precepts found in the ‘Protecting God’s Children’ initiative, the USCCB policies and those promulgated by the diocese from acting in accordance to them,” according to the complaint in Jackson County Court.
Margaret Mata worked as a grant writer for the diocese. In July this year, she says, several diocese employees were pushing to make her a full-time diocese employee instead of an independent contractor.
I would like to point out that there is something very wrong with a Diocese (or area of Church influence) that can allow Kathleen Sebelius to pretend she is a Catholic, and in which Planned Parenthood flourishes.
Except Hollyweird where pedophilia is very prevalent and accepted.
Why?Former Kansas attorney general Phill Kline found guilty of ‘ethical misconduct’
Planned Parenthood protected, children forgotten, the prosecutor prosecuted...
The testimony in this week’s trial revealed that the case began very simply: records from the state agency responsible for receiving child sex abuse reports seemed underreported. Officials with the Social and Rehabilitative Services (SRS) in 2003 told Kline that they had just over 1000 cases of child sex abuse reports for the whole state.
But there was a huge problem: SRS in Sedwick County, Kansas, reported they had just under twice that number of cases.
Kline’s chief investigator, Tom Williams, a former FBI agent with 31 years of experience (including the investigation of drugs, organized crime, white-collar crime, and public corruption) looked into the disparity. Judge Richard Anderson, Chief District Judge of Shawnee County, gave him a subpoena for SRS records.
He got just under 20,000 SRS reports of child sex abuse. After whittling them down, removing duplicates from several reporters of the same crime, Williams found 6,797 reports of child sex abuse in Kansas between 2001-2003, and more than 1800 reports of child sex abuse in Sedwick county.
But there are just four records in SRS showing reporting from abortion providers during that time. Kline’s office had KDHE subpoenaed by Judge Anderson in order to obtain the ID numbers for the reporting abortion providers. They discovered that out of the 166 cases of abortions on girls 14 years old and under, Comprehensive Health Planned Parenthood (CHPP) in Johnson County and George Tiller’s Women’s Health Care Services clinic had each reported just one case of child rape.
For Kline’s office, every one of those 166 cases - for just one year - represented 166 children who needed the help and intervention of the state against child sex abusers. But a case against child sex abusers can’t begin without names, and the only ones with the names were Planned Parenthood and George Tiller.
And that is where a straightforward case of law enforcement trying to save young girls from sexual predators goes awry.
So in Kansas City Kansas, a pro-life attorney general loses his right to practice law, due to the intervention of HHS' Sebelius, for going after Planned Parenthood because Planned Parenthood was hiding the rape of minors. Meanwhile, in Kansas City MO, an otherwise examplary bishop IS prosecuted for this porn case.
Sounds like damnable hypocrisy and double standards going on in Kansas City KS/Kansas City MO.
If Bishop Finn had just been covering up for Planned Parenthood, Sebelius would have directed the prosecutor to back off.
?
I guess its okay if its a government school, government can do no wrong.
Why is “raping” in scare quotes? Those teachers should be executed.
Please continue /sarcasm off.
Teachers unions, school districts and Hollyweird are the same way protecting child abusers.
I had to chuckle when I read that.
I think maybe you enjoy it more than the “Almighty” does.
We (believers) are enjoined to observe the law of the land (to the extent we can). Missouri law by accounts received requires persons in authority to report evidence of felony in the case of child abuse.
You must be a secular libertarian...
Because "rape" is a forcible, violent action against the will and body of another.
Odds are most 14 yo boys who bed their slutty twenty-something teachers think they've died and gone to heaven. To call that rape is to diminish the violence of the actual act and turn the entire concept on its ear.
Don't fall prey to that old cop-out. The followers are just as guilty as those in charge because they tolerate it. Nobody in the American Catholic Church wants to make any waves and those in charge, Rome, wont change anything because it's all about the Benjamin's. Always remember, the Catholic Church is the wealthiest business enterprise on the face of the earth and they aim to keep it that way. Man, it's always about the money, always!
My claim to Truth is no more valid than yours.
I choose to ground my arguments differently than you do.
What do you ground yours on?
I think you're a snot who thinks he's enjoined from on high to willfully misinterpret the words of others and then mouth off about it.
But if I were charitable, I guess I'd have to conclude that you genuinely misunderstood. But then we'd both be fools.
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