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Former Catholic priest arrested on parole violation
LA Times ^ | 11/3/2011

Posted on 11/04/2011 6:51:06 AM PDT by Alex Murphy

Edited on 11/04/2011 6:53:37 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Baker served more than five years of a 10-year prison sentence for his 2007 conviction and was scheduled to be released in August. But the Los Angeles district attorney's office filed a petition to have him committed to a state hospital indefinitely as a sexually violent predator.


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TOPICS: Catholic; Ministry/Outreach; Moral Issues
KEYWORDS: catholic; dumb; moralabsolutes; pedophile; romancatholic
Baker served more than five years of a 10-year prison sentence for his 2007 conviction and was scheduled to be released in August. But the Los Angeles district attorney's office filed a petition to have him committed to a state hospital indefinitely as a sexually violent predator. He was held until Sept. 30, when the district attorney's office asked the judge to dismiss the petition because the two incidents he was convicted of didn't fit the criteria for a sexually violent predator, Deputy Dist. Atty. Tracy Watson said....

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1 posted on 11/04/2011 6:51:07 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
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To: Alex Murphy

Needs a millstone.


2 posted on 11/04/2011 6:57:39 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Alex Murphy

That’s going to leave a mark!

The problem, or part of it, is that it’s so easy to ace the psych screening. I wonder if there are any reliable filters/predictors for child predation.

And Mahoney is a problem unto himself. While he was bishop my kid stopped donating to her parish except for restricted gifts.


4 posted on 11/04/2011 8:50:34 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Jesus, I trust in you.)
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To: Alex Murphy

Meanwhile a dozen (hundred?) public employees will have done the same thing, and not earned headlines in the LA times.


5 posted on 11/04/2011 9:18:48 AM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Author of BullionBible.com - Makes You a Precious Metal Expert, Guaranteed.)
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