Clergy Child Molesters (103) — References/Chronology

• New Bedford priest placed on leave amid child porn investigation [2004 Fernandes] -- RCC.

   Herald-Tribune, www.heraldtribune. com/apps/pbcs. dll/article?AID=/ 20041101/AP N/411011007 , The Associated Press, Tuesday, November 2, 2004
   FALL RIVER, Mass. -- The Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall River said Monday it had placed a New Bedford priest on administrative leave amid an investigation that prosecutors said involved child pornography allegations.
   Msgr. John A. Perry, the diocese's vicar general, informed parishioners during weekend Masses at Our Lady of Fatima Parish that "a credible allegation of illegal activity has been made against their pastor, Rev. Stephen A. Fernandes," the diocese said in a written statement.
   The statement did not address the nature of the allegation, but Bristol District Attorney Paul F. Walsh Jr. said in a news release Monday that his office had opened an investigation at the diocese's request into alleged violations of state child pornography laws.
   Fernandes could not immediately be reached for comment. Phone messages were left at the parish office and at a New Bedford phone listing in his name.
   Walsh said a computer seized as part of the investigation was being examined. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 04:12 PM] (This is the first of the Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.ncrnews.org/abuse , for Mon November 01, 2004.)

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   KYW-TV -- CBS 3, http://kyw.com/ Local%20News/ local_story_306 163318.html , 4:25 pm US/Eastern, Nov 1, 2004
   CAMDEN, N.J. (KYW): A South Jersey Deacon is in jail on sex charges for allegedly fondling two boys at a sleepover.
   Now, as CBS 3's Cydney Long explains, new details of the Deacon's painful confession to his pastor have emerged.
   Reverend Melvin Allen says when he confronted 29-year-old Deacon Lawrence Johnson on Sunday, Johnson confessed to molesting at least one of two young boys: "This was someone who was a model Christian, 29-years-old, going to college, studying for the ministry, didn't drink, didn't smoke, and no criminal background.
   The boy later alerted authorities after a Friday night youth council church sleepover.
   Johnson is now charged with sexual assault, attempted sexual assault and child endangerment in connection with the incident Friday at the New Mickle Baptist Church. Authorities say Johnson has admitted fondling other children in the past.
   "I looked at him directly in his eyes. I said was there a problem here, yes pastor did you do it; he said yes. The one child in particular was very graphic about what he tried to do," Reverend Allen said.
   Johnson was serving as a chaperone at the church event -- which was aimed at keeping children off the streets on mischief night -- when he fondled the boys, ages ten and 12, inside the church.
   Long has learned that Johnson is being held on multiple sex assault charges in the Camden County Jail with bail set at $100,000.
   "We believe there are other children who've been victimized out there. Anyone that he has specifically identified by name, we obviously will be reaching out to them to interview them," said Camden County Prosecutor Vincent Sarubbi.
   Long reports that in all, 16 boys and girls attended the sleepover and since the incident, officials have notified all church goers.
   Anyone that feels they may have been victimized is urged to please come forward. # [Emphasis added]
• Shared agonies over a cardinal's grief [Law, Shanley, Geoghan] -- Play Sin. RCC.
   Newsday, BY LINDA WINER, November 1, 2004
   NEW YORK: Two current theater obsessions - documentary drama and sex scandals in the Catholic Church - converge with more light than heat in "Sin (A Cardinal Deposed)," which the New Group is presenting at the Clurman Theatre with the remarkable John Cullum as Cardinal Bernard Law.
   Michael Murphy has created this 90-minute play from depositions by the powerful head of the Archdiocese of Boston in 2002, along with letters and public statements by victims and their families about pedophilia by the Rev. Paul Shanley and the late defrocked priest, John J. Geoghan.
   Anyone who has followed the unfolding scandals in recent years may find the material overly familiar, albeit still valuable. The piece, reported to have roiled deep emotions in Chicago and Boston in an earlier production, establishes an effective form and sticks to it.
   In what appears to be a modest law office, the attorney for the plaintiffs - played with nuanced fury by Thomas Jay Ryan - is at a table with Cardinal Law and his lawyer (John Leonard Thompson). Seated near the door, and silent until the end, is victim Patrick McSorley (Pablo T. Schreiber), later a heroically outspoken witness, who died of a drug overdose in February.
• Tucson bishop on short list for key U.S. Catholic post -- RCC. Kicanas nominated.
   Azcentral, www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1101tucson-bishop01.html , Associated Press, Nov. 1, 2004
   TUCSON - Tucson Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas is among 10 nominees from around the country being considered for the top post at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
   If selected as the next conference president, Kicanas would be considered a key leader of the Catholic Church in the United States. Also being considered for the role are three other bishops, four archbishops and two cardinals.
   According to Catholic News Service, the bishops plan to elect the national president and vice president between Nov. 15-18 in Washington, D.C. ...
   On Sept. 20, the Tucson Diocese became the second in the nation to file for bankruptcy protection, following the Archdiocese of Portland, Ore.
   Both sought Chapter 11 protection in the face of continuing litigation in clerical sex-abuse cases.
• Celibacy talks are favored -- RCC.
   The Arizona Republic, by Michael Clancy, Nov. 1, 2004
   PHOENIX (AZ): Three out of four Catholic priests in Phoenix want an "open discussion" of mandatory celibacy, joining a solid majority of their colleagues across the country, according to two church-reform groups.
   But don't look for celibacy, which is part of the church catechism, to get serious scrutiny as long as Pope John Paul II is leading the church.
   Surveys conducted by the organizations FutureChurch and Call to Action represent 53 of the nation's 195 dioceses. The groups say the surveys are their response to a shortage of priests that has developed since about 1965.
   The organizations say the priest shortage likely will prevent Catholics from participating in the central aspects of their faith: Mass and the sacraments, especially Communion. In the Phoenix area, several churches are getting by without a resident pastor.
   [COMMENT: A "Petition for Optional Married Clergy" can be downloaded from "Optional" COMMENT ENDS.]
• Deacon charged in sex assaults [2004 Johnson] -- Baptist.
   Courier-Post, www.courierpostonline.com/news/southjersey/m110104b.htm , By JASON LAUGHLIN
   CAMDEN (NJ): A deacon at New Mickle Baptist Church on South 4th Street has been charged with sexually assaulting two children over the weekend, authorities said.
   Lawrence Johnson Jr., 29, also admitted fondling other youngsters, Camden County Prosecutor Vincent P. Sarubbi said. It's unclear how many other victims there may be, but police are continuing to investigate.
   Johnson was charged with two counts of sexual assault, two counts of endangering the welfare of a child and one count of attempted sexual assault, Sarubbi said.
   He was sent to the Camden County Jail on $100,000 bail.
   Johnson, who lives in Camden, was serving as a chaperone for a church-sponsored sleepover Friday night when he fondled two boys, ages 10 and 12, Sarubbi said. The assaults happened in the church, Sarubbi said.
   The boys told church staff about the incident, said the Rev. Melvin N. Allen, the church's pastor.
• Victims' Group Discourages National Prestige for Local Bishop -- RCC.
   KOLD, By J.D. Wallace, KOLD News 13 Reporter, posted Oct/31/04
   TUCSON (AZ): A local victims' rights group is urging Tucson Diocese Bishop Gerald Kicanas to not pursue a prestigious national position.
   A handful of members of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, also known as SNAP, appeared at the Southwest Catholic Families' Conference Sunday afternoon.
   They wanted to give Bishop Kicanas a letter telling him to reject a nomination for president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
   They once again stressed their disapproval of the diocese's bankruptcy filing regarding abuse victims.
   "To have him go into a position of leadership with the bishops' conference right after having the bankruptcy here just sort of says, here, I might have a plan for all of you," said Jim Parker, Southern Arizona leader of SNAP.
• Spokane Diocese May File for Bankruptcy -- RCC.
   The New York Times, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Published: November 1, 2004
   SPOKANE, Wash., Oct. 31 (AP) - The Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane may be forced into bankruptcy if it cannot reach a settlement with dozens of people who say they were victims of sexual abuse by priests, Bishop William S. Skylstad has warned in a letter sent to parishioners.
   The diocese is scheduled to hold settlement talks this week with 28 people who say they were victimized by a former priest, Patrick O'Donnell, who has admitted sexually abusing boys.
   The first of five lawsuits asserting that the diocese did not do enough to protect children from Mr. O'Donnell is scheduled for trial Nov. 29. Mr. O'Donnell, 62, worked as a priest for the diocese until he was removed in 1986.
   If an agreement is not reached this week, Bishop Skylstad said, the cases could proceed to trial, but bankruptcy protection would provide another option to "bring fairness, justice and equity to the victims and enable the diocese to continue its ministry and mission," he wrote.
   Dioceses in Tucson and Portland, Ore., have already filed for bankruptcy because of the cost of sexual abuse cases. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 04:57 AM]
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Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont103.htm
For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed.
#### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.ncrnews.org/abuse, Tue November 02, 2004 edition follows:-
• Picket held outside Wells church [Melville] -- RCC.

   WMTW, www.wmtw. com/Global/ story. asp? S=2504663& nav=7k6rSc1h , By News 8 WMTW
   WELLS (ME) - Advocates of victims of clergy abuse formed a picket line and handed out leaflets at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Wells Sunday.
   The demonstrators wanted to engage parishioners in a discussion about what their pastor may or may not have done when he was the diocese chancellor.
   They say a memo reveals Monsignor Joseph Ford had serious concerns about Father Raymond Melville before he was accused of clergy abuse. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 07:07 AM]
• Ex-Cape pastor faces allegation of child porn [2004 Fernandes] -- RCC reported him. Child porn.
   Cape Cod Times, www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/expastor2.htm , By SEAN GONSALVES and ERIC WILLIAMS
   NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS - The former pastor of St. Francis Xavier Church in Hyannis, the Rev. Stephen A. Fernandes, has been placed on administrative leave by the Fall River Diocese because "a credible allegation of illegal activity has been made against him," according to a statement released by the diocese yesterday.
   The allegation against Fernandes, currently pastor of Our Lady of Fatima Parish in New Bedford, has been referred to the district attorney's office and brought to the attention of the Massachusetts Department of Social Services, the statement said.
   Bristol County District Attorney Paul F. Walsh Jr. announced yesterday he had received a request for investigation from the diocese concerning violations of child pornography laws.
   Walsh also said that a computer had been seized and is the subject of a forensic examination. Though Walsh's office would not offer many specifics, Walsh did commend Fall River Diocese Bishop George Coleman for his direct and prompt action in the matter.
• Church cases are back in spotlight -- RCC. $US1.4m wasted so far.
   Free Press, By David Crumm, Free Press religion writer, November 2, 2004
   The Catholic Church's effort to fend off lawsuits from people who say they were sexually abused by priests moves to a Detroit courtroom today, where a panel of three judges will hear arguments about whether such cases should proceed.
   "If we lose at this point, then everyone who's suing the Catholic Church in Michigan ... is close to the end of the line," Okemos attorney Allan Falk, who will argue against the church today, said Monday.
   At issue before the Michigan Court of Appeals is the state's statute of limitations, which has made it nearly impossible for abuse victims to pursue legal claims for damage they say was done to them, in most cases, decades ago.
   Detroit Cardinal Adam Maida and other Catholic officials declined to comment on the legal issues, but Archdiocese of Detroit spokesman Ned McGrath said late last week that church attorneys plan to appear before the judges today and use "all available constitutional and statutory arguments and defenses."
   The Detroit archdiocese and its insurers report having paid $1.4 million in settlements and counseling costs to victims of abuse over the past half-century. There is no complete accounting of unresolved claims by alleged victims statewide, so it is impossible to determine the size of the potential liability in Michigan. But looming in the minds of Catholic leaders is the legal swamp that has engulfed the church in California.
• CBCP: No To Gay Seminarians, Priests -- RCC.

   Philippine Headline News, www.newsflash. org/2004/02/hl/ hl101245.htm , By Nikko Dizon, November 2, 2004
   MANILA, PHILIPPINES (STAR) - An updated manual for priestly formation released by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has expressly stated the Church's disapproval of gay priests and seminarians.
   "Issues regarding homosexuality need to be calmly surfaced and clarified," said the 63-page Philippine Program for Priestly Formation, which puts emphasis on the human development of seminarians.
   Bishop Deogracias Iñiguez, chairman of the CBCP's Commission on Public Affairs, said in an interview that while the subjects of chaste celibacy and sexuality were included in the old manual, the new edition has put down in black and white the Catholic Church's preference for heterosexual priests.
   But while active homosexuality is not acceptable, Iñiguez said effeminate traits are.
   "Active homosexuals do harm to others through their victims. They do harm to the Church," he explained.
• Talks Begin, Settlement Could Bankrupt Catholic Diocese -- RCC.

   KXLY, http://kxly.com/ common/getStory. asp?id=40410
   SPOKANE (WA): Settlement talks began today which could shape the future of the Catholic Diocese of Spokane.
   28 people claiming a former Spokane priest sexually abused them are seeking millions in damages from the diocese.
   Now attorneys on both sides are working in Seattle all week, hoping for a settlement out of court. The Bishop has alerted thousands of Catholics in our area that, depending upon the outcome of these negotiations, the diocese might have to file for bankruptcy.
   An attorney for the sex abuse victims told me today they are going into these negotiations with no expectations, but they are preparing for trial.
   While the Bishop is declining interviews until after these talks are over, he did enclose select answers regarding the chapter 11 choice in his letter.
• Priest quizzed in kiddie porn case [2004 Fernandes] -- RCC reported him. Child porn.
   Boston Herald, http://news.bost onherald.com/ localRegional/ view.bg?arti cleid=52068 , By J.M. Lawrence, Tuesday, November 2, 2004
   MASSACHUSETTS: A New Bedford priest is under investigation for receiving child pornography after Catholic leaders from the Diocese of Fall River told authorities kiddie porn was found on a computer.
   The Rev. Stephen A. Fernandes, 54, pastor of Our Lady of Fatima, has been placed on administrative leave during an investigation by Bristol District Attorney Paul F. Walsh Jr.'s office.
   In a statement, Walsh commended Bishop George Coleman "for his direct and prompt action in this matter."
   Ann Bruno, a member of the lay group Voice of the Faithful, was unfamiliar with the case but praised the church's response to what the diocese in a statement termed "a credible allegation of illegal activity."
   "I'm very happy Bishop Coleman did the correct thing," Bruno said. "I compliment the bishop for following the right course of action that should be followed and should have been followed for years."
   Diocesan spokesman John E. Kearns would not say where or when the pornography was found. The computer has been seized by the DA's office.
• Priest under investigation [2004 Fernandes] -- RCC. Child porn.
   Herald-News, By WILL RICHMOND, Nov/02/2004
   FALL RIVER (MA) -- The former pastor of Sts. Peter and Paul Church is being investigated by the Bristol County District Attorney's Office and the state Department of Social Services following a complaint involving child pornography.
   By request of the Diocese of Fall River, which is calling the undisclosed allegation "credible," District Attorney Paul F. Walsh Jr. is investigating the complaint against the Rev. Stephen A. Fernandes, most recently pastor of New Bedford's Our Lady of Fatima parish.
   In a statement released Monday morning, Walsh's office said the complaint concerned violations of Massachusetts general laws regarding child pornography and that a computer had been seized and is the subject of a forensic examination.
   Following the district attorney's statement, Diocese officials released a statement of their own regarding the investigation.
• Ex-priest's accusers now fight diocese [Hanley] -- RCC. 26 plaintiffs, admitted 16 boys.
   Star-Ledger, BY JEFF DIAMANT, Tuesday, November 02, 2004
   NEW JERSEY: The accused former priest in New Jersey's most notorious clergy sex abuse case has already admitted, in a sworn statement, that he sexually abused at least 16 boys.
   Still, accusers of the former Rev. James Hanley face an obstacle in court tomorrow when attorneys for the Roman Catholic diocese of Paterson argue that a civil lawsuit against the diocese is misdirected and that statutes of limitations have expired.
   Lawyers for the diocese are asking State Superior Court Judge Deanne Wilson, who sits in Morristown, to dismiss the cases of the 26 plaintiffs and not give them the chance to argue one by one that their cases should be considered even though regular statutes of limitation expired.
   It is a defense that has drawn criticism from Hanley's accusers, who say the diocese and its new bishop, Arthur Serratelli, are improperly playing legal hardball only two years after Catholic bishops in America pledged to be conciliatory toward clergy sex abuse victims in the wake of a national scandal.
   "Of all cases, on this one ... I'm baffled as to why the new bishop would fight these claims in court," said Mark Serrano, a victim of Hanley who already settled with the diocese and is not a plaintiff in this case. "You're either on the side of justice and healing or you're not."
   Ken Mullaney, attorney for the diocese, declined to comment. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 05:45 AM]
////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker www.ncrnews.org/abuse , Tue November 02, 2004
Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont103.htm
For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed.
• DPP fights to have sexual deviant jailed indefinitely. [1980s-2003 McGarry] -- No religion link reported. Girls.

   The West Australian, Perth, W. Australia, www.thewest. com.au/20041 102/news/gen eral/tw-news- general-home- sto12 9707.html , by DAVID DARRAGH and LUKE ELIOT, p 1, Tuesday, November 2, 2004
   PERTH: A District Court judge has questioned why he should jail a serial child sex offender indefinitely after a Department of Justice psychiatrist said he was "cautiously optimistic" the deviant could be reformed.
   Judge Michael Muller said there appeared to be a "major conflict" in the evidence of two of the DPP's expert witnesses in the case of Michael Alexander McGarry.
   The court was told McGarry had committed about 50 sex crimes in the past 20 years, including sexually abusing a young schoolgirl only months after a High Court ruling enabled him to walk free from maximum-security Casuarina Prison in late 2001.
   The 43-year-old was arrested again in March last year soon after making sexual advances to an eight-year-old girl at a Winthrop park.
   The Director of Public Prosecutions is seeking another indefinite jail term for McGarry after he pleaded guilty to four charges over the two sex attacks.
   The grandmother of an 11-year-old girl whom McGarry indecently assaulted in 1994 said she was horrified by the judge's comments.
   The woman, who is not named to protect the victim's identity, said her granddaughter was indecently assaulted just two days after McGarry had been released from jail for other sex crimes.
   At the time, authorities claimed McGarry had been rehabilitated, but the grandmother believes he will never change.
   She said she was horrified when the High Court overturned the decision to jail McGarry indefinitely.
   "Then he came out and reoffended with the 14-year-old girl in Rossmoyne," she said.
   The grandmother said the crime had devastated her granddaughter and family.
   "You go to give her a hug and you feel her tensing up," she said. "And I feel I can't trust anyone any more. It absolutely breaks your heart."
   Prosecutor Linda Petrusa told the court yesterday that McGarry posed a grave risk to young girls and women. Psychologist Cinzia Zuin said interviews and tests she conducted with McGarry in April showed he was in the highest risk category for reoffending.
   Department of Justice psychiatrist Ananth Pullela told the court he was "cautiously optimistic" that treatment with a mixture of hormones to suppress sex drive, anti-depressants and one-on-one counselling sessions could help McGarry.
   The judge said he gained the impression that Dr Pullela was suggesting there was a good prospect of addressing McGarry's problem with specialised treatment.
   But Ms Petrusa said Dr Pullela had been more guarded.
   Judges can order indefinite sentences if they think an offender will still be a danger to society.
   The indefinite sentencing hearing is expected to finish tomorrow.
   [COMMENT: There's no "major conflict", Your Honour. Will the psychiatrist deposit, say, a $10,000 cash bond, on the condition it be forfeited if this man re-offends? If not, why not ensure that the community is safe from further assaults on human dignity, health, and life? Not to mention the saving of costs of future police inquiries and court appearances! COMMENT ENDS.] [Nov 2, 04]
Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont103.htm
For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed.
#### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.ncrnews.org/abuse, Wed November 03, 2004 edition follows:-
• Church must earn abuse victims' trust - Archbishop -- RCC.

   Online.ie ; www.online.ie/ news/latest_ irish/viewer. adp?article= 3173607 , 16:10:02+00, Nov 3, 2004
   IRELAND: The Church must "start from scratch" to earn back the trust of victims of clerical child abuse, it was claimed today.
   Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Diarmuid Martin said that the hurt of victims could only be healed if the full extent of the abuse is uncovered.
   Addressing the 7th annual Ceifin conference in Ennis, Dr Martin said: "I feel very strongly that the full extent and nature of such abuse should come to light.
   "There is no way in which healing can be achieved until that happens."
   Speaking on the topic: "Imagining The Future of Organised Religion", Dr Martin said it would be "foolish" to think that the Church had not lost credibility through the recent child abuse scandals. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 06:00 PM]
• Judge asked to give lawyer leeway in looking for diocesan victims -- RCC.

   Azcentral.com ; Associated Press, 03:57 PM, Nov. 3, 2004
   TUCSON (AZ) - A lawyer representing potential claimants in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson's bankruptcy proceedings needs broader authority to find victims of clergy sexual abuse, a self-described victim told a bankruptcy judge Wednesday.
   Attorney A. Bates Butler III should have more leeway to find victims who haven't come forward, Reginald Lewis told U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge James Marlar.
   Marlar was making Butler's appointment final when Lewis objected to restrictions he perceived were placed on Butler, saying there are undiscovered victims that the church knows about.
   The court "has a duty to these children who were raped. If you discover these children, you should throw this bankruptcy out as a fraud. This is not about money," Lewis told Marlar.
• Judge allows 26 to sue, claiming clergy sex abuse [Hanley + 4] -- RCC. 26 complainants.
   Newsday, By WAYNE PARRY, Associated Press Writer, 5:39 PM EST, November 3, 2004,
   NEWARK, N.J. -- A judge allowed lawsuits on behalf of 26 men, most of whom claim they were abused by a former Catholic priest in northern New Jersey, to proceed.
   The Diocese of Paterson had sought to dismiss the two suits on the grounds that too much time had passed since the acts in question had occurred. But Superior Court Judge Deanne Wilson, sitting in Morristown, rejected the request Wednesday afternoon.
   In the lawsuits, 21 of the plaintiffs claim they were abused by the Rev. James Hanley, a former priest who served in Mendham, among other places. Four other priests accused of abusing the remaining plaintiffs are named as defendants, as is the diocese.
   The lawsuits include a transcript of an interview the plaintiffs' lawyer, Greg Gianforcaro, conducted with Hanley last fall in which he admits having molested at least one young man.
• Creation of Independent Research Panel Following Child Abuse Reports [1945-78] -- Methodist, Presbyterian. Missionary children.

   The Christian Post, www.christianpost. com/dbase/ church/1572/ section/1.htm , Posted: 11:10:48AM EST Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2004
   UNITED STATES: Reports of child abuse in missions that took place decades ago have mobilized the United Methodist church to appoint an independent panel. The three-person panel is set to be formed in December.
   The UMC's Board of Global Ministries designates this panel as a "fact-finding, consultative and primarily pastoral" body. Although it will act as an advisory body and report to the Board at least annually, it will not conclude civil liability issues. The panel's main purpose is to follow up on the charges made known in a report.
   The Presbyterian Church publicly released a report in October 2002 that sexual abuse of missionary children, of whom some were children of Methodist missionaries, occurred between 1945 and 1978 in what is the Democratic Republic of Congo, at both a Presbyterian school in Lubondai and a Methodist-Presbyterian Hostel in Kinshasa.
   According to UMNS, the mission agency expressed their appreciation to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) for revealing their findings and process: "for creating a model that has proven to be very effective and for sharing their process and experience with us" [Emphasis added] [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 05:04 PM]
   [DOCTRINE: Bible, Matthew 7:20: By their fruits you shall know them. DOCTRINE ENDS.]
• Court To Hear Arguments In Lawsuit Against Catholic Diocese -- RCC. Males.

   TheJacksonChannel.com ; POSTED: 2:19 pm CST November 3, 2004
   JACKSON, Miss. -- The Mississippi Supreme Court will hear arguments Dec. 13 in lawsuits alleging sexual abuse in the Jackson Diocese of the Catholic Church.
   Two cases consolidated in the appeal, seeking $48 million in damages, are on hold in Hinds County Circuit Court while the Supreme Court considers a motion by the diocese to have the cases dismissed.
   In July, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, filed a "friend of the court brief" in which SNAP, although not a party to the lawsuit, says it believes the court's decision may affect its interest.
   The lawsuits were filed by Kenneth, Thomas and Francis Morrison.
• No to homosexual seminarians -- RCC.

   Manila Bulletin, www.mb.com. ph/OPED2004 110421793.html , by Zenaida A Amador
   PHILIPPINES: The latest ruling by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines is, I think, good for very practical reasons. As the CBCP states, homosexuals do harm to their victims in schools, in seminaries, and in the community. The CBCP is not, however, discriminating against people with simply effeminate traits.
   The scandal over priests abusing young boys broke out two or three years ago. The church discovered within its own ranks that bishops merely transferred them from one diocese to another instead of dismissing them outright.
   The same thing has happened here in this country and other countries as well. The Philippine Catholic Church has dismissed several priests who admitted abusing several young people.
   The question of homosexuality in the priesthood should really be surfaced and clarified instead of pushed under the rug and not talked about. [Emphasis added]
• Man seeks damages from arrest in church [Coiro] -- Baptist. Married woman.

   Cleveland Plain Dealer, www.cleveland. com/news/plain dealer/index. ssf?/base/news/ 109861104 3146420.xml , by Maggi Martin, Saturday, October 23, 2004
   KIRTLAND, Ohio - Mark Canfora says he did what the Bible commands churchgoers to do when such things happen.
   He stood up in the middle of church services one Sunday in Willo-Hill Baptist Church in Kirtland and confronted the pastor, the Rev. Gary Coiro. Canfora told the congregation that Coiro had induced his wife to have sex after counseling her.
   The police were called, Canfora was arrested, and the pastor was fired that day. Eight months later, Canfora was acquitted of all charges.
   Now, Canfora and his family are suing the pastor, the church and several police departments, saying he was wrongfully arrested.
• Axe for list of abuse victims [Hawkins, 7 boys] -- Anglican. 40 years systemic.

   NEWS.com.au ; www.news.com. au/common/ story_page/ 0,4057,1128 1430%255E3 462,00.html , By ELLEN WHINNETT, November 4, 2004
   AUSTRALIA: A list of the names of victims who were sexually abused by clergy of the Anglican Church has been destroyed.
   The church has confirmed that the list of names, compiled in 1997 and 1998 in an inquiry, no longer exists.
   Police discovered the list had been destroyed when they asked the Anglican Church to provide the names during a recent inquiry into sexual abuse its clergy.
   Inspector Glenn Lathey of Hobart CIB said detectives were told the list no longer existed. "It was our understanding at the time of our investigation a list was compiled by the church,"
   Inspector Lathey said. "Our investigations failed to locate it." In 1998, the Anglican Church released a report, entitled Not The Way of Christ, which detailed 40 years of systemic abuse by some clergy.
   It referred to the victims only by a code name, to protect their identity. Barrister Tonia Kohl chaired the inquiry, assisted by psychologist Michael Crowley.
   He has since served a jail term after admitting to a sexual liaison with a child. In 2003, police responded to a campaign in The Mercury to re-open inquiries into complaints of sexual abuse by Anglican clergy.
   As a result, one former priest, Garth Hawkins, was extradited to Tasmania and jailed for seven years for sexually abusing seven boys.
   [DOCTRINE: Bible, John 3:20-21: Everyone that does evil hates the light, ... but he that does truth comes to the light. John 8:32: You shall know the truth, and the truth will make you free. John 16:13: He will guide you into all truth. Ephesians 5:27: A glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle. DOCTRINE ENDS.]
• Priest pleads guilty to indecent behaviour [2004 Diment] -- Uniting Church. Restorative programme.
   ABC (Australia), www.abc.net. au/news/news items/200411/ s1233965.htm , 3:38pm (AEDT), Wednesday, November 3, 2004.
   ADELAIDE, S. Australia A Uniting Church priest has pleaded guilty in the Adelaide Magistrates Court to six counts of indecent behaviour.
   Reverend Geoffrey Robert Diment, 50, pleaded guilty to all six charges committed at the Beaumont Uniting Church between June 3 and 10 this year.
   Diment has been suspended from his duties as a church minister since the charges were laid.
   He volunteered to take part in a new pilot program known as an "adult restorative conference", in which he will meet with his victim to discuss the impact of his crime.
   Diment will return to court in six weeks for sentencing submissions. [Emphasis added.]
• Former Sacred Heart priest pleads [1980s Farwell] -- RCC. Boys.

   Salisbury Post, http://slspublish.bits.baseview.com/area/281829128014060.php , By Jonathan Weaver
   SALISBURY (NC): Though he denied the allegations up through his sentencing, a priest who previously served at Sacred Heart Catholic Church pleaded no contest to a reduced charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a misdemeanor offense.
   Richard B. Farwell, a priest at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in 1983 and 1984, entered the plea in Superior Court Tuesday and was sentenced to 180 days of probation. Judge Erwin Spainhour also ordered him to undergo psychiatric counseling, and he must complete 100 hours of community service work.
   Farwell was originally charged in August with more serious crimes - two counts of taking indecent liberties with two boys while he was in Salisbury.
   The second charge was dismissed Tuesday and the first reduced to the misdemeanor offense as part of the plea agreement.
• A telling loss for the church -- RCC. Senator Walsh re-elected.
   Boston Globe, By Eileen McNamara, Globe Columnist, November 3, 2004
   BOSTON (MA): The Catholic Church in Boston is one of the big political losers this morning.
   Senator Marian Walsh is going back to Beacon Hill, the voters in one of the most conservative Catholic districts in Massachusetts having ignored the counsel of their bishop and cast their ballots for a whole person instead of a single issue.
   It had been bad enough that Walsh was the only legislator to call in 2002 for the prosecution as well as for the resignation of Cardinal Bernard F. Law in response to the clergy sex-abuse scandal.
   The West Roxbury Democrat and lifelong Catholic then rejected the urgent appeals of Archbishop Sean P. O'Malley last spring and voted against a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.
   This modest lawmaker, a state senator since 1993, all but painted a target on her back.
   The Massachusetts Catholic Conference, the church's lobbying arm, put Walsh at the top of its list of incumbents who needed to "feel the backlash in November," in the words of an editorial in The Pilot, the house organ of the Archdiocese of Boston.
   Instead, Walsh defeated handily Robert Joyce of Roslindale, a lawyer running as an independent who made his commitment to "defend traditional marriage" the centerpiece of his campaign in a district that encompasses West Roxbury, Hyde Park, Roslindale, Dedham, Westwood, and Norwood. [Emphasis added]
• Priest abuse cases argued -- RCC. Boy
   Detroit Free Press, BY DAVID CRUMM, FREE PRESS RELIGION WRITER, November 3, 2004
   DETROIT (MI): In one Detroit courtroom on Tuesday, the Catholic Church squared off against an effort to open the floodgates to lawsuits from people who say they were sexually abused by priests many years ago.
   In a nearby courtroom at the same time, a priest convicted in 2002 of abusing a schoolboy tried to win a new trial and a chance at returning to parish work.
   The hearings signified that, after nearly three years of scandal and the suspension of dozens of accused priests across Michigan, two of the most troubling questions in the crisis finally are moving toward resolution.
   They are: Will victims be able to win compensation in the courts after so many years have passed? And, will accused priests once thought to be permanently barred from ministry find their way back into parishes?
   Michigan Courts of Appeals considered issues related to both questions Tuesday in Detroit.
   In the first case, Okemos attorney Allan Falk argued that he should be able to proceed with a lawsuit against the Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit on behalf of a victim sexually abused over a four-year period in the 1970s. Even though the state's statute of limitations has run out on this claim, Falk accused church officials of having fraudulently hidden their role in sheltering and shuffling abusive priests between parishes. [Emphasis added]
• Beauregard minister again faces charges of child molestation [Massey] -- Baptist. Boy, girl.
   The Town Talk, by Mandy M. Goodnight, Posted on November 2, 2004
   MANY (LA) - For a second time, a Beauregard Parish Baptist minister finds himself behind bars on sexual misconduct charges.
   The Rev. Paul Massey was arrested Monday in Beauregard Parish and again faces allegations that he molested children.
   This time, a Sabine Parish grand jury indicted Massey after two adults levied complaints that he sexually abused them as children.
   In September, the former Rosepine First Baptist Church pastor was arrested in Beauregard Parish on molestation charges, authorities said.
   Massey's future could hold even more arrests and charges.
   Detectives in Allen Parish are also preparing an investigative file on allegations against the 48-year-old Rosepine minister. [...]
   In the Beauregard Parish case, the Associated Press reported that the children involved were a preteen boy and a preteen girl, and the alleged misconduct did not happen in a church.
   Allen Parish authorities said they have had two victims come forward.
   Their allegations stem from canoe trips, involving Massey and children. They did not say if the trips were church-related or not. ...
• Baptist pastor accused of molestation arrested [1993-94 Massey] -- Baptist.
   Shreveport Times, www.shreveport times.com/apps/ pbcs.dll/article? AID=/20041103/ NEWS01/411030 329/1002/NEWS
   MANY (LA) -- A Baptist pastor turned himself in and was arrested late Monday in Beauregard Parish after being indicted by a Sabine grand jury on three counts of molestation of a juvenile.
   Paul D. Massey, 48, of Rosepine was scheduled to be picked up Tuesday by Sabine authorities and booked into the Sabine Jail in Many. A spokesman would not say if that occurred. Once booked, Massey will have to post a $90,000 bail bond to be released pending trial.
   Two adults allege that Massey sexually molested them when they, as preteens, accompanied him on a camping and fishing trip to a state park on Toledo Bend Reservoir. The victims who came forward in Sabine live in other parishes. The two were 10 to 12 years old at the time of the alleged incidents in 1993 and 1994.
   Massey did not pastor a church in Sabine but did visit the parish on outings. The alleged incidents did not happen on any church-related function, authorities said.
• Ex-priest seeks public defender [1998 Buzanowski] -- RCC. Boy.
   Press-Gazette, www.greenbay pressgazette. com/news/arch ive/local_184 72565.shtml By Andy Nelesen, anelesen@greenbaypressgazette.com ,
   GREEN BAY (WI): A 61-year-old former priest accused of molesting a 10-year-old boy in 1988 doesn't qualify for a public defender and has asked for a judge to appoint him a lawyer.
   Donald Buzanowski, currently of Milwaukee, faces two counts of sexual assault of a child and is being held in the Brown County Jail in lieu of $100,000 bail. Buzanowski was a pastor at St. John's Catholic Church in Green Bay when the alleged molestations occurred. Buzanowski served as a counselor at Ss. Peter & Paul Catholic School at the time.
   Buzanowski has resigned his position with the church; he has not been defrocked by the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay. If convicted, Buzanowski faces 40 years in prison.
   Brown County Court Commissioner Lawrence Gazeley set Buzanowski's next hearing for Nov. 16.
• Arima church in uproar over 'sexy' pastor [2004] -- Born again church. Married women.

   Newsday, By Samuel Mcknight, Wednesday 03rd November 2004
   TRINIDAD: Members of a "born again" church in Arima are threatening boycott and damnation on church administrators who, they claim, are trying to bring back a pastor who was suspended three months ago, after three female members admitted being sexually active with him.
   "Not only has this pastor gone against the body of the church, which does not approve of adultery in any form, but he has not shown remorse. The concern now is - how could he stand on a pulpit and speak about sin and the church's view on it, when he himself is very guilty?
   "What example is being shown to the young and new converts. How could he tell them about not committing sin, when he is rolling in it? We are not angry because he has committed a sin, but because he has not sought forgiveness of the congregation he represents.
   "The same congregation he stands before and accuses of sin and damnation if they do not repent in public before God."
   According to reports, three members between the ages of 25 and 28, all married and all holding senior positions in the church, admitted they have been sexually active with the married pastor, during the past several months.
   The pastor, 34, was removed from his position and suspended from the church, but recently has returned doing small jobs like counselling and workshops. ...
• Confession: The New Group Offers Talkbacks at Sin (A Cardinal Deposed) Performances -- RCC.

   Playbill, By Ernio Hernandez, Nov 02, 2004
   NEW YORK: The New Group will present a series of Wednesday evening post-show talkbacks for its current staging of Sin (A Cardinal Deposed), starting Nov. 3 at The Clurman Theater.
   Featuring director Carl Forsman with select cast members and guests, the Q&A discussions will focus on the issues pertaining to the play. Talkbacks will follow 8 PM Wednesday performances of the Michael Murphy work.
• A Dangerous Precedent? -- RCC.
   Catholic World News www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory. cfm?recnum=33162 , By Brian K. O'Neel, Oct 2004
In bankruptcy proceedings for the Archdiocese of Portland, the key question is whether parish churches and schools are actually the property of the archdiocese.
   PORTLAND (OR): (CWR) - When the Archdiocese of Portland declared bankruptcy on July 6, it came as a shock. The move shocked many veteran observers of Catholic affairs, who had been certain that a different solution would be found. It shocked the plaintiffs whose sexual-abuse lawsuits were supposed to have opened in court later that week. It shocked experts in the bankruptcy field, because this was the first time in US history - and possibly world history - that a religious entity of such size had filed for debtor protection.
   The archdiocese's legal case raises a host of fascinating questions. First is the issue of ownership. Canon law and civil law take two different views regarding the ownership of parish property. The Portland archdiocese claims to operate under canon law, which holds that parishes are separate corporate entities. Civil law says that the archdiocese is the sole corporate entity, and thus it owns all parish property. Which view will prevail?
   There are other Church-state ramifications to the case. In a normal bankruptcy proceeding, the court has the right to move in and veto any decisions made by the company's executive. It can appoint a trustee to monitor every move the business takes. However, the debtor in this situation is the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland, a strictly religious body. Since the US Constitution explicitly states the government may make no law concerning the establishment of religion, where does that leave the bankruptcy court?
   [COMMENT: If the parishes are separate in canon law, how come that whenever a clergyman breaks away from the Vatican, he ends up having to leave the parish property, even if his parishioners are supporting him? Or is there another secret document yet to be revealed? COMMENT ENDS.]
• Prosecutors working to nab priests on run [Colleary, Henn, Briceno] -- RCC.

   The Arizona Republic, www.azcentral. com/arizona republic/local /articles/1103 wvwaterrat es03.html , by Jim Walsh, Nov. 3, 2004
   MESA (AZ) - Accused priests are pleading guilty to sex charges and the Catholic Diocese of Phoenix says protecting children is a "top priority," but there's still unfinished business for prosecutors.
   Three of the eight priests indicted on sex charges have eluded prosecution by fleeing to Ireland and Italy. The third has not been located but authorities believe he is in Mexico.
   After months of time-consuming extradition proceedings, a court in Ireland will consider Nov. 12 whether the Rev. Patrick Colleary should be forced to stand trial on two counts of sexual conduct with a minor and one count of attempted sexual conduct with a minor.
   Prosecutors also are working to return the Rev. Joseph Henn, whose location is known in Italy, and the Rev. Joseph Briceno, who is believed to be in Mexico.
• Priest sex abuse suits may go forward -- RCC.

   The Morning Call, www.mcall.com/ news/local/all- 5diocesenov03, 0,1291270.story? coll=all-news local-hed , By Debbie Garlicki, November 3, 2004
   ALLENTOWN (PA): The state Superior Court won't hear arguments by the Allentown Catholic Diocese that Lehigh County lawsuits filed by alleged victims of priest sexual abuse should not be allowed to proceed.
   On Friday, the court denied a petition by the diocese for permission to appeal a June order by three Lehigh County judges who did not dismiss the suits.
   The diocese had asked the judges to throw out the complaints, arguing that the statute of limitations for filing them had expired.
   When the diocese lost at the county level, it sought to have the appellate court decide whether the adult plaintiffs, who allege that they were abused as children, waited too long to file their suits.
   The appellate court's one-sentence order was considered a victory by the plaintiffs' lawyer, Jay N. Abramowitch, who filed the suits in Lehigh County and elsewhere in the state.
• VOTF conference slated -- RCC.
   Telegram & Gazette, www.telegram. com/apps/pbcs. dll/article? AID=/20041103/ NEWS/111030091/ 1006/NEWS07 , By Kathleen A. Shaw, kshaw@telegram.com , Wednesday, November 3, 2004
   WORCESTER(MA) - Members of Voice of the Faithful from across New England will descend on the DCU Center Nov. 13 for their New England Regional Conference.
   The conference is expected to draw hundreds of Catholic lay people and clergy, including some of the leading figures that emerged within the church in wake of the clergy sexual abuse scandal.
   The theme is "It's not History - It's Time for Renewal." More than 500 people from the New England states already have signed on, according to Suzanne Morse, VOTF communications director.
   The conference will begin at 8:45 a.m. and will end with Mass at 5 p.m. Registration is $45, which will include a box lunch, and registration can be done at the door or online at www.votf.org.
   Voice of the Faithful formed in the Boston area in 2002 as the clergy abuse scandal gained momentum. The organization includes Catholic lay people and clergy whose goal is to support victims of clergy sexual abuse, support what they call priests of integrity and work for structural change in the Catholic Church. The organization now has chapters all over the United States, including one in Worcester that meets at College of the Holy Cross.
   The conference will draw people in national leadership positions within the church and among the various victim and survivor support and advocacy groups and those who are looking for changes within the church.
   Although VOTF members have pledged to stay in and work within the church, they do not have support from many American bishops. Some have denied the organization permission to meet on church property.
   The Catholic Free Press, newspaper of the Diocese of Worcester, has declined to accept an advertisement for the upcoming conference from VOTF. Editor Margaret M. Russell said Bishop Robert J. McManus, who is publisher, said the newspaper would accept no ads from Voice of the Faithful. Ms. Morse said the organization also has been denied advertising space in the diocesan newspapers for Long Island, N.Y., and San Francisco, Calif.
   The Rev. Thomas Doyle, the Dominican priest who wrote the first [?] report in the 1980s warning American bishops of the looming scandal, will present the Priest of Integrity Award to the Rev. James Scahill of East Longmeadow. Rev. Scahill worked with his parishioners to withhold money from the Springfield diocese until the diocese stopped supporting the Rev. Richard Lavigne, who was convicted of sexually abusing children. Mr. Lavigne has since been defrocked, the support checks have stopped and Rev. Scahill turned over the money to the diocese.
   The Rev. Robert Silva, president of the National Federation of Priests Council, an advocate for civil rights of accused priests, also will participate.
   The attendees also will include David Clohessy, national director of Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests [SNAP], and Susan Archibald, president of the Link-Up, another victim-support and advocacy group; Susan Gallagher of Coalition of Catholics and Survivors; and Peter Pollard of Springfield SNAP.
   The conference will welcome its share of writers: authors Jason Berry and Gerald Renner, who co-wrote "Vows of Silence: The Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II," David France, who wrote "Our Fathers," another book about the scandal; Eileen P. Flynn, author of "Catholics at a Crossroads: Coverup, Crisis and Cure;" David Gilson, who wrote "The Coming Catholic Church: How the Faithful are Shaping a New American Catholicism;" Paul Lakeland, author of "The Liberation of the Laity: In Search of an Accountable Church."
   But the list of speakers also includes people from the Diocese of Worcester, including Patricia Engdahl, who directs the diocese Office of Healing and Prevention, who will participate in a panel discussion on church safety; Pam Chapin, convener of the worship committee at Sacred Heart parish, Hopedale; the Rev. William A. Clark, S.J., theology professor at College of the Holy Cross and analyst of the declarations of Vatican II as they pertain to the laity; Cynthia Desrosiers of Maine, a former Southbridge resident and clergy abuse survivor; David O'Brien, professor at College of the Holy Cross and an expert on the American church; Frank Kartheiser, member of the diocesan Pastoral Planning Committee; and Phil Saviano, formerly of East Douglas, founder of the New England SNAP chapter.
   Laura Failla Reilly, director of Counseling and Prevention Services for the Springfield diocese, will attend along with Deacon Anthony Rizzuto, director of the Office of Child Advocacy, Implementation and Oversight for the Boston Archdiocese.
   Jetta Bernier, executive director of Massachusetts Citizens for Children, is expected to make an appearance. Others will include Sister Betsy Conway, national VOTF secretary, Jim Post, president and co-founder of VOTF, William Dittrich, director of the Boston Archdiocese Institute of Ministry, Anne Barrett Doyle and Terry McKiernan, co-founders; former Lt. Gov. Thomas P. O'Neill, III, currently CEO of O'Neill and Associates; Gail Pohlhaus, theology and women's studies professor at Villanova University. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 06:59 AM]
////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker www.ncrnews.org/abuse , Wed November 03, 2004
Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont103.htm
For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed.
#### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.ncrnews.org/abuse, Thu November 04, 2004 edition follows:-
• Charlotte diocese to decide priest's fate [Farwell] -- RCC.

   Charlotte Observer, www.charlotte. com/mld/observer/ news/local/10 099255.htm , Associated Press, Thu, Nov. 04, 2004
   SALISBURY, N.C. - The Catholic Diocese of Charlotte's Lay Review Board soon will determine whether to take action against a priest who pleaded no contest to contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
   The incident occurred while Richard Farwell was serving Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Salisbury.
   The board will review the case, then make a confidential recommendation to Bishop Peter J. Jugis, who would have the final ruling, said David Hains, spokesman for the Catholic Diocese of Charlotte.
   Farwell continues to be on administrative leave from the Diocese of Charlotte pending the board's decision, but he cannot present himself in public as a priest, Hains said. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 05:45 PM]
• Abuse victim to speak at VOTF -- RCC. Gary Bergeron coming.
   The Reading, Thursday, November 4, 2004
   WINCHESTER (MA): On Monday, Nov. 8, at 7:30 p.m., the Winchester Area Voice of the Faithful welcomes Gary Bergeron to its weekly Monday night meeting at St. Eulalia's Church, 50 Ridge St., Winchester. Admission is free, and all are welcome to attend.
   Gary Bergeon is the author of "Don't Call Me a Victim: Faith, Hope & Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church". Bergeon was one of the founding members of the group "Survivors of Joe Birmingham" which was one of the only support groups formed for male survivors of clergy sexual abuse. In March 2003, Bergeon, along with his father, traveled to the Vatican in an attempt to meet with Pope John Paul II.
• Ex-priest's release sparks outburst [Creen] -- RCC. 18 girls, including flower girl.

   The Courier-Mail, Brisbane, Qld, www.thecouriermail. news.com.au/ common/story_ page/0,5936, 11288965%255 E421,00.html , By Tony Keim and Amanda Watt, for Nov 05, 04
   AUSTRALIA: A former Catholic priest who molested 18 girls, including the flower girl at a wedding and others to whom he gave confessional absolution, will walk free from jail within days despite yesterday being convicted of molesting another two girls.
   The Brisbane District Court decision not to impose an additional term of actual custody upon Neville Joseph Creen so incensed one of his victims she yelled abuse at him as he was led to the court cells.
   The victim, aged in her late 30s and who cannot be identified, whispered words of exasperation as it became clear the Crown was asking Creen be given a wholly suspended two-year prison term.
   "Not even one day extra (in prison) Mr Creen. I hope you're happy," the incensed woman said to him.
   Judge Brian Boulton was told Creen was jailed for 3 1/2 years in September last year, but the term was ordered to be suspended after he had spent 14 months in custody.
• Paedophile priest to walk free [1970s Creen] -- RCC. 22 girls.
   The Age, Melbourne, Vic., November 4, 2004
   AUSTRALIA: A former Catholic priest jailed in Queensland for child sex offences will walk free next week despite today pleading guilty to further charges.
   Neville Joseph Creen, 64, was jailed for three-and-a-half years in September 2003, to be suspended after 14 months, after pleading guilty to 34 counts of indecent dealing of 20 girls aged between four and 13.
   He was due for release next Monday.
   Today, he pleaded guilty to a further six charges of indecent dealing of two more girls under 12.
   The Brisbane District Court was told the latest offences were committed when he was a priest in Mt Isa, in Queensland's far west, in the 1970s, probably during the same time he had committed the other offences.
   The court was told Creen, who dealt with a number of daughters of his parishioners, committed his offences while the children sat on his lap.
   He had slipped his hand under the girls' clothing to touch them in the genital region, even when their parents were in the room, and on two occasions had penetrated them digitally.
• Ex-priest guilty of child abuse [? 2000s] -- Mormon. Girl.
   Herald Sun (Melbourne, Vic), www.heraldsun. news.com.au/ common/story_ page/0,5478, 11285179% 255E170 2,00.html , By Alex Wilson, Nov 04, 04
   AUSTRALIA: A former policeman and Mormon priest was sentenced to jail today for sexually abusing his 10-year-old step-granddaughter.
   The 47-year-old Victorian, whose identity was suppressed to protect his young victim, was sentenced in the Broadmeadows Magistrates' Court to 18 months jail with a non-parole period of 12 months.
   Police prosecutor Sergeant Val Ciacia said the man had abused the girl, who was his second wife's granddaughter, on four separate occasions, rubbing her genitals and once masturbating in front of her.
   The court was told that on one occasion when the girl was staying at the man's house and her mother was away the man had climbed into the girl's bed with no pants on and rubbed her genitals.
   Mr Ciacia said the girl's mother had come home and caught the man in the girl's room. [...]
   The court was told the man had been on bail for similar offences at the time. [...]
• Church destroyed list of abuse victims [1998 or later] -- Anglican.
   Ninemsn, news.ninemsn. com.au/article. aspx?id=21573 , 11:57 AEST, Thu Nov 4 2004
   AUSTRALIA: A list of the names of victims who were sexually abused by clergy of the Anglican Church has been destroyed, The Mercury reports.
   The church has confirmed that the list of names, compiled in 1997 and 1998 in an inquiry, no longer exists, the paper said.
   Police discovered the list had been destroyed when they asked the Anglican Church to provide the names during a recent inquiry into sexual abuse its clergy.
   Inspector Glenn Lathey of Hobart CIB said detectives were told the list no longer existed. "It was our understanding at the time of our investigation a list was compiled by the church," Inspector Lathey said
   "Our investigations failed to locate it."
• Diocese remains at risk -- RCC. 25 claimants.

   Herald News, www.northjersey. com/page.php? qstr=eXJpcnk3 ZjczN2Y3dnFlZU VFeXk1JmZnYmVsN 2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk 2NjA5MDYyJnlya XJ5N2Y3MTdmN 3ZxZWVFRXl5Mw== ; By MAKEBA SCOTT HUNTER, Thursday, November 4, 2004
   NEW JERSEY: A Morris County judge Wednesday refused to dismiss a civil suit against the Diocese of Paterson brought by 25 people who claim to have been sexually abused as children by Catholic priests.
   Before a packed courtroom, Judge Deanne M. Wilson denied a motion by the diocese, stating that she needed more facts about the alleged victims' mental states before she could make a fair ruling. She requested that each side present more evidence and submit to a pretrial hearing in the near future.
   "Today's ruling by the New Jersey Superior Court is an important and dramatic victory for the 25 people I represent," said lead plaintiff attorney Gregory G. Gianforcaro during a press conference on the courthouse steps.
   Marianna Thompson, spokeswoman for the Diocese, noted that the judge dismissed the motion "without prejudice," meaning defense attorneys could ask for dismissal at another time.
• Priest pleads no contest to incident from '80s; Farwell given probation in case involving former altar boy's accusation [1980s Farwell] -- RCC. Altar boy.
   Charlotte Observer, By KEN GARFIELD, Religion Editor
   NORTH CAROLINA: A priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte pleaded no contest Tuesday to contributing to the delinquency of a minor -- a misdemeanor stemming from an incident in Salisbury about 20 years ago.
   Richard Farwell, 56, was sentenced to 18 months of supervised probation. He was ordered to undergo psychiatric counseling and complete 100 hours of community service after agreeing to the plea in Rowan County Superior Court. He also must not be alone with anyone under age 18.
   Farwell had been charged with two felony counts of taking indecent liberties with a child, stemming from incidents that allegedly occurred at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Salisbury in the mid-1980s. One charge was dismissed and the other reduced to a misdemeanor.
   Under such a plea, the punishment is accepted without admission of wrongdoing. Farwell's lawyer, David Bingham of Salisbury, said his client lives in Florida. Allegations first arose in 1999. [...]
   Hains said that because it's a personnel matter, he couldn't say whether Farwell is being financially supported by the diocese. #
• Church abuse hearing set [1970s Broussard] -- RCC. 7 lawsuits.
   Sun Herald, www.sunherald. com/mld/sunherald/ news/state/10 093690.htm , THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Posted on Thu, Nov. 04, 2004
   JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI - The Mississippi Supreme Court will hear arguments Dec. 13 in lawsuits alleging sexual abuse in the Jackson Diocese of the Catholic Church.
   Two cases, consolidated in the appeal, seeking $48 million in damages are on hold in Hinds County Circuit Court while the Supreme Court considers a motion by the diocese to have the cases dismissed.
   In July, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests filed what is called a "friend of the court brief" in which SNAP, although not a party to the lawsuit, says it believes the court's decision may affect its interest.
   The lawsuits were filed by Kenneth, Thomas and Francis Morrison.
   The diocese argues that the separation of church and state makes the church autonomous and that certain church documents are privileged. The diocese said the Morrisons' lawsuit demands "that the diocese surrender some, if not all, of its defenses."
   At least seven civil lawsuits by alleged victims of sexual abuse seeking a total of $258 million have been filed against the Catholic Diocese of Jackson, according to the diocese.
   One suit was recently dismissed by a circuit judge because the statute of limitations had run out.
   The Morrisons say they were abused by the Rev. George Broussard when they were children in the 1970s. #
• Warning about ex-priest urged [1990s Voss] -- RCC. 8 males

   Haiti-Info.com ; www.haiti-info.com/ article.php 3?id_arti cle=2738
   HAITI: A former priest accused of abusing eight male teenagers in Indiana a decade ago poses an ongoing threat to children in Haiti, and the Catholic Church should do something to stop him, a national group that represents abuse victims said Friday.
   The Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, said Indiana’s Catholic bishops also should do more to find others victimized by Ron Voss, who resigned his ministry in 1993 and now lives in Haiti.
   "We would like to see the bishops do what Jesus Christ told us to do - go out and find the lost and wounded sheep," David Clohessy, SNAP’s national director, said at a news conference in front of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis headquarters.
   Voss was a priest in the Diocese of Lafayette, which was the subject of a report that appeared in The Indianapolis Star in 1997. It documented claims of abuse against 16 priests, including Voss, and that diocese’s effort to keep the cases quiet.
   Voss was not criminally charged.
   Efforts to reach him in Haiti were unsuccessful.
• The Principal, the Pedophile, His Pastor, Her Parish [Allen-Faiella, Sypnieski] -- Episcopalian. Boy.

   Miami New Times, www.miaminewtimes. com/issues/ 2004-11-04/ korten.html , BY TRISTRAM KORTEN, tristram.korten@miaminewtimes.com , November 4, 2004
   FLORIDA: As an Episcopalian pastor, the Rev. Wilifred Allen-Faiella has a reputation for being an outspoken advocate of social justice and Christian compassion. As the top administrator of her Coconut Grove parish, which includes an expensive and elite elementary school, Allen-Faiella has a somewhat different reputation -- that of an autocrat whose judgment can't be trusted.
   Among the reasons: Allen-Faiella allowed a convicted pedophile to volunteer in the thrift shop next to St. Stephen's Episcopal Day School. When parents discovered the man's criminal record, Allen-Faiella failed to take immediate action, so the school's principal, Carol Shabe, forcefully confronted the pastor, demanding that the man's school access be revoked at once.
   That incident was one of several problems between the principal and the pastor. On October 11 Allen-Faiella fired Shabe over the objections of several members of the school's board of trustees and perhaps in violation of her contract. Allen-Faiella, for her part, denies that Shabe's termination resulted from the pedophile controversy. "She was removed after lengthy divisiveness and a difficult relationship with the school," the pastor says. Shabe, principal for just two years, had been recruited for the $130,000 job from Washington, D.C., after a national search. [...]
   The controversy now enveloping St. Stephen's began about a year ago, in late October or early November 2003, when a 79-year-old member of the church named Steven Eddie Sypnieski asked to volunteer at the Twice Around thrift shop located on the parish grounds next to the school. He was given a key to open the gate to the parish so he could work on Saturdays in addition to weekdays, and another key to an adult bathroom in the school. Like other volunteers, he was permitted to eat in the school's cafeteria, although not during student lunch hours. [...]
   Apparently Allen-Faiella didn't bother to check Sypnieski's criminal record, easily accessible on the clerk of courts Website (www.miami-dadeclerk.com/dadecoc ). In 1992 Miami-Dade police arrested Sypnieski for sexual battery on a minor. According to the arrest affidavit, Sypnieski was baby-sitting an eight-year-old boy. [...] "... He then forcibly inserted his penis into the victim's rectum.... The subject, on 5-22-92, gave a confession outlining his involvement in this case." [...]
   Allen-Faiella never held that meeting. Another parent discovered the same sex-offender information on January 6 and ran straight to the school's principal, Carol Shabe, who sprang into crisis-management mode. [...]
   In fact she claims that Shabe told her: "We're just going to keep this quiet. No reason to get people alarmed." (Shabe has told parents she doesn't recall such a conversation.) [...]
   Shabe, meanwhile, has hired an attorney to contest her dismissal. Several parents have contributed to the ex-principal's legal fund, money they had intended to donate to St. Stephen's. # [Emphasis added]
• Ad campaign will seek out clergy abuse victims -- RCC. 22 lawsuits.
   Fox 11, By Stephanie Innes / Arizona Daily Star, 05:24 PM MST on Wednesday, November 3, 2004
   TUCSON (AZ): An advertising campaign aimed at anyone who was molested by a Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson priest as a child is expected to begin this month.
   Federal Bankruptcy Judge James M. Marlar on Wednesday gave a preliminary stamp of approval to claims forms and public notices that will be advertised nationally and in Mexico in an effort to reach potential abuse victims by April 15, 2005 - the deadline for filing any claims against the Diocese.
   Marlar is expected to approve a Spanish version of the forms within the week.
   The diocese filed for federal Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Sept. 20 in the face of 22 lawsuits alleging sexual abuse of children by clergy members who worked here. The cases have been temporarily stayed while the diocese is in the bankruptcy process.
• Church bankruptcy plan under fire -- RCC.
   The Arizona Republic, www.azcentral. com/arizonare public/local/ articles/1104 diocesebank ruptcy04.html , by Arthur H. Rotstein, Associated Press, Nov. 4, 2004
   TUCSON (AZ) - A lawyer representing potential claimants in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson's bankruptcy proceedings needs broader authority to find victims of clergy sexual abuse, a self-described victim told a bankruptcy judge Wednesday.
   Attorney A. Bates Butler III should have more leeway to find victims who haven't come forward, Reginald Lewis told U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge James Marlar.
   Marlar was making Butler's appointment final when Lewis objected to restrictions he perceived on Butler, saying there are undiscovered victims the church knows about.
   The court "has a duty to these children who were raped. If you discover these children, you should throw this bankruptcy out as a fraud. This is not about money," Lewis told Marlar.
   At an earlier hearing, Lewis described himself as a victim in Tucson's priest abuse scandal and said he has not filed a lawsuit against the diocese.
• Abuse Case Against Diocese Is to Proceed -- RCC. 25 boys. $US2.8m wasted.
   The New York Times, www.nytimes. com/2004/11/ 04/nyregion/ 04priest.html By ROBERT HANLEY, Published: November 4, 2004
   MORRISTOWN, N.J., Nov. 3 - A sexual abuse lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Paterson, its former bishop and several churches and schools cleared a legal hurdle Wednesday when a New Jersey judge rejected a diocesan motion to dismiss the suit.
   The judge, Deanne Wilson, of New Jersey Superior Court, rejected arguments by a lawyer for the diocese that under the statutes of limitation, the filing deadline for the suit lapsed years ago. Judge Wilson's ruling allowed the lawsuit brought by 25 men and six of their wives to proceed. They are seeking unspecified financial damages and nonmonetary relief from the diocese.
   The Paterson Diocese's decision to fight the lawsuit, which charges negligence in the abuse of young boys, comes after other Catholic dioceses in New Jersey and elsewhere have settled sex abuse lawsuits brought by former altar boys and other victims. In early October, the Archdiocese of Newark paid $1.1 million to seven men and two women who said they had been sexually abused as children by nine priests.
   In October 2003, the Diocese of Bridgeport, Conn., announced an agreement to pay $21 million to 40 people who contended they were abused by priests. Several months before that, the Diocese of Camden in southern New Jersey paid $880,000 to resolve 23 abuse claims.
   Since 1950, the Paterson Diocese has paid about $2.8 million in settlements, legal fees, therapy and counseling related to sexual abuse by priests, the most recent last December, said Marianna Thompson, a spokeswoman for the diocese. Ms. Thompson declined to give details on why the diocese is fighting the latest suit in court.
• Judge refuses to dismiss priest abuse suit [1968-82 Hanley, 21 victims] -- RCC. 26 boys.
   Star-Ledger, www.nj.com/ news/ledger/ jersey/index. ssf?/base/news- 7/109955107 0278900.xml , BY JEFF DIAMANT, Star-Ledger Staff, Thursday, November 04, 2004
   NEW JERSEY: Twenty-six men who have accused Catholic priests of sexually abusing them as children cleared a legal hurdle yesterday when a judge declined a request from the Diocese of Paterson to dismiss a lawsuit against it.
   The ruling by Superior Court Judge Deanne Wilson in Morristown gives the plaintiffs a chance to argue one by one at pretrial hearings that their decades-old claims against the diocese should be exempt from regular statutes of limitations and proceed to trial.
   At a news conference outside the Morris County Courthouse after yesterday's ruling, Gregory Gianforcaro, lawyer for most of the plaintiffs, called Wilson's decision "an important and dramatic victory for the 25 people I represent who were sexually abused by Catholic priests."
   Twenty-one of the plaintiffs say the former Rev. James Hanley abused them at the Church of St. Joseph in Mendham or Our Lady of Good Counsel in Pompton Plains between 1968 and 1982, and contend diocese negligence and inaction allowed that abuse. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 01:38 AM]
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• SBS screening documentary on abuse by nuns. - RCC. Film Unholy Orders

CathNews from Church Resources, Australia, http://www.cathnews.com/news/411/30.php , Nov 4, 2004
AUSTRALIA and SCOTLAND: *Unholy Orders*, front cover

The Australian SBS TV network will tonight show Unholy Orders, which presents the view of a group of people fighting back against the Scottish nuns they accuse of abusing and silencing them as children.
   In May 1997, newspapers broke the story of abuse in Scottish orphanages by nuns. A class action formed and quickly escalated to four hundred and fifty people. Claims are for abuse that spread from the 1920s to the late 1970s, charging the nuns with degrading and inhumane punishment. Cath Yeomans, now living in Australia, is the oldest claimant. She and her sisters spent ten years in an institution run by the Sisters of Nazareth in Glasgow.
   When ill health prevented Cath from returning to Scotland to settle her past, filmmaker Geraldine Gandolfo, who had made a successful claim against the Church, offered to go to Scotland as Cath's go-between.
   Gandolfo and some of the participants in the film join a crowd of survivors and press for the sentencing. Despite being found guilty on four charges, she was let off without a jail sentence or a fine. Publicity for the film states that even after this case, the Church and the nuns continued to deny that the abuse had taken place and refused to apologise.
   Unholy Orders, part of the Storyline Australia collection of documentaries that screens on Thursdays at 8:30 pm, is an Australian production made with funding assistance from SBS Independent.
   SOURCE: Storyline Australia: Unholy Orders (Sydney Morning Herald 4/11/04)
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• Redress list excludes key groups -- Church of Ireland. Orphans.

   One in Four, http://onein four.org/news/ news2004/lists
   IRELAND: There is a group of people in this country who believe that they are being discriminated against purely on the basis of their religion. Had they been born Catholic, they argue, they would now be better treated, writes Mary Raftery - Irish Times www.ireland. com/newspaper/ opinion/2004/11 04/221080 7765OPRAF TERY.html , Nov 4, 2004
   These are the former residents of a number of Church of Ireland children's homes which remain excluded from the remit of the Residential Institutions Redress Board.
   The individuals concerned had great hopes that their situation would have been rectified last week, when the Government finally announced its additions to the list of institutions where those who suffered childhood abuse may now seek compensation.
   We have been waiting a long time for these additions. The list has apparently been up and back to Cabinet on several occasions. Initially there was talk of a further 50 institutions qualifying for redress, then it went down to 30. The final total added only 13.
   Some Church of Ireland homes have always been on the Redress list. However, two, in particular, remain excluded, despite intensive lobbying from former residents. One of these is the Bethany Home in Rathgar. It was principally a mother and baby home, but maintained children until at least the age of three.
   Derek Linster spent some years at Bethany as a young child. He has obtained his medical records, which show that he was transferred at the age of three from Bethany to a fever hospital, suffering from a range of illnesses which he argues could have been caused by neglect. [...]
   But it is not only in this area that the Government should think again. Its meanness in the redress area also extends to another group, equally small but just as important. These are the children sent from industrial schools directly into Magdalen laundries.
   We have it on the best authority possible that there were at least 70 children in this category in 1970. This is clearly identified by that era's official inquiry into industrial schools, chaired by Justice Eileen Kennedy. [...] [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 06:49 AM]
• Biddeford church abuse victim pursuing another small-claims lawsuit [? 1970s Doucette] -- RCC. Priest removed, reinstated, removed. Boy.

   Foster's Daily Democrat, http://www4. fosters.com/ november_2004/ 11.05.04/news/ ap_me 1105c.asp , Nov 5, 2004
   PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - A Biddeford native who was sexually abused as a child by a Catholic priest is pursuing a small-claims lawsuit against Portland’s Roman Catholic Bishop despite the church already paying for his therapy.
   David Gagnon, who now lives in Canada, said he has had to file two separate small-claims cases against the church to get payment for acupressure therapy he received as treatment from the effects of childhood sexual abuse.
   "If I have to sue them again it would be the third time," Gagnon said. "I don’t want to have to go through this again." [...]
   Gagnon, 39, was abused more than two decades ago by Michael Doucette, who was then pastor at St. Andre’s Church in Biddeford. Through his lawyer, Gagnon negotiated a settlement with the diocese and Doucette in 1993.
   Doucette, who admitted his conduct, was allowed to return to the priesthood, but was removed from active ministry in 2002. [...]
• Man pursues suit against church [? 1970s Doucette] -- RCC. Priest removed, reinstated, removed. Boy.
   Portland Press Herald, By GREGORY D. KESICH, Nov 5, 2004
   PORTLAND (ME): A victim of sexual abuse by a priest plans to pursue his small-claims lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Bishop of Portland, even though the church has already paid his overdue therapy bills.
   David Gagnon, who now lives in Canada, said he has had to file two separate small-claims cases against the church to get payment for acupressure therapy he received as treatment from the effects of childhood sexual abuse. Gagnon said he will go forward with the current case in the hopes of getting a court to order church officials to pay his future bills. [Next sentences are similar to other newsitem]
• 'Pedophile' priest faces committal [1973-74, 1993 Klep (Salesian)] -- RCC. Boy/s. 9 more complainants.

   The Australian, www.theaustralian. news.com.au/ common/story_ page/0,5744, 112869 41%255 E1702,00.html , By Adam Morton, November 04, 2004
  AUSTRALIA: Nine alleged victims would give evidence at a committal hearing against accused pedophile priest Frank Klep, a Victorian court was told today.
   Klep stayed outside the Melbourne Magistrates Court room as Magistrate Jelena Popovic ordered he face the preliminary hearing from March 29 on multiple counts of indecent assault.
   Ms Popovic today said she had read the brief of evidence, which included testimony from the nine alleged victims over assaults that happened "a long time ago".
   Five of the counts related to alleged sex attacks on a 15-year-old boy in 1973, while Klep was teaching at the Salesian order's Rupertswood College in Sunbury, on Melbourne's suburban north-western fringe. [...]
   The 61-year-old was charged in May 1998, a month after he moved to Alafua, Samoa to become senior financial officer with Moamoa Theological College. [...]
   An earlier court hearing was told the deportation order was made after an American journalist from The Dallas Morning News contacted Victoria Police and asked why Klep was allowed to teach in Samoa. [...]
   Detective Senior Constable John Raglus said the ensuing investigation found Klep lied on a Samoan visa application about a conviction on four counts of sexually assaulting two teenagers between 1973 and 1994. [...]
   In August, the Office of Public Prosecution won a time extension before the committal while police interviewed another eight possible victims. [...] [Emphasis added]
• Pastor Arrested On Sex Charges [2000s Simental] -- The Word of Life Worship Center.

   TheBakersfieldChannel.com ; www.thebakers fieldchannel.com/ news/3891924/ detail. html , POSTED: 7:30 p.m. PST November 4, 2004
   BAKERSFIELD (CA) -- A man who sheriff's officials say is a pastor at a local church has pleaded not guilty to charges of sex crimes against a child, and it's not the first time he had faced claims like this.
   Leonard Simental is charged with lewd or lascivious acts against a child he met at an East Bakersfield church.
   While he has never been convicted of a sex crime, court records show he has faced seven different charges over the past 12 years for sex crimes against young children in Bakersfield.
   Sheriff's say he committed a sex crime against a child he met at The Word of Life Worship Center on Bernard Street.
   Sheriff's say he is known as a pastor there, through church officials say he is not.
• Grand jury to hear sex case against former youth minister [2004 Valentine] -- Methodist. Girl.
   Sun Herald, www.sunherald. com/mld/sunh erald/news/ state/1009 8435.htm , Associated Press
   OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. - A grand jury will hear the charges against a former church youth minister accused of sexual battery.
   The Rev. Paul Valentine was arrested on Sept. 29 after the mother of the alleged victim filed complaints with the Ocean Springs Police Department. He was charged with two counts of sexual battery and later released on a $100,000 bond.
   The charges involve a 15-year-old girl.
   Two mother told authorities that Valentine, 33, engaged in inappropriate sexual behavior with her daughter on Sept. 16 while he was youth minister at St. Paul United Methodist Church.
• Youth pastor sex case to go to grand jury [2000s Valentine] -- Female.
   Mississippi Press, By VIRGINIA LANGUM, Thursday, November 04, 2004
   OCEAN SPRINGS (MS) -- The case of a former youth pastor who allegedly engaged in sex acts with one of his minor parishioners will go to a grand jury, Ocean Springs City Judge Matthew Mestayer ruled Wednesday night.
   At a preliminary hearing, Capt. Ray Akins presented evidence against Paul Valentine, 33. Valentine is charged with two counts of sexual battery.
   Valentine was arrested on Sept. 29 after the mother of the alleged victim filed complaints with the Ocean Springs Police Department.
   Akins testified that Valentine sent two suicide notes to the alleged victim and to her father, as well as posting a similar letter on an online journal. He said Valentine expressed remorse for his actions and a desire for forgiveness.
• Molestation suspect was acquitted in earlier case [2000s Simental] -- World of Life Worship Center.
   Bakersfield Californian, www.bakersfield. com/local/ story/5051791p- 5103811c.html , By CHRISTINA VANCE, cvance@bakersfield.com , Californian staff writer
   CALIFORNIA: A self-proclaimed pastor accused of child molestation on Tuesday was acquitted of similar church-linked molestation charges earlier this year.
   Leonard Simental, 43, pleaded not guilty Thursday to one felony count of child molestation.
   The east Bakersfield man was acquitted in March of six counts of child molestation tied to one of his previous churches.
   Simental, who currently attends World of Life Worship Center at 404 Bernard St., allegedly told deputies he was ordained in 2002, according to investigative reports filed in court.
   But leaders at Simental's current church said he's not acting as a minister there. Rather, he helps at church functions such as food giveaways.
• Victims of clergy sex abuse want accused priests' names public -- RCC.
   Monterey Herald, www.monterey herald.com/ mld/monterey herald/1010 1949.htm , Associated Press
   OAKLAND, Calif. - Reacting to a recent court order, victims of clergy sexual abuse called on Roman Catholic dioceses throughout California to release the names of accused priests.
   The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests [SNAP] sent a letter to every bishop in the state asking them to publish the names of known and suspected abusive priests on their diocesan Web sites and in their newsletters and parish bulletins.
   "It's a simple, inexpensive, but imperative step," the letter said. "We can only protect the vulnerable from the dangerous if we know who the dangerous are."
   The letter was a reaction to an order issued last week by an Alameda County Superior Court judge overseeing 160 consolidated civil cases against Northern California dioceses. In that order, Judge Ronald M. Sabraw said priest personnel documents, among other information, should remain confidential until the civil cases proceed to trial.
• Arlington diocese picks chastity track -- RCC.
   The Washington Times, http://washington times.com/metro/ 20041104-1025 42-3967r.htm , By Julia Duin, Nov 4, 2004
   ARLINGTON (VA): The Catholic Diocese of Arlington has acquired a tamer child-protection curriculum 10 months after being forced to shelve a plan that drew criticism for being sexually explicit.
   In a column in the diocesan newspaper Catholic Herald yesterday, the Rev. Terry Specht, director of the diocesan Office of Child Protection and Safety, said the diocese has selected "Formation in Christian Chastity," developed by the Diocese of Harrisburg, Pa.
   "We went through 20 programs and weren't happy with any of them," Father Specht said. "We were going to develop our own until we saw what Harrisburg was developing. The real thrust of the program is to teach chastity and the dignity of the human person."
• Rapist gets 80 years in prison [Heilman] -- Church of the Nazarene. Girl + pornography.
   Tribune Chronicle, www.tribune- chronicle.com/ news/story/ 113202004_new 30apist3.asp , By CHRISTOPHER BOBBY
   WARREN (OH) - Showing little or no remorse, a shackled Mark Heilman claimed he was a "man of God" as he accused Niles police of creating a tape that showed him raping a female family member.
   The 41-year-old Niles computer enthusiast held back tears, and his parents wept Tuesday as Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Andrew Logan sentenced him to what amounts to an 80-year-to-life sentence.
   Last month, a jury found Heilman guilty on a multicount indictment that included sexual attacks and computer pornography charges.
   Heilman - who passed out last month when he heard the verdicts in court - insisted that when he fought for custody for the victim, no psychological tests showed signs of sexual perversion.
   "I was a youth counselor for the church. Don't you think this would have turned up something long before now?" Heilman told Logan.
   But the victim, who now attends college, lashed out at Heilman, telling him she finally reported the eight years of repeated rapes so the same thing wouldn't happen to another relative. She said her possessions were taken from her by the defendant and the only way to earn them back was through sex. [...]
   Besides labeling Heilman a sexual predator, Logan ran as consecutive terms the eight life counts of rape on the girl before she was 14 years old. Rape charges with the potential of life means parole eligibility after serving a full 10 years. In Heilman's case, Assistant Prosecutors Thomas Wrenn and Michael Burnett said the state possibly could have Heilman serve an 80-year sentence.
   Wrenn and Burnett made use of two computer experts to explain the highly technical computer network Heilman had set up and how the pictures ended up on the computers. [...] [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 02:31 AM]
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• Queensland priest due for release from prison. [1970s Creen] -- RCC. 22 girls.

   CathNews from Church Resources, Australia, http://www.cathnews.com/news/411/36.php , Nov 5, 2004
   BRISBANE, Qld, Australia: A former Catholic priest jailed in Queensland for child sex offences will be released from prison despite today pleading guilty to further charges.
   The Age reports that Neville Joseph Creen, 64, was jailed for three-and-a-half years in September 2003, to be suspended after 14 months, after pleading guilty to 34 counts of indecent dealing of 20 girls aged between four and 13.
   He was due for release next Monday.
   Yesterday, he pleaded guilty to a further six charges of indecent dealing of two more girls under 12.
   The Brisbane District Court was told the latest offences were committed when he was a priest in Mt Isa, in Queensland's far west, in the 1970s, probably during the same time he had committed the other offences.
   The court was told Creen, who dealt with a number of daughters of his parishioners, committed his offences while the children sat on his lap.
   He had slipped his hand under the girls' clothing to touch them in the genital region, even when their parents were in the room, and on two occasions had penetrated them digitally.
   In his sentencing, Judge Brian Boulton said the new complaints were of a similar nature.
   He said he had taken into account Creen had rehabilitated himself since the offences were committed, and gave him a two-year wholly suspended sentence on the condition he did not re-offend during that period.
   Judge Boulton, however, said Creen's breach of trust had ruined the women's lives.
   "The effect upon them has been quite disastrous," he said.
   A bid to give Creen a longer sentence in November last year was thrown out by the Queensland Court of Appeal.
   SOURCE:Paedophile priest to walk free (The Age/Australian Associated Press 4/11/04)
   LINKS:
Ex-priest's release sparks outburst (The Courier Mail 5/11/04)
Abuser's release sparks outburst (The Courier Mail 5/11/04)
'Pedophile' priest faces committal (The Courier Mail 5/11/04)
Court ruling angers pedophile priest's victim (CathNews 17/11/03)
Former Towsville priest in court on abuse charges (CathNews 10/9/03)
Diocese of Townsville
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• Why not have a victim advocate on the parole board?.
   Sent to The West Australian, Perth, W.A., by John C. Massam, Greenwood (Perth), sent Nov 5, 2004
   PERTH: The appointment of a victims' advocate to the WA Parole Board is an idea well worth putting into effect, because such a person is unlikely to be any worse than the present majority of the board.
   So it was regrettable that two praiseworthy community justice figures, Michelle Stubbs (5/11) and Brian Tennant (3/11), have conflicting opinions on that.
   The board is making mistakes and does not understand the expert evidence it receives.
   A recent example was when a psychiatrist recently said that the applicant could be rehabilitated. The word "could" ought to be understood as "possibly might -- and possibly might not."
   The opinion provided no "conflict" as a board spokesman [error: the judge] described it.
   Only if the psychiatrist were willing to deposit a $10,000 cash bond that the prisoner would not return to crime, would a sensible victims' advocate vote for early release.
   Society has to be protected from further crimes. At the same time, education must continue in the prisons and outside for offenders.
   But the present justice and rehabilitation system needs replacing or upgrading for offering an air-rifle shooting course to prisoners.
   If the citizens want the police and the public to be shot by people trained at public expense, keep on electing the kind of governments who dumb-down education, avoid teaching civilised morals, and appoint lenient judges and officials.
   Successive governments have been reducing, in real terms, the amounts provided for mental health, general health, police, and justice.
   Letting prisoners out is done so that, on paper, the costs of crime seem less. In reality, the costs are shifted to the citizens in suffering, providing security equipment and rangers, paying more insurance, etc. [Nov 5, 2004]
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