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• Guns, porn oust priest

[~ 1990s-2000s Pearson -NEW*] - Roman Catholic Church (RCC). Middle East visits. Gun. Pornography.

   Herald Sun, www.news.com. au/heraldsun/ story/0,21985, 22854248- 661,00.html , by Nigel Hunt, December 02, 2007
   AUSTRALIA – THE man shown above carrying the assault rifle in war-torn Afghanistan is believed to be a respected Australian Catholic priest.
   Father Tony Pearson's activities in Afghanistan are being scrutinised by ASIO, Australia's domestic intelligence service. Police discovered this photograph allegedly of Father Pearson in the Muslim country while searching his computer for illegal pornographic images.
   He is holding what appears to be an AK-47 rifle. Another picture from Afghanistan found on the computer allegedly shows him holding a rocket launcher. In both pictures the man believed to be Father Pearson is wearing a chupan, a traditional Afghan garment.
   The Sunday Herald Sun has also learned that along with the weapons photographs, Father Pearson's office computer – owned by the church -- allegedly contained several hundred pornographic images of young men. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 4:45 PM] (This is the first item of Abuse Chronology: http://www. multiline. com.au/~ johnm/ethics/ ethcont143. htm , and of the Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.bishop- accountability. org/ abusetracker , A Blog by Kathy Shaw, for Sat December 01, 2007.)

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• Ex-brother to appeal assault sentence

[Bro. Bernard, surname Downey -NEW*] - RCC. 3yrs prison. 2 girls.

   Irish Independent, By Louise Hogan, Wednesday, November 28, 2007
   IRELAND and ENGLAND -- A former religious brother in a retreat centre near Monaghan town was yesterday given leave to appeal a three-year sentence.
   Vincent Downey (81), formerly known as Br Bernard, with an address at Brownshill, Stryde, Gloucestershire, in the UK, had pleaded guilty to four charges of indecent assault against two sisters from Monaghan.
   The two women cannot be named for legal reasons.
   Mr Downey had faced eight charges of indecent assault before his guilty plea.

• Suspect priest pictured with AK-47 rifle

[1990s ~ 2000s Pearson*] - RCC. Pornography, warrior stance.

   Herald Sun, 12:02am, for December 02, 2007
   SOUTH AUSTRALIA – A CATHOLIC priest under investigation by police has been pictured carrying a deadly assault rifle in war-torn Afghanistan.
   Father Tony Pearson, of South Australia, is a target in a long-running police pedophile task force investigation.
   The investigation was launched after material concerning Father Pearson was provided to an inquiry late last year. ...
   Father Pearson's activities in Afghanistan have also been scrutinised by SA police's Protective Security Service and ASIO, Australia's domestic intelligence service. Besides the weapons photos, Father Pearson's office computer, owned by the church, also contained several hundred pornographic images of young men.
   The Catholic Archdiocese of Adelaide has confirmed Father Pearson has stood down.
   In an emailed statement, Chancellor Jane Swift said the church authorities first became aware of the inquiry when contacted by police 12 months ago.
   She confirmed Father Pearson had been in Afghanistan for the past two months.
   Before standing down, Father Pearson was involved in Adelaide's Aboriginal Catholic Ministry and the Otherway Centre as chaplain. The pedophile inquiry is believed to be investigating his dealings with underage Aboriginal males through his work at the Otherway Centre.

• Child porn investigation may involve hundreds

[1960s-90s Dr Reardon*] - St Francis Hospital. Photographing nude children.

   WTNH, ~ December 01, 2007
   WEST HARTFORD (CT) -- Police are looking for help from the public in a child pornography investigation that has spanned decades and may involve hundreds of children. ...
   The house used to belong to Dr. George Reardon. He was an endocrinologist specializing in childhood sexual development. He lost his medical license in 1995 because a series of former patients came forward to say Reardon molested and photographed them when they were children and teenagers. Some allegations dated back to the 1960s, and most likely so do the slides and films. ...
   The evidence found in the house may actually help some victims, victims who no one believed years ago.
   "Already we've had victims call and say that they want to come forward, that they want some resolution, that they weren't believed when they came forward in the past and now this is vindication for them that yes, it did happen," Lt. Melanson said.
   Even though Reardon died years ago, he might have shared his 'collection' with other pedophiles. That's why police now want Reardon's victims to come forward.

• State of the States: They're neck and neck

[Mons. Placa] - RCC alleged paedophile priest hired by Giuliani.
   Politico, By Politico Partners, 08:05 AM EST, Dec 1, 2007
   UNITED STATES -- Iowa polls show the race in both parties goes beyond the two front-runners. This weekend’s Brown & Black Forum could make a big difference; our correspondent has a preview, below.
   In Iowa, many voters know how to caucus; in Nevada they’re new at it. As the close Democratic races in Iowa and New Hampshire put Nevada’s Jan. 19 caucus at the center of the radar screen, campaigns are teaching voters there just how to vote. ...
   Later in the week an e-mail cautioned voters against an alleged “pedophile priest” hired by Giuliani. The e-mail was sent by an Internet-based e-mail account under the name of a Romney field director. The field director vehemently denied that he had anything to do with the e-mail or that e-mail account.
   The e-mail directed voters to a blog item on InsideCatholic.com about Monsignor Alan Placa, a longtime friend of Giuliani's. Placa, who officiated at Giuliani's second wedding and works in his consulting firm, has been accused of molesting boys. Giuliani has defended his friend as recently as last month, reminding people that there’s a presumption of innocence until proved guilty and that he is “going to give that to one of my closest friends.”
   Paul Pate, the chairman for Giuliani's Iowa campaign, called the e-mail "dirty."

• Porn on SA gun-toting priest's office computer

[~ 1990s-2000s Pearson*] - Roman Catholic Church (RCC). Middle East visits. Gun. Pornography.

   Sunday Mail, By NIGEL HUNT, 12:15am, December 02, 2007
   AUSTRALIA -- ONE of Adelaide's most respected Catholic priests has been photographed in war-torn Afghanistan carrying a deadly assault rifle.
   It can also be revealed Father Tony Pearson is the target in a long-running SA Police Pedophile Task Force investigation.
   The investigation was launched after material concerning Father Pearson was provided to the Mullighan Inquiry late last year. ...
   The Sunday Mail has also learned that, along with the weapons photographs, Father Pearson's office computer - owned by the church - also contained several hundred pornographic images of young men.
   The Catholic Archdiocese of Adelaide has confirmed Father Pearson has stood down pending the outcome of the police investigation and any inquiry the church may subsequently undertake.

• Eisenberg had sued Catholic Church, alleging abuse

[Mr Eisenberg] - RCC blamed.

   WCAX, 3:35 PM ET, Associated Press, December 1, 2007
   CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE, (AP) - The New Hampshire man charged with holding five people hostage at a Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign office sued the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston in 2002 alleging he had been molested by a priest years earlier.
   Court records and published reports say 46-year-old Leeland Eisenberg of Somersworth grew up in Groton, Massachusetts, and spent time in prison in Massachusetts. The Boston Globe reported today that he was 1 of more than 500 victims of the Roman Catholic clergy sexual abuse scandal who received payments in a landmark 2003 settlement with the Boston Archdiocese.
   Eisenberg's lawyer in the case did not return messages from The Associated Press about the case and its resolution.

• Alleged hostage taker filed molestation suit

- Molestation blamed.
   Salon, ~ December 01, 2007
   NEW HAMPSHIRE -- Leeland Eli Eisenberg, the man arrested tonight after taking hostages at Hillary Clinton's campaign office in Rochester, N.H., appears to have served time in prison for aggravated rape and filed a lawsuit in 2002 alleging that he had been molested 20 years earlier by a Catholic priest in Massachusetts.
   The suit alleged that Eisenberg was 21, "homeless and living in abandoned cars in a local junk yard" when he sought help at a Catholic parish in Westford, Mass. A priest offered him work at the parish in exchange for room and board until he could get back on his feet, the lawsuit alleged.
   While Eisenberg was living and working at the parish, the lawsuit alleged, a second priest would frequently take him to dinner, buy him drinks, then return to the parish afterward for more drinks. The priest would then "bring out a box of pornographic material, sit behind Plaintiff on a couch, pull out pornographic pictures and magazines and insist the Plaintiff look at the pornographic materials. [The priest] would then sexually molest the Plaintiff."

• Real Time: Clinton Hostage Drama Rooted in Sex Abuse

- Molestation blamed.
   The RH Blog, Sex Abuse, by Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check, 10:53am, December 1, 2007
   NEW HAMPSHIRE -- Tim Grieve at Salon reports on the alleged sexual molestation by Catholic priests of the man, Lee Eisenberg, who held hostages in Clinton campaign headquarters yesterday.
   Leeland Eli Eisenberg, the man arrested tonight after taking hostages at Hillary Clinton's campaign office in Rochester, N.H., appears to have served time in prison for aggravated rape and filed a lawsuit in 2002 alleging that he had been molested 20 years earlier by a Catholic priest in Massachusetts.
   The suit alleged that Eisenberg was 21, "homeless and living in abandoned cars in a local junk yard" when he sought help at a Catholic parish in Westford, Mass. A priest offered him work at the parish in exchange for room and board until he could get back on his feet, the lawsuit alleged.

• Victim: Doctor Photographed Him Naked

[1960s-90s Dr Reardon*] - St Francis Hospital. Photographing nude children.
   WFSB, ~ December 01, 2007
   WEST HARTFORD (CT) -- The discovery of 50,000 pictures and 100 films of child pornography resulted from a clever ploy by a pediatrician, a victim told Eyewitness News on Wednesday.
   The victim, who did not want to be identified, wanted to speak out now that proof has surfaced to support the accusations he knew as [true] for the past 40 years. ...
   "They said 'Reardon' and I'm thinking, 'Thank God,'" the victim said.
   It was a name the victim knew and a face that was burned into his mind. He shared with Eyewitness News a story that transported him back 40 years to St. Francis Hospital.
   "He actually came to my room on at least two occasions that I can remember and picked me up in a wheelchair and rolled me to his office, where it happened," the victim said.
   Reardon called the after-hours sessions part of a study of early maturing teens, investigators said. The doctor got parents to sign off on their children's participation.

• Connecticut child porn case has local tie

[1960s-90s Dr Reardon*] - St Francis Hospital. Photographing nude children.
   Glens Fall Post-Star, By Don Lehman, dlehman@poststar.com , Updated 3:59 PM EST, Friday, November 30, 2007
   WARREN COUNTY (NY) -- A shocking child pornography case in Connecticut has ties to Warren County, where a deceased doctor believed to have molested and illegally photographed dozens of children had a seasonal home for years on Brant Lake.
   The case of Dr. George Reardon has generated national publicity this week after a massive cache of child pornography was found hidden in walls at his former home in West Hartford, Conn. ...
   He said Reardon, who was not married, frequently brought children with him to the Brant Lake home, though.
   "He always brought little kids. We always thought it was strange he never brought a nurse or secretary, just kids," Malanchuk said.

• Doctor's Alleged Victims Talking

[1960s-90s Dr Reardon*] - St Francis Hospital. Photographing nude children.
   Hartford Courant, By DANIEL P. JONES | November 30, 2007
   WEST HARTFORD (CT) – Local police have fielded dozens of calls from people who say they were sexually abused or inappropriately photographed by Dr. George E. Reardon following the announcement that a huge cache of child pornography was discovered in the basement of his former home.
   "We've been taking phone calls most of the day," Capt. Lori Coppinger said Thursday.
   The people who say they were childhood victims began telling their stories to detectives, who have been swamped by calls since police announced Wednesday that thousands of 35mm slides and 8mm video reels of child pornography were found in May, hidden behind paneled basement walls in Reardon's former home on Griswold Drive. ...
   The prominent West Hartford endocrinologist was accused in the late 1980s and early 1990s of molesting children over several decades, including incidents at his office at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford. He died nine years ago.

• A history of mental, legal difficulties

- Mental illness man blames seduction.
   Concord Monitor, By Margot Sanger-Katz, December 01, 2007
   NEW HAMPSHIRE -- Leeland Eisenberg, the 47-year-old Somersworth man accused of holding hostages at a Hillary Clinton campaign office for more than five hours last night, was well known to the local police and had a history of mental illness and criminal convictions, according to police statements, news reports and court documents.
   Eisenberg faces a range of state charges and may be charged with federal crimes, according to police at the scene last night. ...
   According to a lawsuit Eisenberg filed in 2002, he had been abused by his "violent, alcoholic father," and lost his mother by the time he was 21. Around 1982 or 1983, he was living in abandoned cars in Ayer, Mass., when he was taken in by a local Catholic parish. The lawsuit accuses a priest there of molesting and raping Eisenberg. The Monitor was unable to determine the outcome of the lawsuit last night.
   The suit also says that a week after he fled the church, Eisenberg "attempted to take his own life by jumping off a bridge in Ayer, Massachusetts. The Plaintiff was taken by ambulance to the hospital and was later sent to a psychiatric facility for observation and treatment."

• OCA Bishop Speaks Out Against Anti-Church “Attack”

- Orthodox Christian blames outsiders.

   Orthodox Reform, ~ December 01, 2007
   ALASKA -- Following remarks by Bishop Nikolai speaking against all those who have raised questions about their decisions or actions regarding sexual misconduct charges as “malefactors” and “enemies” who are “anti-Church” (see the related article), comes continuing news into sexual misconduct issues in Alaska by OCA clergy:
   In a letter to Metropolitan Herman, Paul Sidebottom, Assistant Dean of St. Herman Seminary at the time, reported that, while Fr. Isidore was under the influence of alcohol, he said he didn’t want to be sent back to Anchorage to the bishop because ‘papa beats me’. Sidebottom also alleged that Brittain made sexual advances.
   The office of the Metropolitan said an investigation into the allegations was forthcoming. Also he told Bishop Nikolai to stay out of the process.
   Incidentally, after sending the letter to the Metropolitan, Sidebottom was informed, via email, that he no longer had a job.

• Priest guilty of abuse faces prison sentence

[~ 1960s-70s Corrigan*] - RCC. 7 charges. Altar boys.

   Irish Independent, By Phil Campion, Monday November 26, 2007
   ENGLAND and IRELAND -- A PRIEST who sexually abused boys aged between eight and 13 over 30 years ago has finally been brought to justice.
   Fr John Benedict Corrigan (71), who retired to Galway in 1994, was extradited to England where he pleaded guilty to seven counts of indecent assault against altar boys.
   Speaking outside the court one of his victims said he hoped officials "lock him up and throw away the key".

• Neighbors Describe Man As Friendly, Troubled

- Molestation blamed.

   WMUR, ~ December 01, 2007
   SOMERSWORTH, N.H. -- The man police say took four Hillary Clinton staffers hostage on Friday was known to police, but his neighbors said they were shocked by the news of the hostage taking.
   Leeland Eisenberg served time in a Massachusetts prison and was released in 2005. He was charged in April with stalking in Rochester and was due in court on Friday for a domestic violence hearing. ...
   Eisenberg was also involved in a sex abuse lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Boston and Cardinal Bernard Law. Eisenberg, formerly known as Ralph Woodward, sued for emotional distress, saying he was molested by a priest in the early 1980s while he was homeless and staying in Massachusetts.

• Witness: Bernard would ‘confess’

[? 1990s-2000s Bernard] - Hosanna Church. Girl (2) and 2 boys.
   The Advocate, By DEBRA LEMOINE, Advocate Florida parishes bureau, Published Dec 1, 2007
   AMITE (LA) – Austin “Trey” Bernard III would tell church members that he raped his child but then would recant immediately, a man who lived at the church with Bernard testified Friday.
   Stephen Brown, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security officer in Columbus, Ohio, recounted his recollections of the last months of the Hosanna Church in Ponchatoula before seven of the church’s members were arrested and in 2005 indicted on charges of sexually abusing children.
   Bernard, 39, of Hammond, is the first of the seven to go to trial for the aggravated rape of a 2-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy.

• Victims’ group brings message to WW church

[Marcantonio, Meglio, Micarelli, Mons. DeAngelis.] - RCC.
   Kent County Times, By Michelle A. Carrier-Migliozzi, Daily Times City Editor, Friday, 30 November 2007
   WEST WARWICK (RI) – A group representing clergy sexual abuse survivors plans to bring its message to the parishioners of Sacred Heart Church in West Warwick this weekend.
   The group, including clergy sexual abuse survivors, loved ones of survivors and concerned Catholics, was organized by Bishopaccountability.org, the online library documenting the crisis in the church, said Co-Director Anne Barrett Doyle.
   The group will be distributing informational leaflets at the church tomorrow after the 9 a.m. Mass and before and after the 11:15 a.m. Mass, Doyle said.
   Over the years, she said, only 26 priests who have been accused of sexual abuse in Rhode Island have been named in the press. Four priests who served at Sacred Heart, according to Bishopaccountability.org, have been credibly accused of molesting children. Among them, Doyle said, are the Rev. Robert A. Marcantonio, the Rev. Richard Meglio, the Rev. Edmund Micarelli and the Rev. Msgr. Anthony DeAngelis. Suits naming Marcantonio, Meglio and Micarelli were settled as part of the diocese’s mass settlement with clergy sexual abuse victims, according to the Bishopaccountability.org Web site. Accusations against DeAngelis were brought after his death, Doyle said.

• Curioso e critico il "popolo" del prete ribelle

[~ 2006-07 Sguotti*] - RCC. 2007 Website, new Church. Celibate has girlfriend Tamara = Laura. Helps illegal immigrants, too. Pro-marriage campaigner.

   Il Gazzettino, ~ December 01, 2007
   Michela Danieli, reporter for Il Gazzettino, wrote about some conversations she had yesterday at the Mondadori book shop in Piazza Insurrezione, Padua, where the Rev. Sante Sguotti presented his book, "Il mio amore non e' peccato" (My love is not a sin).
   ITALY -- About 50 people, their ages mainly 55-65, were there. Among those present included those who were browsing in the book shop. One 65-year-old man said he was there because he was a psychotherapist. A 50-year-old woman, Anna, said she did not share the choice made by the rebel priest for if he does not want to respect the rules of his belief, then he must quit and do some other job. Stefania, 30, criticized the priest and said he was exaggerating with all the publicity and once he made those choices he should have kept them private. Alberto, 40, said a book cannot be written in three days and the priest only wanted to make money exploiting the people's credulity. Giovanna, 65, said good things could be made without all the publicity.
   Other younger people seemed to be softer. Elisabetta said it was important to debate such a controversial issue. Sabrina affirmed the media presence was good because it could shorten the time for the Catholic church to change its ways. Serenella, 45, mother of two children ages 11 and 8, entered the book shop with them and said he was so familiar on TV she could not help entering to see him again.
   Raffaele Tonon, an ever-present TV talk show host and expert in "everything," introduced the meeting. The Rev. Lucas Giacalona, who was married and is now separated, said he took vows as a priest of the Orthodox church. He is from Marsala, Sicily, and he said they cannot stand him there and have invited him "to change air."
   The Catholic Church of the Sinners, founded by Rev. Sguotti, will meet at 9 a.m. today at the Sheraton in Padua.

• Lafayette native finds her ‘Voice’

- VOTF information.

   The Advocate, By BRIAN HUDGINS, Special to The Advocate, Page 1E, Dec 1, 2007
   LOUISIANA -- When details of alleged sexual abuse by Boston area priests came to light, the response by Lafayette native Donna Doucette and many others was to the point: They collectively raised their voices.
   A small group of parishioners formed Voice of the Faithful in 2002 in the basement of St. John the Evangelist Church in Wellesley, Mass.
   Doucette, who grew up in Louisiana, went to Harvard University eventually settled in Massachusetts where she has lived since 1969.
   When she joined the group in 2003, she started working in an organization that has three goals: to support survivors of clergy sexual abuse, to support priests of integrity and to shape structural change within the Catholic Church.

• Dallas Greek Orthodox priest faces more abuse claims

[Decades - Katinas] - Greek Orthodox. US$250,000 requested for seductions. ≤ 4 minors.
   The Dallas Morning News, Friday, November 30, 2007
   DALLAS (TX) -- Leaders of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America knew the Rev. Nicholas Katinas had been accused of child sexual abuse but let him continue for years as pastor of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in North Dallas, an amended lawsuit claims. The suit was amended this week and now includes a fourth plaintiff claiming to have been abused by Mr. Katinas.
   Church officials would not comment on the specific allegations, and defense attorneys did not return phone calls.
   Mr. Katinas retired from Holy Trinity - a center of the Dallas Greek community - in the summer of 2006 after leading the church for 28 years. The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America soon suspended him, meaning he could no longer serve as a priest, even on a fill-in basis.

• Hostage crisis at Hillary Clinton’s campaign office rocks N.H.

- Clergyman's seduction blamed.
   Boston Herald, By Dave Wedge, O’Ryan Johnson and Michele McPhee; Saturday, December 1, 2007
   ROCHESTER, N.H. - Fresh off a two-day drunken bender, Leeland Eisenberg strapped highway flares to his waist with duct tape and took hostages at Hillary Clinton’s office here, demanding to speak to the senator in a five-hour standoff that drew national TV coverage.
   Eisenberg, 47, of Somersworth surrendered into the arms of heavily armed SWAT police after an ordeal that began at 1 p.m. Five hostages including an infant were released unharmed. ...
   While in prison in Bridgewater, he filed a suit in September 2002 against the Archdiocese of Boston alleging he was molested in his early 20s by the Rev. Richard M. Buntel of St. Catherine’s Church in Westford. Buntel was removed from the ministry and underwent treatment for drug, alcohol and sexual abuse in 1994, only to be reinstated by Cardinal Bernard Law at a Wilmington parish in 1999.

• Hostage-taker had troubled past

- Seduction blamed.
   The Boston Globe, December 1, 2007
   ROCHESTER, N.H. -- A man wearing what looked like a bomb beneath his sweater and tie walked into Hillary Clinton's campaign office yesterday, taking three staff members, a volunteer, and an infant hostage, forcing the closure of the senator's campaign offices throughout Iowa and New Hampshire, and paralyzing this small city on the Maine border, authorities said.
   After a 5.5-hour standoff, in which all the hostages were released, Leeland E. Eisenberg walked out of the office on North Main Street with his arms up, slowly removed his sweater, and pulled off the faux bomb duct-taped to his waist. Members of the New Hampshire State Police SWAT team ordered him to the ground and handcuffed him. He was charged with kidnapping, reckless endangerment, and criminal threatening, authorities said.
   Eisenberg, 46, of Somersworth, N.H., grew up in Groton, spent time in Massachusetts prisons, and was one of 541 victims of the clergy sexual abuse scandal who received payments in the landmark 2003 settlement with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, according to court records and a source involved with the litigation. He was reportedly due in court yesterday to face domestic violence charges.

• Two priests lose their clergy status

[McNulty, Berthiaume] - RCC.
   Beacon Journal, Saturday, Dec 01, 2007
   CLEVELAND (OH) -- The Vatican has stripped two former priests in the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland of their clergy status.
   Brendan J. McNulty and Gary D. Berthiaume, who both served parishes in Cuyahoga County, had requested "to be removed from the clerical state," according to information released Friday by the local diocese.
   The Holy See granted the requests of both men, who had been removed from active ministry amid allegations of sexual misconduct involving minors.
   The diocese said that the two men are "no longer incardinated in the Diocese of Cleveland." The canonical term "incardinated" can be likened to the secular term defrocked, a diocesan spokeswoman said.

• Messy abuse trial set for jury

[1977 Willis] - RCC. Boy.
   Rutland Herald, By KEVIN O'CONNOR, December 1, 2007
   BURLINGTON (VT) – It was originally labeled as the first priest misconduct lawsuit in years to reach a Vermont jury. Then, after a mistrial last June, it was said to be the only one in the country to go to retrial.
   On Friday, however, it was simply ugly.
   A jury is set to deliberate next week on the civil lawsuit of James Turner, a 47-year-old Northeast Kingdom native who charges that Vermont's Catholic Church failed to protect him from childhood sexual abuse by the former Rev. Alfred Willis, a priest in Burlington, Montpelier and Milton before being defrocked in 1985.
   Lawyers for both sides capped their cases Friday in Chittenden Superior Court after a messy exchange involving Turner's former girlfriend. Robyn Bordwine of Newport News, Va., testified that Turner showed her a newspaper article in 2004 reporting the diocese had paid $150,000 to another man abused as a child by Willis.
   "He thought his case would be worth more," she said of Turner. "We joked around about a convertible Mustang."

• Priest sex abuse case readied for jury verdict

[1977 Willis] - RCC. Boy.
   Burlington Free Press, By Sam Hemingway, Saturday, December 1, 2007
   VERMONT -- A Vermont judge who once was the Chittenden County State's Attorney testified Friday on behalf of the state's Roman Catholic diocese in the case of a man who claims the church is at fault for his molestation by a priest in 1977.
   Judge Mark Keller took the stand Friday morning to challenge claims by a former assistant prosecutor that the late Bishop John Marshall used undue pressure in 1980 to derail a potential criminal child sex abuse charge against the priest, Alfred Willis.
   According to James Turner, 47, of Virginia Beach, Va., Willis performed a sex act upon him during the night at a Latham, N.Y., motel room after a religious ceremony for Turner's brother, who was about to become a priest.
   Susan Via, once an assistant prosecutor in Keller's office, told the jury in videotaped testimony earlier this week that Marshall did not want the state to investigate claims Willis molested boys in Milton in 1980 and warned Keller he would commit the "sin of scandal" by pursuing the matter.

• Vatican removes 2 from priesthood over sex abuse allegations

[Berthiamu, McNulty] - RCC. Children.
   The News Journal, Associated Press, December 01, 2007
   CLEVELAND (OH), (AP) – The Vatican removed from the priesthood two men who faced credible complaints of sexual abuse of children, the Cleveland Catholic Diocese said Friday.
   Gary Berthiaume, who was suspended from active ministry in 2002, and J. Brendan McNulty, who was suspended in 2003, had asked to be removed from the clerical state, the diocese said.
   Berthiaume transferred to Cleveland after serving six months in a Michigan jail on a sex abuse charge in the 1970s, diocese spokesman Bob Polomsky said. More allegations surfaced when he worked in Cleveland.
   McNulty was suspended while serving as pastor of Saints Philip and James Church in Cleveland. The allegations involved sexual abuse of boys from a large churchgoing family in the 1970s.

• Trial to go to jury

[1977 Willis] - RCC. US$15,000 award, 'tho too late. Boy.
   WCAX, Associated Press, 7:55 AM ET, December 1, 2007
   BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - Closing arguments are expected next week in the case of a man suing the Roman Catholic Diocese of Vermont over his alleged molestation by a priest more than 30 years ago.
   James Turner, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, accuses the diocese of covering up and failing to respond to the Alfred Willis' sexual misconduct.
   A former Chittenden County state's attorney yesterday challenged claims that then-Bishop John Marshall tried to prevent a potential criminal child sex abuse charge against Willis. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:22 AM]
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• Abuse case plaintiff seeks accountability

[1970s Bro. Guillory (Franciscan) -NEW*] - RCC. Boy.

   Current-Argus, www.current argus.com/ news/ci_ 7613239 , By Tom Moody, Article Launched 08:56:33 PM MST, Dec/01/2007
   CARLSBAD (NM) – Courage may be defined as the ability to act bravely in the face of fear. That word can be applied to victims of childhood sexual abuse who come forward to confront both their own demons and those who allegedly assaulted them.
   The deep shame the victims have carried from blaming themselves for the things that happened to them is finally overcome when they realize, that as adults they have the power of choice. These victims realize they are no longer under someone else's control, either physically or mentally.
   That is the case with the alleged victim whose lawsuit was filed in Carlsbad this week against Franciscan friar Kerry Guillory, a former Catholic youth worker here. The plaintiff claims he was sexually abused by Guillory as a teenager in the late 1970s, and is suing the brother, the order he belongs to, two dioceses and two local parishes.

• Living With The Sins Of The Fathers

[1973-74 Hebert*] - RCC. Boy.
   The Day, www.theday.com/ re.aspx?re=e054 a670-c6f5-40 b9-bd1b-6f8 f4f90c1f0 , By Ann Baldelli, Dec/2/2007
   CONNECTICUT -- Dennis Perkins inherited someone else's problems.
   Perkins was just a little boy in the third grade at the Uncasville School when the Rev. Paul Hebert allegedly sexually assaulted James Fish in a church rectory in Pawcatuck in 1973-74.
   Today, the Rev. Dennis M. Perkins is pastor of St. Michael's Church in Pawcatuck. He makes his home in the same rectory where the alleged molestation occurred.
   And so it was left to Father Perkins to read a letter from Bishop Michael Cote at church services on Oct. 28 announcing that the Diocese of Norwich had agreed to pay a $170,000 settlement to James Fish, now 47, who had sued the diocese.
   Father Hebert denies the charges that Fish's mother first confided to Father Perkins in 2003.
   [LOOK BACK: "Accused Pastor Resigns," By Brian Lyman, Norwich (CT) Bulletin, July 3, 2004. "Priest Put On Leave after Sex Allegations," Associated Press, July 10, 2004. ENDS.]

• Eisenberg had sued Catholic Church, alleging abuse

- RCC blamed by ex-prisoner and hostage-taker.
   Nashua Telegraph, By NORMA LOVE, The Associated Press, December 02, 2007
   CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - The man charged with holding five people hostage at a Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign office sued the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston in 2002 alleging he had been molested by a priest years earlier.
   Leeland Eisenberg, 46, of Somersworth, grew up in Groton, Mass., and spent time in prison in Massachusetts, according to court records and published reports. He was one of more than 500 victims of the Roman Catholic clergy sexual abuse scandal who received payments in a landmark 2003 settlement with the Boston Archdiocese, The Boston Globe reported Saturday. Eisenberg's lawyer in the case did not return messages Friday about the case and its resolution.
   In his 2002 lawsuit in Suffolk County (Mass.) Superior Court, Eisenberg sued former Archbishop Bernard Law, alleging that a priest at St. Catherine Church in Westford, Mass., molested him in the early 1980s. The priest denied abusing Eisenberg, who claimed the abuse started in 1982 or 1983 when he was about 21. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:57 PM]

• Trial to go to jury for Virginia man claiming priest abuse

[1977 Willis] - RCC. Boy.
   WDBJ, Associated Press, 3:25 PM ET, December 2, 2007
   BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - Closing arguments are expected this week in the case of a man suing the Roman Catholic Diocese of Vermont over his alleged molestation by a priest more than 30 years ago.
   James Turner, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, accuses the diocese of covering up and failing to respond to the Alfred Willis' sexual misconduct.
   A former Chittenden County state's attorney yesterday challenged claims that then-Bishop John Marshall tried to prevent a potential criminal child sex abuse charge against Willis.

• My Uncle/Daddy Church with Mona Brewer

[Years - "Archbishop" Paulk*] - Chapel Hill Harvester Church. Carnally knew brother's wife, and 9 others.
   WSB, The Allen Hunt Show, ~ December 02, 2007
   GEORGIA -- Show Description: I was appalled to find out the incredible 30-year story of adultery by the Archbishop Earl Paulk of the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit at Chapel Hill Harvester Church. I used to have such respect for this church. It was alive and thriving. I never would have guessed something like this was going on. But this, and countless other recent stories, have got me thinking about why it is people don't trust the church anymore. And honestly, I can't say that I blame them. Join the discussion as we look at the church and why when it is running well it is the greatest institution, but at the same time it can be disastrous. We will also have special guest - Mona Brewer - the only person Earl Paulk has admitted to have a relationship with.
   [LOOK BACK: Search November 2007. See March 6, 2007. ENDS.]

• «Don Armando non tornerà più»

[2007, July - Rizzioli*] - RCC. Took off skimpy undies, etc.

   Il Gazzettino, December 02, 2007
   DUE CARRARE, ITALY -- One month after his indictment for obscene acts, "Rev. Armando won't come back."
   The parish priest met Mayor Vason, who reported: "He told me he'll remain at the Istituto Divina Provvidenza."
   The Rev. Armando Rizzioli, 71, parish priest of Carrara Santon Stefano, who was at the center of a judicial investigation, returned some days ago to the rectory to collect some personal belongings. He met there with Mayor Sergio Vason and he spoke with him for a long time.
   "Rev. Armando told me the bishop had accepted his request to spend the rest of his life at the retirement home of the Divine Providence in Sarmeola. Therefore, he won't come back to the parish any more," the mayor said. The curia has not nominated a substitute yet.
   Rev. Armando made a plea bargain at the Verona Tribunal for an eight-month jail term after being indicted for obscene acts in a public place and corruption of a minor. It happened last July when the parish priest was on vacation at the lake of Garda.
   According to the allegations, the priest stripped naked in front of a nine-year-old Dutch boy and started to touch himself. Antonio Mattiazzo, bishop of Padua, invited the priest to leave his parish the following day. An order promptly followed.

• West Hartford Police Department Press Release

[1960s-90s Dr Reardon*] - St Francis Hospital. Photographing nude children.

Hartford Courant, www.courant. com/media/ acrobat/ 2007-11/ 34017278. pdf , ~ December 02, 2007
WEST HARTFORD (CT) -- This links to the official statement from the West Hartford police department regarding Dr. George Reardon.

• Unshakable Memories

[1960s-90s Dr Reardon*] - St Francis Hospital. Photographing nude children.
   Hartford Courant, By HILARY WALDMAN And DANIEL P. JONES | December 2, 2007
   WEST HARTFORD (CT) -- He says he can still see the huge Cadillac DeVille that slid up to his childhood home around lunchtime that Sunday 40 years ago.
   In his memory, he is 12 years old again and can feel the terror as he climbs into the front seat next to Dr. George Reardon for a drive to St. Francis Hospital in Hartford.
   Reardon's hair is slicked back, and he smells of smoke from the cigarettes that seem almost constantly pursed between his lips.
   And the boy, today a man, a father of four with a medical degree of his own and a career doing pharmaceutical research outside Boston, wonders when the West Hartford police will unearth the shards of his shattered childhood among the cache of pornographic photos found stashed behind a false wall in the basement of Reardon's former home.

• Priest scandal demands openness

- Why didn't RCC copy Scouts?
   The Kansas City Star, ~ December 02, 2007
   KANSAS CITY (MO) -- The latest allegations of abuse involving Catholic priests in Kansas City fall into an all-too-dismal pattern: The alleged behavior continued for many years, and the church hierarchy did little or nothing about it.
   The allegations, reported recently in The Star, involved two priests at St. Elizabeth’s parish and concerned a period that began in the 1960s and continued into the 1980s. Up to a dozen lawsuits are making their way through the courts. The Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph denies its officials knew about the allegations and did nothing.
   One question is why the church failed to adopt a policy as strict as that of the Boy Scouts, which was rocked by similar scandals decades ago. In response, the Scouts decreed that no adult leader was to be alone with a boy, an approach that protects both Scouts and adults. When private consultations take place, participants must be visible to others.

• Giuliani Defends "Unjustly Accused" Adviser Named As Pedophile Priest

- RCC. [1970s Mons. Placa] - RCC. Abuser advised on strategies for concealment. 3 boys. Named in 2003 grand jury report. [Mons. Riordan] - Named in lawsuit settled in the 1990s.
   The Post Chronicle, by Deal W. Hudson, ~ December 02, 2007
   NEW YORK -- Since 2002, Msgr. Alan Placa has worked for Rudy Giuliani as a consultant at Giuliani Partners. In 2003, a grand jury report of Suffolk County, NY accused Placa of sexually abusing multiple victims.
   A spokeswoman for Giuliani Partners told Salon Magazine that the former New York City mayor believes Placa was "unjustly accused." The grand jury report contains accusations from three alleged victims, including two children (Placa is named as "Priest F" in the report.) According to testimony before the grand jury, "Everyone in the school knew to stay away from Priest F."
   Placa has been suspended from his priestly duties for the past five years. He is "priest in residence" at St. Aloysius Church in Great Neck, NY.
   The pastor, Msgr. Brendan Riordan, is a close friend. In fact, Placa and Riordan co-own a penthouse apartment in Manhattan. The $555,000 apartment is one of six properties the two priests have owned together since the late 1980s. They also co-authored a book in 1977 called Desert Silence: A Way of Prayer For An Unquiet Age.
   Monsignor Riordan himself was named in a sex abuse lawsuit against the Diocese of Worcester, MA; it was settled in the 1990s.

• Witnesses deny abuse at Hosanna Church

[≤ 2005 Bernard*] - Hosanna Church. Girl (2) and 2 boys - but now 2 deny previous evidence.
   The Advocate, By DEBRA LEMOINE, Advocate Florida parishes bureau, Published Dec 2, 2007
   AMITE (LA) – Two of the three children Austin “Trey” Bernard III is accused of raping maintained on the witness stand Saturday that they never were abused.
   The young men, now ages 17 and 21, and Trey Bernard’s now 7-year-old daughter are the three children who, in 2005, accused seven members of the now-defunct Hosanna Church in Ponchatoula of sexually abusing them.
   The young girl is not expected to take the stand, but her mother previously has said the child maintains she was abused.
   Trey Bernard, 39, of Hammond, is the first church member to go to trial in the 21st Judicial District Court in Amite on charges of aggravated rape of a 2-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy.

• The abuse files

[≤ 1979 Lepire] - RCC. Boy.
   The Providence Journal, By MIKE STANTON and TOM MOONEY, 01:00 AM EST on Sunday, December 2, 2007
   RHODE ISLAND -- In 1979, the Woonsocket police began investigating an allegation that the Rev. Roland Lepire of St. Aloysius Church had put his hands down a boy’s pants. Shortly after, the Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Providence wrote to another clergyman regarding the priest.
   “For confidential reasons, Fr Roland M. Lepire now at St. Aloysius, Woon must be transferred at once,” wrote Auxiliary Bishop Kenneth A. Angell, on stationery bearing the diocesan seal and motto, Serve The Lord With Gladness. “He should not be reassigned in the Woonsocket area.”
   Angell’s scrawled note eventually joined tens of thousands of pages of secret church documents never intended to see the light of day. But today, those secrets are being unearthed by lawsuits probing what church leaders knew and did over the past three decades about allegations of sexual abuse.

• Eisenberg sued church, claiming sexual abuse by priest

- Molestation blamed by hostage-taker.
   New Hampshire Sunday News, By SHAWNE K. WICKHAM, ~ December 02, 2007
   NEW HAMPSHIRE -- A victims advocate says he wasn't surprised to learn that Leeland Eisenberg of Rochester, the man arrested after Friday's hostage crisis at Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign office, claims to have been sexually abused by a parish priest in his youth.
   If anything, Terence McKiernan, the founder of bishop-accountability.org, told the New Hampshire Sunday News, "It's amazing ... that you don't have more violence and scary situations as a result of the abuse that people suffer at the hands of these offenders."
   Eisenberg, 46, filed a civil lawsuit in 2002 against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston and Cardinal Bernard Law.
   He alleged he was sexually abused in 1982 or 1983 at St. Catherine Church in Westford, Mass. Eisenberg was 21 years old at the time, and had been "homeless and living in abandoned cars in a local junkyard" in Ayer, Mass., when a sympathetic priest offered him a job painting the church and a cot in the church basement, according to the lawsuit.

• Hillary bomber hooked on drugs & booze; abused, homeless, tried suicide

- Molestation blamed.
   Daily News, By STEPHANIE GASKELL in SOMERSWORTH, N.H., and LARRY McSHANE in NEW YORK; Sunday, December 2nd 2007
   NEW HAMPSHIRE -- Leeland Eisenberg's troubles began well before he held a half dozen people hostage at Hillary Clinton's campaign office. Click for scenes from the hostage drama and Eisenberg's life.
   When he was 21, Leeland Eisenberg was a homeless drunk and drug abuser, driven from home by a brutal father and living inside abandoned cars at a Massachusetts junkyard.
   Then his life took a turn for the worse. And another. And yet another.
   Desperate for help, he sought refuge at a local church - where he allegedly was molested by a priest. A failed suicide attempt followed, as did a conviction and jail time for forcing a woman - at knifepoint - to perform oral sex on him outside a Holiday Inn. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:02 AM]
////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker Sun December 02, 2007
Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont143.htm
For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed.

#### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.bishop- accountability. org/ abuse tracker , Mon December 03, 2007 edition:

• Former Catholic priest on trial on sex charges

[1970 Ferguson -NEW*] - RCC. Minor.

   ABC (Australia), www.abc.net. au/news/ stories/ 2007/12/03/ 2108396.htm? site=idx- tas , Posted 20:13:00, December 3, 2007
   LAUNCESTON (Tas), Australia -- A former Catholic priest has appeared in the Launceston Criminal Court on a charge of maintaining a sexual relationship with a young person under the age of 17.
   Gregory Laurence Ferguson was a priest at Burnie's Marist College when the sexual abuse was alleged to have taken place in 1970.
   The trial began today in the Launceston Criminal Court, with Justice Ewan Crawford encouraging the jury to consider the evidence and remember that the alleged events happened more than 35 years ago. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:46 AM]

• Teenager testifies pastor fondled her, asked for sex

[2007 Curtis -NEW*] - Community Friendship Church. Teenage girl.

   The Western Star, By Lauren Pack, for Tuesday, December 04, 2007
   HAMILTON (OH) – A teenage girl testified Monday that a Hamilton pastor fondled her and asked her for oral sex during an encounter this year at her parent's home.
   The 17-year-old testified in Butler County Common Pleas Court for three hours during the trial of Rev. Bruce Alvin Curtis, 54, a religious leader at Community Friendship Church of God in Christ in Hamilton, who is charged with attempted sexual battery, a fourth-degree felony, and sexual imposition, a third-degree misdemeanor.
   The alleged incident occurred on Feb. 21 at Curtis' residence in the 1000 block of Chestnut Street in Fairfield. Police detectives say Curtis inappropriately touched the victim and the crime was elevated because of his authority over her as a pastor.

• Investigators Questioned on Pastor Gray's Arrest

[Decades ago - Gray*] - Baptist. > 20 girls, 1 boy.
   First Coast News, By Roger Weeder, ~ December 03, 2007
   JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Investigators who handled and built a case against former Trinity Baptist pastor Bob Gray were questioned by defense attorneys about the process and evidence.
   Pastor Gray died last month before his trial for allegedly molesting children decades ago.
   Police say the case started on May 13, 2006 when they responded to a call from the Justice Coalition to meet with an alleged victim. The victim said she had been French kissed decades earlier.
   Six days later, Gray was arrested. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 11:10 PM]

• Jurors find man guilty in sex-abuse case at defunct church

[? 1990s-2000s Bernard] - Hosanna Church. Girl (2) and 2 boys.
   The Journal Gazette, Associated Press, December 03, 2007
   AMITE (LA) -- A jury late Monday convicted a man on three counts of aggravated rape of children for his role in the sex abuse case surrounding the now-closed Hosanna Church in Ponchatoula.
   Austin Trey Bernard III, 39, of Hammond, was the first of seven members of the church to go on trial. He was accused of raping his daughter, who was 2 at the time, and a 12-year-old boy.
   Jurors - eight women and four men - deliberated about two hours before delivering the verdict. District Judge Doug Hughes set sentencing for Jan. 16.
   Since Wednesday, the jury has listened to witnesses for the state, at least six hours of taped interviews of children and Bernard's taped confessions to law enforcement authorities.
   They also read hundreds of pages of written confessions by Bernard and two children detailing the alleged abuse. The two young men, who are among the three children the state maintains were raped, also testified but recanted past statements of alleged abuse.

• Former Catholic Priest Pleads Guilty To Molesting Boys

[1990s Baker] - RCC. 10 1/3 yrs prison. 2 teenage boys.
   KNBC, ~ December 03, 2007
   LOS ANGELES (CA) -- A former Southland Catholic priest pleaded guilty Monday to molesting two teenage boys more than a decade ago and was sentenced to 10 years and four months in state prison.
   Michael Stephen Baker, 59, formerly of Long Beach, pleaded guilty to a dozen felony counts of oral copulation of a person under 18.
   Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Curtis Rappe gave Baker credit for 717 days served behind bars, as well as 358 days credit for good behavior since his Jan. 19, 2006, arrest.
   Along with the prison term, the judge ordered the former priest to undergo HIV/AIDS testing, register as a sex offender for the rest of his life upon his release from prison, and pay one of the victims $20,000 for mental health counseling.

• Iowa Diocese Reaches $37M Sex Abuse Pact

[1930s-2000s - Davenport Diocese] - RCC. US$37m settlement. In bankruptcy. 156 victims.
   The Associated Press By HENRY C. JACKSON, ~ December 03, 2007
   DAVENPORT (IA) and DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – The Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport agreed Monday to pay out $37 million to more than 150 sex abuse victims under a settlement that requires the bishop to personally apologize to any accusers or relatives who ask.
   The deal, hammered out over four days of negotiations in Chicago, will address the claims of 156 victims of abuse who have come forward, with a portion of the money set aside in the event that more victims come forward.
   The agreement completes a necessary step for the Davenport diocese, which filed for bankruptcy last year after allegations of abuse against former clergy members, some dating back nearly 70 years. The diocese is expected soon to file a formal plan for reorganization in U.S. Bankruptcy Court that will include the settlement agreement.

• Former L.A. priest pleads guilty to sexual abuse of boys

[1990s Baker] - RCC. 10yrs prison. 2 teenage boys.
   Union-Tribune, By Keith St. Clair, ASSOCIATED PRESS, 6:41 p.m. December 3, 2007
   LOS ANGELES (CA) -- A former priest who figured prominently in the sex abuse scandal that plagued the nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese pleaded guilty Monday to molesting two boys and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
   Michael Stephen Baker, 60, was sentenced as part of a plea deal entered in Los Angeles Superior Court.
   The announcement of the agreement came on the same day the archdiocese paid a large share of the $660 million it has agreed to provide to settle cases with more than 500 alleged victims of clergy abuse.
   About $500 million was wired to victims as part of the largest payout by any diocese since the scandal emerged in Boston in 2002, said Ray Boucher, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs.

• Alleged Victim In West Harford Child Porn Case Files Lawsuit

[1960s-90s Dr Reardon*] - St Francis Hospital. 50,000 images. Photographing nude children.
   NBC 30, ~ December 03, 2007
   WEST HARTFORD, Conn. -- An alleged victim and former patient of a West Hartford doctor filed a lawsuit in court Monday after more than 50,000 images of child pornography were found in the doctor’s former home last week.
   The new owners of Reardon’s home on Griswold Drive found the slides in May during renovations.
   The former patient of Dr. George Reardon is seeking compensation from both Reardon’s estate and St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, where Reardon worked.

• Hospital sued over doctor's alleged sexual abuse of children

[1960s-90s Dr Reardon*] - St Francis Hospital. 50,000 images. Photographing nude children.
   Newsday, By DAVE COLLINS | Associated Press Writer, 4:17 PM EST, December 3, 2007
   HARTFORD, Conn. - A man who claims he was one of Dr. George Reardon's many child sexual abuse victims sued St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center on Monday, saying the hospital failed to protect him from the doctor.
   The plaintiff, listed in the lawsuit as John Doe No. 1, claims the hospital knew, or should have known, that Reardon "had a propensity to sexually batter minors" but failed to do anything to stop the abuse.
   The filing in Hartford Superior Court came nearly a week after West Hartford police announced that a huge collection of child pornography was found in a hidden storage space in Reardon's former home earlier this year. The cache included 50,000 35mm slides and more than 100 8mm movie reels.

• Mom convicted of rape out of jail

[? 2000s Mrs Dinkel] - RCC. Woman sex with Boy (15).
   The Cincinnati Post, Post staff report, December 03, 2007
   KENTUCKY -- Jeni Lee Dinkel is out of jail, but the 51-year-old Northern Kentucky woman convicted of raping a 15-year-old boy still faces a lawsuit filed by the boy's mother.
   Dinkel, of Villa Hills, wife of former Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Tom Dinkel, was released Saturday from the Kenton County Jail, where she served 60 days as ordered by Kenton Circuit Judge Greg Bartlett.
   Pending is a lawsuit filed three weeks ago against Dinkel, her husband, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington, Covington Catholic High School Principal Michael Clines and Park Hills Police Chief Rick Smith.

• Diocese to pay $37M more to abuse survivors

[1930s-2000s - Davenport Diocese] - RCC. US$37,000,000. 156 victims.
   Des Moines Register, December 03, 2007
   DAVENPORT (IA) -- The Davenport Catholic Diocese and its insurance carriers have agreed to a $37 million bankruptcy reorganization plan that will benefit approximately 156 people who say clergy and other diocesan personnel sexually abused them, lawyers for the victims said this morning.
   In a news release, lawyers Pat Noaker, Craig Levien and Hamid Rafatjoo said the Committee of Unsecured Creditors reached an agreement with the Bishop of the Diocese of Davenport last Thursday, Nov. 29.
   The committee represents 156 people who are listed as creditors in the diocese's bankruptcy proceedings. A year ago, the diocese listed assets of $9 million and said it would sell its headquarters and three homes, including the bishop's residence, to pay creditors.

• Diocese bankruptcy settlement 'best opportunity for healing'

[1930s-2000s - Davenport Diocese] - RCC. US$37m. 156 victims.
   The Gazette, By Gregg Hennigan, gregg.hennigan@gazettecommunications.com , December 03, 2007
   DAVENPORT (IA) -- The Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport would pay up to $37 million to sexual abuse victims under a plan revealed Monday that paves the way for the diocese to emerge from bankruptcy protection after 14 months.
   The agreement, which still must be approved by a judge, was reached at 1 a.m. Nov. 29 after four days of mediation in Chicago between attorneys for the diocese and the case's creditors committee, which is made up of alleged abuse victims. Bishop Martin Amos also was involved.
   The diocese and its insurance carriers would pay the money, and some individual parishes may also contribute. The agreement also includes several non-monetary terms, including Amos agreeing to write a personal letter to any victim, or relatives of victims, who requests one.
   "The settlement provides the best opportunity for healing and for the just and fair compensation of those who have suffered sexual abuse by priests in our diocese," Amos said in a statement.

• New set of legal woes for Bishop Brown

[? 2000s Bp Brown] - RCC. Selling gravesite.
   The Orange County Register, By FRANK MICKADEIT, Register columnist, fmickadeit@ocregister.com ~ December 03, 2007
   ORANGE COUNTY (CA) -- You know how Bishop Tod Brown won't have to face contempt charges today? Well, not so fast. In another courtroom this morning, in a completely different case, a completely different plaintiff's attorney will ask for sanctions against Brown and the Catholic Diocese of Orange for allegedly violating a completely different court order.
   This has nothing to do with molestations - at least not sexual molestation. But what do you call allegedly selling a widow's grave out from under her and her late husband? Perhaps out from under many widows and their late spouses? And not telling them until they show up, grieving, two days before the funeral and then shuffling them off to some weed-strewn area?

• Davenport Diocese reaches settlement agreement with abuse victims

[1930s-2000s - Davenport Diocese] - RCC. US$37m. 156 victims.
   ABC 5, Associated Press, 1:04 PM ET, December 3, 2007
   DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The Diocese of Davenport has agreed to a $37 million settlement for victims of sexual abuse by its clergy.
   Martin J. Amos, the bishop of Davenport, said in a statement released Monday that the settlement offers "the best opportunity for healing" for victims of clergy abuse. He also says it's the best route to allow the Davenport Diocese to continue its mission.
   The church expects to include the settlement in a reorganization plan it will file in bankruptcy court. Church officials expect distribution of the money to begin by July of next year.

• Payouts in L.A. priest abuse scandal set for today

- RCC. [1990s Baker] - RCC. 10 1/3 yrs prison. 2 teenage boys. [50yrs Los Angeles Archdiocese] ~ US$500m going. > 500 victims.
   Los Angeles Times, By John Spano, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer, 11:11 AM PST, December 3, 2007
   LOS ANGELES (CA) -- About $500 million in damages was to be paid out starting this morning in the final settlement of a 5-year-old sexual abuse scandal that has gripped the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles .
   More than 500 individuals will receive up to $4 million each for the injuries they said they suffered at the hands of priests and lay employees, mostly from the 1950s into the 1980s.
   The church and its insurers agreed to a universal settlement last summer that called for total payments of $660 million to the accusers.
   "I honestly truly feel thankful," said Matt Severson, who says he was raped as an altar boy by former priest Michael Baker. "At this moment, it will truly be a new chapter in my life."

• Priest aided investigators in nun's murder case

[Robinson]
   Renew America, by Matt C. Abbott, December 3, 2007
   TOLEDO (OH) -- The following is Chapter 25 of David Yonke's book Sin, Shame, and Secrets: The Murder of a Nun, the Conviction of a Priest, and Cover-Up in the Catholic Church (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006), which will be available in paperback on February 15, 2008. It is reprinted with Mr. Yonke's permission. [Warning: contains disturbing descriptions.]
   Chapter 25
   Sergeant Forrester called Father Michael Billian at the Catholic Center in Toledo and said he had a few questions about the occult. He offered no further explanation, but the chancellor assumed it had something to do with the Father Robinson case.
   Father Billian suggested he call Father Jeffrey Grob, a Roman Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Chicago who was researching his doctoral dissertation on the ritual of exorcism. Father Grob was the associate vicar for canonical services for the archdiocese and also served as assistant to the exorcist.

• Gun priest keeps links

[~ 1990s-2000s Pearson*] - Roman Catholic Church (RCC). Middle East visits. Gun. Pornography.

   The Advertiser, By SAM RICHES, POLICE REPORTER, 07:10pm, December 03, 2007
   SOUTH AUSTRALIA -- A GUN-WIELDING Catholic priest at the centre of an investigation into child pornography has continued his association with the Church.
   Father Tony Pearson agreed to stand aside 12 months ago from his chaplaincy at the Aboriginal Catholic Ministry when the Catholic Archdiocese of Adelaide became aware of a police investigation following from information provided to the Mulligan inquiry. As part of that investigation, police raided Father Pearson's office at the Otherway Centre, allegedly uncovering pornographic material and weapons photographs taken in Afghanistan.
   The weapons pictures have been referred to the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation.
   Despite agreeing to stand aside pending the outcome of the police investigation, Father Pearson has continued his association with the centre, mounting presentations displaying photographs of his trips to Afghanistan.

• Little Italy priest

[1970s Salerno* (Pallotine)] - RCC. Boy.

   Baltimore Sun by Dan Rodricks, ~ December 03, 2007
   BALTIMORE (MD) -- Maria Serafini, a parishoner at St. Leo's Catholic Church in Little Italy, passes along this information about the ousted pastor, Father Mike Salerno, who was removed from the parish because of an allegation that he sexually abused a teenage boy in New York some 30 years ago:
   For all of us who are concerned, here's some information on Fr. Mike:
   He is being "well cared for" by the Pallotines. He was able to spend the Thanksgiving Holiday with his family. He has been receiving his letters and gifts from the parishioners through the rectory--including some cigars. (On Wednesdays, Fr. Sal delivers the letters/packages to Fr. Sticco, who then delivers the package to Fr. Mike).

• Hosanna jury likely to get case

[? 1990s-2000s Bernard] - Hosanna Church. Girl (2) and 2 boys.

   The Advocate, By DEBRA LEMOINE, Advocate Florida parishes bureau, Published Page: 3B, Dec 3, 2007
   AMITE (LA) – A Tangipahoa Parish jury is likely to decide today whether Austin “Trey” Bernard III committed aggravated rape on two children, a 2-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy.
   The trial for Bernard is expected to resume at 10:30 a.m. today in the 21st Judicial District Court.
   Bernard, 39, of Hammond, is the first of the seven members of Ponchatoula’s now-defunct Hosanna Church to go on trial on charges of sexually abusing children, who made their allegations in 2005.
   Since Wednesday, a jury of eight women and four men has listened to eight prosecution witnesses and at least six hours of taped interviews of children and Bernard’s taped confessions to law enforcement authorities. They also read hundreds of pages of written confessions by Bernard and two children detailing the alleged abuse.

• Dr. Reardon's Depravity

[1960s-90s Dr Reardon*] - St Francis Hospital. 50,000 images. Photographing nude children.
   Hartford Courant, December 3, 2007
   HARTFORD (CT) -- From beginning to end, the case involving West Hartford physician George E. Reardon was sordid and unsatisfying. Once chief of endocrinology at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, Dr. Reardon resigned in disgrace in 1993 as a series of witnesses testified before the state Medical Examining Board that he had photographed and molested them as children. The case dragged on for years; incredibly, the board dropped the matter in exchange for a promise from Dr. Reardon, who had already retired, that he would no longer practice medicine.
   The arrangement was a sham. Dr. Reardon denied the allegations of sexual misconduct, but the charges against him went back more than four decades and involved dozens of accusers. Yet the board essentially entered into a gentleman's agreement in which he was politely escorted from the examining room with no finding of wrongdoing. Dr. Reardon maintained his pretense of innocence until his death in 1998.
   Now, that past has come spilling into the present. A homeowner renovating Mr. Reardon's former house on Griswold Drive in West Hartford uncovered a cache of child pornography hidden inside a basement wall.

• “Shock and disbelief”

[2007 Bp Brown] - RCC. Contempt of court. [Years - Mons Urell*] - RCC. Permitted transfers. 2007 Crossed to Canada.

   California Catholic Daily, ~ December 03, 2007
   ORANGE COUNTY (CA) -- Plaintiffs’ attorneys in several sex-abuse cases recently settled out of court by the Diocese of Orange have decided not to pursue a contempt-of-court citation against Bishop Tod Brown, but say the diocese coerced their decision.
   The lawsuits in question alleged that four women were sexually molested as students by two faculty members at Mater Dei High School, a teacher at Santa Margarita Catholic High School, and a choir director at St. Timothy and St. Edward's parishes.
   Msgr. John Urell, former Orange diocesan chancellor under Bishop Norman McFarland, was deposed in July in one of the cases. He became so upset by questions about his handling of sex-abuse complaints as chancellor that he walked out of his unfinished deposition, crying. Later it was learned that Bishop Brown had agreed to send Urell to the Southdown Institute near Toronto, Canada, for treatment of an emotional condition.

• Lawsuit In Sex Abuse Case

[1960s-90s Dr Reardon*] - St Francis Hospital. 50,000 images. Photographing nude children.

   Hartford Courant, By DANIEL P. JONES | December 3, 2007
   HARTFORD (CT) -- Lawyers for a man who says that Dr. George Reardon molested and photographed him naked 30 years ago say they plan to go to court today to lodge what is believed to be the first lawsuit claiming that St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center shares responsibility for Reardon's alleged abuse.
   The man, identified only as John Doe in the complaint the lawyers plan to file, was from Reardon's community, while a number of the alleged victims who came forward previously had been hospital patients of his. The plaintiff was between 12 and 14 years old when Reardon sexually abused him several times in Reardon's hospital office, according to Paul Edwards, a lawyer representing the man.
   Now in his early 40s and living with his family in the Hartford area, the plaintiff in the lawsuit was among at least a half-dozen boys and girls the lawyers say Reardon recruited from the community and molested in his hospital office under a guise of conducting childhood sexual development studies at St. Francis.
   Edwards and other lawyers in his firm and elsewhere are evaluating complaints from other people who say Reardon abused them, and more lawsuits against the hospital are expected. The Joe Doe lawsuit will also name Reardon's estate as a defendant. ...
   "With respect to allegations against St. Francis itself, based on what we know back in the early '90s we don't believe that St. Francis acted inappropriately in any respect," said Barry Feldman, the hospital's general counsel and senior vice president.

• Documents shed more light about clergy sex abuse cases in R.I.

[≤ 1979 Lepire] - RCC. Boy.
   The Boston Globe, December 2, 2007
   PROVIDENCE, R.I.–More details about clergy sex abuse cases in the Roman Catholic Church in Rhode Island are coming to light as documents turned over to alleged victims by the court begin surfacing as trial exhibits or in motions.
   Lawyers for the plaintiffs say the documents add details to what was already known about sex abuse by priests and the church's efforts to cover it up.
   One letter discovered in the archives show how church officials reacted in 1979, after Woonsocket police began investigating an allegation that the Rev. Roland Lepire of St. Aloysius Church had put his hands down a boy's pants.
   Auxiliary Bishop Kenneth A. Angell suggested transferring Lepire.

• Protest at West Warwick church targets alleged clergy-abuse

[~ 1950s Mons. DeAngelis] - RCC. Female.
   Providence Journal, By Lynn Arditi, 01:00 AM EST, Monday, December 3, 2007
   WEST WARWICK (RI) – Parishioners and others attending Sacred Heart Church, on Providence Street, yesterday reacted with surprise, confusion and, in some cases, rage toward a group leafleting outside who said that a former Sacred Heart pastor, who died in 1990, raped a young female parishioner there more than 50 years ago.
   The dozen or so protesters, including those who described themselves as “clergy sex-abuse survivors” and their family members, carrying fliers and signs, demanded that the portrait of Monsignor Anthony A. DeAngelis in the church hall be taken down, his name removed from a nearby apartment building and his honorable status in the parish erased. They had gathered in hopes of talking with parishioners leaving morning Masses.
   Most of the exchanges were civil, if emotional. Many parishioners avoided contact with the demonstrators by leaving through a side door of the church. One protester lost his temper and was charged with “malicious damage” to church property.
////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker www.bishop- accountability. org/ abuse tracker , Mon December 03, 2007
Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont143.htm
For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed.

#### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.bishop- accountability. org/ abuse tracker , Tue December 04, 2007 edition:

!!!: New York Archdiocese Employs New Method To Warn Kids Of Sexual Predators

- RC clergy colouring book warns about – RC clergy.

   NY1, www.ny1.com/ ny1/content/ index.jsp? stid=1& aid=76227 , December 04, 2007
   NEW YORK -- The Archdiocese of New York began distributing a coloring book Tuesday meant to teach children to be wary of adults, and it doesn't exactly exclude priests from that group. NY1's Amanda Farinacci filed the following report.
   Instead of simply teaching kids how to color within the lines, a new coloring book called "Being Friends, Being Safe, Being Catholic" is meant to teach them to be wary of adults who may be out-of-line, strangers or people they know, who may be targeting them for sexual abuse.
   "Make sure that everybody knows what the nature of the problem is, and how to protect kids, and how to create a safe environment," said Ed Mechmann of Safe Education.

• Victim on cardinal's beating: 'This is karma'

- RC clergyman alleges beating.
   KABC, By John North, ~ December 04, 2007
   GLENDALE, CALIFORNIA -- Major developments on Tuesday in the clergy abuse scandal. As the victims received their first checks from the abuse settlement, Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony revealed he'd been attacked by a man enraged by the Catholic Church scandal.
   Cardinal Mahony recently surprised hundreds of priests when he told them he had been injured during an attack outside the cathedral. This comes as the first checks are mailed and deposited in the $660 million settlement with victims of priest sex abuse.
   Mahony told a gathering of priests about being attacked by someone upset over the sex abuse. One of the priests was Father Joseph Shea of Holy Family Catholic Church, who says they were all shocked by the news. Some were surprised Mahony didn't report the attack to police. [Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 4, 2007 10:23 PM]
   [COMMENT: Are some people above the law? In their own estimation, I mean. Shouldn't crimes be reported to the police? COMMENT ENDS.]

• Jury says suit too late, but awards $15,000 in damages

[1977 Willis] - RCC. US$15,000 award, 'tho too late. Boy.
   WAVY, Associated Press, 10:05 PM ET, December 4, 2007
   BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - A jury in Vermont has found that a Virginia man who sued the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington for his alleged molestation by a priest 30 years ago should have done so years earlier.
   After almost eight hours of deliberations, jurors tonight found that the Diocese had failed to adequately supervise now-defrocked Reverend Alfred Willis and awarded his accuser, James Turner, $15,000 in compensatory damages.
   But it also found that under the statute of limitations, he should have brought the claim by 1998 -- six years before he did.

• Snap Poll

- RC clergy warn about clergy.
   NY1, ~ December 04, 2007
   NEW YORK -- Is it appropriate for the coloring book to refer indirectly to the priest sex abuse scandal?
   Poll active DECEMBER 04TH, 2007 - DECEMBER 09TH, 2007
   NY1 News has launched our "Snap Poll" feature, which allows Time Warner Digital Cable subscribers in New York City to use their remote control to answer poll questions that appear on their TV screen.

• Comprehensive sex abuse settlement reached in Davenport

[1930s-2000s - Davenport Diocese] - RCC. US$37m. 156 victims.
   Catholic News Agency, 11:31 am, Dec 4, 2007
   DES MOINES (IA), (CNA).-- The Diocese of Davenport, one of five U.S. dioceses to file for bankruptcy under the weight of sexual abuse cases, reached a $37 million agreement with the victims and their attorneys at 1 a.m. on Thursday, November 29.
   Under the settlement, persons abused, or their relatives can request a letter of apology from the bishop of Davenport, Martin J. Amos.
   According to the Associated Press, the negotiation of the agreement took place over four days in Chicago and will address the claims of 156 victims of abuse who have come forward. The pact also makes provision for any additional abuse claims by setting aside a portion of the money.
   Reaching the settlement makes the Iowa diocese the last of the five dioceses around the country to complete this necessary component of filing for bankruptcy.
   In a statement, Bishop Amos, said that the agreement offers "the best opportunity for healing" for victims of clergy abuse.

• Mahony and Me

- RCC.
   Orange County Weekly, Posted by Gustavo Arellano in Ex Cathedra, Main, December 4, 2007
   LOS ANGELES (CA) -- Recent news that Archdiocese of Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony claims he was assaulted by someone angry with his treatment of sex-abuse survivors brings back memories of my own obnoxious attack on His Eminence over the rapes of innocents.
   It was in October of 2005, and I was spending a week in Los Angeles as part of the Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism's seminar on the Latinization of Arts in America.
   Seminar organizers kicked off the week with a visit to Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, the cathedral better described as the Rog Mahal.
   I protested loudly to no avail and looked on glumly as some diocesan hack went on about the cathedral's architecture, doors, blah, blah, blah.
   We were allowed to explore the cathedral on our own for a bit--and that's when I saw my chance for some payback.

• Fay: Former Darien pastor sentenced to 3 years

[1999-2006 Fr Fay*] - RCC. Male "partner". Admits. US$1.4m missing.
   The Darien Times, ~ December 04, 2007
   NEW HAVEN (CT) – Michael Jude Fay, the former pastor of Darien's St. John Roman Catholic Parish was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison today for stealing parishioners' money for his own use. And he was ordered to pay restitution of $1,027,989.
   The sentence was handed down by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven federal court. Fay, 56, pleaded guilty in September to one count of interstate transportation of money obtained by fraud. He was facing up to 10 years in prison a