Re: Michael Jackson bust

"Mani Deli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> and here's one in today's paper. CNN?

Ah, more of your shit. Why do you wallow in what you hate so much?  Ape;)

> Archdiocese of Cincinnati Fined in Sex Abuse Scandal
> By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
>
> n Ohio state judge found the Archdiocese of Cincinnati guilty
> yesterday of failing to report sexually abusive priests in the 1970's
> and 80's and imposed the maximum penalty possible, a fine of $10,000.
>
> The judge's decision was the result of an agreement with the county
> prosecutor in which Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk entered a
> no-contest plea on behalf the archdiocese. The archbishop appeared in
> the courtroom with several church officials and personally entered the
> plea.
>
> "Do you understand," Judge Richard Niehaus of Common Pleas Court said
> to the archbishop, "you admitted facts that constituted guilt?"
>
> The archbishop, pale as he stood before the bench, answered, "Right."
>
> The agreement was reached hastily, just as a grand jury was convened
> to hear testimony against the archdiocese. It came at a time when many
> bishops appear eager to dissipate the cloud of the sexual abuse
> scandal that has shadowed them for nearly two years.
>
> Some dioceses have announced settlements with victims, and several
> have reported to the public the names or number of priests and other
> diocesan employees dismissed after abuse accusation.
>
> "They're trying very hard to get it off the table and get on with
> trying to be a church again," said the Rev. James Coriden, a professor
> of church law at Washington Theological Union in Washington, D.C.
>
> The Cincinnati prosecutor and local plaintiffs lawyers hailed the
> agreement, saying it was the first time that a Roman Catholic
> organization has been convicted on criminal charges related to the
> mishandling of sexual abuse cases. Bishops in two other Catholic
> dioceses - in Phoenix and in Manchester, N.H. - have signed agreements
> with prosecutors in which they admitted some wrongdoing, but avoided
> prosecution.
>
> Under the agreement in Cincinnati, the archdiocese acknowledged that
> by pleading no contest, it was admitting the truth of five
> fourth-degree misdemeanor charges and agreeing to accept the judge's
> sentence.
>
> "The Archdiocese is held responsible," said Michael K. Allen, the
> Hamilton County prosecuting attorney. "To my knowledge, this is the
> first conviction of its kind in any jurisdiction within the United
> States, and it sends a clear and unequivocal message."
>
> In a statement, Archbishop Pilarczyk expressed "sorrow and shame," and
> said: "A few years ago, I never would have thought that it would be
> necessary for a bishop to be making apologies like these. But it is
> necessary and I offer my expressions of sorrow and regret with the
> deepest intensity of which I am capable. Victims, please forgive us
> and help us to see to it that what you have suffered never happens
> again."
>
> In a news conference, Archbishop Pilarczyk said he did not intend to
> resign. "Failure to report a crime is just that," he said. "It is not
> some sort of concerted effort to conceal."
>
> The diocese was convicted of disregarding Ohio law requiring that
> abuse accusations be reported to civil authorities. The charges cover
> the years 1978 to 1982. Archbishop Pilarczyk was appointed to head the
> Cincinnati archdiocese in December 1982, but served from 1974 as an
> auxiliary bishop there.
>
> He served as president of what is now called the United States
> Conference of Catholic Bishops from 1989 to 1992, when the first wave
> of the church's sexual abuse scandal occurred. During these years, the
> bishops made recommendations on sexual abuse cases that many dioceses
> later admitted they failed to follow.
>
> The Archdiocese of Cincinnati also agreed to establish a $3 million
> fund to compensate sexual abuse victims who cannot sue the church
> because their cases are beyond the statute of limitations. A
> three-member tribunal will administer the fund.
>
> There is a notable advantage for the archdiocese in pleading no
> contest rather than guilty, said Konrad Kircher, a Cincinnati-area
> lawyer who represents 67 people suing the church for what they say was
> sexual abuse. Under Ohio law, a no contest plea cannot be used in
> civil proceedings, he said.
>
> The prosecutor, Mr. Allen, said in a statement that he had decided to
> investigate the church after Archbishop Pilarczyk announced in March
> 2002 that fewer than five priests who had abused children remained
> active in ministry. Mr. Allen impaneled one grand jury that in March
> 2003 indicted two inactive priests. He recently impaneled a second to
> examine why the archdiocese never reported abuse claims to the police.
>
> Leaders of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, which has
> pressed for prosecutions of church leaders, criticized the arrangement
> in Cincinnati. Barbara Blaine, a lawyer who is the network's
> president, was among a group who met with the prosecutor in Cincinnati
> on Thursday.
>
> "We owe a great deal of gratitude to this prosecutor," said Ms.
> Blaine. "Mike Allen has really tried hard and gone out on a limb. But
> at the same time we are not pleased at the actual outcome, because the
> archbishop was allowed to plead no contest - he didn't enter a plea of
> guilty - and no individual is being held responsible."
>
> Judge Niehaus, a Roman Catholic, chastised his church in the courtroom
> today.
>
> "I believe that a religious organization that not only should follow
> the civil law but also the moral law lost its way," he said. "And I
> believe that all religious organizations ought to show greater respect
> for human rights and not try to preserve themselves at the expense of
> the victims."
>
>
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