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Old 04-11-2010, 10:40 AM
 
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Bishop of Tenerife blamed child abuse on the children

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Old 04-11-2010, 04:16 PM
 
Location: Beautiful Upstate NY!
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Sickening...absolutley sickening.

Rent 'Deliver Us From Evil' documentary from NetFlix. This bishop sounds just like Father Oliver O'Grady, the priest at the center of the LA diocese pedophile scandal.

These pedophile priests are worse than The Devil, itself.
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Old 04-11-2010, 06:42 PM
 
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That is OUTRAGEOUS!

What are these people thinking?

Disgusting. Absolutely, positively reprehensible and disgusting.
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Old 04-11-2010, 07:37 PM
 
Location: Texas
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Why aren't these people in jail?

If we were talking about someone without religious ties, they'd be burned at the stake already and on their way to hell.
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Old 04-12-2010, 06:36 AM
 
Location: Tampa, FL
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Sickening...absolutley sickening.
When I first read this story it did literally make me sick to my stomach. How can they make such smug statements? How can these men of the cloth demonstrate such a complete lack of compassion for abused children? How can they claim to serve Jesus whilst engaging in such purely political efforts to avoid responsibilty for their actions?

At first I believed the line that this was just a few isolated incidents (not that that would excuse it), but it seems like the more they talk and the more evidence arises, the more clear it becomes that this is a pervasive culture in the hierarchy of this church. They are twisted, self-serving and apparently corrupt to the core.

So they can just go ahead and keep running their mouths, blaming the victims and refusing any personal and organizational responsibility. I can't help but think that one day the people will have had enough and then they will take matters into their own hands.

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Old 04-12-2010, 06:46 AM
 
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At first I beleived the line that this was just a few isolated incidents
Amazingly, there was a similar story, almost exactly at the same time of Avarez's remarks. This time a Calgary pastor who blamed his victim, in court, this time a four-year-old girl.

Daily Herald | Ex-pastor sent to prison after claiming abuse victim harassed him

Moderator cut: Let's keep it as civil as humanly possible? Thanks.

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Old 04-12-2010, 07:12 AM
 
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Amazingly, there was a similar story, almost exactly at the same time of Avarez's remarks. This time a Calgary pastor who blamed his victim, in court, this time a four-year-old girl.
I am just sitting here with my mouth gaping open, at a loss for words.

Have they no shame?

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"She has stated on many occasions she is a bad person and wishes she had never been born," the girl's mother said.
Heartbreaking. He ruined her life before it even got started.
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Old 04-12-2010, 08:06 AM
 
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Shakespeare used some extremely disparaging pejoratives in describing certain people. An appropriate one that comes to my mind here is "hell-hated".
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Old 04-12-2010, 08:59 AM
 
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I'm at a loss for words to basically, yes..blaming the victim...so many psychopaths do it..
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Old 04-12-2010, 12:43 PM
 
Location: Sinking in the Great Salt Lake
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Yep, that's a common excuse for pedophiles. It's also a good way to get them to confess when you are interrogating them too. It's amazing what lengths people will go to in order to justify their crimes.
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