AP IMPACT: Predator priests shuffled around globe

AP IMPACT: Predator priests shuffled around globe

By BRADLEY BROOKS and ALESSANDRA RIZZO, Associated Press Writers Bradley Brooks And Alessandra Rizzo, Associated Press Writers – 40 mins ago

RIO DE JANEIRO – There he was, five decades later, the priest who had raped Joe Callander in Massachusetts. The photo in the Roman Catholic newsletter showed him with a smile across his wrinkled face, near-naked Amazon Indian children in his arms and at his feet.

The Rev. Mario Pezzotti was working with children and supervising other priests in Brazil.
It's not an isolated example.

In an investigation spanning 21 countries across six continents, The Associated Press found 30 cases of priests accused of abuse who were transferred or moved abroad. Some escaped police investigations. Many had access to children in another country, and some abused again.

A priest who admitted to abuse in Los Angeles went to the Philippines, where U.S. church officials mailed him checks and advised him not to reveal their source. A priest in Canada was convicted of sexual abuse and then moved to France, where he was convicted of abuse again in 2005. Another priest was moved back and forth between Ireland and England, despite being diagnosed as a pederast, a man who commits sodomy with boys.

"The pattern is if a priest gets into trouble and it's close to becoming a scandal or if the law might get involved, they send them to the missions abroad," said Richard Sipe, a former Benedictine monk and critic of what he says is a practice of international transfers of accused and admitted priest child abusers. "Anything to avoid a scandal."

Church officials say that in some cases, the priests themselves moved to another country and the new parish might not have been aware of past allegations. In other cases, church officials said they did not believe the allegations, or that the priest had served his time and reformed.

Callander says he was 14 when he was raped three times and abused on other occasions in 1959 at the now-closed Xaverian Missionary Faith High School in Holliston, Mass. The Xaverians settled the case for $175,000 in 1993. At least two other accusations of sexual abuse were leveled against Pezzotti in the Boston area.




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Shame on you, whoever you are.

We have so many progressive people of faith here at DU, and then there are those who for some reason don't want the vatican sex-abuse story disseminated.

I mean, I know what it means, but your response doesn't make any sense.

Dog forbid.

It's the Vatican's only export.

this is pretty fucked up.

But going deeper into the chemical architecture of the head (i.e. - the brain) there are ferocious regions that we are being forced to navigate because of the present political and religious pathology. First hand experience with Alzheimer's patients illustrate the perils of dealing with a compromised brain mass.

The brain stem becomes the seat of power and often a concerned caregiver is confronted with combative behavior from the person with the diseased brain. The inner dialogue that would normally calm the aggressive reflexes of the brain stem is knotted and convoluted like choked circuits. The patient strikes out, hits or kicks.

The entire social and family unit(the church( surrounding a person held hostage by what is referred to as the reptilian brain is reduced to defensive thinking and postures and by necessity joins the hostage crisis.

The Fish metaphor is so ironic