I Bet the Man Arrested for Child Porn in a Covina Church Was a Pedophile Priest Rape Victim Himself, Kay Ebeling, Examiner, February 25, 2009

I Bet the Man Arrested for Child Porn in a Covina Church Was a Pedophile Priest Rape Victim Himself

By Kay Ebeling
Examiner
February 25, 2009

http://www.examiner.com/x-1960-LA-City-Buzz-Examiner~y2009m2d25-I-bet-guy-arrested-for-stashing-child-porn-in-Covina-church-was-clergy-pedophile-rape-victim-himself

From recent pedophile priest protest at LA Cathedral, Kay Ebeling 2009

His behavior betrays he was likely a child sex crime victim himself. He would sneak into San Gabriel Valley churches with child pornography, do whatever... then hide his stash of pictures in the wall. "While preparing for the nursery to be recarpeted, a worker pulled a changing table away from the wall and discovered a plastic bag containing a number of papers - some of the paper contained images of child pornography," an agent wrote in an affidavit.

Evidence like that led to the indictment this week of Richard Michael Welton, 48, of Covina. More creepy is that he had been arrested and convicted of similar crimes before. Always involving churches.

He has been arrested 18 times since 1980 for burglary, obscene phone calls, possession of child pornography, and failure to register as a sex offender . His obscene phone calls were traced to him at Holy Trinity Church. In 2002 he broke into a Rolling Hills church and used the computers to watch child porn, the San Gabriel Valley Tribune reports today.

Hmm, obsessed with child pornography in churches.

Could he be one of thousands who were raped as children by Catholic pedophile priests around Los Angeles in the last fifty years, and live with weird compulsions the rest of their lives never knowing why?

Seems possible to me.

And since the plaintiffs from the 2007 settlements with the L.A. Archdiocese have yet to see the personnel files of their perpetrators, as the L.A. Archdiocese continues to use a team of attorneys to fight release of files, there are a lot of things we may never know about the sex crimes of pedophile priests in the Catholic Church in L.A. the last fifty years.

We will just live with the residual damage the rest of our lives.

San Gabriel Valley News story about the arrest in this weird perversion is here; http://www.sgvtribune.com/news/ci_11778023