By Kay Ebeling
Examiner
March 24, 2009
http://www.examiner.com/x-1960-LA-City-Buzz-Examiner~y2009m3d24-They-are-getting-away-with-it-when-the-story-should-be-on-Nancy-Grace-every-night
[with videos]
Comedy piece by a Brit found on YouTube: Boys Boys Boys (Pedo Priests) Plus 2nd video: Activists track down a pedophile priest and confront him at his home, alert the Minneapolis neighborhood.
And Minneapolis activists track down a pedophile priest at his home and confront him
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| Boys Boys Boys |
Unfortunately reports on the pedophile epidemic in the Catholic Church came out during the 'Flashpan Era' of American journalism, where the story is only as important as the number of cameras pointed in its direction. The cameras never stay longer than they need to produce a five minute story, so there is no place in modern journalism for articles that require legwork, weeks of interviewing, hours of waiting in boring courtrooms, and reading through mounds of documents. No corporate media outlet will pay a reporter to be that unproductive in today’s media. Plus by the time a reporter can do that much research, the Flash in the Pan would be on another topic. So the total story of pedophilia in the Catholic Church is yet to come out for mainstream readers. The result when it comes to the pedophile epidemic in the Catholic Church is, they got away with it.
In past decades the church has turned five thousand, (5000) pedophiles loose on the American landscape and thousands of children were fondled, penetrated, and seriously damaged as a result. (THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN . (Read bishopaccountability accounts http://bishopaccountability.org/ ) These criminals were so empowered by the treatment they got from church hierarchy that by the sixties and seventies in Southern California the pedophile priests did not even hide what they were doing. It was obvious.
The predators came into elementary school classrooms and catechism classes, picked out the same vulnerable sad miserable children, took them off somewhere, the children came back even more sad and miserable. Or pedophiles stood on playgrounds and had children dive deep in the pockets of their priest robes for candy, having children fondle them openly.
These sex crimes against children went on for years and years in one archdiocese after archdiocese, with the same modus operandi, or patterns of crime, right in front of the lay workers and other priests, the pedophilia was just part of the culture. The crimes took play with the knowledge and enabling of bishops and monsignors who were charged with supervising the priests. The story of pedophile priests is one part that mainstream readers have barely received, they don’t yet have a grasp on the totality of the horror, otherwise there would be more of a public outcry.
Instead Nobody Has Really Done Anything About It. Settlements go to maybe ten percent of the crime victims and usually result in additional secrecy. There has been no accountability for the crimes, no guilt declared, no real criminal conviction to match the extent of the crimes.
The predators came into elementary school classrooms and catechism classes, picked out the same vulnerable sad miserable children, took them off somewhere, the children came back even more sad and miserable. Or pedophiles stood on playgrounds and had children dive deep in the pockets of their priest robes for candy, having children fondle them openly.
The story did not BREAK like shattered glass as news of pedophile priests broke across the country, but instead the story just fell and chipped a small amount, rendered the glass no longer safe to use, yet the church continues business as usual like we thousands of crime victims aren’t even here, or act like an occasional Healing Mass at the churches where we were raped is going to help. (Story continues after these two videos)
No one has faced real justice who was really guilty in the pedophile priest epidemic in the Catholic Church. The bishops who allowed this epidemic of pedophilia to happen have never come forward and explained exactly what was their real motive. Catholic Bishops let children be raped over and over again in their churches and other properties, behind altars, in Confessionals, at Catholic summer camps. Why isn’t Nancy Grace riled up about this? Why aren’t pedophile priests at least a subtopic on her show every night, revealing the coverup and crimes of one Archdiocese after another?
(I’ve got an idea. Everyone send a copy of this story to the Nancy Grace Show at CNN and ask that same question, why doesn't she cover these serial felonies.)
Something is wrong with the way the story was managed, the way the survivors were managed, the secrecy that still permeates these crimes.
It’s hard to pinpoint what has prevented the full story from coming out. I watched other reporters during the pretrial hearings in L.A. 2007, as 23 pedophiles’ cases were on calendar to go to jury trial in the coming months and the Clergy Cases were on a roll. As we waited for a particularly important motion to be heard in Superior Court, the L.A. Times reporter stayed five minutes then had to leave to get back to the Phil Spector murder trial in progress.
Like there weren’t any other reporters covering Phil Spector’s murder trial, and yet, today two years later, do we even remember Phil Spector’s murder trial? Remember how important Britney Spears was six months ago?
Even the L.A. Times gave in to report on celebrities over the clergy cases. I'm going to two sets hearings today, in the morning regarding release of documents in the L.A. cases, in the afternoon regarding Santa Barbara cases. Somehow, with an invisible hand that most of us have not even seen, the Church has managed to keep the story down, but I'm still on it, limping along. (I already have to replace the battery pack on my Acer mini laptop that I bought in January, so can’t take it with with me this morning either. . . . )
Try this: http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form5.html?81 to email Nancy Grace...
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