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	“If Anyone Knows about Child Rape, It’s the Diocese of Fairbanks” The Diocese of Fairbanks and Sexual Abuse October 31, 2009 http://secondrape.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/if-anyone-knows-about-child-rape-its-the-diocese-of-fairbanks/ The Diocese of Fairbanks is doing its best to convince the world that offering $5,500 to victims of child rape is fair. In press reports, they even had the nerve to say that victims were being insensitive by calling the offer a “second rape.” Victims are insensitive? Really? Living with the effects of abuse their whole lives, shunned by the church, suffering in shame and silence, losing sleep, grappling with thoughts of suicide, while Bishop Kettler shakes a finger at them and tells them to go away? Kettler and his officials are the definition of insensitive. Four victims got together yesterday for a press conference to tell their stories. They told stories of rape, abuse, loss, pain and shame: “I didn’t want to live anymore.” “I couldn’t believe in God.” “I just want everyone to see what happened.” It’s not about the money, they said, it’s about the Diocese taking responsibility for knowingly allowing men to sodomize innocent kids. Diocese officials are getting off scott-free, they said, paying more to lawyers than to the people the Diocese hurt. So yes, it is like a second rape. And to steal words from attorney Ken Roosa: If anyone knows about child rape, it’s the Diocese of Fairbanks.
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