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	As Part of a Multi-million Dollar Settlement By Skip Shea Outpatient Clinic October 27, 2010 http://outpatientclinic.blogspot.com/2010/10/as-part-of-multi-million-dollar.html?zx=b767414d8c487e1f As part of a multi-million dollar settlement, the Diocese of San Diego was forced to release personnel files of sexually abusive priests. Attorney Anthony DeMarco said "These documents demonstrate years and years and decades of concerted action that has allowed this community's children to be victimized, and it is not until the community looks at these documents that this cycle is ever going to be ended." What concerted action? Apparently the Diocese had a habit of moving abusive priests from parish to parish without notifying the police. Once again, I'm guessing, I'm sure the Pope is shocked and saddened. Who knew? Outside of folks in Boston, Ireland, Australia, etc where everyone knew, it is safe to say the Bishop in your Diocese might have known too. Heck, even the Pope knew how to do this when he was a Bishop in Germany when he shipped a pedophile from Esson to Munich for engaging in oral sex with an eleven year old. Yet most still believe him when he says he is shocked and saddened. Even with such an enormous paper trail. Which brings me back the the 10th Congressional District in Massachusetts and candidate Jeff Perry. At a recent debate he claimed that if he knew Officer Flanagan was assaulting a fourteen year old girl, “I would have locked him up myself.” However, just like the church, there is a paper trail. Two civil suits were filed. One surrounding the assault of a 16 year old girl in 1992 and one on the assault of the 14 year old girl in 1991. The suits named Flanagan and Perry as defendants, along with the Town of Wareham. The one filed by the 16 year old girl's family went to trial and and they won the verdict saying Perry and the town acted with deliberate indifference. That doesn't quite sound the same as locking someone up. In fact, in this case Perry didn't really show indifference. He was quite active. Even though he wasn't present (this time) during Flanagan's assault he went the the girl's house the night of the crime, claiming to have been with Flanagan telling her parents they found what might have been marijuana on their daughter's possession. Perry tried to facilitate a cover-up. Unfortunately for him, he didn't quite have the expertise in this area like the church. The family called the Wareham Police the next day. After the verdict in this case they decided to settle with the 14 year old out of court. Yet pundits for the right, filling the role of the Catholic League, will claim Perry did nothing wrong. Ignoring the actual paper trail. For the complete breakdown of the Perry and Flanagan relationship, just follow this link.
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