Crimes against Humanity, It's About Me, September 15, 2011

Crimes against Humanity

It's About Me
September 15, 2011

http://www.timfischer1.com/Site/Blog/Entries/2011/9/15_Crimes_Against_Humanity.html

This entry is from yesterday’s press conference in St. Louis.

Hello my name is Tim Fischer I am a survivor of priest abuse here in St. Louis. I was raped when I was 11 by Fr. Norman H. Christian at St, Georges perish. I am also a member of SNAP.

I would like to relate yesterdays powerful event at the Hague to my own experience. then take any questions you have... and that I might be able to answer.

In 2004, something very powerful was happening in St. Louis. I recount these events in great detail in my blog. www.timfischer1.com

The police had been investigating my case for two years, trying to pry information out of the archdiocese that entire time when suddenly I received a courageous phone call from my perp’s niece Pete. She told me about how her Aunt (Father Christian’s younger sister Carol) had been battling with not only Father Christian but also the Archdiocese and several Bishops and Archbishops, over the past 18 years. Everything she told me helped my heart heal more and more. She informed me Father Christian was dying, and the two of them wanted to help any of his victims if they could. She asked,” Is there anything I can do for you?” I told her: “Yes, would you give him a message for me?”

Tell him, “he didn't get away with it. I told people about what he did and they believed me, not him. he’s dying in shame and God will deal with him and all of those who have protected his kind.”

On Sunday October 24, 2004, Pete flew to St. Louis from Tampa FL and at 10:00PM delivered my message to him personally.

Yesterday, representatives of SNAP and CCR did for all survivors & children around the world, in a sense, what Pete and Carol did for me, they filed an 80+ page formal request asking the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor to investigate high-level Catholic Church officials for crimes against humanity. The detailed complaint - accompanied by 20,000 pages of evidence – charges that the church hierarchy tolerates and continues a widespread, on-going global practice of concealing rape and abuse. The complaint is posted at SNAPnetwork.org and CCRjustice.org. SNAP believes their filing contains sufficient proof that the prosecutor should act. But, for the sake of protecting the vulnerable and healing the wounded, SNAP is urging all clergy sex victims to step forward now. And we are asking those who saw or suspected such crimes and cover ups – particularly as church employees – to summon the strength to call police and prosecutors with any information they may have, however old, small or seemingly insignificant, so that an innocent child might be protected, and one more child molesting clerics might be charged, convicted and imprisoned.

Child sex crimes have been concealed, and are still being concealed, by high ranking Vatican officials. We feel that for children to truly be protected, those that commit or conceal these crimes must be held accountable. We believe that by filing the complaint yesterday with the ICC we have taken a necessary step to hold those officials responsible for their actions and inactions that have allowed thousands of children to be sexually abused by clerics.

We hope that yesterdays action will encourage other victims worldwide to come forward, speak up, and begin to heal. As a victim, myself, I hope that the filing of this complaint with the ICC will help prevent another child from being sexually abused as I was at 11 years old.

Thank you.

During my talks with the church they told me they believed me. I also found out they had removed Fr. Christian form “Active Ministry” in 1994 because of other sexual allegations with minors. But upon his death in 2004 Archbishop Burke buried him as a priest in good standing. Their cover up attempts never stop.