American Jesuit Abuser Traveled to Australia with Victims, What They Knew, October 16, 2012

American Jesuit Abuser Traveled to Australia with Victims

What They Knew
October 16, 2012

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Jesuit abuse and known child trafficker Donald McGuire took victims to Australia

[with video]

On the heels of a report released by the Victoria Police in Australia, newly uncovered documents show Jesuit priest and convicted child sex abuser Donald McGuire SJ traveled frequently to Australia from the 1980s to the early 2000s with the approval and knowledge of his superiors at the Chicago Province of the Society of Jesus, including taking victims on these trips. According to McGuire himself these trips over the span of two decades brought him to:

Canberra
Melbourne
Sydney

The documents show the itinerant Jesuit priest Donald McGuire SJ traveled to Australia at least annually, if not more frequently. These transnational transfers occurred after his superiors had become aware of his sexual abuse of minors, restricted his ministry after he had been sent to two treatment centers in the US for sexually abusive priests and was facing criminal investigations in Chicago in 2002.

To date no investigation has been conducted to determine whether the American Jesuit priest, now convicted and imprisoned, abused any local children or vulnerable adults while in Australia. Testimony from victims at criminal trials and documents prepared by Jesuit superiors (below) show these trips included victims from the US accompanying him and alleging abuse occurring in Australia.

This week Australian police charged that the Catholic Church in Victoria has hindered its efforts to investigate cases of child abuse allegedly committed by clergy. The document says the church appears to have dissuaded victims from reporting abuse, alerted suspects to allegations and moved or protected suspected offenders. You can read the full report and evidence HERE.

The report includes claims of transfers of accused clerics out of Australia.

What is left out of the report is the transfer or presence of abusive priests from OUTSIDE Australia who came to the country to sexually abuse children. McGuire had been the subject of a US federal investigation into traveling outside the United States to engage in illegal sexual activity with minors. A copy of the federal complaint is HERE.

The document below was written by a Jesuit priest, James Gschwend SJ, the then Delegate for Misconduct, who conducted an internal investigation for Chicago Jesuit Province in 2007. Fr. Gschwend was a natural choice for this assignment given his own history of allegations and coverup. The document lists Australia as a country where at least one victim was taken to an abused.

Given McGuire's history and his propensity for visiting the King's Cross area of Sydney one would expect there is more to this story as well. Stay tuned for more misadventures down under.

Allen Howe discusses the Victoria Police report HERE at the Herald Sun.

"Rather than operate as a respected religious institution, the church's response to its deadly infestation of bisexual paedophiles has been to act like gangsters: covering up evidence, hiding criminals, possibly aiding the destruction of evidence, threatening victims and failing to tell the truth about its actions.

It has obstructed justice.

Meanwhile, it has sought the professional guidance of the best legal minds in the city and hired expensive public relations consultants.

Only the best will do for the Catholic Church when it comes to trying to protect its reputation.

As it turns out, the church has wasted its money. Thanks to the diligence and brave honesty of Victoria Police, the truth is out.

The Catholic Church is not just discredited. We now know it is nasty. Where was the empathy? Where was the will to eradicate its imposter paedophiles? Where was the help for its countless victims? Where was the leadership?

Indeed, where was its Christianity?

If there is a God, there must be tears in Heaven. And the corridors of Hell must seethe with clergy who saw children in their care not as the future of their faith, but as opportunities for forced and illegal acts of sordid sex."

Some very interesting statements from the Jesuits of Australia in 2003 HERE.

Australian band The Saints perform 'Church of Indifference'

Walk around the world

You could join

The church of indifference

It don't give no love

The church of indifference

Like the good god above

The man who has everything might say

That something's a terrible fate

Religion and other dependence

We can't afford them if they

Maybe one day things will change for better or for worse

So don't you give thanks for a speech

Take a square if it's there

Walk around the world

You could join the church of indifference, baby