HARRISBURG (PA)
Patriot News
Oct. 10, 2019
By John Baer
Recent news related to the Catholic Church child sex abuse scandal underscores an unending saga and a common irony: a high-purposed institution placing self-interest above the interests of those it exists to serve.
Sorta like our legislature, where self-protection is the prime directive.
Lately, that directive’s playing out in response to the child sex scandal, which continues to stun, and remains, legislatively, a mess.
For example.
A nine-month Associated Press probe found hundreds of Catholic clerics countrywide, credibly accused child abusers, never prosecuted or monitored, who ended up teaching kids, fostering kids and living next to day care centers, some committing sexual assault.
AP’s first example is former Pennsylvania priest Roger Sinclair, booted from the Greensburg Diocese in 2002 for alleged abuse of a teen boy, arrested in Oregon in 2017 for repeatedly abusing a developmentally disabled young man.
This is what happens when institutions choose coverup over responsibility.
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