HONOLULU (HI)
Honolulu Civil Beat
March 8, 2019
By Michael Golojuch Jr. .
Senate Concurrent Resolution 8 is making its way through the Hawaii Legislature. This resolution asks Hawaii’s attorney general to conduct a statewide investigation of sexual abuse of minors by clergy of the Diocese of Honolulu. This study would be similar to an investigation done in Pennsylvania which brought out more that 300 predator priests and a minimum of 1,000 victims.
Diocese of Honolulu Bishop Larry Silva’s testimony against the resolution contained “shock” that it received a hearing, pointed fingers at family members as a greater source of sexual assault of keiki, and — the biggest misstep of his testimony — implied that the Roman Catholic Church has cleaned up its act when it came to its historic systemic sexual assault of keiki.
Silva stated that SCR 8 wasn’t needed since they have paid the survivors that came forward during the periods the statute of limitations was lifted for those that were sexual assaulted as children.
The Diocese of Honolulu has never turned over a single priest to the authorities for prosecution. It has offered counseling provided by the same pool of priests tainted by sexual predators. It has shown little to no remorse for the damage that the sexual assault of keiki by its priests has caused the survivors, their families and the community.
The main reason why SCR 8 is needed is the 2018 report by Jeff Anderson & Associates, “Clerical Sexual Abuse in the Diocese of Honolulu.”
It detailed the accused clergy in the Diocese of Honolulu from 1959 to present. It showed the methodical way the Diocese of Honolulu protected the rapists, putting thousands of keiki at risk over the decades and in the process allowing the systematic raping of untold number of survivors.
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