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  Predators Should Have Gone to Prison Decades Ago, Re LA Archdiocese Federal Investigation

By Kay Ebeling
Examiner
January 30, 2009

http://www.examiner.com/x-1960-LA-City-Buzz-Examiner~y2009m1d30-Predators-should-have-gone-to-prison-decades-ago-re-LA-Archdiocese-Federal-investigation

[with video]

Video: We hope that other US Attorneys across the United States will begin to take the types of steps taken by Calif US Attorney Tom O'Brien, investigating the Los Angeles Archdiocese. says Mary Grant, a regional leader of SNAP. .

'Cardinal Mahony was not acting alone,'

Grant says in above video "A pedophile priest like Michael Baker would have been in prison long ago, if Mahony had not just transfered him to a new parish in the 1980s."

Ongoing coverage of the pedophile epidemic in the Catholic Church at City of Angels

(Above video is exclusive to Examiner Dot Com through LA City Buzz Examiner.)

TRANSCRIPT: of 2 min sound byte above;

We believe future abuse can be prevented. You can’t stop a child molester. You can put them in jail. For example Michael Baker was finally put in jail. He is a very notable case.

(Michael Baker) is a priest who went to Cardinal Mahony and said I'm a child molester. And Cardinal Mahony basically said that's okay, we're going to put you in several parishes. Michael Baker is in prison today. But he’d be there likely for the rest of his life if Cardinal Mahony had [INAUDIBLE] for many years ago and reported his crimes.

Cardinal Mahony is not acting alone

He needs to be brought to justice and that's how we can prevent future abuse from happening to other children.

We hope that other US Attorneys across the United States will begin to take those types of steps. Because you can’t stop a child molester, but real consequences for their enablers who enabled abuse and enable pedophiles might prevent future abuse and really help heal those that have already been wounded.

 
 

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