NEW YORK
The New Civil Rights Movement
by Scott Rose on January 12, 2012
In August, 2011, Father James (aka Jaime Duenas) of Nativity of Our Blessed Lady Catholic Church in the New York City borough of The Bronx, was arrested on allegations that he had repeatedly molested a 16-old girl working in the rectory.
Prosecutors say Duenas told them the girl was “wearing short skirts” and that she didn’t mind “the massage.”
Wouldn’t you think that given the Catholic Church’s notorious history with child sex abuse, orders would have come down from on high that in no circumstance whatsoever was any employee of the Church to blame a victim, or even an alleged victim?
Yet prosecutors say Duenas told them that the alleged victim “liked it” and that she was wearing “short skirts.”
A victim advocacy group attempted to educate the community about the realities of how sexual abusers operate. But many in the community circled wagons in defense of their priest, with an implied negative judgement about the complaining witness in the case, the 16-year-old girl.
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