LOS ANGELES (CA)
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
Posted by Joelle Casteix on February 04, 2013
It’s heartbreaking but predictable that a suspended LA predator priest has resurfaced working for a school district. Some 260 LA catholic clerics are proven, admitted or credibly accused child molesters. So in the month and years ahead, we expect we’ll see more and more painful stories about these pedophile priests being found around vulnerable kids and unsuspecting families.
Catholic bishops recruit, educate, ordain, hire, train, supervise and transfer priests, thousands of whom are or become pedophiles. When the pedophiles’ crimes are finally exposed, usually bishops suspend them and then turn away, providing little or no real warnings to others or supervision for the pedophiles. Hundreds of these pedophiles turn up in other places where they hurt kids, working for or near schools, camps, day care centers or other churches.
Time and time again, we’ve begged bishops “Protect kids. Put your pedophiles in remote, secure, independently run treatment centers.” Few bishops, however, take this bare minimum safety step.
Instead, they defrock the worst offenders and absolve themselves of any more responsibility. Or they let the offenders walk free and live or work around colleagues or neighbors who usually have no idea how dangerous these offenders are.
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