MISSOURI
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
POSTED BY BARBARA DORRIS ON NOVEMBER 14, 2013
Imagine this: A bank robber shoots and kills two people – first a custodian and a then a teller – as they run away seeking safety.
The criminal is held responsible for the custodian’s death but not for the teller’s death. Why?
Because when the bullet hit the custodian, he was on bank property but when the bullet hit the teller, she was actually standing on a public sidewalk.
Pretty crazy scenario, right? Why should the actual physical site of a crime enable wrongdoers who commit or conceal that crime to get off the hook?
But that’s exactly what’s happening in Missouri with clergy sex crimes and cover ups.
In 2011, St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson and his colleagues got off the hook because Fr. Cooper molested a boy at a riverside cabin that was owned by the priest (but NOT owned by the church).
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