BishopAccountability.org has identified 82 priests and brothers with ties to the Philippines who have been publicly accused of sexually abusing minors.
This database includes: Filipino priests accused of sexually abusing minors in the Philippines; Filipino priests who served part of their priesthood in the Philippines but who are accused of sexually abusing minors while working in the U.S.; and accused clergy from other countries – specifically, the United States, Ireland, and Australia – who served part of their priesthood in the Philippines.
The external mechanisms that have forced accountability by Catholic bishops elsewhere – litigation by victims, probes of church entities by prosecutors, inquiries by government commissions, and substantial investigations by local news media – have occurred little or not at all in the world’s third largest Catholic country.
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When a bishop moves a Catholic priest often, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the priest is a predator. However, there seem to be few bishops who keep a predator priest in the same assignment for an extended period of time. And when a predator priest is transferred to a new assignment, he often ends up in a position with roughly the same or even greater access to kids. There’s plenty of evidence of these patterns – especially movements across diocesan and even national boundaries – when one looks at child molesting San Diego clerics.
International Movement of Priests
First, take a look at some of the countries from which several San Diego predator priests have come or are later transferred, especially AFTER a report of child sexual abuse is made against them.
- Ireland: Fr. Patrick J. Kearney, Fr. James Creaton, Fr. Thomas Moloney, Fr. Michael K. Higgins, Fr. Michael O’Connor, Fr. Patrick J. O’Keeffe, Fr. Malachy M. McGinn, Fr….
CALIFORNIA
The Raw Story
TOM BOGGIONI
07 DEC 2015
A group representing victims of sexual abuse at the hands of Catholic priests has blasted the San Diego Catholic Diocese for appointing a priest who admitted to destroying documents detailing sexual assaults to oversee their sex abuse hotline.
Likening him to “an admitted embezzler [who] shouldn’t oversee bank accounts,” Melanie Sakoda of SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) said Fr. Steven Callahan shouldn’t be allowed to “oversee abuse reports.”
Callahan is listed as the Victims’ Assistance Coordinator on the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego website — with a phone number to call the priest as well as an email address.
In a court deposition in 2007, after approximately 150 men and women filed suit against the San Diego diocese over sexual abuse claims, Callahan admitted to destroying documents in the early 90’s implicating a fellow priest.
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