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Jay Nelson’s Renegade Catholic Blog

[THE PROBLEM OF SEXUAL MOLESTATION BY ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY :
MEETING THE PROBLEM IN A COMPREHENSIVE AND RESPONSIBLE MANNER – via BishopAccountability.org]

Most survivors of clergy abuse by now have heard the woeful tale of The Manual (full title: The Problem of Sexual Molestation by Roman Catholic Clergy: Meeting the Problem in a Responsible Manner).

It’s widely known how back when the first scandal arose in Louisiana in the early 1980s, Ray Mouton, the attorney for the perpetrating priest, Gilbert Gauthe, called for help. And how Fathers Tom Doyle and Michael Peterson responded. Together, the three men wrote a proposal on managing the already brewing clergy abuse crisis for the country’s bishops, and how, mysteriously, nothing ever came of it.

Why? Could it be that was the entire point of the exercise?

While going through old newspaper clippings about…

UNITED STATES
Richard Sipe

Santa Clara University
May 11, 2012

Thomas P. Doyle, J.C.D., C.A.D.C.

I want to begin by sharing the nature of my involvement in the phenomenon of sexual abuse by Catholic Clergy. I chose the word “phenomenon” intentionally because I do not believe any of the commonly used descriptors — “crisis,” “scandal,” “problem,” come even close to naming what this has been and what it is today.

My name is Tom Doyle. I was ordained a Dominican priest in 1970, forty two years ago. I received my doctorate in Canon Law in 1978. I first became involved in the issue of sexual abuse of minors when I had a position at the Vatican embassy in Washington. My initial experiences involved not former Father Gilbert Gauthe from Louisiana, but two bishops, both of whom are now deceased. The year was 1982 but my most intense involvement,…

LOUISIANA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

Posted by Barbara Dorris on April 17, 2012

Our hearts go out to the loves ones of Nathan Stansbury, the Lafayette District Attorney who prosecuted the first pedophile priest to attract national headlines.

Because Mr. Stansbury bucked convention and acted responsibly, Fr. Gil Gauthe was kept away from kids for years.

Because Mr. Stansbury showed courage, other kids were spared the devastation of child sexual abuse.

Because Mr. Stansbury was brave, others in law enforcement were emboldened to investigate and pursue child molesting clerics.

LOUISIANA
KATC

Posted: Apr 17, 2012 11:09 AM by Ian Auzenne

A national support group for victims of clergy abuse is remembering former District Attorney Nathan Stansbury. Barbara Dorris, the outreach director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), says, “Our hearts go out to the loved ones of Nathan Stansbury . . . who prosecuted the first pedophile priest to attract national headlines.” Stansbury, who died last weekend, successfully prosecuted Fr. Gilbert Gauthe in 1985.

LOUISIANA
The Advocate

by Robert Stewart
Advocate staff writer

April 15, 2012

J. Nathan Stansbury, a district attorney for 22 years in the Lafayette area, died Saturday morning.

He was 76.

Stansbury served as district attorney for the 15th Judicial District, which covers Lafayette, Acadia and Vermilion parishes.

Stansbury prosecuted Dalton Prejean, who eventually was convicted of shooting and killing State Trooper Donald Cleveland in 1977. Prejean was executed in 1990.

Stansbury also helped arrange a 20-year plea deal sentence in 1985 for the Rev. Gilbert Gauthe, a former Lafayette Catholic priest who served about half of that sentence for 33 sex-related criminal charges involving 11 of his former altar boys.