The wicked ....let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Psalm 10:2
"Accused sex abusing priests are finding jobs with access to more victims after being defrocked.
Psalm 10:2
"Accused sex abusing priests are finding jobs with access to more victims after being defrocked.
A new investigation released on Friday by the Associated Press (AP) reveals that after credibly accused sex abusing priests are booted from their official Church posts and defrocked, a shocking portion of them seek out work in the public sector that allows them access to more potential sex abuse victims.
Over the course of nine months, researchers have concluded 85% of the 2,000 priests and religious they investigated — about 1,700 — are unsupervised after leaving the Church.
The investigators found many men went on to
---teach middle school students,
---council sex abuse victims,
---work at non-profit organizations for at-risk kids,
---foster children
---and live near schools or daycare centers.
The investigation revealed 65 laicized men were charged with crimes committed after leaving the Church, half of which involved sexual assault, child pornography or failing to register as a sex offender.
Seventy-six have active licenses to work in schools, medical facilities, serve as councilors or social workers.
More than 300 were been criminally charged as priests but only 85 are on sex offender registry lists.
A case from the diocese of Wilmington, Delaware, in September shows bishops aren't shy about keeping around defrocked priests, even giving them massive power and influence despite leaving the priesthood, joining a Protestant church and becoming involved in a so-called same-sex marriage.
The diocese fired Jack Anderson only after the public became aware the man who had been investigating marriage cases was a homosexual living outside of the moral teaching of the Church.
This year, the state of Michigan revoked Larry Ventline's counseling license after discovering he was credibly accused of raping an 11-year-old boy on at least three occasions between 1989–1990 while being a priest.
Unless, however, the state of Michigan changes its laws, dropping or extending the statute of limitations for sex abuse, Ventline can't be charged.
Since then, Ventline was a co-founder and executive director of the Michigan Human Rights Coalition, a group designed to oppose the conservative groups, and for 10 years wrote a column for The Detroit News.
On Sept. 30, Ventline was charged with exposing himself while visiting a bakery in Bad Axe, Michigan."
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