Almost 1,700 priests and clergy accused of sex abuse are unsupervised

An Associated Press investigation found that those credibly accused are now teachers, coaches, counselors and also live near playgrounds.

Roger Sinclair was removed by the Diocese of Greensburg in Pennsylvania in 2002 for allegedly abusing a teenage boy decades earlier.Deschutes County District Attorney's Office / via AP

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Oct. 4, 2019, 12:03 PM EDT

By Claudia Lauer, Associated Press and Meghan Hoyer, Associated Press

Nearly 1,700 priests and other clergy members that the Roman Catholic Church considers credibly accused of child sexual abuse are living under the radar with little to no oversight from religious authorities or law enforcement, decades after the first wave of the church abuse scandal roiled U.S. dioceses, an Associated Press investigation has found.

These priests, deacons, monks and lay people now teach middle-school math. They counsel survivors of sexual assault. They work as nurses and volunteer at nonprofits aimed at helping at-risk kids. They live next to playgrounds and daycare centers. They foster and care for children.



And in their time since leaving the church, dozens have committed crimes, including sexual assault and possessing child pornography, the AP’s analysis found.

A recent push by Roman Catholic dioceses across the U.S. to publish the names of those it considers to be credibly accused has opened a window into the daunting problem of how to monitor and track priests who often were never criminally charged and, in many cases, were removed from or left the church to live as private citizens.


Each diocese determines its own standard to deem a priest credibly accused, with the allegations ranging from inappropriate conversations and unwanted hugging to forced sodomy and rape.

Dioceses and religious orders so far have shared the names of more than 5,100 clergy members, with more than three-quarters of the names released just in the last year. The AP researched the nearly 2,000 who remain alive to determine where they have lived and worked — the largest-scale review to date of what happened to priests named as possible sexual abusers.

In addition to the almost 1,700 that the AP was able to identify as largely unsupervised, there were 76 people who could not be located. The remaining clergy members were found to be under some kind of supervision, with some in prison or overseen by church programs.

The review found hundreds of priests held positions of trust, many with access to children. More than 160 continued working or volunteering in churches, including dozens in Catholic dioceses overseas and some in other denominations. Roughly 190 obtained professional licenses to work in education, medicine, social work and counseling — including 76 who, as of August, still had valid credentials in those fields.

The research also turned up cases where the priests were once again able to prey on victims.

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After Roger Sinclair was removed by the Diocese of Greensburg in Pennsylvania in 2002 for allegedly abusing a teenage boy decades earlier, he ended up in Oregon. In 2017, he was arrested for repeatedly molesting a young developmentally disabled man and is now imprisoned for a crime that the lead investigator in the Oregon case says should have never been allowed to happen.

Like Sinclair, the majority of people listed as credibly accused were never criminally prosecuted for the abuse alleged when they were part of the church. That lack of criminal history has revealed a sizable gray area that state licensing boards and background check services are not designed to handle as former priests seek new employment, apply to be foster parents and live in communities unaware of their presence and their pasts.

It also has left dioceses struggling with how — or if — former employees should be tracked and monitored. Victims’ advocates have pushed for more oversight, but church officials say what’s being requested extends beyond what they legally can do. And civil authorities like police departments or prosecutors say their purview is limited to people convicted of crimes.

That means the heavy lift of tracking former priests has fallen to citizen watchdogs and victims, whose complaints have fueled suspensions, removals and firings. But even then, loopholes in state laws allow many former clergy to keep their new jobs even when the history of allegations becomes public.

“Defrocked or not, we've long argued that bishops can't recruit, hire, ordain, supervise, shield, transfer and protect predator priests, then suddenly oust them and claim to be powerless over their whereabouts and activities,” said David Clohessy, the former executive director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, who now heads the group’s St. Louis chapter.

IT WAS SUPPOSED TO MAKE ABUSE HISTORY

When the first big wave of the clergy abuse scandal hit Roman Catholic dioceses in the early 2000s, the U.S. bishops created the Dallas Charter, a baseline for sexual abuse reporting, training and other procedures to prevent child abuse. A handful of canon lawyers and experts at the time said every diocese should be transparent, name priests that had been accused of abuse and, in many cases, get rid of them.

Most dioceses decided against naming priests, however. And with the dioceses that did release lists in the next few years — some by choice, others due to lawsuit settlements or bankruptcy proceedings — abuse survivors complained about underreporting of priests, along with the omission of religious brothers they believed should be on those lists.

“The Dallas Charter was supposed to fix everything. It was supposed to make the abuse scandal history. But that didn’t happen,” said the Rev. Thomas Doyle, a canon lawyer who had tried to warn the bishops that abuse was widespread and that they should clean house.

After the charter was established in 2002, some critics say dioceses were more likely to simply defrock priests and return them to private citizenship.

Before 2018’s landmark Pennsylvania grand jury report, which named more than 300 predator priests accused of abusing more than 1,000 children in six dioceses, the official lists of credibly accused priests added up to fewer than 1,500 names nationwide. Now, within the span of a little more than a year, more than 100 dioceses and religious orders have come forward with thousands of names — but often little other information that can be used to alert the public.

Some of the lists merely provide names, without details of the abuse allegations that led to their inclusion, the dates of the priests’ assignments or the parishes where they served. And many don’t disclose the priests’ status with the church, which can vary from being moved into full retirement to being banished from performing public sacraments while continuing to perform administrative work. Only a handful of the lists include the last-known cities the priests lived in.

Over nine months, AP reporters and researchers scoured public databases, court records, property records, social media and other sources to locate the ousted clergy members.

That effort unearthed hundreds of these priests who, largely unwatched by church and civil authorities, chose careers that put them in new positions of trust and authority, including jobs in which they dealt with children and survivors of sexual abuse.

At least two worked as juvenile detention officers, in Washington and Arizona, and several others migrated to government roles like victims’ advocate or public health planner. Others landed jobs at places like Disney World, community centers or family shelters for domestic abuse. And one former priest started a nonprofit that sends people to volunteer in orphanages and other places in developing nations.

The AP determined that a handful adopted or fostered children, sponsored teens and young adults coming to the U.S. for educational opportunities, or worked with organizations that are part of the foster care system, though that number could be much higher since no public database tracks adoptive or foster parents.

Until February, former priest Steven Gerard Stencil worked at a Phoenix company that places severely disabled children in foster homes and trains foster parents to care for them. Colleagues knew he was a former priest, but were unaware of past allegations against him, according to Lauree Copenhaver, the firm’s executive director.

Stencil, now 67, was suspended from ministry in 2001 after a trip to Mexico that violated a diocese policy forbidding clerics from being with minors overnight. Around that time, a 17-year-old boy also complained that Stencil, then pastor of St. Anthony Parish in Casa Grande, Ariz., had grabbed his crotch in 1999 in a swimming pool. The diocese determined it was accidental touching, but turned the allegations over to police. No criminal charges were filed.

Since 2003, Stencil’s name has appeared on the Tucson diocese’s list of clerics credibly accused of sexually abusing children, and his request to be voluntarily defrocked was granted in 2011.

Copenhaver said Stencil passed a fingerprint test showing he did not have a criminal history when he was first hired part time by Human Services Consultants LLC 12 years ago.

“We did not have any knowledge of his indiscretions, and had we known his history we would not have hired him,” she said, emphasizing that he did not have direct access to children in his job.

Stencil was fired from the company for unrelated reasons earlier this year. He later said in a post on his Facebook page that he was working as a driver for a private Phoenix bus company that specializes in educational tours for school groups and scout troops.

“I have always been upfront with my employers about my past as a priest,” Stencil wrote in an email to the AP when asked for comment. He said he unsuccessfully asked years ago for his name to be removed from the diocese’s list, adding, “Since then, I have decided to simply live my life as best I can.”

The AP’s analysis also found that more than 160 of the priests remained in the comfortable position of continuing to work or volunteer in a church, with three-quarters of those continuing to serve in some capacity in the Roman Catholic Church. Others moved on as ministers and priests in different denominations, with new roles such as organist or even as priests in Catholic churches not affiliated with the Vatican, sometimes despite known or published credible accusations against them.

In more than 30 cases, priests accused of sexual abuse in the U.S. simply moved overseas, where they worked as Roman Catholic priests in good standing in countries including Peru, Mexico, the Philippines, Ireland and Colombia. The AP found that in all, roughly 110 clergy members moved or were suspected of moving out of the U.S. after allegations were made.

At least five priests were excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church because of their refusal to stop participating in other religious activity.

More than three decades ago, James A. Funke and a fellow teacher at a St. Louis Catholic high school, Jerome Robben, went to prison for sexually abusing male students together. Funke, released in 1995, was eventually bounced from the priesthood. But years later, the two men joined together again, promoting Robben as the leader of a church of his own making.

Since 2004, Missouri records show that Robben has listed his St. Louis home as the base for a religious organization operating under at least three different names. Beginning in 2014, those papers have identified Funke as the order’s secretary and one of its three directors.




Of course Catholics allow pedophile psychopathic priests to continue their dirty work rather satanic workings. This is all over the world and no country's children are safe around Catholics. This is a spiritual assessment not a wild statement. If the priests who provide spiritual guidance and counseling are engaged in Molech molestation rituals upon the children of the parishioners then pedophilia will seem normal. There will be pedophiles among the parishioners and the demons will spread out into schools, daycares, cub scouts and any where children can be preyed upon. There is tons of proof that Catholics including other denominations of Christians engage in gangstalking innocent people called target individuals for false accusations to protect their religion's reputation. That's all they interested in is pointing fingers and covering their evils. The lynchings of African American men and stigmatizing them as sexual predators was done by your so called good hearted Christians, their Freemasonry cults and the Holy See of the Jesuits.


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Belgian Salesians point finger at courts after pedophile priest fiasco in Africa

By: Novena

 On: November 29, 2019 8:00 am

 In:Belgium

 Tagged: abuse, accountability, cover ups, religious life, sex abuse

The Salesians of Belgium have pointed a finger at the country's courts after a convicted pedophile priest was allowed to work with children in Africa.

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"You can say the Salesians shouldn't have let him go to Africa, but we trusted the advice given by the probation commission, which should also have seen it was too risky", Belgian provincial vicar and Salesian spokesman Father Carlo Lootstold CNS November 26.

Loots was speaking after a CNN investigation found Salesian Father Luk Delft has been accused of molesting at least two boys in the Central African Republic (CAR).

The Salesian representative did add, however, that "I don't think it helps much to start blaming people" for the scandal over the pedophile priest.

He did admit a Belgian probation commission had "no idea about the situation in the CAR", one of Africa's poorest and most vulnerable countries, when it approved Delft's relocation there.

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In 2013, Delft was invited by Belgian Salesian bishop Albert Vanbuel to work at a CAR camp for internal refugees run by Church aid organisation Caritas.

That was despite Delft having been convicted by a Ghent court in 2012 of child abuse and possession of child pornography, and having been sentenced to a suspended 18-month jail term and a 10-year ban on being with children.

In 2015, after Vanbuel retired, Delft became the national director of Caritas in the CAR, and continued to have contact with minors.

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Why it matters

Salesian spokesman Loots admitted that Bishop Vanbuel had "clearly no idea how a pedophile really functions", despite having been informed of Delft's past and agreeing to supervise the abuser priest.

"Bishops and religious orders always face a big problem knowing what to do with abusers of young people — there's no death penalty for this, so we can't kill them, but nor can we send them to a desert island", Loots explained.

"Instead, we have to look for a solution, and the philosophy is that such people deserve a new chance — but not in the same context or situation as previously".

As for what the Salesian order will take away from the Delft scandal, Loots explained that "we've learned that all communications involving [abuse] cases must be written and documented, rather than exchanged verbally at the risk of being passed over and forgotten".

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"We've also improved our safeguarding policy and learned to be much more prudent in dealing with an abuser.

"We thought at the time we'd taken the right decisions, but we must recognize doing our best at that moment wasn't enough".

Loots confirmed that Delft is now living under supervision and receiving treatment in Belgium, at the Salesian house in Boortmeerbeek, where there are, he stressed, "no activities involving young people".

For the record

In a statement November 21, Caritas said it was "saddened and outraged" at the accusations against Delft in the CAR, and expressed its "compassion and solidarity" with the priest's alleged victims and their families.

The international branch of the Church aid organisation said it was assisting the local Caritas in the CAR as it investigates the abuse claims and strengthens its safeguarding mechanisms.

Spokesman for the Belgian bishops' conference Tommy Scholtes said the conference "immediately alerted" Belgian prosecutors when it had knowledge of the accusations against Delft, in June.

Related:  Women, lay ministers now majority in Belgian Church but still barred from power

Scholtes added that Delft's future is in the hands of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which handles accusations against pedophile priests.

"Things are complicated since Luk Delft is here, and his possible victims are there", Scholtes admitted.

"But we trust the competence of the judicial authorities in Belgium and the CAR. Although I think everyone did their best, we must conclude this wasn't enough".

Next on Novena:Vatican investigates Italian missionary for allegedly fathering child in KenyaAltar boy sex abuse scandal explodes just steps from Pope's door





The battle with homosexuality within Africa is not a cultural war. Homosexuality has been insidiously defined as sexual preference as if that is culture. No, homosexuality is apart of satanic witchcraft that started with Blacks in Babylon. So of course the Black Romans who them and Black Hebrews murdered Christ and then used his martyrdom story to mask their wicked Baal worship. This they taught to their White offspring mulattoes whom they educated. These are the Jews who are the wealthiest and smartest of Whites. The ancient Blacks used the Jews to manage their White slaves. Some of these Whites they trained and armed using as soldiers in wars with other Black kingdoms. This nasty molestation of children is in Africa as well among all denominations of Christians and Catholics. They are aligned with the Vatican in making evil pagan witchcraft the one world religion and government.


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Vatican charity knew Central African Republic pedophilia concerns in 2017"

The dome of St. Peter's Basilica is seen through trees in the Vatican Gardens Oct. 3, 2017. (Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.)

TOKYO — The Vatican’s Caritas Internationalis charity says it learned in 2017 of pedophilia concerns involving its Central African Republic director, but left it for his superiors to investigate and he remained in place and in ministry until this year.

CNN revealed the scandal over Father Luk Delft this week, reporting that the Belgian Salesian priest was appointed to lead the Vatican’s main charity in the poverty-stricken country despite a 2012 criminal conviction in Belgium for child sexual abuse and possession of child pornography.



So pedophile priests are in Africa like America molesting children for Molech worship. All that extreme world war 3 violence that goes on in Central Africa is due to demons being transmitted via molesting children. God's laws when you break them have clear signs, war and pestilence!


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South Africa cardinal says pedophilia not a crime

 

Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier of South Africa leaves the Vatican after the general congregation meeting April 12, 2005. Reuters Photographer

(Reuters) - A South African cardinal who helped elect Pope Francis this week has told the BBC pedophilia is an illness and not a crime.

Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier, the Catholic Archbishop of Durban, told BBC Radio 5 on Saturday that pedophilia was a "disorder" that needed to be treated.

"From my experience, pedophilia is actually an illness. It's not a criminal condition, it's an illness," he said.





Here is an insane priest who doesn't consider defiling children a crime. Go listen to the stories of child abuse survivors and how they continue to struggle with living a normal life after abuse. Go read their testimony of pain, depression, drug abuse and hardship living with the memory of a trusted priest abusing them as children.

All qualified priests of every religion including pagans know that molestation, homosexuality and sex with animals are all satanic worship. We all know and no one except a few will publicly denounce these evil Christians and Catholics who define pedophilia as a sickness or even worse sexual preference.


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Cardinal admits Church files on paedophile priests ‘destroyed’

Ella Ide

23 Feb 2019

A top Catholic cardinal admitted Saturday that Church files on priests accused of sexually abusing children were destroyed or never even drawn up in a move which allowed paedophiles to prey on others.

German Cardinal Reinhard Marx was speaking on the third day of an unprecedented summit of the world’s top bishops convened by Pope Francis in a bid to tackle the crisis over paedophilia within the clergy.

“Files that could have documented the terrible deeds and named those responsible were destroyed, or not even created,” Marx told the landmark Vatican summit on a problem that has dogged the Roman Catholic Church for decades.

“Instead of the perpetrators, the victims were regulated and silence imposed on them,” he said. “The stipulated procedures and processes for the prosecution of offences were deliberately not complied with.”

The ongoing scandals over sexual abuse have escalated, engulfing countries across the globe with the latest crises hitting Chile, Germany and the US.

At one point, delegates heard the testimony of a woman who was repeatedly raped by a priest when she was just 11.

“Engraved in my eyes, ears, nose, body and soul, are all the times he immobilised me, the child, with superhuman strength,” said the woman, who remained anonymous.

“I thought: ‘If I don’t move, maybe I won’t feel anything; if I don’t breathe, maybe I could die’.”

‘A life-long injury’ 

Back in September, Marx apologised personally to thousands of victims who had been abused by clergy within the German Church, saying the perpetrators must be brought to justice.

His admission about the documents on Saturday sparked an angry reaction from Peter Isely of Ending Clerical Abuse (ECA) association, who denounced such destruction of paperwork as “illegal” and demanded an investigation.





Of course they will destroy evidence and cover up their crimes against humanity. These are not just crimes against children yet crimes against humanity by devil worshippers. Once you understand that Romans were satanic Baal worshippers and they were Blacks you can grasp where these Whites got these evil witchcraft from. They come out of the caves and their ancestors were Neanderthals. So when they invade Africa in the 16th century it was at the bequests of Moors and other Blacks into slavery which is tied to child sacrifice and adult sacrifice. Evil witchcraft or misuse of Kemetic science started with Blacks and all this homosexuality is apart of the worship.


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Them pedophiles are coming out of the church and nowhere else. The Vatican and the church is behind the lockdown.

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See for yourself the Fallen church where they worship the god Molech where comes the word Molest for the act of molestation. See the Google Images of so called men and women of God defiling children by the millions all over the Earth. 

Rome founded by the satanic pedophile psychopathic perverted Dirty Moors. These cave beasts had bad teachers. 

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CULTIC PRACTICES

Baal's worshipers appeased him by offering sacrifices, usually animals such as sheep or bulls (1 Kings 18:23). Some scholars believe that the Canaanites also sacrificed pigs and that God prohibited his people from eating pork in part to prevent this horrible cult from being established among them. (See Isa. 65:1-5 for an example of Israel's participating in the pagan practices of the Canaanites.) At times of crisis, Baal's followers sacrificed their children, apparently the firstborn of the community, to gain personal prosperity. The Bible called this practice "detestable" (Deut. 12:31, 18:9-10). God specifically appointed the tribe of Levi as his special servants, in place of the firstborn of the Israelites, so they had no excuse for offering their children (Num. 3:11-13). The Bible's repeated condemnation of child sacrifice shows God's hated of it, especially among his people.

Asherah was worshiped in various ways, including through ritual sex. Although she was believed to be Baal's mother, she was also his mistress. Pagans practiced "sympathetic magic", that is, they believed they could influence the gods' actions by performing the behavior they wished the gods to demonstrate. Believing the sexual union of Baal and Asherah produced fertility, their worshipers engaged in immoral sex to cause the gods to join together, ensuring good harvests. This practice became the basis for religious prostitution (1 Kings 14:23-24). The priest or a male member of the community represented Baal. The priestess or a female members of the community represented Asherah. In this way, God's incredible gift of sexuality was perverted to the most obscene public prostitution. No wonder God's anger burned against his people and their leaders.




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Christ fought against evil pagan devil worshippers

Prophet Muhammad fought against evil pagan devil worshippers

King Atenakhen and his son King Tut fought against evil pagan devil worshippers


God flood the world because evil pagan devil worshippers

God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because of evil pagan devil worshippers

God destroyed the tower of Belial because of evil pagan devil worshippers

Evil pagan devil worshippers are behind the pandemic of Coronavirus


Freemasons are evil pagan devil worshippers who disguise themselves as Christians, Jews and Muslims.

Catholic Priests are evil pagan devil worshippers using the martyrdom of Christ Son of Mary to disguise ancient Roman Baal worship.

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A Black Christian pastor speaking against homosexuality yet not saying it comes from Satanic worship.


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So evil pagan devil worshippers are at the root of church pedophilia.

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Google Images of 100s of pastors worldwide arrested for child defilement of 100, 000s of babies and children. Think how many pedophile pastors never get caught because they are too powerful to bring to justice. They are of all races and nationalities because the demons of pedophilia don't discriminate. The Coronavirus is pedophilia Baal worship a detractor public scare scripted by the Simpson cartoon as well as other forms of medium. 


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Homosexuality is an act of occult worship and worship of evil spirits. Before I too just perceived it as a nasty sexual preference or cultural practice. Yet the truth is that homosexuality is a key ingredient to demon conjuring whose aim is blood human sacrifice. All the groups in Africa who captured slaves and sacrificed them were possessed of homosexual demons. This is the same else where in the known world where homosexuality occured it was practiced by draconian elites enslaving and sacrificing other human beings. Homosexuals are receiving help from the church secret orders of Freemasonry and various state powers. Those who fight against the spread of homosexuality find themselves up against powers in high places. Churches organize gay members of the church to gangstalk and falsely blame protesters using police departments to manage the operation. The church is pure evil and they were historically behind all slavery. Satanic religion is the reason for slavery to capture sacrifices for their demon gods. 8 million children sacrificed a year around the world.



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