Catholic Archdiacease of Chicago's Sexual Abuse Records

[dellinger63]

Under court order the Church's records will be released to SNAP's lawyers (an organization set up for sexual abuse survivors) tomorrow. The lawyers will then redact all victim names, leaving ages, gender and sexual acts. Furthermore all follow up and investigative records the church holds will also be handed over indicating who covered and said what. Should be interesting as three of the 30 priests listed were at schools I and my two brothers attended. Also seems to be a bit of a blame game between a living Cardinal and a dead one.

I think both the clergy and public at large will be shocked when they find out there were more who were victimized between the ages 15-17 than all those victimized under 10 combined with around 4 out of 5, 11 and older.

[randallscott35]

Just sickening. Hell too kind for these men of the cloth.

[dellinger63]

In advance of the release of documents the church issued statements continuing the deflection of blame, basically calling the shuffling of abusive priests between parishes, a ignorant mistake.

Not turning the lights on in the gym before a game is an ignorant mistake. What the church did was a criminal cover up. Sexual abuse is a crime to be handled by the police not the church.

The church also takes great pains to pool all victims together, labeling them children and thus their abusers, pedophiles.

What the church neglects to address is the largest segment of abuse victims, those 15-17 and almost if not all, exclusively male. I believe this omission of understanding and acknowledgement to be on purpose making the solution, rather the excuse, as simple as possible.

Priests that preyed on students between 15-17 occurred more often than all incidents involving those 10 and under and as a catholic student it was obvious what the problem was. It wasn't so much pedophilia but consensual sex, albeit with a minor. When a group of five students go on a weekend ski trip, sponsored by a priest, hello!

And while the pedophilia problem is out and addressed, the church refuses to even acknowledge the existence of the other more common abuse and that leads me to believe it continues to this day.

http://www.suntimes.com/24971968-761...a-mistake.html

[dellinger63]

Love how the church has attempted to turn complying with a court order into a voluntary transparent release.

Had the court not ordered them to release the records the church would have likely burned them along with palms and then gotten rid of the remaining ash by putting it on parishioners' foreheads in the sign of a cross. Of course with their hands out waiting for money.