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Olive Branch pastor suspended after child exploitation arrest
Kyle Hilleary, 30, is out on a $250,000 bond after his arrest this past Tuesday. The Mississippi Attorney General’s office is now involved in the case.
A teacher at a Christian school in Sanford has been charged with sex offenses involving a student, Sanford police said Thursday. On Nov. 8, police received a report of misconduct by a teacher at Lee Christian School at 3220 Keller Andrews Road.
Further Investigation into the allegations led police investigators to bring charges against 57-year-old Daniel Jeremy Abraham of Spring Lake.
He is charged with indecent liberties with a student and sexual battery. Abraham was taken before a Lee County Magistrate where he was placed in the Lee County Jail without bond.
A former northwest Ohio priest was sentenced Friday, just over three years after he was initially arrested on charges of sex trafficking minors and adults, charges on which he was ultimately found guilty.
Michael Zacharias appeared in federal court Friday afternoon, where a judge sentenced him to life in prison on two counts and 20 years on three counts. These sentences will run concurrently.
A federal jury found him guilty in May of five counts of sex trafficking, some of which involved minors. Prosecutors said the crimes, which occurred between 1999 and July 2020, involved Zacharias using his position as a priest at Saint Michael the Archangel Parish to target victims and coerce them into sex acts.
If only he'd participated in a violent insurrection against democracy (and been white), he'd be running around free as a bird!!!!
Let’s see. I’m reading the words “church” and “youth organizer” in the article and he’s a dude. Yep. I’m giving him a second look. Organized religion is a hunting ground for pervs - as your thread shows.
There's more reported / not hidden abuse in schools than organized religion.
@NoleATL has a serious bias against clergy.
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Separating Facts About Clergy Abuse From Fiction
Quality research and reason need to take precedence over emotion if we truly want to keep children and families safe from sexual abuse in the the Church or anywhere.www.psychologytoday.com
FIFY. I don't trust god folk further than I can throw 'em!
That's fine but the data is clear.
Yep. Data is pretty clear. That's why the catholics hid it for decades!!
This is from the link that you haven't read:
4. The Church has used best practices to deal with this issue since 2002.
The incidents of clerical abuse in recent years (i.e., since 2002) are down to a trickle. Many of the newer abuse cases since 2002 have been perpetrated by visiting international priests here on vacation or sabbatical who have not gone through the extensive training and screening that American clerics now go through.
The Dallas Charter and subsequent Church reforms have resulted in a number of industry-standard and even groundbreaking policies and procedures to keep children safe in Church-related activities and keep abusing priests out of ministry.
And in 2002, god created the heavens and the earth (and declared all prior history moot).
The coverups happened 40-50 years ago.
The Catholic Church is one of the safest places for children today.
Yeah, back when it was cool.
Same source and same article: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/...t-s-new-in-the-grand-jury-report-priest-abuseThis is from the link that you haven't read:
4. The Church has used best practices to deal with this issue since 2002.
The incidents of clerical abuse in recent years (i.e., since 2002) are down to a trickle. Many of the newer abuse cases since 2002 have been perpetrated by visiting international priests here on vacation or sabbatical who have not gone through the extensive training and screening that American clerics now go through.
The Dallas Charter and subsequent Church reforms have resulted in a number of industry-standard and even groundbreaking policies and procedures to keep children safe in Church-related activities and keep abusing priests out of ministry.
Well, back then, sexual abuse wasn't taken as seriously as it is now.
The prevailing psychological theory was that child abusers could receive some counseling, be moved to a new location and be cured.
So in many cases, the Church was doing what was thought to be right by psychology at the time.
Now we know that isn't true and reforms have been made, which are working.
Same source and same article: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/...t-s-new-in-the-grand-jury-report-priest-abuse
I am not sure you are making the point you think you are.
Oh yeah...definitely! When you've got something that rampant in your organization, thank goodness they had cutting edge practices to deal with it.
Well done boys! (I mean that in the general way, not the kind that turned on the white robed fellas)
Welp, you haven't addressed any of the data.
Have a good holiday week.
Do you have any other sources than Catholic?That article shows my point about the reforms working.
Unfortunately, there will always be wolves that slither in. That's what I'll do my best to expose them as a member of the laity.
"After the now famous U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop’s 2002 Dallas Charter, policies and procedures within the Church have made it a safer environment for children, with lay review boards overseeing their efforts in all dioceses and within all religious orders. An independent audit system, conducted by a company unaffiliated with the church, ensures that these policies and procedures are followed very carefully with lay oversight.
Other organizations that work with children such as the Boy Scouts, law enforcement, the U.S. Olympic committee, the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, and so forth have worked together with the Catholic Church to utilize best practices of child protection moving forward."
OK, I'll address it. Nice job to your boys not diddling as many kids as they used to.
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Do you have any other sources than Catholic?
No. I want independent verification of Dallas Charter's effect on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. Not from Catholic studies and data. Edit: Again. This doesn't make the point you think it does.Here's one:
"We don't see the Catholic Church as a hotbed of this or a place that has a bigger problem than anyone else," said Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. "I can tell you without hesitation that we have seen cases in many religious settings, from traveling evangelists to mainstream ministers to rabbis and others."
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Priests Commit No More Abuse Than Other Males
The priesthood is being cast as the refuge of pederasts. In fact, priests seem to abuse children at the same rate as everyone else.www.newsweek.com
95% did not "diddle kids."
It's sad how your side stereotypes.
No. I want independent verification of Dallas Charter's effect on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. Not from Catholic studies and data.
There's something sad in this thread...for sure.
Don't let HORT randoms get in the way of your rosaries bub. Time's a wastin'.
Where did the statistics you cited come from?The Dallas Charter is overseen by lay people...lawyers, social workers, psychologists, etc.
I don't have any other sources. Feel free to do some digging if you want.
Your denial of the data in favor of your bias is sad to me.
Where did the statistics you cited come from?
I already gave you a nice little pat on the back for what that article says happened 2002 on...what more do you want? And no, I'm not going to the altar boy dressing room with you...
That's not what I am talking about and you know it. The data that stated that the policies put forth by the Dallas Charter has lessened sexual assault by their own. Where did that data come from?Here.
You can read the biographies of the board members; lawyers, an FBI agent, professors and psychologists.
I know you think it's all lies but there it is.
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National Review Board
The National Review Board The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops established the National Review Board during their meeting in June of 2002. The fu...www.usccb.org
That's not what I am talking about and you know it. The data that stated that the policies put forth by the Dallas Charter. Where did that data come from?
Terrible.I gave you the link.
The Dallas Charter is a group that oversees the abuse cases after 2002.
I don't think the lay people are all Catholic but even if they are, it doesn't mean they're lying.
What do I want?
For your side to stop stereotyping and trashing a religious group you dislike.
Oh, well that I can't do. Soz bud.