pedophilia

It’s not just the Catholic ratbags who were covering up the buggering of little boys. The archbishop needs to swing for this.

The Archbishop of York is to set up an independent inquiry into allegations that a senior Church of England clergyman abused choirboys and school pupils.

It will look into claims that the Very Rev Robert Waddington, a former dean of Manchester Cathedral who died in 2007, sexually assaulted young choristers in the 1980s, while Lord Hope, then archbishop of York did not report the abuse claims to police or child protection authorities in 1999 and 2003.

Dr John Sentamu today said he was taking the allegations of abuse with the “utmost seriousness”, calling child abuse a “a heinous and personally damaging crime”.  Read more »

It’s not just the bloody Catholics.

It seems too that the Anglican church has a problem with boy buggering, abuse and coverups:

The former Archbishop of York has been accused of covering up allegations that a senior member of the Church of England had abused choirboys and school pupils.

Lord Hope of Thornes was told of the accusations against the Very Rev Robert Waddington, a former Dean of Manchester Cathedral who was made responsible for Church schools, in 1999 and then again in 2003.

The then archbishop did not refer the allegations to police or to child protection agencies, according to The Times.

Following the accusations, Lord Hope, who was then the second most senior bishop in the Church, revoked Waddington’s right to conduct church services and also ordered internal investigations into the alleged abuse.  Read more »

Police in NSW colluded with the Catholic Church to cover up the actions and crimes of their pedo priests.

They should spend less time persecuting poofters and more time cleaning up their own house.

A ”Catholic mafia” within the ranks of Newcastle police colluded with church leaders to cover up sex abuse in the Maitland-Newcastle diocese, an inquiry into the abuse has been told.

Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox told the inquiry on Monday that while on leave his office had been raided, he and other police had been pulled off investigations into the alleged cover-up of child sex abuse and a colleague told him about a ”Catholic mafia” within the ranks of Newcastle police.

”I just didn’t trust other police,” he said.  Read more »

The Sunday Star-Times is following Truth again, this time over the dirty pedophile running a Taupo motel that is described as “ the perfect choice for the whole family”.

We spoke to the pedophile earlier in the week so it is good to see Sunday Star-Times reporters buying Truth so they can follow up. We named the pedophile, we published his photo and we named his place of work.

Meanwhile the Sunday Star-Times does add a tiny bit more to the story, it appears he has lied to the Privacy Commission and the Human Rights Commission.

The serial paedophile at the centre of a name suppression stoush between the Human Rights Commission and the Sensible Sentencing Trust appears to have lied on oath about his job status and where he was living.

The man also lied about his identity when approached by the Sunday Star-Times last week.

The paedophile, who claims he has name suppression for sexually assaulting young girls but cannot produce a court record to prove it, denied he was the man in question when confronted at his workplace.  Read more »

Apparently there are some people who believe that pedophilia is now a legitimate sexual orientation rather than a social aberration to be cured:

California Congresswoman, Rep. Jackie Speier CA (D), wants to federalize a state law to prohibit counseling to change a person’s sexual orientation.

Under the bill’s language, a mental health counselor could be sanctioned if there was an attempt to get a gay individual to change his or her behavior or speak negatively about their behavior as it relates to sexuality.  Read more »

Another Catholic priest has been charged in Australia, this time with concealing a child sex crime:

A retired Hunter priest has become the second Catholic priest in Australia to be charged with concealing a child sex crime.

The retired priest, 81, was charged at Charlestown police station this morning with misprision of a felony – failing to disclose a serious crime – relating to child sex offences committed by another man in the Hunter in the mid 1980s.

Strike Force Georgiana Detective Sergeant Kristi Faber also charged the retired priest with one count of accessory before the fact relating to the offences.

He became only the second Catholic priest in Australia to be charged with concealing child sex crimes after Detective Faber charged former Toronto priest Tom Brennan in August last year with concealing the child sex crimes of another Hunter priest in the late 1970s.Father Brennan died of cancer in October before the matter went to trial.

He denied the charges.

The charging of Father Brennan made international news and was described as a ‘‘milestone in Australia’’ by Dr Bernard Barrett of the victims’ advocate group Broken Rites.

The priest charged this morning worked in Maitland-Newcastle diocese parishes in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.

The strange thing for us to contemplate is this…why no charges for any priests in New Zealand so far?

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James Delingpole has gotten himself in trouble in Australia. On May 3 he wrote this about wind farm advocates:

As a NSW sheep farmer fighting tooth and nail to stop a wind farm development near his beloved home told me the other day in trenchant style: “The wind-farm business is bloody well near a pedophile ring. They’re f . . king our families and knowingly doing so.”

It was right at the end of an article explaining how corrupt and uneconomic windfarms are.

Well some greentard or member of the green taliban complained to the Press Council. Who have said in their report:

Third, it has concluded that the report of the anonymous remarks concerning paedophilia, a very serious and odious crime, were highly offensive. The Council’s principles relate, of course, to whether something is acceptable journalistic practice, not whether it is unlawful. They are breached where, as in this case, the level of offensiveness is so high that it outweighs the very strong public interest in freedom of speech. It was fully justifiable in the public interest to convey the intensity of feeling by some opponents of wind farms but that goal did not require quoting the reference to paedophilia.

Which brings us to his sledge in return in The Telegraph:

Well I stand by every word of the piece – especially the bit about paedophiles. I would concede that the analogy may be somewhat offensive to the paedophile community. Nevertheless, like the anonymous sheep farmer I quoted, I feel that the “level of offensiveness” is entirely justified when applied in the context of perhaps the vilest, greediest, most corrupt, mendacious and wantonly destructive industries currently operating anywhere in the world. If Jimmy Savile were alive today he would definitely be heavily into wind farming.

He then goes on to note the hypocrisy of the ruling:

Which brings me to the second interesting point of comparison. By spooky coincidence, the Australian Press Complaints Commission made its paedophile ruling in the same week that the Australian climate loon Robyn Williams was censured – and immediately exonerated – for likening climate sceptics to paedophiles.

“What if I told you that pedophilia is good for children, or that smoking crack is a normal part and a healthy one of teenage life, to be encouraged?” Williams said at the top of the show, which was dedicated to discussing attitudes on climate change.

“You’d rightly find it outrageous. But there have been similar statements coming out of inexpert mouths again and again in recent times, distorting the science.”

This, not unreasonably, prompted a complaint from the ABC’s former chairman Maurice Newman, who argued that the broadcaster had been “captured” by a “small group of people” prone to imbalance and “climate change groupthink”.

So it appears that people who belive in global warming, climate change or whatever they are calling it these days can liken climate sceptics to deniers and get away with it, but if you are one of those climate sceptics and you do the same in return then you get a complaints and a Press Council ruling against you…

James Delingpole is right,  free speech is dead in Australia, and Australia is so totally gay.

The Teacher’s unions all say on of the worst aspects of charter schools is that registration of teachers isn’t compulsory. They use this citing the danger to the pupils of unregistered teachers.

Presumably then this guy was a registered teacher when he committed his crimes against children. How did registration go in protecting his victims?

A woman who was sexually abused as a child by a deputy principal cried as she told the perpetrator how much he had destroyed her life.

“I was not murdered but the woman I could have become doesn’t exist because Norm violated me,” the woman told Rotorua District Court today during the sentencing of 65-year-old Norman John Foote.

Foote, who is a former deputy principal now living in Rotorua, was sentenced to nine years’ jail after he was previously found guilty of two charges of sexually violating the girl by unlawful sexual connection and four charges of either doing an indecent act on the girl or indecently assaulting her.

The offences were committed over a nine-year period in the 1990s, starting when the complainant was a child.

Foote had also previously been jailed for possessing more than 1000 images of child pornography.

Foote sexually abused the girl while he was deputy principal of an East Coast school. He is no longer employed in schools.

The Victorian Police aren’t mincing words when it comes to the culture of cover up inside the Catholic Church:

The Catholic Church and other religious groups hide accusations of abuse rather than expose suspected offenders, Victoria Police says.

In its submission to the state government’s inquiry into the handling of child abuse by religious and other organisations, Victoria Police says victims of sexual crime are too often being talked out of reporting the matters to police, while the suspected offenders are sent elsewhere.

It is concerned the Catholic Church, instead of encouraging sex abuse victims to go to the police, is providing a financial incentive to keep the matter within church walls, the submission says.

But the Catholic Church says many victims want their experiences to remain private and do not want their complaint reported to police.

In the last 15 years more than 30 religious leaders have been convicted of child sexual offences in Victoria.

Police said they have found recurring issues in dealing with religious organisations, with victims discouraged from reporting sexual crimes and suspected offenders moved to a different diocese or sent overseas.

They said the Catholic Church’s “Melbourne Response” – set up to assist victims – appeared to be a substitute for criminal justice.

“It has not referred a single complaint to Victorian police,” the submission said.

It said the assessors were not trained or resourced to conduct criminal investigations, there was no transparency or external right of review and they may be providing inappropriate or wrong advice to victims, who are not legally represented during the process.

The victims are told that to obtain an ex gratia payment they must agree to discharge the church from further liability and not to discuss or disclose the facts and circumstances around their complaints at the risk of being sued by the church.

The submission said there was an underlying culture within the Catholic Church, and other religions, to hide accusations of abuse rather than exposing suspected offenders.

“It is in the opinion of Victoria Police that such deliberate action should be criminalised,” the submission said.

I agree with the Victoria Police and they should criminalise the cover-ups as conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Holding the bishops to account might see a very rapid change in the way they conduct matters.

The poor wee victim in this case is lucky that Judge Raoul Neave or Judge Mary Peters didn’t preside over the case, or we might expect this vile bastard would probably have got home detention for his unspeakable actions.

Judge David McKegg said the case was particularly disturbing given the age of the child.

The psychiatric report showed no mental impairment and Crudis did know the difference between right and wrong.

But he accepted Crudis had issues with social function that would have contributed to his behaviour.

Crudis was entitled to credit for his early guilty plea and his previously blameless life.

Crudis received a 30-month jail sentence and three months jail for the assault, to be served concurrently.

30 months, well about half that in reality, in the state-run hotel chain is still a slap on the wrist, but at least he will have a first strike for this.  Hope the other guests of the hotel find out what he did.

Judge Raoul Neave and Judge Mary Peters (they do not deserve the titles “Justice”) should reflect on this.  Seriously assault, injure or sexually abuse a child and it should be prison a long drop off a short rope every time.  Given that it is just prison then the only question should be how long….and even then the answer should be a very, very long time.