The Rev. Jack Kennington admits playing strip poker with children and the kids’ mother is asking, so why isn’t he stripped of his priesthood? Christine Lyons Holzwarth, whose children Brendan and Bridget Lyons claim Kennington molested them said, I think it’s an outrage. After he admitted playing strip poker with the kids, I can’t imagine why they would keep him on and not expel him. Her children said they were molested for several years in the 1980s, beginning at age 9 and 13, respectively. Holzwarth said, I want to make
As priests we are personally and profoundly afflicted by the sins of some of our brothers who have betrayed the grace of ordination in succumbing even to the most grievous forms of the mysterium iniquitatis (mystery of evil) at work in the world. Grave scandal is caused, with the result that a dark shadow of suspicion is cast over all the other fine priests who perform their ministry with honesty and integrity and often with heroic self-sacrifice.
As the Church shows her concern for the victims and strives to respond
Peter Harris, a 37 year old computer teacher at Westchester’s Todd Elementary School, is accused of molesting at least five young girls. Harris is charged with five counts of first-degree sex abuse, but Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro said investigators are interviewing other children and more charges are likely.
(Westchester, New York)
The international police organization, Interpol, said, police trying to crack an international child-pornography ring flourishing on the Internet arrested 12 people yesterday and seized computers and large quantities of data in 10 countries. The sweep was part of Operation Artus, coordinated by Interpol, which is based in the southeastern French city of Lyon.
(Paris, France)
Ali Williams, a 21 year old who abducted a 14 year old Brooklyn girl off the subway, raped heron a rooftop and held her captive until cops dialed her cell phone number, figured out where shewas, and rescued her. The victim’s ordeal began just after 6 am when she boarded the Q train inConey Island on her way to Fort Hamilton HS in Bay Ridge. Williams forced her off the train atOcean Parkway, claiming he had a gun. He took her to the roof of 3110 Brighton 7th St., where
Under tough new laws being drafted by the Manhattan district attorney in a clear rebuff to Edward Cardinal Egan, priests in New York would be forced to report all sex-abuse allegations. Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau weighed in on the sex scandal again yesterday, only a day after the cardinal failed to commit the Archdiocese of New York to automatically reporting child-abuse allegations.
(New York)
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