Category Archive for : ‘CLERGY’

March 3, 2020
Aljazeera

The Vatican is sending its top two sex crimes investigators to Mexico on a fact-finding and assistance mission as the Catholic hierarchy in the world’s second-largest Catholic country begins to reckon with decades of clergy sex abuse and cover-up.
Archbishop Charles Scicluna and Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu teamed up in 2018 to investigate the Chilean church and its wretched record of protecting paedophile priests – a bombshell expose that resulted in every active Chilean bishop offering to resign.
Their new mission to Mexico, due to take place from March 20-27, is

January 28, 2020
Phaedra Haywood
Santa Fe New Mexican

Jury selection is set to begin Wednesday in the trial of an ex-priest accused of raping a first grader at a parochial school in Santa Fe County in the late 1980s.
Marvin Archuleta’s criminal trial is the first to come out of state Attorney General Hector Balderas’ ongoing investigation into claims of child sex abuse in Roman Catholic churches throughout New Mexico.
The state intends to bring Thomas P. Doyle of Virginia, a national expert on clergy sex abuse, to testify in the case, according to

November 18, 2019
Ellie Silverman
Inquirer

Lara St. John, the famed violinist who alleged that she was sexually abused by her teacher at the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in the 1980s, on Monday joined calls for statute of limitation reform in Pennsylvania, the same day the legislature moved on a compromise still criticized as not going far enough.

“The most important thing for me, obviously, is just justice for people who were children at the time,” St. John said at a news conference Monday, standing alongside CHILD USAdvocacy executive director Kathryn Robb and

September 18, 2019
Robert Rodriguez
Fresno Bee

An alleged victim of former Anglican priest Jesus Antonio Castaneda Serna testified Wednesday that the church leader sexually assaulted him under the pretense of getting rid of a curse.

Serna, who headed the Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe church in Fresno, is charged with 18 counts of felony sexual battery involving multiple adult male members of his church.

Serna was arrested in February and is out on bond. His preliminary hearing began Wednesday in Judge Jane Cardoza’s courtoom.

The 51-year-old cleric sat quietly with his head mostly down as one

September 17, 2019
Hilary Whiteman
CNN

(CNN)Disgraced Cardinal George Pell will take his case to Australia’s High Court in a final attempt to overturn his conviction on five charges of child sexual assault.
The High Court of Australia confirmed Tuesday that an application has been filed by Pell’s legal team to seek leave to appeal his conviction.
The move follows a failed bid to have the cardinal’s conviction quashed in the appeals court, leaving the High Court as the only means of clearing his name and avoiding a six-year prison sentence.
The 78-year-old former Vatican treasurer

Abclocal.com 2/19/14

When Los Angeles police were investigating allegations of child abuse by, Nicolas AguilarRivera, a Roman Catholic visiting Mexican priest in 1988, they asked for a list of altar boys atthe last parish where the priest worked.  According to a deposition made public on Wednesday,Mahoney told a subordinate not to give the list, saying he didn’t want to scare the boys who knewnothing about the investigation.  Detectives ultimately got the names from parishfamilies.  They determined Aguilar Rivera molested at least 26 boys during his 10 months inLA.  Before police were