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To: Solon who wrote (25954)	5/9/2012 3:03:44 PM
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Priest to face dozens of new abuse charges in Nunavut Catholic priest Eric Dejaeger is escorted by police outside an Iqaluit, Nunavut courtroom Jan. 20, 2011 after his first appearance for six child sexual abuse charges in Igloolik dating back to the 1970s. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Windeyer) Date: Tuesday May. 8, 2012 1:29 PM ET IQALUIT, Nunavut — An accused priest already convicted of sex abuse against Inuit children will face dozens of fresh charges in court next Monday. Prosecutors in Iqaluit, Nunavut, say Eric Dejaeger will now face a total of 74 charges in a case that just keeps growing. Dejaeger originally faced 28 charges when he was returned from Belgium last spring. He will now face 74 charges of abuse and assault against girls, boys and dogs, and the total is expected to grow larger before the case comes to trial. Crown Paul Bychok says prosecutors are now going through hundreds of pages of disclosures from people in Igloolik, Nunavut, where he served in the late '70s and early '80s. Dejaeger has previously pleaded guilty to nine counts of abuse from his time in Baker Lake, Nunavut. He has waived his right to a preliminary hearing and the trial is expected to take place in 2013. http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20120508/nunavut-priest-charges-120508/#ixzz1uOub9t13

To: Solon who wrote (25954)	5/9/2012 3:08:00 PM
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Defense: Pa. priest abuse trial veering far from charges By Mary Claire Dale In this Tuesday, March 27, 2012 photo, Monsignor William Lynn leaves the Criminal Justice Center, in Philadelphia. According to testimony Thursday, April 19, 2012 in a clergy-abuse trial, a heinous 1992 priest-abuse complaint 'fell through the cracks' at the Philadelphia archdiocese, leaving the accused pastor to continue leading a suburban parish for three more years. Lynn, the longtime secretary for clergy at the Roman Catholic archdiocese, is charged with child endangerment and conspiracy in his handling of the 1992 complaint and other sex-abuse allegations about priests. PHILADELPHIA — Defense lawyers complained Tuesday that the lengthy priest-abuse trial of a Roman Catholic church official has veered far afield from the original charges. Monsignor William Lynn is charged with conspiring to hide child sex-abuse complaints against two co-defendant priests and endangering children by keeping them in ministry. But a judge has let jurors hear weeks of testimony about how Lynn, the longtime secretary for clergy for the Philadelphia Archdiocese, handled abuse complaints lodged against 20 other priests. “This case has come down to (the Rev. Stanley) Gana and (the Rev. Nicholas) Cudemo, despite the fact they’re not charged,” defense lawyer Thomas Bergstrom argued outside of the jury’s presence. Gana and Cudemo were accused of heinous, repeated sexual assaults in a 2005 grand jury report. Both were defrocked in the years that followed, but neither was charged criminally because of legal time limits. Prosecutors have spent days detailing their alleged crimes to the jury through testimony from accusers and church documents. But Lynn is not charged with conspiring with either one of them, Bergstrom noted, as he tried to block the depositions of two cloistered nuns. Gana served as their chaplain in 1997 after a stint in sex therapy, a job the archdiocese considered safe for the accused child rapist. An ex-priest who has testified that Gana sodomized him throughout high school met with Lynn to complain about Gana’s “restricted ministry” with the nuns. He believed Gana was still helping out at a nearby parish and working with altar boys. Lynn told him the nuns knew about Gana’s past and were keeping an eye on him, prosecutors said Tuesday. “Those two mother superiors were told nothing, zilch, nada,” Assistant District Attorney Patrick Blessington argued. “That defendant lied.” Prosecutors want to visit the monastery to take the nuns’ testimony. Defense lawyers object, calling the subject matter far beyond the scope of the charges. Common Pleas Judge M. Teresa Sarmina did not immediately rule. Gana is now 69. It’s not clear where he lives, and The Associated Press could not locate a current phone number for him. Cudemo was accused of sexually abusing nearly a dozen girls. One woman told the grand jury he started raping her in 1971, when she was 11. He impregnated her before high school and took her for an abortion, according to the 2005 grand jury report. Cudemo retired in 1996 and was laicized in 2005. A message left Tuesday at a possible phone number for him in Florida was not immediately returned. pottsmerc.com

To: Solon who wrote (25954)	5/9/2012 3:09:41 PM
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Martin McGuinness: Vatican has miserably failed child sex abuse victims Wednesday, 9 May 2012 Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness More pictures Related Articles Catholic Church braced for new child sex abuse scandal in Republic of Ireland Cardinal Sean Brady 'sorry' but he won't resign Silencing us won't solve Catholic Church's problems, say priests Anti-clerical graffiti attack near Catholic Church Cardinal Sean Brady plans his exit strategy Advisers backed resignation of Cardinal Sean Brady to save Catholic Church's image As Cardinal Sean Brady turns his back on calls to quit, pressure mounts on police to get involved Cardinal Sean Brady offer to step down in 2010 ‘was rejected by Vatican’ No knee-jerk reaction, say police Cardinal Sean Brady vows to remain as former RUC officer says failures let abuse go on Police urged to probe abuse claims Cardinal Sean Brady defies calls to quit over abuse cover-up claims Abuse cover-up claims: Cardinal Sean Brady's statement in full Vatican adds voice to support for Cardinal Brady Brendan Smyth - the evil predator who sparked crisis in Church and State Cardinal Brady profile Cardinal Brady rocked by pervert cleric cover-up claims Cardinal rejects resignation calls The Vatican has miserably failed the victims of child sex abuse within the Catholic Church, the Deputy First Minister has claimed. As calls continue for Irish Primate Cardinal Sean Brady to resign over his involvement in a Church investigation that failed to stop paedophile priest Brendan Smyth's reign of abuse, Martin McGuinness shifted focus to Rome's attitude to historical clerical sex crimes. “The issue of Cardinal Brady's position in all of this is important for a lot of people. But of more importance to me is the attitude that pertains in the Vatican,” said the Sinn Fein politician. Mr McGuinness hit out at how Rome had approached previous inquiries into abuse scandals and warned the Catholic authorities that if they failed to co-operate with a forthcoming investigation into institutional abuse in Northern Ireland, they would be compelled to do so. Mr McGuinness has urged Cardinal Brady to reflect on his position, but during Assembly question time he said he was more concerned with the attitude of the Vatican to clerical sex abuse. Commenting on recent action taken by the Church to censure outspoken liberal clerics, among them the high-profile Co Fermanagh author and journalist Father Brian D'Arcy, Mr McGuinness accused the Church of trying to silence progressive priests and deflect attention away from Church failings. Addressing the Assembly, Mr McGuinness supported calls from Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, whom he described as a “colossus”, for a specific inquiry into the Smyth case. “He is someone who understands absolutely what is going on and what is required to put it right, and of course he has called for the establishment of a commission of inquiry North and South into the Father Brendan Smyth case,” he said. “So that is something that we have to take on board because I think that the trail of destruction, which it appears lasted from well before 1975 right through to the early 1990s, raises all sorts of questions as to how this monster was handled by the Catholic Church.” Story so far A BBC documentary last week uncovered revelations about an internal Catholic Church investigation into notorious paedophile priest Brendan Smyth in 1975. Cardinal Brady, then a 36-year-old priest, was involved in an interview with victim Brendan Boland, then a teenage boy, when he outlined Smyth's crimes and gave the names of other children who were at risk. The cleric passed the allegations to his superiors but did not inform police or the children's parents. Dr Brady has said he now realises that the parents of children who were being abused should have been told of the allegations. http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/martin-mcguinness-vatican-has-miserably-failed-child-sex-abuse-victims-16156063.html#ixzz1uOw55EVQ

To: Solon who wrote (25954)	5/14/2012 2:03:51 PM
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LeBlanc sex assault case begins in Yarmouth May 14, 2012 - 12:31pm By BRIAN MEDEL Yarmouth Bureau Former Roman Catholic priest Albert LeBlanc leaves Yarmouth Provincial Court Monday. LeBlanc was there for the opening day of his trial on sexual abuse charges dating back decades. (BRIAN MEDEL / Yarmouth Bureau) YARMOUTH — The trial of former priest Albert LeBlanc, accused of sexually abusing boys in the 1970 and 80s, is expected to get underway this afternoon in Yarmouth provincial court. Now in his 80s, LeBlanc, a one-time Roman Catholic priest who later became a probation officer, was to stand trial this morning. However, Crown attorney Alonzo Wright and defence lawyer Gilles Lemieux, have spent much of the morning behind closed doors discussing the case which is scheduled for five days. Today is the first time that LeBlanc has been in the courthouse. He has also spent the morning behind closed doors, staying out of sight in a room normally reserved for lawyers to speak with their clients. Nearby a group of about a dozen victims and their supporters have been waiting anxiously for the trial to start and for their first glimpse of LeBlanc. Security is tight and everyone entering the court complex must first pass through a metal detector. LeBlanc was arrested in early January 2011 in Bouctouche, N.B., where he lives with his wife, who is also in her 80s. He originally faced 40 charges of gross indecency and indecent assault spanning 15 years starting 1970. The alleged victims were between the ages of seven and 11 at the time. Police have since laid 10 additional charges which also date back to the 1970s. Once the criminal case has been resolved, LeBlanc will also have to face a law suit launched by three of his accusers. The men are seeking $5 million in damages in their suit against LeBlanc, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax and the Diocese of Yarmouth. thechronicleherald.ca

To: Solon who wrote (25954)	5/21/2012 2:23:53 PM
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The only evidence left of a mystery tribe is bodies in jars A long lost Cambodian tribe has left only one trace behind, but it's a significant one. Human remains have been found in jars. The latest have been found about one hundred and sixty feet up a cliff. The Cardamom Mountains hide an unappetizing secret. Scattered over the hills are bodies, or what remains of them, stored in jars. Some of the jars are just hollowed out logs with bones and teeth in their hollows. Others are more elaborate ceramic works, with skulls peeking out of the necks. They're always in the mountains, some perched on shelves that seem to be cut into the stone near the bottom of the mountain, and some are just barely pushed into the shelter of caves. It's no question that it's a burial ritual. The highest of the bodies are placed one hundred and sixty feet up cliff sides, probably to keep them from being accessible to anyone but the most determined. The jars show signs of being part of a ritual, too. The bottom or each jar has a hole drilled into it, either to make it of no value to anyone other than as a burial vessel, or just to let fluids or any water that leaked in drain quickly. The sites are dated as being from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, which means the occupants must have lived during the Khmer Empire, a powerful and unified society that dominated much of Southeast Asia. These people, however, don't show any signs of being part of that empire. Perhaps their life in the mountains kept them independent, or just practically separate from the people around them. Still, it means that all we know today about them comes from their sky burials. We may never know more about them. Perhaps, given the lengths they went to hide their dead, they would have wanted it that way. Top Image: Cardamom Mountains at Sunset Via National Geographic. io9.com