Fr. Marcial Maciel, Egregious Example of Clerical Sexual abuse and Coverup

Alberto Athie has come from Mexico City to present his work for the Defense of Children and Victims of Sexual Abuse and Violence at the Annual S.N.A.P. conference presently underway at the Westin Hotel in the City of Alexandria, VA.

Dirty Old Religious Leaders!

Stand up and be counted, Fr. Maciel!

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A Major Witness in the Rape Case Against an Indian Guru Has Been Shot Dead

July 14, 2015

TIME

·         Rishi Iyengar @OfficeOfRI

Another witness in the case was murdered in January, and seven others have been attacked in recent months

A key witness in an ongoing rape case involving a self-proclaimed Indian religious leader was killed on Friday, the second death and latest in a long string of attacks on those planning to testify against the guru.

The prospective witness, Kripal Singh, was shot by two assailants in the district of Shahjahanpur in the country’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh, Indian broadcaster NDTV reported.

The duo were on a motorcycle and warned Singh not to depose against the “godman,” Asaram Bapu, before shooting him and fleeing. The 35-year-old Singh was then rushed to a nearby hospital where he died of his injuries, police said.

Singh was an employee at a transport firm owned by a man whose daughter was allegedly raped by Bapu at his ashram in 2013.

The 74-year-old self-styled guru is currently in prison in the western city of Jodhpur, where that ashram was located, and has been there since September 2013. He was also accused of a second rape by two sisters — which he reportedly perpetrated along with his son — at another of his ashrams in the state of Gujarat two months after initially being jailed.

Akhil Gupta, Bapu’s former cook and a primary witness in the Gujarat rape case, was shot dead in another north Indian town in January, and the Indian Express newspaper reports that police have begun a joint investigation to determine whether he was a victim of the same killers.

Seven other witnesses in the case against Bapu (who is infamous for his 2012 statements blaming the victim of India’s most notorious rape case in New Delhi) have been attacked.

Recent developments in Bapu’s case coincide with multiple deaths connected to another high-profile investigation in India. Two people connected to what is being called the “Vyapam” scandal — a scheme to rig entrance examinations for medical schools and government jobs across the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh — died last week. Those deaths, that of a journalist reporting on the conspiracy and the dean of a medical college who was compiling evidence against those involved, took place under mysterious circumstances and are the latest in a string of close to 40 fatalities since the Vyapam scandal broke in 2013.

 

http://time.com/3956753/asaram-bapu-witness-killed-kripal-singh-rape-case/

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Legionary Pedophile, Fr. Guilllermo Izquierdo, dies happy and unpunished in Madrid

Here is the news of the passing of a Legionary, who was a Novice Master, accused of several counts of sexual assault of seminarians under his care in the USA and Ireland. The Legion recognized his crimes but did not punish him except to say that he would no longer be in touch with minors...

Here is documented article with testimonies published years ago:


June 1,  2015

Thy Kingdom Come!

Very Dear Fathers and Brothers,

again I inform you of the death of a Legionary. It is Fr. Guillermo Izquierdo who, for the past year approximately, was living at the Santisima Trinidad Residence in Aravaca, Madrid, where he could recevied the medical attentions of which he could not receive at home. He died this evening of a respiratory attack while at dinner.
Let us pray the Lord, rich in mercy, for his eternal rest,

Very affectionately in Christ and the Legion,
Eduardo Robles-Gil, LC.



¡Venga tu Reino!

Muy queridos padres y hermanos:

            Nuevamente les comunico el fallecimiento de un legionario. Se trata del P. Guillermo Izquierdo quien, desde hace aproximadamente un año residía en la Residencia Santísima Trinidad, en Aravaca, Madrid, en donde podía recibir las atenciones médicas que ya no era posible dispensarle en casa. Murió esta tarde por un paro respiratorio mientras cenaba. Pidamos al Señor, rico en misericordia, por su eterno descanso.

            Afectísimo en Cristo y la Legión, P. Eduardo Robles Gil, L.C.
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Buckinghamshire groomed girl abused by 60 men in 'ring of horror'

Child Sexual abuse should always shock us and fill us with righteous indignation as we increase of our awareness of our own weaknesses.

See BBC report todaySee BBC report

How a Priest, Grooms and Sexually Abuses Young Women amid Church and Police Collusion in USA

This disturbing article appeared recently on Huffington Post

It describes abuses that happened at a girls Catholic High School in Baltimore. But this could have happened anywhere and has happened elsewhere.

 This long and painful article helps understand the kind of things Fr. Maciel did for decades, inside and outside the Legion, especially with adolescent males...It also helps to understand how Church authorities 'do not want to be bothered' by this subject and tend to dismiss accusations and "protect their own"

The reader can grasp some of the fear and confusion experienced by Maciel's victims: "He is a priest. He is a saint. We are helping him with is illness....If we don't comply we will have to leave the seminary, we will never be ordained, never reach our goal...We are depraved. We like this. We are gay. We cannot get married....."


The malice and depravity of the priest is hard to digest. But we must remembered that we are talking seriously disturbed people who have a charming exterior; they are charming psychopaths, skilled manipulators and controllers who "get away with murder"

If you have not read already you can find more info re Maciel's Method of sex abuse at:
Jason Berry & Gerald Renner, Vows of Silence, book, and Berry's video on Vows of Silence;
In Spanish, Francisco Gonzalez, Yo Acuso al Padre Maciel y a la Legion de Cristo....
J. Paul Lennon on this blog, in the book and in his memoir, Our Father Maciel who art in bed

Victims of paedophile priests urge action from pope

Pope Francis has called for ‘zero tolerance’ of abusive priests

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Mexico City: 

Victims of sexually abusive priests from across the Americas joined forces on Monday to urge Pope Francis to allow civilian justice to punish paedophiles and those who covered up their crimes.

From the United States to Argentina, Chile, Mexico and other nations, victims issued a letter made public in Mexico City telling the Argentine pontiff that “words are not enough.”

The letter said that only civilian trials and Church reform will put an end to the “great holocaust of thousands of boys and girls who were sacrificed to avoid scandal and salvage the image and prestige of the Catholic Church’s representatives in the world.”

The victims said the pope’s recent admonishments of sex abuse in the Church are “ambiguous and contradictory” because they do not lead to any “institutional process toward truth and justice.”

The letter was read by Jose Barba, one of the victims of Marcial Maciel, the Mexican founder of the ultraconservative Legion of Christ order who died in 2008.

Pope Francis has called for “zero tolerance” of abusive priests since his election in March 2013.

He has asked victims for forgiveness, pledged to combat paedophilia and formed a Church child protection panel.

This month, he issued a strongly-worded letter to bishops warning Roman Catholic clergy they must never try to cover up sexual abuse.

He has also intervened in cases like one in Spain that saw 10 priests accused of sexually abusing an altar boy.

While the pope voiced “great pain” and ordered a church investigation into the case, a Spanish court dropped charges against nine of the clergymen because the accuser waited too long to bring the charges.

At the press conference in Mexico City, some of the victims questioned the pope’s commitment to fighting paedophilia in the Church.

“We demand that the pope, at the very least, live up to his word because we can all make headlines. Enough with the headlines,” said Juan Carlos Cruz, a Chilean victim who said he felt “deeply betrayed” by the pontiff.

Julieta Anazco of Argentina said that when Francis was known as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, he “never received anybody,” despite requests by victims to meet him.

“We are all very sad and losing hope. We have asked for something effective to be done. We want (abusive priests) to be removed and tried” in criminal court, said Anazco, who was abused by a priest at a Church-sponsored summer camp in the 1980s.

The network of victims from the Americas said that the pope’s predecessor, Benedict XVI, secretly suspended 400 priests for abusing children, and that they faced Vatican justice without the testimony or knowledge of the victims and their lawyers.

Barbara Blaine, president of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said via video conference from the United States that Pope Francis should follow the recommendations of the United Nations, which said last year that the Church violated the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.