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by **Ted the dog** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 8:19 pm

I haven't finished reading this yet.... <a href="http://www.courttv.com/trials/news/0705/29_bernard_ctv.html">www.courttv.com/trials/ne...d_ctv.html</a> ""It appears that one of the leaders of the church exercised a tremendous influence over its congregants to the point of making them say they did things that they never did," Smith said. In a twist, he was not referring to Lamonica, who inherited the once large parish after his father's death, but to another parishioner, Lois Mowbray, who was charged with obstruction of justice and failing to report a crime after the fact. In particular, Smith cited Mowbray's 586-page journal in which she allegedly had other parishioners write out their confessions to the sex acts. The journal's contents were not detailed in a June grand jury proceeding, but a detective described Mowbray as the church's pastor and suggested there had been infighting among the congregation, whose membership had eroded to about 15 members before its doors were permanently shut in 2003. Assistant district attorneys Don Wall and Scott Perrilloux were unavailable for comment, but an assistant in the office of the 21st Judicial District said that, except for Pierson, who posted $300,000 bond this week, the defendants are in custody and will be tried separately. Louis Lamonica allegedly confessed numerous sex assaults to police. Lamonica was booked on the spot for child rape and crimes against nature following his alleged admission to repeated sex acts involving house pets and children. Police say he claimed to have orchestrated the acts and taught the child victims how to mimic them. "Naturally, we found it strange for someone to confess to anything without being asked, but he came in and admitted to some sexual acts with persons under age and to sex with animals," said Livingston Parish Detective Supervisor Stan Carpenter. "We couldn't very well let him go, and from there everything came to a domino effect." Even so, the substance and credibility of Lamonica's statements remains under scrutiny almost three months later as the case enters the pretrial phase, in which the state shares its evidence with defense lawyers and the court. Lamonica's lawyer, Michael Thiel, did not return calls for comment, but was quoted by the Associated Press as saying that he questioned the validity of his client's alleged confession."

by **bethmex** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 10:37 pm

"The journal's contents were not detailed in a June grand jury proceeding" Documented confessions...not detailed... Yeah, I can see that actually reading or looking at the confessions wouldn't have any bearing on a case involving the people who did the confessing... I guess the only good news is that karma is real.

by **Ted the dog** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:05 pm

I just felt like bumping this up. I can't believe they're actually trying to convince people that this is what happened. my favorite part was the quote at the end from the defense lawyer, ""It is outrageous to the point of disbelief that people can go around in this country making these types of false allegations." yeah...it's SO outrageous...almost as outrageous as when people try to convince the public that one woman "brainwashed" a dozen adults and several children into thinking they had been part of occultic ritual abuse and pedophilia. This is going to go down as another McMartin. something laughed off as yet another example of how "all that stuff was debunked in the 80's...".

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