The Pedophile File

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This child sacrifice video, posted first by conniption on another thread, was very difficult to watch.

This testimony tends to validate personal opinions derived through meeting two (poor, as in broken spirits) children of hyper-elite families.

For me, the implication of this testimony and same as my previous opinion, is that for inclusion into top level positions of influence, one must PROVE that one is a psychopath.

These sick people have a sense of entitlement that knows no bounds, to the extent that they torture their own children as well as making rituals out of killing vulnerable people.

They need to be introduced to the rule of Law, and fast.


Belgian MP Laurent Louis Denounces the December 22 Pedophile Celebration!

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I can't seem to get the you-tube tags right, oh well.

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Sex-abuse investigations rip open Catholic Church's secret files
For centuries, the church has maintained a second set of books containing sensitive documents such as notes on priests' alcohol abuse, disputes over parish funds and, later, molestation allegations.


By Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times
May 27, 2013, 6:40 p.m.
Preparing for his return to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles after six months' treatment at a center for pedophile priests, Father Michael Wempe sat down to type out a list of concerns. Arrangements for his dog. Counseling and support groups for himself.

Above everything, he wrote at the top of the list in the 1987 memo: "Confidentiality — Reports from here destroyed, even this paper."

Wempe had good reason for the request. The reports from the center laid out how he had confessedto molesting young boys. Wempe's therapists also urged church officials to immediately destroy everything. If the papers fell in the hands of law enforcement, the priest, the archdiocese and the treatment center could be in serious trouble.

But Cardinal Roger Mahony and other church leaders ignored the warnings. Rather than shred or burn the reports, they preserved them in carefully organized file cabinets where they remained until this year.

The release of those records — and thousands of pages of other damaging abuse documents in January — begged a question: Why did the church hold on to decades-old evidence of its priests' sins?

The explanation lies in centuries of Catholic Church history and is a tale involving secret betrothals, scandal, even a murder or two. Since the time of the Enlightenment, the Catholic Church has maintained two sets of records: one for the mundane and a second "secret archive" for matters of a sensitive nature. The cache — known as sub secreto files, Canon 489 files, confidential files or C-files — was to be kept under lock and key, only for the eyes of the bishop and his trusted few.

After the files became known to prosecutors and plaintiff's lawyers, the American justice system has pried open the doors to an archive long kept sealed. Thousands of additional pages are set to become public in coming months, as more than a dozen Catholic orders — Salesians, Claretians, Vincentians and others — prepare to bare their own secrets pursuant to agreements with victims. L.A. County Superior Court Judge Emilie Elias could set the date for their release at a hearing Tuesday.

For some, the revelations were damning. For others, they offered validation for dark, private memories.

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The files were never meant to go beyond church walls.

The earliest mention of the secret archives in church history dates to the 1700s, in an edict on marriage issued by Pope Benedict XIV. The archives were to bear witness to "marriages of conscience" — unions that may be banned under civil law or otherwise scandalous, but celebrated by a priest in secrecy.

In the 20th century, when church law regulating the archives were written, Canon 489 prescribed that there was to be "a safe or cabinet, completely closed and locked, which cannot be removed" to which only the bishop would hold the key.

Safeguarding the files was not taken lightly. One scholar suggested in 1954 that files could be kept in "modern safes" that could "withstand concentrated burglarious attacks by drills, sledge hammers, wedges and mechanical tools."

Over time, the files came to hold information about priests' alcohol problems, squabbles over parish funds, clerics who had impregnated parishioners. By the 1970s and '80s, church leaders found themselves increasingly documenting in the files whispers of a more disturbing sort: sexual abuse of children at the hands of priests.

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Few outside the innermost circles of the church knew of the trove's existence until the late 1980s, when Minneapolis attorney Jeff Anderson received a tip from a priest that evidence of molestation was probably sitting somewhere within the local diocese. Anderson and other victims' lawyers subpoenaed the secret files. Church lawyers resisted, arguing that forcing the church to disclose the files was an infringement of its right to religious freedom.

It doesn't matter "whether the church gives a file a particular name," judges ruled in one 1988 Pennsylvania case, ordering the disclosure of the file of a priest who allegedly molested a "mildly retarded" boy for nearly a decade.

Such decisions set off alarm bells. One Cleveland bishop suggested at a canon law society meeting that precautions could be taken ahead of time.

"If there's something there you really don't want people to see you might send it off to the Apostolic Delegate," A. James Quinn said in 1990, referring to the Vatican's embassy. "They have immunity to protect something that is potentially dangerous."

Anderson said that when he finally laid hands on the files, he felt shivers.

"It makes you both excited and sick at the same time," he said.

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Prosecutors in Toledo, Ohio, stumbled upon archives there while investigating a cold-case murder of a nun.


They had their suspicions trained on Father Gerald Robinson, believing that new forensic technology linked him to the 1980 death of the nun, who was covered with an altar cloth and stabbed 31 times. In 2004, they subpoenaed the local diocese for Robinson's file but were incredulous at how little the church offered.

"I said, 'Three pages! He's been working there for 20 years!' " said Thomas Matuszak, then a Lucas County prosecutor.

Matuszak spent two weeks poring over canon law and applied for a search warrant for the secret files, using church law as probable cause. Detectives went to the diocesan headquarters with the warrant and came away with a 148-page file, including another priest's letter laying out his suspicions of Robinson. The priest was convicted in 2006.

In Pennsylvania, it was an accused septuagenarian murderer who sought the secret files. The man, David Stewart, had shot and killed a priest whom he suspected of having an affair with his wife. He demanded the Rev. Leo Heineman's records to prove he had fired the gun in self-defense.

After a seven-year battle that went to the state Supreme Court, the church was ordered in 1997 to turn over the file. In it was a letter regarding the priest's alcohol treatment and an anonymous letter about his erratic behavior, according to local reports. Stewart was convicted the following year of manslaughter but cleared of premeditated murder.

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When claims of molestation by priests flooded into the L.A. Archdiocese after the sex-abuse scandal erupted in 2002, church leaders' reaction was to reach for each priest's C-file. Some already had a thick volume chronicling a troubled history. Others had none, and a new file was created.

New accusers wrote to the archdiocese about Wempe, by then serving as a chaplain at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

"I should have written this letter many years ago," one man wrote in a letter that was added to Wempe's lengthy file. "It would happen during weekend trips to the mountains … a cabin, and in a vacation trailer."

Within months, the district attorney obtained grand jury subpoenas demanding the archdiocese hand over the confidential files. The church fought prosecutors to the U.S. Supreme Court but ultimately lost. Wempe was convicted in 2006 of molestation and sentenced to three years in prison.

It would take a six-year legal fight for the church to publicly release 375 pages from Wempe's file dating back to 1978.

In the pages were not only Wempe's abuses, but the blunt words of church leaders who clearly thought no one outside the church would ever read the secret file. There were mentions of the criminal implications of Wempe's acts and how to keep the police from finding out.

"Discussed aiding victims and the problem that might cause," an unnamed church official wrote in 1987 summarizing a conversation with Wempe.

Terry McKiernan, founder of BishopAccountability.org which collects clergy sex-abuse related documents from across the U.S., said Mahony was clearly a far more meticulous keeper of records than his predecessors and that may have hurt him when the archive was made public.

"I don't know of any other diocesan archive where scheming to manipulate reporting laws and access of law enforcement to these cases is as explicit as in these L.A. documents," he said.

Nicholas Cafardi, a canon law professor and former general counsel with the Diocese of Pittsburgh, said that although "secret archives" may sound nefarious, they were like any other church records dating back to the Gospels.

"The church expects to be here forever," he said. "They never know when they're going to need it."

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... Belgian MP Laurent Louis Denounces the December 22 Pedophile Celebration!


I can't seem to get the you-tube tags right, oh well.

Fixed.

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Apparently a State Department scandal that has been at the margins of my perception involves the ambassador to Belgium, Howard Gutman, having sex with minors.

Washington Times article, with an amusing realization that people buy ambassadorships at the end.

It seems the State Department is covering up and protecting Gutman and harrassing a whistleblower. Everything is as I expect it to be in Washington and Belgium.

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Oxford grooming sex case: Brothers jailed for life

The men drugged the girls and took them to towns and cities around the country to be raped

Two pairs of brothers who were among seven men who abused girls from Oxford in a sadistic sex grooming ring have been jailed for life.

Mohammed Karrar, 38, and brother Bassam Karrar, 34, will serve a minimum of 20 years and 15 years respectively.

Brothers Akhtar Doghar, 32, and Anjum Doghar, 31, were each jailed for life with a minimum term of 17 years.

Their offences included child rape and trafficking between 2004 and 2012. A fifth man was also jailed for life.

Kamar Jamil, 27, who was found guilty of charges including rape and arranging child prostitution, was told he would serve at least 12 years.


You took her soul. She felt as though it had been ripped out”

Judge Peter Rook on the impact on one victim
Jurors heard at the men's trial at the Old Bailey how six girls, aged at the time between 11 and 15, were plied with alcohol and drugs before being forced to perform sex acts.

Some were beaten and burned.

The court heard how the men identified vulnerable girls for abuse and then groomed each one of them until they were under the control of the gang.

They were then each either abused by the men themselves, given to the men's friends or offered at a price to others who were not on trial.

'Enormous courage'
The girls were mostly chosen because their unsettled or troubled lives made them easier to manipulate.


In a statement read by police, the family thanked the girl for "finding the strength" to speak out
Judge Peter Rook, sentencing, said Jamil, the Dogar brothers and the Karrar brothers abused vulnerable girls in Oxford over a long period, and on occasions the "depravity was extreme."

The men identified vulnerable girls and then groomed them individually until they were under the control of the gang.

The abuse started in Oxford but some victims were later taken to other parts of the country to be offered to other men who were in contact with the gang.

The court heard the victims were tied up, burnt, suffocated, beaten and urinated upon, and would return to Oxford bleeding, injured and carrying sexually-transmitted infections.

Judge Rook praised the courage of the six victims in coming forward, saying the men had blighted the victims' lives and robbed them of their adolescence.

He said: "These six girls have shown enormous courage in coming to the Old Bailey to give evidence, knowing they would be accused of lying, knowing they would have to relive their ordeals, knowing they have not been believed in the past."


Two sets of brothers - (L-R) Anjum Dogar, Akhtar Dogar, Bassam Karrar and Mohammed Karrar, were among the five men jailed for life
Judge Rook said he hoped the victims' courage would act as a deterrent to other men but also ensure the appropriate authorities would not fail in future to take action in the face of such activity.

Two more defendants, Assad Hussain, 32, and Zeeshan Ahmed, were each jailed for seven years for two counts of sexual activity with a child.

Talking about the abuse suffered by one of the victims, Judge Rook told Jamil and the Dogar brothers, who were convicted of abusing her: "You took her soul. She felt as though it had been ripped out. You put her parents through years of sheer torture."


Simon Morton, Thames Valley Police: "This shows every victim in the country justice can work for them"
In total nine men had denied charges including rape, arranging child prostitution and trafficking between 2004 and 2012. Two were acquitted of all charges.

Numerous opportunities to catch members of the gang are believed to have been missed and prosecutors, the police and social services have apologised for any failings.

NSPCC chief executive Peter Wanless said there was a "systematic failure" by Oxfordshire County Council to stop the gang earlier and protect the victims, who had raised the alarm on several occasions.

Oxfordshire County Council said a serious case review was being carried out by the Oxfordshire Safeguarding Children Board.

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On Friday 28 June between 10:00 BST and 13:00 BST the BBC Asian Network will be holding a live debate from the Cowley Road in Oxford - a location at the centre of the city's grooming case. Locals and British Pakistanis will discuss the relevance of the ethnicity of the men sentenced.

Nihal's phone-in show on BBC Asian Network
A council spokesman said: "We would like to praise the courage of the victims for giving evidence in court that has led to these sentences, and we are sorry we did not stop it sooner.

Javed Khan, of independent charity Victim Support, said the control exerted by the men amounted to "modern-day slavery".

Meanwhile Andy Dipper, from Oxford Community Against Trafficking, said the organisation would apply pressure to ensure changes in the justice and care systems.

"Victims are being stigmatised and discouraged from reporting their horrific abuse because of a system which is ponderous, accusatory and further traumatises them," he said.

Chief executive of the Children's Society Matthew Reed said: "Care homes, the police, social workers and health workers all need to get better at spotting the signs of abuse.

"And they need to urgently change their attitude to vulnerable, exploited teenage girls, who are being routinely dismissed as "troublesome" or "promiscuous" or as having made life style choices."

Kamar Jamil, formerly of Aldrich Road, Oxford, was found guilty of five counts of rape, two counts of conspiracy to rape and one count of arranging child prostitution.
Akhtar Dogar, of Tawney Street, Oxford, was found guilty of five counts of rape, three counts of conspiracy to rape, two counts of child prostitution and one count of trafficking.
Anjum Dogar, of Tawney Street, Oxford, was found guilty of three counts of rape, two counts of child prostitution, three counts of conspiracy to rape and one count of trafficking.
Assad Hussain, of Ashurst Way, Oxford, was found not guilty of rape and guilty of two counts of sexual activity with a child.
Mohammed Karrar, of Kames Close, Oxford, was found guilty of two counts of conspiracy to rape, four counts of rape of a child, one count of using an instrument to procure miscarriage, two counts of trafficking, one count of assault of a child by penetration, two counts of child prostitution, three counts of rape, two counts of conspiracy to rape a child and one count of supplying a class A drug.
Bassam Karrar, of Hundred Acres Close, Oxford, was found guilty of two counts of rape, one count of rape of a child, two counts of conspiracy to rape a child, two counts of child prostitution, one count of trafficking and one count of conspiracy to rape.
Zeeshan Ahmed, of Palmer Road, Oxford, was found guilty of two counts of sexual activity with a child.

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Michael Jackson trial: Star allegedly spent $35 million to silence 24 boys, could help Wade Robson's case: sources
The King of Pop's former child pal wants his lawyers to reach out to the FBI about secret documents from a private investigator that are said to show just how much was spent by the star over the molestation charges.

BY LACHLAN CARTWRIGHT AND STEPHEN REX BROWN / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

SUNDAY, JUNE 30, 2013, 8:46 PM

Michael Jackson trial: “Wade knows that if he stands shoulder to shoulder with another accuser, he might be viewed more sympathetically,” says a source.
Michael Jackson's attempt to silence children he allegedly molested could bolster a lawsuit brought by another accuser.

A choreographer and former child pal of the late King of Pop, Wade Robson, ordered his lawyers Sunday to contact the FBI about secret documents compiled by a private investigator that reportedly revealed Jackson spent $35 million to silence 24 boys, sources told the Daily News.

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“Wade knows that if he stands shoulder to shoulder with another accuser, he might be viewed more sympathetically,” one of the sources told The News.

Robson, 30, sued the Jackson estate in May, seeking court approval to file a late claim for seven years of alleged sexual abuse that occurred when he was a starstruck boy palling around with his idol.

PHOTOS: MJ'S 'THIS IS IT'

“He feels his case could be helped if he could get another child or even more to come out and accuse Michael of similar crimes,” the source said. “It has been over 20 years, but right now his prime concern is to build a case to show the world he is in the right.”

A separate source also charged that Jackson paid millions to cover up his disturbing affection for children. The revelation was first reported by London’s Sunday People.

PHOTOS: TRIBUTES TO MICHAEL JACKSON AROUND THE WORLD

“Absolutely, people have been paid, there’s no question,” a second source told the Daily News.


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Wade Robson wants his lawyer to contact the FBI about documents that are said to show how much money Michael Jackson spent over molestation charges.

That source said Robson’s family was not among the 24 who allegedly accepted secret cash payments from Jackson to keep quiet about molestation.

RELATED: MICHAEL JACKSON'S NEPHEW BREAKS DOWN ON STAND

The hush money ranged from $2 million to one family to $20 million to the family of Jordan Chandler, the source said. Jordan, who settled a claim against Jackson in 1993, befriended the “Thriller” singer when he was 13.

In 2005, Robson was a key witness who helped clear Jackson of molestation charges. He now attributes the favorable testimony to Jackson’s “brainwashing.”

RELATED: MICHAEL JACKSON’S OLDEST SON TESTIFIES IN WRONGFUL DEATH TRIAL

A lawyer for the Jackson estate refused to comment.

Meanwhile, Michael’s ex Debbie Rowe thanked supporters of her daughter, Paris Jackson, 15, following her suicide bid June 5.

RELATED: DUELING VIEWS OF JACKO KIDS' EX-NANNY IN DEATH SUIT

“My daughter has asked that I extend a huge thank you for all of your thoughts and prayers and support. She is strong like her father,” Rowe tweeted.

With Brian Niemietz

RELATED: JUDGE ALLOWS MICHAEL JACKSON’S GHOST IN TESTIMONY: DR. MURRAY’S INNOCENT!



Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainmen ... z2Xl197M8C

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Re: the State Department whistleblower case I posted about above (which is now a dead link after two weeks), [url=thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/07/07/cameras_catch_mystery_break_in_at_whistleblowers_law_firm]Cameras Catch Mystery Break-In at Whistleblower's Law Firm[/url].

The offices of a Dallas law firm representing a high-profile State Department whistleblower were broken into last weekend. Burglars stole three computers and broke into the firm's file cabinets. But silver bars, video equipment and other valuables were left untouched, according to local Fox affiliate KDFW, which aired security camera footage of the suspected burglars entering and leaving the offices around the time of the incident.

The firm Schulman & Mathias represents Aurelia Fedenisn, a former investigator at the State Department's Office of the Inspector General. In recent weeks, she raised a slew of explosive allegations against the department and its contractors ranging from illicit drug use, soliciting sexual favors from minors and prostitutes and sexual
harassment.

"It's a crazy, strange and suspicious situation," attorney Cary Schulman told The Cable. "It's clear to me that it was somebody looking for information and not money. My most high-profile case right now is the Aurelia Fedenisn case, and I can't think of any other case where someone would go to these great lengths to get our information."

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2013/07/08/toronto-police-benjamin-levin-london-new-zealand.html

Child porn charges for Toronto prof, ex-adviser to Ont. premier
Benjamin Levin, 61, arrested after probe involving New Zealand investigators
Posted: Jul 8, 2013 12:02 PM AT

A University of Toronto professor who advised Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne's transition team is facing five child porn-related charges, including making and distributing child pornography, after an investigation involving New Zealand police.

The rest at the link.

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FBI: 105 sexually exploited children rescued in Operation Cross Country VII

A screengrab from a video promoting the FBI's "Operation Cross Country VII," which was a nationwide law enforcement effort targeting the child sex trafficking industry. / YOUTUBE USER FBI
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A massive nationwide law enforcement sweep targeting child sex-trafficking resulted in the saving of 105 sexually exploited children and the arrest of more than 150 pimps and others, the FBI said Monday.

The coordinated action between multiple federal, state and local agencies was the largest such enforcement action to date, according to the FBI. Seventy-six cities took part, as well as the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) as part of the Bureau's Innocence Lost National Initiative.


The raid was the seventh similar such action to date under the title "Operation Cross Country." (At left, watch video the FBI posted of the operation.)

"Child prostitution remains a persistent threat to children across America," said Ron Hosko, assistant director of the FBI's Criminal Investigative Division, in a press release. "This operation serves as a reminder that these abhorrent crimes can happen anywhere and that the FBI remains committed to stopping this cycle of victimization and holding the criminals who profit from this exploitation accountable."

The FBI says that most children who are vulnerable to such exploitation have a "void in their lives," be it from family, poverty, and other circumstances. Too often, pimps and other abusive figures step in to fill it, leaving the victims thinking they have no other choice.

Since its creation in 2003, the Innocence Lost National Initiative has resulted in the identification and recovery of 2,700 children who have been sexually exploited--and substantial sentences of convicted pimps, including eight federal life sentences and terms of imprisonment frequently ranging from 15-50 years, according to the FBI

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Mia Farrow's Brother Pleads Guilty to Child Sex Abuse

Friday, Jul 26, 2013



John Charles Villiers-Farrow, the brother of movie star Mia Farrow, pleaded guilty Friday to two counts of child abuse.

Villiers-Farrow had been charged with 39 counts of molestation of two 10-year-old boys who were his neighbors in 2002.

Villiers-Farrow was arrested in November after an investigation that began when two men came forward in August 2012. At the time, Anne Arundel County police had recently received information that several children were sexually abused in the Edgewater area.

Court documents claim that the boys were abused in Villiers-Farrow's home, and a few times in a nearby camper. The victims told police that Villiers-Farrow would show them pornographic movies. The encounters escalated to touching and then to oral sex, the documents said.

Testimony in Villiers-Farrow's trial was supposed to start Friday, but the trial was stopped by the plea.

Villiers-Farrow faces up to 10 years in prison at sentencing Sept. 30. He could have been sentenced to 50 years if he had been found guilty on all 39 counts.

Villiers-Farrow made headlines in 1992 when he commented on the controversy surrounding sister Mia's custody battle with Woody Allen and Allen's relationship with Farrow's adopted daughter Soon-Yi. At the time, Villiers-Farrow told People magazine, Allen "is going to be indicted, and he's going to be ruined. I think when all of it comes out, he's going to go to jail."

People described John as "a sometime screenwriter and boat salesman outside Annapolis, Md." A Baltimore Sun article from 1998 described "John Farrow" as co-owner of Chesapeake Catamaran Center in Annapolis, though that business has since been sold.

Villiers-Farrow also had a brush with fame in 1968 when he accompanied Mia and their sister, Prudence, to visit Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India. The Beatles arrived in India to meet with Maharishi while the Farrows were there.

He appeared as a teen in in the Robert Stack movie "John Paul Jones," which was written by his father, screenwriter and director John Farrow. Villiers-Farrow's mother was actress Maureen O'Sullivan.

The website IMDB says Villiers-Farrow also had an uncredited role in the 1954 Elizabeth Taylor movie, "The Last Time I Saw Paris." And a Brooklyn newspaper said Villiers-Farrow was scheduled to have a movie role at the young age of 5 months, playing a baby in his father's movie "Blaze of Noon" with Anne Baxter and William Holden.

Mia Farrow became famous for her roles in the TV show "Peyton Place" and in movies including "Rosemary's Baby," and Woody Allen movies including "Zelig," "Broadway Danny Rose" and "Hannah and Her Sisters."

More recently, she has served as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and as an activist for humanitarian aid and political change in Sudan.

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HuffingtonPost

Penn State Ex-Officials Ordered By Judge To Stand Trial In Sandusky Coverup Case

By MARC LEVY
07/30/13 AP


HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Penn State's ex-president and two former top school administrators were ordered Tuesday to stand trial on charges accusing them of a cover-up in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.

Prosecutors showed enough evidence during a two-day preliminary hearing to warrant a full criminal court trial for ex-President Graham Spanier, former vice president Gary Schultz and ex-athletic director Tim Curley, Judge William Wenner concluded.

Wenner called it "a tragic day for Penn State University."

State prosecutors allege that the three men failed to tell police about sexual abuse allegations involving Sandusky and then tried to cover up what they knew about it.

The men say they are innocent and were not aware of the allegation against Sandusky in 2001. They say they had believed that Sandusky and the boy were engaged in nothing more than horseplay in a university locker room shower.

Sandusky was convicted last year of 45 counts of child sexual abuse, but maintains his innocence and is appealing a 30- to 60-year state prison term.

A football team graduate assistant in 2001, Mike McQueary, has testified that he saw Sandusky and a boy engaged in a sex act in the locker room shower and within days reported it to coach Joe Paterno, Curley and Schultz. However, Curley and Schultz say McQueary never reported that the encounter was sexual in nature, and Spanier, in turn, has said Curley and Schultz never told him about any sort of sex abuse of a boy.

The three were charged with perjury, obstruction, endangering the welfare of children, failure to properly report suspected abuse and conspiracy. Those charges include allegations of hiding evidence from investigators and lying to the grand jury.

Curley and Schultz were initially charged in November 2011, when Sandusky was arrested, and accused of perjury and failure to properly report the incident.

Spanier was forced out as president at that time. A year later, he was charged with covering up a complaint about Sandusky while additional charges were filed against Curley and Schultz. Spanier remains a faculty member on administrative leave.

Paterno was fired and died in January 2012.

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"Justice, sweet justice, you travel so slow..." Willie Nelson

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Federal Judge: Catholic Church Has A Constitutional Right Not To Compensate Victims Of Sex Abuse

By Ian Millhiser on July 31, 2013 at 2:05 pm
Cardinal Timothy Dolan allegedly transferred church funds into a separate trust in order to protect them from clergy abuse lawsuits

Cardinal Timothy Dolan allegedly transferred church funds into a separate trust in order to protect them from clergy abuse lawsuits

A federal judge in Wisconsin handed down an opinion yesterday granting the Catholic Church — and indeed, potentially all religious institutions — such sweeping immunity from federal bankruptcy law that it is not clear that it would permit any plaintiff to successfully sue any church in any court. While the ostensible issue in this case is whether over $50 million in church funds are shielded from a bankruptcy proceeding triggered largely by a flood of clerical sex abuse claims against the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, Judge Rudolph Randa reads the church’s constitutional and legal right to religious liberty so broadly as to render religious institutions immune from much of the law.

The case involves approximately $57 million that former Milwaukee Archbishop Timothy Dolan transferred from the archdiocese’s general accounts to into a separate trust set up to maintain the church’s cemeteries. Although Dolan, who is now a cardinal, the Archbishop of New York and the President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, has denied that the purpose of this transfer was to shield the funds from lawsuits, Dolan penned a letter to the Vatican in 2007 where he explained that transferring the funds into the trust would lead to “an improved protection of these funds from any legal claim and liability.”

The issue facing the court is, essentially, whether the funds that Dolan split off into a separate trust can now be reabsorbed into the archdiocese’s assets in order to enable sex abuse victims and other creditors to be paid out of these assets. In holding that these funds cannot be so absorbed, Randa relies on a law that limits the federal government’s ability to “substantially burden a person’s exercise of religion,” Randa cites to the current Archbishop of Milwaukee’s statement that “the care and maintenance of Catholic cemeteries, cemetery property, and the remains of those interred is a fundamental exercise of the Catholic faith,” and concludes that this statement alone is enough to shield the church’s funds. As Randa explains, “if the Trust’s funds are converted into the bankruptcy estate, there will be no funds or, at best, insufficient funds for the perpetual care of the Milwaukee Catholic Cemeteries.”

And Randa does not stop there. He goes on to argue that senior church officials get to unilaterally decide what constitutes a “substantial burden” on their faith for purposes of federal law — “Archbishop Listecki’s declaration stands unopposed, and on the issue of religious doctrine, it is unassailable. Moreover, the issue of substantial burden is essentially coterminous with religious doctrine.” In this case, an archbishop declared cemetery funds to be untouchable in a bankruptcy proceeding, but Randa’s reasoning could extend much farther. Nothing in his opinion would prevent a church’s officials from declaring that every single line in every single ledger kept by the church is mandated by the sacred word of God — and therefore every single dollar owned by the church is untouchable so long as the church engages in the kind of accounting gymnastics Dolan allegedly performed.

The same federal law that protects religious liberty also permits substantial burdens on religion when such a burden is “in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest and is the least restrictive means of furthering that interest.” Randa largely glosses over this exception, however, holding that the “interests advanced by the bankruptcy system are not compelling.” That very well be true, but there is another, overriding interest in this case — whether an employer whose employees stand accused of widespread sexual abuse can evade accountability by engaging in accounting tricks. At least 45 Milwaukee priests face sex abuse accusations. One priest in particular was accused of personally molesting close to 200 deaf boys. Yet Randa does not even consider whether America has a compelling interest in deterring the church from allowing future such incidents to occur.

If Randa had stopped there, his opinion would still award the church — and, indeed, potentially all religious institutions — a breathtaking degree of legal immunity. Taken to its logical conclusion, Randa’s framework would allow a church to run up whatever debts it chooses, then effectively protect the entirety of its assets from its creditors through a combination of creative accounting and a bankruptcy filing. Yet Randa does not even stop there. After reaching this sweeping interpretation of federal religious liberty law, he then turns to the First Amendment of the Constitution. With little analysis, and in an almost certain conflict with a binding Supreme Court precedent, Randa concludes that the church has a constitutional right to shield its funds. By raising his opinion to constitutional status, Randa effectively strips Congress of its ability to correct his sweeping interpretation of the law.

Judge Randa, a George H.W. Bush appointee, has a history of being reversed by higher courts in cases involving hot button social issues, so there is a good chance that his opinion will ultimately be reversed on appeal. In the meantime, however, Randa effectively places the church above the law — and leaves what could be hundreds of sexual abuse victims in the cold.

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Daniel Pelka: Mother and stepfather get 30 years for campaign of 'unimaginable cruelty'
A mother and stepfather who starved and then murdered four-year-old Daniel Pelka will spend at least 30-years in prison after a judge condemned their campaign of “unimaginable cruelty” and “incomprehensible brutality”.

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Daniel Pelka was battered to death by his mother Magdelena Luczak and stepfather Mariusz Krezolek Photo: PA
By Martin Evans, Crime Correspondent7:29PM BST 02 Aug 2013
Mrs Justice Cox told Magdelena Luczak and Mariusz Krezolek that the scale of Daniel’s suffering had been on a “truly horrific scale” yet the couple had not shown a shred of remorse for their actions.
The prosecution and defence had agreed that the starting point for their sentence should be life with a minimum of 15-years.
But Mrs Justice Cox doubled that tariff, telling the pair they had breached the most important position of trust as the parents of a small child who deserved their love and protection.
Polish nationals, Luczak and Krezolek, simply stared straight ahead and showed no emotion as their interpreters translated the judge’s damning sentencing remarks.
Mrs Justice Cox said: “As the trial has progressed, harrowing details of the unimaginable acts of cruelty and brutality inflicted on little Daniel, over many months, have exposed both the torment and despair he must have suffered and your callous disregard for his pain and distress.
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“Time and again, knowing exactly what you were doing to him, both of you concealed your conduct from the authorities by a series of deliberate and elaborate lies, designed to put them off the scent and to prevent them discovering Daniel's true plight.”
Daniel, who weighed just 1 stone 9 lbs, when he died on March 3 last year, had been subjected to water torture and salt poisoning before being eventually being beaten around the head by Krezolek.
Locked in his freezing, urine soaked cell, Daniel lay dying for 30-hours, while Luczak, 27, and Krezolek, 34, carried on their normal lives, refusing to call an ambulance.
Police admitted they could find no motive behind the campaign of abuse, other than the fact that Krezolek did not like the quiet, unassuming little boy.
Mrs Justice Cox said: “For reasons which are unfathomable, Daniel became a target for derision, abuse and systematic cruelty, designed to cause him significant mental and physical suffering.”
The court heard how Daniel had been regularly imprisoned in a small unheated box room while the couple drank and took drugs in their Coventry home.
The door to the room had been adapted by Krezolek so that Daniel, whose emaciated frame was likened to that of a concentration camp victim, could not escape or even see out of the keyhole.
Referring to forensic evidence found on the door, Mrs Justice Cox went on: “The small hand and finger marks on the inside of that door provided a poignant image of his desperate attempts to escape.”
The judge said one of the most aggravating factors in the case was that before he was beaten to death, Daniel had been the victim of chronic and systematic starvation which had been so chronic his bones had ceased to grow.
The medical evidence in the case, the judge said, showed that Daniel's emaciation was regarded by experts as "unprecedented" in Britain.
The judge continued: "They likened his appearance to those who failed to survive concentration camps, and that comparison was not made lightly.
"As the months passed, Daniel increasingly scavenged for food, from other children's lunch boxes, from the playground or from rubbish bins.
"He would have suffered extraordinary hunger, increasing abdominal pain and, ultimately, a feeling of hopelessness. You, Magdelena Luczak, knowing of his hunger, gave specific instructions to his teachers that Daniel was not to eat any more food than the small packed lunch he had with him.
"Both of you constructed a careful and wholly untruthful account that Daniel had a serious eating disorder and learning difficulties, which he may have inherited and for which he was receiving medical treatment.
"This account was deliberately designed to prevent interference by school, medical and welfare personnel, and to perpetuate the brutality being meted out to him."
The scale of his suffering was truly horrific."
A serious case review has now been launched in order to assess if more could have been done to prevent Daniel’s abuse and murder.
The investigation will look at the role of teachers, social workers, medical professionals and the police.

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Teachers, doctors and priests among 348 arrested in global child porn probe
15/11 07:22 CET

More than 300 people, including teachers, doctors and priests have been arrested worldwide on child pornography charges.

It follows a three-year investigation into Toronto-based company Azovfilms.com that distributed child porn.

Of the 348 arrested, 108 were in Canada, 76 in the United States and 164 in other countries from Spain to Australia. They included 40 school teachers, nine doctors and nurses, 32 people who volunteered with children, six police officers, nine priests, and three foster parents, according to the head of Toronto’s Sex Crimes Unit. Among the people who investigators say posted the illegal pornographic content was a youth baseball team coach in the US state of Washington, who allegedly made more than 500 films. A school employee in Georgia, USA is accused of putting a camera in a student changing room to capture students’ genitals on tape, says the US Postal Inspection Service, which helped examine the website’s database.

In total more than 350,000 photos and 9,000 videos containing images of child sex abuse were discovered by investigators.

The investigation also led to the rescue of 386 children by 30 police forces around the world. Most of those children were pre-pubescent.

The Azovfilms.com website, which had a turnover of more than four million dollars (2.97 million euros), came under investigation in October 2010 and has now been shut down. It’s owner, a 42-year-old Canadian named Brian Way, was arrested last May. His lawyer has declined to comment.

Following a separate investigation led by international children’s rights group Terre Des Hommes, it emerged this week that the details of around 1,000 suspected paedophiles have been passed on to Interpol after they requested webcam sex acts from what they thought to be a 10-year-old Filipino girl. She was in fact a computer-generated trap for sexual predators named “Sweetie” who was created by Terre Des Hommes. In the ten weeks she spent online offering to perform sexual acts in exchange for money, she was contacted by around 20,000 internet users.

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