For Years, Deaf Boys Tried to Tell of Priest’s Abuse

[babsbunny]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/27/us/27wisconsin.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1269694950-GXawfDbYjmQtS0iBQ2pXkA


By LAURIE GOODSTEIN and DAVID CALLENDER
Published: March 26, 201

They were deaf, but they were not silent. For decades, a group of men who were sexually abused as children by the Rev. Lawrence C. Murphy at a school for the deaf in Wisconsin reported to every type of official they could think of that he was a danger, according to the victims and church documents. They told other priests. They told three archbishops of Milwaukee. They told two police departments and the district attorney. They used sign language, written affidavits and graphic gestures to show what exactly Father Murphy had done to them. But their reports fell on the deaf ears of hearing people

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Recommended. n/t

[Happyhippychick]

2. This story makes me furious.

[SidDithers]

3. K&R...

The civil suits should bankrupt the Catholic Church, and senior church leaders need to go to jail.

Sid

[GinaMaria]

4. Two Police Departments?! A DA?!

There should be quite a few institutions included in any civil suits. Damn, these kids tried and tried to be heard and get help. This is distressing news.

[lunatica]

5. In the movie The Departed I though Jack Nicholson's character

went overboard in his remarks about the priests, but now I wonder. Maybe it wasn't just a few bad apples. There must have been many more for the Church to go to so much trouble to hide the pedophiles. In a way I guess being a priest is the perfect cover for pedophiles, so there may well be an inordinate number of them there.

How sad. How utterly heartbreaking.

[Hekate]

6. A tale to make the angels weep. All children are vulnerable, but children who cannot even speak...

And when some of them grew to adulthood they tried -- and tried -- and tried to protect their "little brothers" and were turned away from every door.

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

Hekate

[malaise]

7. Those who pretend to be the most pious

literally preyed on the weak.
May the entire institution die a death as cruel as the pain they caused millions across this planet.
They should all be in prison starting with the pope.

[myrna minx]

8. This makes me so sick and furious.

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