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Sex Crimes and the Vatican
Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 5:22 am
by eroticartist
Don't forget to watch Panorama [tonight 10.15[ to see how "God's representative on Earth the Holy Father" conspires to protect paedophile preists.
Mike Freeman
Re: Sex Crimes and the Vatican
Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 8:45 am
by DavidS
Hope it is more convincing than the one on soccer bungs!
Re: Sex Crimes and the Vatican
Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 10:01 am
by strictlybroadband
So it's now "PC" to expose child abuse? You think that priests suddenly stopped fucking children after the 1970s?
Re: Sex Crimes and the Vatican
Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 10:33 am
by strictlybroadband
mucho_matcho_man wrote:
> They probably didn't stop, but subsided to normal levels
> prevelent in society in general.
How do you know this?
> Catch them, string them up and
> cut their bollocks off - doesn't bother me. But catch those
> active now or in recent years - I'm just betting this programme
> is going to be focusing on the situation 20-30 years ago,
Well of course it is, because abuse often doesn't get detected until children grow up and make complaints against their abusers. Child abuse has always been endemic and tolerated in the Catholic Church, but you don't seem to think it's a problem... what's your evidence that it stopped? Why do you think it's PC to go after paedophiles?
Re: Sex Crimes and the Vatican
Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 10:52 am
by FridaySe
I'm totally with "strictlybroadband" on this one.
It doesn't matter when the abuse was carried out, it was still carried out and the priests who did it have not been called to account for their actions and have been actively sheltered by the Roman Catholic church, who themselves have not come out and condemded any priest proven to have commited acts of child abuse.
We still go after war criminals after 20-30 years, so why the hell is it OK to forget Paedophiles, whose crimes leave their victims as emotionally scarred as anyone who was on the receiving end of a war crime.
Re: Sex Crimes and the Vatican
Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 12:13 pm
by mart
Some people will sink to any depth to have a go at so-called PC-ness. Thats pretty despicable.
Mart
Re: Sex Crimes and the Vatican
Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 3:32 pm
by DavidS
I tend to agree with what you say Mart. It is irrelavent how long ago the abuse took place and if sufficient evidence exists they should be prosecuted if still alive. Nevertheless if the allegations are 20 or 30 years old the CPS will need to weigh up whether the evidence is strong enough to be likely to secure a conviction.