"Pizzagate" Explodes

If someone is still on the fence regarding the sickness of Hollywood and the entertainment business, here's some blatant proof. Johnny Depp and Marilyn Manson in his "music" video Say10 (get it?). I'm not gonna link to the original video – it's too gross and viewing requires age authentication. But in this following video analyzing the content, you get the idea. These people are sick! And makes you wonder why YouTube isn't removing this kind of stuff. And, what worries me even more are the comments you see; people are commenting on how fantastic this video is. There are also a lot of videos where amateur musicians are doing cover versions of 'Say10'...say whaat? This is not music...this is pathological evil.

Johnny Depp is definitely off my list of actors I will watch again. It makes me sick to think what these people do in real life, behind closed doors.

Warning: at ca 10min of the video there's a beheaded body (I hope it's not real!).

 
This has been going on for a loong time. Here's a short documentary from the 80's I believe:

 
August 23, 2018 - Detective Publishes Book Exposing High-Level Gov’t Pedophile Ring, Shot in the Head 9 Days Later
Detective Publishes Book Exposing High-Level Gov't Pedophile Ring, Shot in the Head Days Later

A former police detective, and author of a bombshell book that exposed a massive pedophile ring made up of high-level government officials was found shot in the head last week. While officials are calling it an apparent suicide, his family is claiming that he told them he would never kill himself and that people were after him because he was about to expose even more high-level government pedophilia.

Mark Minne, author of the controversial book ‘The Lost Boys of Bird Island’ devoted his post-police life to exposing the corruption and horrifying pedophilia he discovered while working as a detective. Minnie and his good friend Chris Steyn, also a former cop turned investigative journalist, worked together on the book to expose a government and business community who took children to Bird Island where they were abused, and some possibly murdered.

The book details the level of their involvement in the pedophile ring, abuse of the children, alleged acts of murder to cover up the crimes, as well as corruption and abuse of high-level state resources by the network’s members.

The book details the corruption within the last Apartheid government of South Africa and implicated officials all the way to the top, including defense minister Magnus Malan and the minister of environmental affairs John Wiley.

Before his death, Minnie announced that he was approached by many more people with even more damning evidence which he planned to reveal in a sequel of the book. However, he died before he could finish it.

The book was published earlier this month on August 5 and only nine days later, Minnie would be found dead. Officials claim they found a suicide note at the scene, but his family says they don’t believe it at all.

Tersia Dodo, a family member of Minnie told reporters that just days before he died that if anything happened to him, they must know he was killed.

“He mentioned to us all the time that his life was in danger and if anything did happen to him we must know that it was done to him not by himself,” she said.

Dodo says Minnie was being watched and feared for his life because he had more information which would’ve exposed even more people.

“I knew about the book for many years and I knew what he had been through, it really played him that he had seen and been involved with the investigation surrounding the book,” Dodo told SABC.

Dodo came forward on her own after she saw the suicide narrative being played out in the media. She said she was compelled to do so, to dispel the myths.

“Mark was not a coward, Mark faced life head on,” she said. There is no ways that I or any of us believed that he would have opted out and that is why I agreed to do this interview to dispel any thoughts and rumors of suicide. He was not the type of man that was cowardly and that would do something like that.”

As for the note police allegedly found next to Minnie’s body, Dodo believes it is either fake, or was written under duress.

“I have said this from the beginning, this supposed suicide note was either written under duress and I would like to see it before I will believe it was written by Mark,” she said.
This case is eerily similar to that of a man who was allegedly murdered in Lithuania after he began exposing high-level government pedophiles.

As TFTP previously reported, teenage refugee from Lithuania came forward last year with a White House petition and a damning testimony showing what happened after his family tried to expose a little girl’s abusers.

When his four-year-old cousin accused two high-level government officials—describing it in heartbreaking detail—Korolis Venckienė learned the hard way how the government protects its vilest members, up to and including using hundreds of militarized police and even murder.

As Venckienė explained in his petition on WhiteHouse.gov, this nightmare started when their family attempted to seek justice for the sick men who allegedly raped his four-year-old cousin.

“In 2008, 4-year-old Deimante Kedyte described her sexual assault by high-level Lithuanian officials. Her testimony was later verified as true by 4 separate commissions. She never had her day in court,” Venckienė wrote.

When the teen’s uncle, Drasius Kedys, Deimante’s father pushed for the men to be prosecuted for what they did to his daughter, he was murdered.

If Minnie was actually murdered, hopefully the information he was planning on releasing still comes forward. The only way to stop these vile actors is to shine light into the darkness. While Minnie has been silenced, his work can live on to be that light.
 
Johnny Depp is definitely off my list of actors I will watch again. It makes me sick to think what these people do in real life, behind closed doors.

Recently there has been a horrific story circulating on the Russian net about a person, who sent videos of kittens being boiled alive in jars specifically to animal shelters. This is just one small example of a sick crap that is going on on this planet. There is no doubt that there are much worse things going on. :-(

And there is also no doubt that most actors have many skeletons or worse in their closets. Unfortunately it appears that we should stop watching most of media if we are to apply high standards to these people. That's the problem with actors or singers. Their message or role may be positive and constructive, but they themselves can be rotten to the core. What to do with that?

In the past it caused me to stop watching or listening to the person completely. Recent examples are Kevin Spacey and Muse after their 911 coup out. But then how many we still love and believe the image that was created around them? Speaking specifically about Depp, not watching him isn't a great loss, as he never had particularly meaningful roles anyway.
 
I don't know what is behind this 2-day visit by the Pope - to Ireland - which has a large population of Catholics? Is it some kind of PR stunt - that if he can get the Irish Catholic's to rally behind him - it would be easier for the Pope to white wash the recent grand jury report in Pennsylvania? Statements like, "The leader of the Catholic Church went on to join public outrage over the child abuse." gives the impression, the Pope lacks authority to set up reforms - to address this abhorrent crime? To add insult to injury, the Irish taxpayers are covering the full expenses for this trip? Why? The Catholic Church is the richest Institution in the World (with the Queen of England's assets coming in 2nd)?


Pope Francis has arrived in Ireland on an official two-day visit, which is the first visit by a leader of the Catholic Church to the country in over four decades, the broadcaster RTE reported.

25.08.2018 - Pope Frances Faces Strong Backlash in Ireland Over Child Abuse Issue - Reports
Pope Francis Faces Strong Backlash in Ireland Over Child Abuse Issue - Reports

According to RTE, the pope will meet with Irish President Michael D. Higgins in the latter’s residence on Sunday.

An oak tree planting ceremony will take place in the residence. Pope John Paul II, the last Catholic leader to visit Ireland prior to Pope Francis, also took part in such a ceremony in 1979.

The pontiff has addressed the growing number of scandals on the cover-up of sexual abuse and rape of minors by Catholic priests.

"With regard to the most vulnerable, I cannot fail to acknowledge the grave scandal caused in Ireland by the abuse of young people by members of the church charged with responsibility for their protection and education," Pope Francis said in a speech at the Dublin Castle, as quoted by the broadcaster.

The leader of the Catholic Church went on to join public outrage over the child abuse.

The failure of ecclesiastical authorities — bishops, religious superiors, priests and others — adequately to address these repellent crimes has rightly given rise to outrage and remains a source of pain and shame for the Catholic community… I myself share those sentiments," the Pope emphasized.

During his visit, the pope is slated to have a highly anticipated meeting with victims of clerical sexual abuse, as well as with a number of state officials, and attend the World Meeting of Families Congress in Dublin.

Before departing for the Vatican, he will also deliver a mass in Phoenix Park in the country's capital on Sunday.

Pope Francis is visiting Ireland just over a week after another massive cover-up of sexual abuse and rape of minors by Catholic priests was revealed, with a grand jury report showing that since the 1940s more than 1,000 children had been molested by at least 301 Roman Catholic priests in the US state of Pennsylvania.

Ireland, where almost 80 percent of the population consider themselves Roman Catholics, according to a 2016 census, has also seen its share of clerical molestation scandals. In 2009, a report revealed that the Archdiocese of Dublin and other authorities of the Catholic Church in the country covered up sexual abuse by priests for almost 30 years, from 1975 to 2004.


23.08.2018 - Nope, Pope: Irish Group Calls for Pontiff to face Empty Seats at Public Mass
Nope, Pope: Irish Group Calls for Pontiff to Face Empty Seats at Public Mass

The Catholic Church has seen severe public backlash after hundreds of cases of rape and molestation of minors by priests in the US recently surfaced. Though the pontiff has called for the church to "acknowledge and condemn" its history of sexual misconduct, many Irish citizens are saying the country should snub the pope on his coming visit.

Several Irish citizens have organized a protest campaign, "Say Nope to the Pope," against Pope Francis's visit to Ireland. The campaign suggests participants claim as many of the the free, government-sponsored tickets for Francis' public mass in the country and then not show up, letting the empty seats serve as a peaceful protest.

The organizers explain that although not all Irish taxpayers are Catholic, the state still uses taxpayers' money to give all citizens free tickets. Since they're paying for the tickets, organizers say, taxpayers ought to claim them. The taxpayer was funding this visit regardless of their faith, and that was the icing on the cake for many," Michael Stewart, one of the organizers, said.

The latest revelations about misconduct by priests and large-scale cover ups by the church are also good reason to boycott the event, Say Nope to the Pope organizers say.

Pope Francis has condemned the misconduct by US priests and urged parishes to acknowledge the crimes instead of covering them up.
 
Following his visit to Dublin, Pope Francis refused to respond to the explosive allegation of the Church covering up sexual abuses.

7.08.2018 - Pope Won't 'Say One Word' on Abuse Cover-up Allegations - Report
Pope Won’t 'Say One Word' on Abuse Cover-up Allegations – Reports

Francis, talking to the reporters abroad his papal plane returning to Rome, said that the 11-page document published by the former Church official urging the pontiff to resign “speaks for itself,” Reuters reported.

“I read that statement this morning. I read it and I will say sincerely that I must say this, to you (the reporter) and all of you who are interested: read the document carefully and judge it for yourselves,” he said, noting that the journalists have “sufficient journalistic capacity to reach [their] own conclusions.”

Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the former Vatican ambassador to Washington, who published the document, accused a long list of current and past Church officials being involved in a cover-up for the former Washington DC archbishop Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who retired last month after allegations of sexual abuses. He is suspected of the abuse of a minor 50 years ago and forcing adult male seminarians to have sexual relations with him.

Vigano shocked the conservative Roman Catholic media outlets during the Pope’s visit to Ireland urging the pontiff to take responsibility and resign, claiming that Francis was notified of the cases of pedophilia after his elections in 2013 yet didn’t do anything to interfere. Vegano convinced that he was removed from the position in the state secretariat of Vatican because he exposed the corrupted cover-up schemes back in 2011.

Several Catholic sources have noted that Vigano’s allegations must be treated with caution because he is a known representative of an anti-pope conservative wing in the Catholic hierarchy and had been accused of misdeeds during the huge Vatican leaks scandal back in 2012.
 
I just ran across this most unusual, interesting, intelligent and caring presentation of one tool that is not available very much (yet anyway) that can be used to identify pedophile perpetrators. The statistics she gives are, as we already know, dismally alarming.

Sue Black Catches Paedophiles by Looking at the Marks on Their Hands

 
We Saw Nuns Kill Children: The Ghosts of St. Joseph’s Catholic Orphanage
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl...rphanage-death-catholic-abuse-nuns-st-josephs

I stayed up until 4am reading this nightmarish account. The cruel (if not injurious or fatal) things these nuns did to these kids is shocking to read about, but I can't imagine being the family-bereft captives of this bunch. Their habits alone are frightening as if they're demonic aliens!

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What a horrible nightmare for the entire childhood of so many poor children--all at the hands of those espousing love and goodness! Truly a formula that would destroy hearts and minds, yet so many victims became healthy, loving spouses and parents. That's the real miracle.
 
I stayed up until 4am reading this nightmarish account. The cruel (if not injurious or fatal) things these nuns did to these kids is shocking to read about, but I can't imagine being the family-bereft captives of this bunch. Their habits alone are frightening as if they're demonic aliens!

JGeropoulas,

I wasn't planning on such a long read either but kept reading as a way to at least honor the victims. If we l don't at least look at the reality and make adjustments or learn anything new about this mess we will never change ourselves or this mess we have now. I don't know exactly what that future would look like but if there is "change" at all it would almost have to be better than the abuse described in this article and this whole thread.

I must admit following this thread does take a toll on you. I felt like doing what the one lawyer in the article did (but I can barely ski):

When bearing witness to the most disturbing experiences of Vermont’s children became too much, White would find the steepest ski slope and fly down, screaming his head off all the way, until he felt calm enough to return to his work.

Much of this seems to be in the framework of "religion" or satanic cults. It makes me think of what the Cs said about "religion":

A: Life is religion.

Q: (L) What does that mean?

A: Life experiences reflect how one interacts with God. Those who are asleep are those of little faith in terms of their interaction with the creation. Some people think that the world exists for them to overcome or ignore or shut out. For those individuals, the worlds will cease. They will become exactly what they give to life. They will become merely a dream in the "past." People who pay strict attention to objective reality right and left, become the reality of the "Future."

Those children deserved more than being given abuse. I don't know how a cleansing/balancing will happen but karma must have a logical solution for this gift of abuse.
 
I came across this video on YouTube. All that censoring is going on and yet this is available for public viewing. Heck, it isn't even age restricted. And this guy sounds like somehow he should be praised and pitied, such a hard life yet so virtuous. Pass me the barf bag :barf:


What guarantee does anyone have that a non-offending pedohile will stay virtuous? And what about those who claim to be virtuous non-offenders as a means of gaining access to children? When did trusting people becuase they say so become a safe practice? Heck, the guy in the video says towards the end that he can be trusted with children more than people who aren't pedophiles. WHAT!?

As for the organisation for virtuous pedophiles that was mentioned earlier in this thread, Virped.org, I have an internet shield installed in my house that prevents accessing websites with any content that can be considered inappropriate for children, including pornography, graphic violence or even dating sites.

Yet I was able to access the Virped website without any issues.

How exactly is pedophilia appropriate for children? Registering as a virtuous pedophile doesn't make them all innocent angels. I could register on a forum for American war veterans too and it wouldn't make me either American or a war veteran by simply registering.

I don't have children but if I did I'd be very concerned. I do have two nieces though, the older one is 6 and she is beginning to explore the internet already and she does watch YouTube videos (with her parents' full approval and hardly any control). What a scary world to grow up in!
 
I came across this video on YouTube. All that censoring is going on and yet this is available for public viewing. Heck, it isn't even age restricted. And this guy sounds like somehow he should be praised and pitied, such a hard life yet so virtuous. Pass me the barf bag :barf:

I think, the guy is a good candidate for a serious "psycho - evaluation" - so he can add a few more "titles" to his 15 minutes of fame? :umm:


Sept. 24, 2018 - Bill Cosby's day of reckoning as he arrives in court for sentencing on sexual assault conviction
Bill Cosby's day of reckoning as he arrives in court for sentencing on sexual assault conviction

Bill Cosby's day of reckoning as he arrives in court for sentencing on sexual assault conviction originally appeared on abcnews.go.com

Anticipation inside and outside a Pennsylvania courthouse was growing Monday morning as Bill Cosby arrived for sentencing as the first major celebrity convicted in the #MeToo era for sexually abusing a woman.

When the Montgomery County Court in Norristown opened its doors at 9 a.m., there was already a line of people outside waiting to get a seat in the courtroom for Cosby's sentencing.

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Cosby, 81, does not plan to speak during the sentencing hearing, which could take up to two days, nor is he expected to call witnesses to speak on his behalf, his spokesman Andrew Wyatt said.

"He's said everything he's got to say," Wyatt said.

Inside the courthouse, across a marble balcony overlooking an atrium from where news reporters were lined up 30 deep waiting to get the best seats in court, one of the jurors who convicted Cosby this spring was spotted slipping into a court office.

He declined to comment when approached by an ABC News reporter.

Also filing into the courtroom were Andrea Constand, the primary accuser in both Cosby trials, and former model Janice Dickinson, who testified during the second trial that Cosby drugged and raped her in 1982 in a Lake Tahoe, California, hotel room.

Outside, as a phalanx of camera crews lined the path, Cosby walked from his black SUV into the courthouse. One of those outside the courthouse waiting for Cosby was a frequent protester Bird Milliken, who came with an effigy of Cosby in a shopping cart with a bright pink sign around the neck, reading, "America's First #MeToo Conviction," followed by the words. "Guilty, Guilty, Guilty."

Cosby was convicted in April on three felony counts of aggravated indecent assault stemming from drugging and molesting Constand in his suburban Philadelphia home 14 years ago.

The conviction came about 11 months after a mistrial was declared in Cosby's first trial when a jury failed to reach a verdict.

The jury of seven men and five women deliberated a little over 12 hours before reaching a unanimous verdict in the case.
 
25.09.2018 - Bill Cosby Sentenced to Three to Ten Years in Prison for Sexual Assault
Bill Cosby Sentenced to Three to Ten Years in Prison for Sexual Assault

Legendary US comedian Bill Cosby was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison for sexual assault when his two-day sentencing hearing wrapped up Tuesday afternoon.

Though Cosby's lawyers requested bail after the sentencing, Judge Steven O'Neill decided to revoke his bail and ordered him into custody, stressing that "this was a serious crime he was convicted for." Journalists inside the Pennsylvania courtroom reported O'Neill indicated that "sex offender treatment in prison will be appropriate for Cosby."

"This was a serious crime," O'Neill told Cosby in court. "Mr. Cosby, this has all circled back to you. The day has come, the time has come."


25.09.2018 - New Report shows Sexual Abuse in Catholic Church remains Unsolved - Cardinal
New Report Shows Sexual Abuse in Catholic Church Remains Unsolved - Cardinal

A new report on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church showed that the issue has not been resolved yet, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the president of the German Bishops’ Conference, said Tuesday in a published statement.

"The study on 'Sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests, deacons and male members of orders in the domain of the German Bishops’ Conference' makes it clear to us that the Catholic Church has by no means overcome the issue of dealing with the sexual abuse of minors. The study takes a deep look into the past," the cardinal said.

The study by universities of Mannheim, Heidelberg, and Giessen (MHG) was officially presented earlier on Tuesday at a press conference at the fall full assembly of the German Bishops’ Conference. It looked at personal files and references from 27 dioceses in the period between 1946 and 2014. A total of 3,677 "children and juveniles" were found to have been abused by 1,670 clerics.


13.09.2018 - Reports of German Clergy's Child Sex Abuse Prompt Public Uproar
Reports of German Clergy's Child Sex Abuse Prompt Public Uproar

Earlier, Pope Francis extended his apologies following a grand jury report that more than 1,000 children had been sexually abused by "predator priests" in Pennsylvania over the course of decades.

At least 3,677 cases of child sexual abuse were perpetrated by clergy across Germany between 1946 and 2014, according to a study commissioned by the German Bishops Conference.

The victims were predominantly male and more than half of them were younger than 14, the study revealed, adding that every sixth child abuse case involved actual rape. In three-quarters of the cases, the victim and perpetrator knew each other through the church.

The study suggested that the alleged sexual abuse of minors by the German Catholic Church clergy, which first came to light in 2010, may continue nowadays.

The authors of the survey also stressed the importance of "coordinated action" and a "long-term list of measures" which they said could add to resolving the problem of sexual abuse by priests in Germany. At the same time, the authors kept mum on the causes of the problem, but singled out the priests' celibacy vow as a potential risk factor.

Bishop Stephan Ackermann said on behalf of the German Bishops Conference that "they know the extent of the sexual abuse that has been demonstrated by the study" and that they are "dismayed and ashamed by it."

The goal of study was to shed more light on "this dark side of our Church, for the sake of those affected, but also for us ourselves to see the errors and to do everything to prevent them from being repeated," Ackerman underlined.

Most Twitter users have, meanwhile, expressed indignation about the study's revelations, demanding that all those accused should be brought to court.


Sept. 25, 2018 - German Catholic Church apologizes for 'pain' of abuse victims
German Catholic Church apologizes for 'pain' of abuse victims | Reuters

The head of the Catholic Church in Germany apologized on Tuesday “for all the failure and pain”, after a report found thousands of children had been sexually abused by its clergy, and said the “guilty must be punished”.

Researchers from three German universities examined 38,156 personnel files spanning a 70-year period ending in 2014, and found indications of sexual abuse by 1,670 clerics, with more than 3,700 possible victims.

German magazine Der Spiegel reported the findings earlier this month after the report was leaked. The scandal comes as the church is grappling with new abuse cases in countries including Chile, the United States and Argentina.


28.08.2018 - Vatican sees Child Sex Abuse as Sin, They Don't see it as Crime - Professor
Vatican Sees Child Sex Abuse as Sin, They Don't See It as Crime – Professor

According to a letter by a former Vatican ambassador to the US archbishop, Pope Francis has been aware of cases of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church ever since he was elected but did not take any measures. Reacting to accusations, the pope told journalists that people should read the letter carefully and judge it for themselves.

Sputnik discussed the effects the letter could have on the papacy with Des Cahill, professor of intercultural studies at RMIT University.

Sputnik: What effect could the letter have on the papacy?

Des Cahill: The issue of clerical sex abuse of children by priests … has been brewing for about 20-30 years and this is the latest chapter in this long saga. It is highly unlikely that the pope will resign and the reason for that is that this letter could be part of Vatican infighting and trying to embarrass the pope who is seen as too liberal and progressive by some of the more conservative elements within the Vatican.

At the same time, there is some frustration with Pope Francis because he did issue a letter to the Global Catholic Church on the issue in response to the report from the state of Pennsylvania. Plus his visit to Ireland because Ireland has been devastated by a very high [number of] incidences of clerical sex abuse of children. I think that the pope is preparing the ground to make some significant changes within the church, but what those changes are remains to be seen.

Sputnik: You mentioned that this letter could actually be the result of some kind of infighting within the Vatican itself; what leads you have those suspicions?

Des Cahill: Because Archbishop Vigano was demoted at one stage and he was unhappy with that demotion almost 10 years ago. And it may be his way of getting back at Vatican officials and the Vatican itself.

But he also is being very honest in saying that the pope and other Vatican officials did not address the issue of the crimes committed by American Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and that something should have been done much earlier to demote Cardinal McCarrick and take away his title as cardinal or prince of the Church.

Sputnik: The pope said that the accusations in that 11-page letter spoke for themselves; what do you make of his response to that letter? Do you think there was actually something in there that indicated that this could have been some kind of revenge or something else?

Des Cahill: It’s fairly clear to me that the pope was informed about the offenses that Cardinal McCarrick [committed]. But I think it was early in his papacy, and I think that he didn’t feel that he was sufficiently strong and experienced enough to deal with a very senior cardinal.

And since then there have been other cases as well where very senior church officials have resigned or been demoted because of various failures, particularly the failure to report priests who have offended against children to criminal justice officials like the police.

The Vatican itself is not at all sure about what it should do for these cases because it has the view that child sex abuse is a sin, but it doesn’t really see child sex abuse as a crime as well as being sinful.

This is part of the Vatican’s problem because it has its own canon law and it can punish priests and cardinals – but, unfortunately, right throughout this saga, over the last 30-40 years, the church canon law hasn’t been used properly to take action against these priests and the bishops who have covered up for them.

This is part of the scandal and part of the catastrophe. The reasoning behind that is because like all religious leaders whether they are Catholic, Protestant or Orthodox, they want to protect the image of their religious organization as pristine and all-holy.

And, of course, the public revelation of such crimes, obviously, has a negative effect upon the church in particular countries as we have seen in Ireland. One of the reasons why Pope Francis went to Ireland was to repair the damage that has been done to the Irish Catholic Church by priests and bishops who covered up [abuse] that goes back to at least 1950s.


Sept. 25, 2018 - Pope says Church 'spared no effort' to fight abuse recently
Pope says Church 'spared no effort' to fight abuse recently | Reuters

Pope Francis, facing clergy sex abuse scandals in several countries, said on Tuesday that the Roman Catholic Church has “spared no effort” to tackle the problem in recent years.

But, speaking to reporters aboard the papal plane while returning from a four-day trip to the Baltics, the pope again appeared to indirectly acknowledge that the Church had hidden sexual abuse “in the past century,” saying that such cover-ups had been common in families as well.

Francis referred to a damning report last August by a U.S. grand jury on sexual abuse of children by priests in Pennsylvania over a 70-year period. He noted that the incidents of abuse diminished toward the end of the years covered in the report.

“In more recent times the number went down because the Church realized that it had to fight in a different way,” he said.

“In olden times, these things were covered up, they were even covered up in homes, when an uncle raped a niece, when a father raped his children. It was covered up because it was an enormous shame. That was the mentality in the last century,” he said.

“Look at the proportions (in the Pennsylvania report) and you will see that when the Church started becoming aware of this, it spared no effort,” he said.

Francis appeared to be referring to new rules put into place for preventing and reporting sexual abuse in the United States following the first big media expose of abuse in Boston in 2002.

Francis initially declined to take a question from a German reporter about the release of a research report hours earlier in her country that found that thousands of children had been sexually abused by clergy over a 70-year-period ending in 2014.

He later began speaking about sexual abuse without being prompted.

We all know the statistics (of the prevalence of sexual abuse within families), ... but as long as there is just one priest who abuses a boy or a girl this is monstrous because that man was chosen by God to lead children to heaven,” Francis said.

The Church is grappling with a wave of new cases in countries including Chile, Germany and the United States.

Francis has come under fire from victims groups and other members of the Church who say he has not done enough to make bishops accountable for mishandling or covering up abuse cases.
 
October 8, 2018 - Indian Schoolgirls beaten with sticks after Protesting Sexual Harassment
Indian schoolgirls beaten with sticks after protesting sexual harassment | Reuters

Thirty-four Indian schoolgirls aged between 12 and 16 were taken to hospital after being beaten with sticks by a group of boys, along with the boys’ mothers and neighbors, who had harassed them earlier in the day, authorities said.

The assault happened on Saturday outside a government-run boarding school in the eastern state of Bihar, police told Reuters, following a series of sexual assaults across the country that has sparked outrage.

India is the world’s most dangerous country for women due to the high risk of sexual violence and being forced into slave labor, according to a Thomson Reuters Foundation survey of about 550 experts on women’s issues released in June.

Earlier this year in Bihar, more than 30 girls were sexually assaulted and tortured at a shelter in Bihar.

Saturday’s attack only came to light on Monday because of the delay in filing the case. Ten people, including four women, were arrested, Mrityunjay Kumar Choudhary, Supaul’s police chief, told Reuters.

The girls suffered minor injuries and were released from hospital over the weekend.

The boys, aged between 12 and 16, entered a field near the school in the village of Darpakha, about 300 km (180 miles) from the state capital, Patna, where the girls were playing on Saturday and shouted obscene comments, Choudhary said.

The boys left after the girls protested, only to return later with a group of around 20 people armed with sticks.

“The boys brought their mothers and others from the neighborhood,” Baidyanath Yadav, Supaul’s district chief, told Reuters. The older women also attacked the girls, he said.

The girls returned to school, where authorities have beefed up security, on Monday, Yadav said.

Opposition leader and former Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav took to Twitter to target Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, accusing him of maintaining a “cunning silence” on the violence.
 
25.09.2018 - Bill Cosby Sentenced to Three to Ten Years in Prison for Sexual Assault
Bill Cosby Sentenced to Three to Ten Years in Prison for Sexual Assault

Legendary US comedian Bill Cosby was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison for sexual assault when his two-day sentencing hearing wrapped up Tuesday afternoon.

Though Cosby's lawyers requested bail after the sentencing, Judge Steven O'Neill decided to revoke his bail and ordered him into custody, stressing that "this was a serious crime he was convicted for." Journalists inside the Pennsylvania courtroom reported O'Neill indicated that "sex offender treatment in prison will be appropriate for Cosby."

"This was a serious crime," O'Neill told Cosby in court. "Mr. Cosby, this has all circled back to you. The day has come, the time has come."

Have to admit that I've never followed all the legal findings of the case(s) and did some back checking. I still don't have a grip on it. That he would do these things seems to be apparent in a long list of people (of notoriety) who are wrapped up in moral bankruptcy.

When back-checking (and had forgotten as I had read it before) is that one particular journalist, among many, seemed to have followed the case of Bill Cosby more than others. If he wrote one article about Bill, he wrote hundreds for the New York Times starting around Jun 2015 and thus seems to be quite the authority on the subject. A person, if interested, can check the list of articles going way back in time here.

Not trying to make anything of it necessarily, yet this individual also happens to be the husband of Canada's Foreign Minister, Cyristia Freeland (of Ukraine fascist bent). The husband/journalist ("is an investigative reporter on the Culture Desk of The New York Times") also happens to have somewhat promoted Russian Cyber-Crimes propaganda along the line and is also an author of a book on exploits on the mountain, K2 (maybe I'll read that one). For a long while he seemed to report on Afghanistan (war, oil, minerals etc. - and had a read of some these) and all things Art (art crimes etc.), and still does in terms of art. It was after 2015 that he started to almost exclusively focus on Cosby and switch from the old subjects; I'm 'guessing' this has a more safe causal relationship to his wife suddenly taking on her new role in government at that time and moving away from certain subjects that might cause problems. So, Bill Cosby became that new subject for which he is cited, quoted and sometimes shares bylines.
 
Have to admit that I've never followed all the legal findings of the case(s) and did some back checking. I still don't have a grip on it. That he would do these things seems to be apparent in a long list of people (of notoriety) who are wrapped up in moral bankruptcy.

When back-checking (and had forgotten as I had read it before) is that one particular journalist, among many, seemed to have followed the case of Bill Cosby more than others. If he wrote one article about Bill, he wrote hundreds for the New York Times starting around Jun 2015 and thus seems to be quite the authority on the subject. A person, if interested, can check the list of articles going way back in time here.

Not trying to make anything of it necessarily, yet this individual also happens to be the husband of Canada's Foreign Minister, Cyristia Freeland (of Ukraine fascist bent). The husband/journalist ("is an investigative reporter on the Culture Desk of The New York Times")
also happens to have somewhat promoted Russian Cyber-Crimes propaganda along the line and is also an author of a book on exploits on the mountain, K2 (maybe I'll read that one). For a long while he seemed to report on Afghanistan (war, oil, minerals etc. - and had a read of some these) and all things Art (art crimes etc.), and still does in terms of art. It was after 2015 that he started to almost exclusively focus on Cosby and switch from the old subjects; I'm 'guessing' this has a more safe causal relationship to his wife suddenly taking on her new role in government at that time and moving away from certain subjects that might cause problems. So, Bill Cosby became that new subject for which he is cited, quoted and sometimes shares bylines.

Very interesting information, on the background of Cyristia Freeland's Husband, Voyageur! :-)

I know very little about Bill Cosby. I knew he had a TV show but that's about it. Apparently, his acting career provided him with the means to afford a decent lifestyle. Now, he can watch his re-runs in jail?
 
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