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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow can there be 8,000 crimes committed by over 100 offenders and there be no accountability?”
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The bankruptcy hearings for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee have revealed more than 8,000 previously unreported instances of alleged sexual abuse of children, according to one attorney representing the victims. The charges cover a span of 60 years and implicate a group of 100 alleged offenders, including nuns, church workers and some 75 priests.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Annysa Johnson writes that 570 victim-survivors have filed claims in the case, which is currently before U.S. bankruptcy judge Susan V. Kelley.
At a press conference on the federal courthouse steps in Milwaukee, Peter Isley, director of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests said, This is a public safety crisis, a child safety crisis that needs to be investigated. We need to know who they are and where they are. How can there be 8,000 crimes committed by over 100 offenders and there be no accountability?
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/10/8000-new-instances-of-child-sexual-abuse-alleged-in-milwaukee-archdiocese/
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How can there be 8,000 crimes committed by over 100 offenders and there be no accountability?” (Original Post)
kpete
Feb 2012
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russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)1. Because they are the "annointed".
Once you have power, you have protection and when you have that protection, you are not accountable.
"It's better to know the judge, than to know the law"...
Pete Hamill, North River.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)2. To paraphrase the Queen of Mean..
Accountability is for the little people..
spanone
(135,873 posts)3. if there's a hell....may they rot in it.
izquierdista
(11,689 posts)4. And I thought this thread was going to be about banking.....
Molest children, OK
Write fraudulent mortgages, OK
Poison the Gulf of Mexico, OK
Release video of war crimes, spend life in prison.
russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)6. Excellent !!
cbrer
(1,831 posts)5. WOW! I was wondering who the GOP learned from...
Anybody who hurts kids needs to be STOPPED! Right fucking now.
msongs
(67,441 posts)7. look over there! birth control pills!!! oooooooooooh no nt
DCKit
(18,541 posts)8. That kind of abuse pretty much explains a lot of Republicns.
Just sayin'.
intaglio
(8,170 posts)9. My Missus observed
"Too big to Fail"
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)10. Because it's "God's love"