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Concord Monitor Publishes Huge Article on Giuliani Hiring Priest Abuser of Boys, "Genital" Charge


Rudolph Hitler has a real problem on his hands now. This is Alan Placa, his BFF from high school, and a true bastard, not only an abusing priest but actually in charge of helping the Catholic Church deal with the lawsuits against it!

Rudolph H actually gives this bastard a job, paying him to DO NOTHING for Giuliani Partners

Accused priest a Giuliani confidant
Statute of limitations prevents any charges
By JOELLE FARRELL
Monitor staff
December 16. 2007 12:20AM


Monsignor Alan Placa, a priest and lifelong friend of Giuliani, was accused in a 2003 grand jury report of molesting boys and helping to suppress abuse complaints about other priests. Placa was stripped of his priestly duties in 2002 while a special grand jury investigated allegations of sexual abuse at the Diocese of Rockville Centre on Long Island. That year, Giuliani hired Placa, who is also a lawyer, for his consulting firm, Giuliani Partners, LLC.

Placa works as a consultant for the company, which helps clients with legal, security and business improvement issues. Sunny Mindel, a spokeswoman for the firm, would not elaborate on Placa's duties or his salary. Placa is not involved with Giuliani's campaign.

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"He was feeling my genital area for 10 minutes or thereabouts, maybe longer," Tollner said in an interview with the Monitor last month. "I'm all of 15, and I'm not sure what is going on, and I'm not sure why it's going on. I was pretty naïve. Then it happened again in his office, and then I figured something was up. And later on I basically learned to stay away from him."

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Giuliani was asked about Placa in an Oct. 23 interview with WBZ, a Boston television station.

"He's a friend of mine for over 35 years," he said, according to a transcript provided by Mindel. "And the fact is, he hasn't even been formally accused of anything. So, to hold this against him is really kind of, not the right way to do it. I know, I understand that people feel very hurt about this issue in general, they have every right to. But then you just can't, just can't assume that people are responsible for things that they're accused of. You've got to give the whole process a chance, right?"

But victims' advocates say Giuliani's point is moot since New York's statute of limitations on criminal charges prevented prosecutors from filing charges.



Carolyn Disco, chairwoman of abuse survivor support for New Hampshire's chapter of the Voice of the Faithful, noted that his diocese had suspended Placa.

"The bishop finds cause for his removal, but that doesn't impress Giuliani?" she said. "The problem is the late discovery of all of this so that the normal civil and criminal processes couldn't go forward. That's the scandal - they got away with it."

http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071216/FRONTPAGE/712160331


Please recommend if you don't like Rudolph Hitler putting abusing priest-friends on his payroll and defending them even though they have been suspended from the Church.
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