Catholic Church Sex Abuse Investigator, Jailed For Child Porn Possession

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-15490218

If anyone had forgotten about the Catholic Church being prone to accepting pedophiles as their leaders, here is a reminder.

What could Catholics do to make sure this doesn't happen anymore?

 

That’s freaking horrible. Sadly I am confident that abuse is more prevalent in the church and our society as a whole than reported.

But your question is a good one. After all these abuses there is still no good policy to screen for abusers or set up procedures to prevent this. There should be rules to prevent these guys from having access to children alone.

Moreover the bigger crime is the church leadership for covering abuses up thereby allowing for further abuse and no justice.

 

Really at this point, I think we are way past finger pointing. Where to place the blame is really the secondary problem to how to stop it from happening.

 

The first step is for the church to end this environment of covering this stuff up. Yeah it's bad PR but the only way to stop the problem is to expose it.

 

This is why allowing the church to basically police itself on this issue was stupid......

Catholic leaders have either molested children themselves or aided in the protection of the criminals. The catholic church needs to be considered a criminal organization and charged under the RICO Act. If they were rocognized as a criminal organization for the protection of child molesters, anyone who had prior knowledge of the coverup could be arrested for aiding and abetting, obstruction of justice, and a number of other crimes.

 

Waiting for the church NUTJOBS so start their usual " its homosexuality that is the problem" bullshyte.
The catholic church has shown itself to be an evil institution and should be shut down.

 

so where are those that defend the catholic church? Of having a circle jerk over kiddie porn?
I find it amazing that things like this can happen in this day and age, proof positive that the catholic church should be disbanded.

 

Jarvis wasn't clergy, be was child protection officer that had worked with cps. How was the church supposed to know he was a pedophile? I am shocked by some of the comments here. Maybe there is something in the article in the article I'm missing.

 

So not only do we have to worry that the clergy are pedophiles its ALSO those that the church employs.. Just more proof the church is a haven for sick child molesters.

 

Well of course it is. Where else can a single guy that doesn't date, hangs around with kids all the time, and not be suspected as a child molester?

Sometimes they can find jobs at schools, but if you get caught once, schools will not hire you back or cover it up for you.

This isn't a widespread problem in schools like it is in churches. What are schools doing different and how can churches follow suit?

 

but wait I thought the church was infallible...............

 

Papal infallibility extends only to the teaching of faith and morals. Simply put, the Church can't teach error.

 

only in a RCC world..........

 

I would say "nothing" in this case.

http://youtu.be/ho9rZjlsyYY

 

Not really. You can compare the infallibility (It's perhaps better to say something like "indeceivability") with a simple referee's decision.

By the way: I'm also a little astonished about the Netherlands in the moment. In the Christmas tide 2011 the newspapers reported that the state of the Netherlands is speaking officially about 900 criminal clerics of the catholics church that had caused tenthousands of cases of child abuse in the Netherlands since World War 2. In Germany we are speaking about 900 victims (not perpetrators) of child abuse within the last 60 years and we are much more catholics here. I have the feeling everyone in the world is speaking about completly different things if he's speaking about child abuse. And I have the feeling the most states worldwide are only following the aim to desintegrate Catholics.

 

I think catholics are doing it to themselves....

 

What a nonsense. The USA is one of the worst anticatholic powers in the world although about 25% of their inhabitants are catholics. Lives anyone in the United States in fear of Catholics? Are there not more than enough reasons for Catholics to live in fear of all other people in the USA?

http://youtu.be/fv2kmFZTDeY

 

Many KIDS and PARENTS fear the church and its reps ( the priests) and with good reason. The church is FULL of pedophiles.

 

Hmm - if you think so.

http://youtu.be/bh3rsLYCtsw

 

Gee such a simple reply even though i just shot your post right down?

Its not opinion its FACT. Are you just going to IGNORE the fact that kids have suffered greatly at the hands of your church? Are you also going to ignore the fact that despite knowing about the abuse in many cases the church did NOTHING to stop it?

 

We can do whatever we like to do.

http://youtu.be/Ok61bjq916c

 

Somehow I don't think you realize that that attitude is a large part of the problem.

 

Bad luck for you. Yesterday frob exmpel I read in a newspaper that a homosexual man had raped his adopted son more than 80 times. Modern times. YOur teoinms - nmoit ym times. Catthlics are not any longer responsible for anything what happens in the western world. The western world is not any longer our home. We are strangers in our own countries.

 

Bad luck for you. Yesterday frob exmpel I read in a newspaper that a homosexual man had raped his adopted son more than 80 times. Modern times. YOur teoinms - nmoit ym times. Catthlics are not any longer responsible for anything what happens in the western world. The western world is not any longer our home. We are strangers, outcasts in our own countries.

 

The responsibility of the Roman Catholic Church for harm caused by its employees hardly differs from that of other employers, whose liability basically follows the more or less universally used principle of respondeat superior.

If that's a problem then lay off the aforementioned attitude of doing whatever you like to do.