"At Yale, Kavanaugh accusations are the talk of campus" by Laura Krantz Globe Staff September 26, 2018
NEW HAVEN — With the country riveted by Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s tumultuous Supreme Court nomination process, nowhere have the sexual assault allegations against him seemed more tangible than at his alma mater, Yale University.
Not me. I've watched a little a bit, but most of the time I'm turning the channel.
Kavanaugh, who holds both undergraduate and law degrees from the elite university, is accused by a female classmate of sexual misconduct when the two were freshman in 1983. He has flatly denied the accusation, but the school has been buffeted by anti-Kavanaugh sentiment in recent days.
On Monday, law students and professors made their dissatisfaction clear with a sit-in, wearing black and filling the halls in protest of his nomination. Others traveled to Washington to protest on Capitol Hill.
Some professors canceled classes to accommodate the demonstration.
On Tuesday, #StopKavanaugh posters hung from the stone pillars of the school. And Tuesday afternoon, students gathered for a meeting to discuss a law school investigation of a separate Kavanaugh matter: an accusation that faculty had told female students to dress like models when applying to clerk for the judge.
That has been refuted and debunked already.
Among undergraduates, the Kavanaugh controversy has sparked anxious conversations about sexual misconduct in the 1980s — and today.
Students said it is eerie to know the dorm where the alleged incident took place, and they said they do not want the reputation of their school tarnished by his conduct.
And if it never happened or wasn't him?
“We want to make sure we have graduates that we can be proud of,” said Matt Nguyen, a third-year law student.
Oh, yeah?
I'm trying to determine how many war criminal scum and other ruling elite have gone there.
The allegations by Yale alumna Deborah Ramirez, revealed Sunday in The New Yorker magazine, are the second of two sexual misconduct accusations against Kavanaugh that have come to light during his rocky confirmation process.
The Globe running with the flimsy allegation like they did with Omarosa (remember her?).
Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the country, founded in 1701. It counts among its alumni numerous presidents, including Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Three Supreme Court justices hold Yale degrees: Sonia Sotomayor, Samuel Alito, and Clarence Thomas.
Uh-huh.
Well, looks like some changes and revisions will be in store for those two, and if I'm not mistaken Father George is an alumni as well.
I mean, you can't have the school associated with an accused rapist like Bill Clinton (the woman must be believed, right?) or a lying, mass-murdering war criminal who authorized torture, right?
On Tuesday, as cold rain fell and students ducked between the school’s Gothic buildings on their way to class, many said they were shaken by the rush of news. They know well Lawrance Hall, the dormitory where the incident with Ramirez is alleged to have occurred. The storm over Kavanaugh, they said, has led to discussions among their friends about how sexual harassment and assault are still problems on campus.
“It’s really scary to kind of know the location of stuff,” said Garth Holden, a junior from South Africa. He said it leads him to wonder if there are other “Brett Kavanaughs” at Yale now.
Seeing as we are on the location of the Yale campus, where is the Skull & Bones meeting house and what went on in there?
I know John Kerry is still skulking around. Maybe he could tell us.
Holden said that among other white men he knows, there is some support for Kavanaugh. Those who defend him against the latest allegations, he said, are the ones who supported him from the beginning.
I'm tired of being divided up, labeled, and slandered by the Globe and their identity politics.
Catherine Lenihan, a freshman from New Jersey, said she has talked a lot about Kavanaugh with her classmates.
“The consensus is what happened is disgusting, and sex offenders should never be considered for the Supreme Court,” she said.
Senior Emma Green said that, unfortunately, the allegations come as no surprise. The abuse of power and privilege happened then and happens still, she said.
She and other students said the problem of sexual assault on campus has not been solved, more than three decades later, but the Kavanaugh hearings have put a spotlight on the subject, she said.
“The most important thing is, hey, believe women,” said Green, who is from upstate New York.
How quickly they forget the Duke lacrosse case amongst other false allegations.
All I am saying is each case needs to be judged on its merits and evidence, as well as the presentation. If such things are true, the Democrats have done a great disservice to the victims and the #MeToo movement by presenting them in this way, as if it were a poker game.
If such things are cases of mistaken identity or outright lies, then they owe Kavanaugh and the Republicans a massive apology.
As for Kavanaugh, she said, the university should not continue to honor him as a graduate.
“Yale as an institution can’t be complicit in that whole situation,” she said.
Those generations of Bushes are next then, and please try to get out the whole story regarding the lies from father and son that led this nation to murder millions of Iraqis. You know, the babies being thrown out of incubators bull and the WMD lies (like father, like son, huh?). Throw in a smattering of Iran-Contra and Panama with the old man, too. Just for balance.
Going to have to disown Bill Clinton. That's all there is to it.
At the law school, students attended a school-wide assembly on Tuesday afternoon about a new investigation the school has launched, prompted by allegations about Kavanaugh and what is said to be his preference for attractive female law clerks.
Meanwhile, according to a statement from Gerken, 50 members of the law faculty have signed a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding Kavanaugh, urging its members to conduct a “fair and deliberate confirmation process.”
In her statement, Gerken said she cannot take a position on the nomination, “but I am so proud of the work our community is doing to engage with these issues, and I stand with them in supporting the importance of fair process, the rule of law, and the integrity of the legal system.’’
How Orwellian.
She supports a fair process, the rule of law, and the integrity of the system by helping to undermine those very principals. Wow.
Nguyen, the law student, said he recently completed the application process to be a clerk and knows the pressure to get a good clerkship — as well as the reputations of certain judges for inappropriate preferences and behavior.
“It’s part of the system,” he said — a part that he now hopes will change.
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Well, you might as well crumple up the Constitution and throw it away because the system of justice outlined in that document has now been replaced by the politically-correct, college campus culture and its kangaroo courts.
"Republicans are adopting Trump’s tactics in Kavanaugh battle" by Annie Linskey and Jess Bidgood Globe Staff September 26, 2018
WASHINGTON — Deny the accusation. Attack the accusers. Then soothe the political base by going on Fox News to explain it all away.
And most importantly: Never back down.
That’s the playbook President Trump has used to sidestep multiple allegations of womanizing and sexual misconduct against him. Now, he and some Republicans are using many of the same tactics to push Brett Kavanaugh’s troubled nomination to the Supreme Court through the Senate.
I would only say that why should they agree to an interview on any of the other networks when they can't get a fair hearing and would be ambushed?
That doesn't confer sainthood on Fox, far from it; however, they do cover the political things that the hate-Trump pre$$ and ma$$ media won't touch or distort if they do.
There was a time these tactics made the Republican establishment both nauseous and nervous, but in another sign of how Trump has taken over the GOP, he and Republicans have ripped up the rules for a high court confirmation and adopted Trump’s battle-tested, hyper-combative ways for the Kavanaugh fight.
OMG.
It was the Democrats, particularly Feinstein, that ripped up the rules by sitting on the letter and now the wave of political operatives that has surrounded these women who have come forward at this late hour makes it look even more political. They undercut their own case with the presentation.
The president ratcheted up his counteroffensive Tuesday in a bid to redefine allegations of sexual misconduct as partisan weaponry.
In this case, it sure looks like it, and if not, I do apologize. I still need evidence and corroboration.
The president’s remarks followed a remarkable appearance by Kavanaugh and his wife, Ashley, on the friendly turf of Fox News on Monday night. The GOP strategy appears to be to show no weakness. The strategic moves are also geared toward placating a conservative base by destroying the credibility of the alleged victims.....
This one-sided story is a “new low” in analysis, folks.
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As for the second accuser:
"Republicans are aware of the hearing’s optics six weeks before midterm elections, in which energized female voters will have a major say in deciding which party controls the House and Senate. Given that all 11 GOP members of the committee are men, Republicans have picked a female outside counsel to question Ford. In a speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, promised a vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination shortly after the hearing and argued that Democrats have scuttled any presumption of innocence for a distinguished jurist. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, responded in unusually personal terms. ‘‘Does that sound like someone who wants to get the real facts no matter where they fall?,’’ Schumer asked....."
Oh, Schumer made it personal now?
I know Kavanaugh isn't a Boy Scout, but barring any unforeseen developments, the committee vote will be on Friday morning.
"Under the big top: Supreme Court hysteria" by Diane Hessan September 25, 2018
Republican voters generally tell a different story: that the process is a desperate and political attempt by the Democrats — a last resort — to disqualify Kavanaugh at any cost. Here’s how Peter from Illinois sees it: “The Dems played a crap hand into a real winner. They didn’t have the votes but they had an ace in the sleeve. They knew of the letter and leaked it to the press, which forced Dr. Ford to go public when it was too late for Trump to pull Kavanaugh and submit a replacement before the midterms. Well played.” Or, said Joseph from Texas: “It’s just so damned predictable that this was going to happen. We all knew that there would be some story at the 11th hour about how Kavanaugh was either racist or sexist.”
At the core of the Republican point of view is disbelief that Senator Dianne Feinstein held onto a letter for three months and didn’t show it to anyone. Her excuse about the privacy of the victim doesn’t seem credible to them. As Hugh from California said, “Feinstein’s stunt is a new low, that will surely blow up in the faces of the Democrats.” And now, Republican voters are focused on how Ramirez came forward only after six days of consulting with a Democratic lawyer, and most people expect that there will be more allegations this week.
There was only one area of agreement: over 85 percent of my voters believe that Ford and other accusers should be heard prior to any final vote. Said Nancy, a Republican from Connecticut, “If the Republicans do not give this air, in spite of the circus it will likely cause, I think they deserve to be voted out of office.”
Although we don’t know what the outcome of this frenzy will be, it’s clear that the big loss is for the American people, who have become cynical about their leaders. And that’s the common ground: voters from both parties believe that Congress is incapable of running a process, unable to work together, and full of politicians who are mostly concerned with grandstanding for their next elections — focused on themselves.
No matter what happens here, no one will win. If Democrats block Kavanaugh’s nomination, they’ll likely have to go through it all again with another conservative nominee. If Republicans vote Kavanaugh through after the hearings, they’ll have to deny the legitimacy of reports of sexual assault. Either way, the Supreme Court will lose its last remaining shreds of nonpartisan decency and credibility. Our government has been replaced by a circus, and the voters are not entertained.....
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What a farce.
UPDATES:
Another woman accuses Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct
Local political leaders and advocates renew calls for scrapping Kavanaugh nomination
Kavanaugh to say he’s innocent in testimony on Thursday
Related:
"Uber Technologies Inc. drivers suffered a major defeat in one of the gig economy’s most closely watched labor fights with a ruling barring hundreds of thousands of drivers from suing as a group for better pay and benefits. Tuesday’s decision by a federal appeals court in San Francisco wasn’t unexpected after the US Supreme Court in May bolstered the power of employers to force workers to use individual arbitration instead of class-action lawsuits....."
And Kavanaugh will drive them even further to the right.
(Blog editor's note: not one thing regarding Mueller today)
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Hey, hey, hey.....
"Bill Cosby sentenced to 3 to 10 years in state prison" by Manuel Roig-Franzia Washington Post September 25, 2018
When I read the headline I thought, well, he got what he deserved.
NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Comic legend Bill Cosby, a once-beloved father figure and moralizing African-American cultural icon, was sentenced to 3 to 10 years in state prison Tuesday in a sexual assault case that was capped by the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era.
That got me to thinking. It's a black man, and why haven't scum like Lauer and Rose, among so many, Brokaw even (gotta believe the woman, and I do) been brought to trial?
The first guy they run up there is a black guy?
In his ruling, Judge Steven O’Neill said the evidence that Cosby planned the drugging and sexual assault of his victim was ‘‘overwhelming,’’ based on Cosby’s own words in a civil deposition.
Yeah, that's bad.
Once the reality of the sentence sunk in, the aging comedian began to shed the trappings of his wealth. Out came his wallet, which he handed to an aide. Off came his elegant silk tie. Then he shrugged out of his bespoke dark-blue pinstripe suit jacket. He rolled up his sleeves.
There was no family member there to comfort him, so he joked and chuckled with his attorneys.
Eventually, court officials shooed everyone into the hall, but people lingered there, draped over the marble railings that ring the grand central staircase leading to Courtroom A. When Cosby finally emerged from the courtroom, he held his hands in front of him at his waist. Metal handcuffs gleamed on his wrists. He clutched his skinny wooden cane awkwardly with his shackled hands.
They call it a perp walk, right?
Flanked by armed sheriff’s deputies, he disappeared through an arched doorway, bound for a holding cell — Cosby’s first stop in a journey that will take him to a state prison where he’ll be confined to a tiny cell that could have fit into the corner of a room in any of his mansions. Outside the courthouse, Cosby’s detractors hugged and cheered as a driving rainstorm blasted down.
More than 60 women have accused Cosby of sexual assault or harassment, stretching back to the 1960s, when he was launching his comedy career and became the first African-American actor to star on a network television show with his role on the hit program ‘‘I Spy.’’ In countless media interviews, the women — including aspiring actresses and models; flight attendants; singers; and, in one instance, a doughnut-shop clerk — gave similar accounts of being dazzled by Cosby’s fame. Most said they never thought anyone would believe them, so they stayed quiet, privately harboring experiences that many said had scarred them for life.
Cosby once commanded an empire — a thriving entertainment behemoth, and the personal assistants, valets, publicists, and personal chefs that kept his luxe life and businesses running. He traveled by private plane between well-appointed homes in Manhattan, suburban Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and rural Massachusetts, but on Tuesday, after he was officially designated a sexually violent predator, his power was stripped from him. He was not in command, and he was forced to listen quietly as a young prosecutor ran through a series of restrictions that will be imposed on him for the rest of his life.
Ever hear of Jeffrey Epstein?
Gotta believe the woman, right?
Trump's Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta, who knows a little about it, helped keep certain episodes in the hangar.
Ed Ford, a pal from his youth who is the only friend who attended the two-day sentencing hearing, said, ‘‘With all the people that he helped in Philadelphia and Washington — paying for their education, paying for the insurance — it’s almost a disgrace that none of them showed up. People don’t realize how many people he helped. And the Hollywood people? They were afraid.’’
On Tuesday, more than a dozen women who alleged abuse by Cosby — no longer doubting that the world would take them seriously — crowded into the ornate courtroom where Cosby finally got his comeuppance.
Many of the women sat with the arms around one another’s shoulders as the sentence was read. When it was clear that Cosby would not be allowed to remain free on bail during his appeal, former supermodel Janice Dickinson pumped her fist from her seat in the second row. Dickinson had testified during the trial that Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in the early 1980s.....
She didn't report it to the cops, though.
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He was the face of evil until Kavanaugh came along.
"Owner of Texas 3-D gun company resigns after arrest" Associated Press September 25, 2018
AUSTIN, Texas — An activist who garnered national attention for running a Texas company that sells blueprints for making untraceable 3-D printed guns has resigned from the firm he founded after being arrested on charges of having sex with an underage girl.
(Blog editor gasps)
Cody Wilson tendered his resignation Friday evening to tend to ‘‘personal matters,’’ Paloma Heindorff, director of development for Austin-based Defense Distributed said at a Tuesday news conference. The company is at the center of a federal case in which several states sued to block it from posting plans to build 3-D printed guns online.
Heindorff said she would be taking over Wilson’s duties as director and was a strong believer in the Second Amendment.
Investigators allege the 30-year-old Wilson met a 16-year-old girl through the website SugarDaddyMeet.com. According to an affidavit, the girl said they met in the parking lot of an Austin coffee shop in August and then drove to a hotel.
Wilson was arrested in Taiwan and brought back to the United States over the weekend. He has since been freed on $150,000 bond.
Wilson, a self-described ‘‘crypto-anarchist,’’ has said ‘‘governments should live in fear of their citizenry,’’ but law enforcement officials worry the guns are easy to conceal and are untraceable because there is no requirement for the firearms to have serial numbers. Gun industry experts have said the printed guns are a modern method of legally assembling a firearm at home without serial numbers.
They always have when you actually think about it.
Heindorff said the company has used online fund-raising to collect about $400,000 for a legal defense fund as part of its ongoing federal case, but she also suggested she may not embrace such a high-profile national role in it as Wilson did.
I would say give the job to Butina, but.....
The Washington-based Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, which has been a vocal opponent of 3-D printable guns, said of Wilson: ‘‘We doubt that his movement will die with his resignation.’’
‘‘Because of his actions, 3-D printed guns now pose a danger all over the world,’’ Brady Campaign copresidents Avery Gardiner and Kris Brown said in a statement Tuesday. ‘‘The next Cody Wilson is merely waiting in the wings, and we will continue to do everything in our power to combat this threat until it is no more.’’
That means no more "light" weapons sales, right?
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They put the crosshairs on his skull.
"Texas investigates suspect in California homeless beatings" Associated Press September 25, 2018
LOS ANGELES — A man arrested on suspicion of beating a Southern California homeless man into unconsciousness and suspected in six other attacks — three of them fatal — also was being investigated in the disappearances of two of the suspect’s Texas relatives, officials said Tuesday.
Ramon Escobar, 47, is a person of interest in the disappearances late last month of 60-year-old Dina Escobar and her brother, 65-year-old Rogelio Escobar, Houston police said in a statement.
Dina Escobar’s burned van was found in Galveston, Texas, a few days after she went looking for her brother, who was missing. She was last seen Aug. 28, two days after her brother disappeared, the statement said.
Ramon Escobar is their nephew, and Texas authorities said they want to talk to him.
The Southern California beatings happened in Los Angeles and suburban Santa Monica, where Escobar was arrested Monday.
Investigators believe Escobar was the man who used a baseball bat to bash the heads of three homeless men sleeping on downtown Los Angeles streets before dawn on Sept. 16, police said in a statement. Two died.
Another man who apparently was sleeping on the beach was found dead under the Santa Monica Pier on Sept. 20. Steven Ray Cruze Jr., 39, of San Gabriel, had been beaten to death.
Authorities at first described him as homeless but family and friends said the father of two, who loved to fish at the pier, worked boats in neighboring Marina del Rey and sometimes camped out under the pier to avoid the long commute home.....
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"Lawsuit blaming schools for bullying, suicide can proceed" Associated Press September 25, 2018
CINCINNATI — A wrongful death lawsuit accusing an Ohio school district of denying and covering up bullying of an 8-year-old boy who killed himself will be allowed to proceed.
A federal judge on Monday denied Cincinnati Public Schools’ request to dismiss the lawsuit filed by Gabriel Taye’s parents, who say he killed himself after being bullied at school.
Attorneys say Gabriel’s mother didn’t know he was bullied until police described a scene outside a boys’ bathroom where attorneys say Gabriel was knocked unconscious. He hanged himself two days later at home in January 2017.
Prosecutors investigated and didn’t file charges.
The school district denies the allegations and says Gabriel never told staff he was bullied or assaulted.
District spokeswoman Lauren Worley said Tuesday the district is reviewing the decision and contemplating options.
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Tragic and sad.
"Priest accused of child sex abuse behind bars pending trial" by Russell Contreras Associated Press September 25, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE — A former New Mexico priest, who fled the United States decades ago amid allegations of child sex abuse, appeared in US District Court on Tuesday as a federal magistrate decided to keep the 80-year-old behind bars pending trial as his accusers in the audience applauded.
Defense Attorney Samuel Winder argued that Arthur Perrault was not a flight risk as he had no passport, no family, and no means of leaving the country, but prosecutors described him as a danger to the community who fled before.
‘‘He is known to manipulate and gain the trust of people,’’ federal prosecutor Sean Sullivan told US Magistrate Karen Molzen. ‘‘Honestly, a jail setting is the best setting for the defendant to be.’’
There are a lot of walking around war criminals, looters, and lechers for which that is true!
Molzen agreed and called Perrault a ‘‘very charming man’’ who once fled to a country that didn’t have an extradition treaty with the United States.
Court documents filed late last week said victims described Perrault showering them with gifts and meals before abusing them. They also described Perrault as someone who smoked pipes and wore silk underwear.
The documents said the Connecticut-born Perrault also once wrote an apology letter to the parents of one victim in 1971 and blamed his actions on cancer, which prosecutors said he was never diagnosed with.
Perrault was extradited to New Mexico last week from Morocco in connection with sexual abuse cases that are said to have taken place between 1991 and 1992 at Kirtland Air Force Base and Santa Fe National Cemetery.
He was a military chaplain?
The former Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe and a former Air Force chaplain has been charged in a federal indictment with seven counts of aggravated sexual abuse and abusive sexual contact.
Perrault pleaded not guilty in his first court appearance Friday. He also told a US magistrate judge he’d had a stroke three years ago, was deaf in one ear, and had trouble walking.
He better not be lying or God will get him for it.
Perrault, a one-time pastor at St. Bernadette parish in Albuquerque, is one of many priests sent to New Mexico in the 1960s from around the country for treatment involving pedophilia.
Victims, lawyers, and church documents show the priests were later assigned to parishes and schools across New Mexico — especially in Native American and Hispanic communities.
Perrault vanished in 1992, just days before an attorney filed two lawsuits against the archdiocese alleging Perrault had sexually assaulted seven children at his parish.
The FBI said Perrault first fled to Canada and then to Tangier, Morocco, where he worked until last year at an English-language school for children.
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I hate to make comparisons, but that is way worse than what Kavanaugh is alleged to have done.
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"German bishops apologize for thousands of sex abuse cases" by Kirsten Grieshaber Associated Press September 25, 2018
BERLIN — A top German bishop has apologized for thousands of sexual abuse cases that took place inside the Catholic Church in Germany, according to a devastating report released Tuesday that concludes at least 3,677 people were abused by clergy between 1946 and 2014.
The dates are interesting.
I guess the Nazis didn't put up with pedophilia, huh?
‘‘Sexual abuse is a crime,’’ Cardinal Reinhard Marx, who is also the head of the German Bishops Conference, told reporters. ‘‘I’m ashamed for so many (of us) looking away, not wanting to recognize what happened and not helping the victims. That goes for me as well.’’
What it also does is give you further insight as to why Ratzinger had to resign. He either knew or participated, and the unprecedented move would seem to indicate the latter. Francis was appointed to get the glare off that.
The apology came on the same day that Pope Francis acknowledged that the sex abuse scandal rocking the Catholic Church was driving people away. He said the church must change its ways if it wants to keep future generations.
I think it is too late.
Francis referred directly to the crisis convulsing his papacy on the fourth and final day of his Baltic pilgrimage, which coincided with the release of a devastating new report into decades of sex abuse and cover-ups in Germany.
Yeah, he spent two days trying to change the subject to anti-semitism and Jewish victimhood.
Francis told young people in Estonia, considered one of the least religious countries in the world, that he knew many young people felt the church had nothing to offer them and simply doesn’t understand their problems today.
‘‘They are outraged by sexual and economic scandals that do not meet with clear condemnation, by our unpreparedness to really appreciate the lives and sensibilities of the young, and simply by the passive role we assign them,’’ he told Catholic, Lutheran, and Orthodox young people in the Kaarli Lutheran Church in the Estonian capital of Tallinn. ‘‘We ourselves need to be converted,’’ he said. ‘‘We have to realize that, in order to stand by your side, we need to change many situations that, in the end, put you off.’’
It was a very public admission of the church’s failures in confronting sex abuse scandals, which have roared back into the headlines recently with revelations of abuses and cover-ups in the United States, Chilean, and German churches.
On Tuesday, the German bishops conference released a report which found evidence that some files were manipulated or destroyed, many cases were not brought to justice, and that sometimes abusers were moved to other dioceses without congregations being informed about their past.
The abuse scandal, which erupted in Ireland in the 1990s and subsequently in Australia and the United States, now threatens Francis’ own papacy since his record as cardinal and pope has proven uneven on the topic. A former Vatican ambassador has accused Francis of rehabilitating an American cardinal who slept with seminarians. Francis has declined to respond to the accusations.
And who would he be?
The German Bishops Conference report was already leaked earlier this month and was heavily criticized for the lack of transparency and the church’s refusal to let the researchers access the original documents.....
They are still covering up, and it's ‘‘only the tip of the iceberg.’’
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The Austrian press is ripping them to shreds.
Related: Nuns score a win against Smith & Wesson’s parent
And the victory is secure.
I'd say maybe we should let them run the Church but.....
"Woman says ex pressed for baby, didn’t know her plan to kill" by Dave Kolpack Associated Press September 25, 2018
FARGO, N.D. — A North Dakota woman convicted of killing her pregnant neighbor by cutting the baby from her womb testified Tuesday that her boyfriend had pressured her to ‘‘produce a baby’’ after figuring out she had lied about being pregnant.
You couldn't just go on Maury?
Of course, if she had a medical license she would be an abortionist.
Brooke Crews told the court that she had concocted a phony pregnancy to keep from losing William Hoehn, who is on trial for conspiracy in the August 2017 death of 22-year-old Savanna Greywind. Hoehn has admitted helping to cover up the crime, but says he didn’t know that Crews had planned to kill Greywind and take her baby. Crews testified that she never ‘‘explicitly’’ told Hoehn that was her plan.
I think at this point I didn't want to read any more of this bizarre and macabre story, but I did anyway.
Crews said Hoehn appeared surprised when he entered the bathroom in their apartment and discovered she had cut Greywind’s baby from her body. Crews said Hoehn then retrieved a rope and tightened it around Greywind’s neck, saying: ‘‘If she wasn’t dead before, she is now.’’
Greywind’s daughter survived and is being raised by family.
Hoehn spoke regularly with his attorney, Daniel Borgen, during Crews’ testimony but showed little emotion. Crews was crying and sniffling throughout.
Crews described her relationship with Hoehn as rocky and violent, saying it was fueled by drugs and alcohol. She said they broke up at one point, and that’s when she lied to him about being pregnant. She went so far as to e-mail him a phony positive pregnancy test and sonogram photo.
In early August, Hoehn told Crews he didn’t believe she was pregnant and said she needed ‘‘to produce a baby.’’ Crews said she believed this was ‘‘an ultimatum.’’
‘‘I took that to mean I better have a baby, no matter how it happened,’’ Crews said.
This poor, tormented woman!
Greywind’s death prompted North Dakota Senator Heidi Heitkamp to introduce Savanna’s Act, which aims to improve tribal access to federal crime information databases and create standardized protocols for responding to cases of missing and slain Native American women.....
Oh, so this article, at bottom, was a political plug for an endangered Democrat senator, okay.
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They should have never married, and ‘‘we just need to pray’’as another tropical depression approaches.
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"Marshfield slaying suspect arrested, facing murder charge" by Emily Sweeney, John R. Ellement and Laura Crimaldi Globe Staff September 25, 2018
MARSHFIELD — The manhunt for a gunman accused of killing his estranged wife on Main Street Monday night ended peacefully in nearby Whitman Tuesday afternoon, after the suspect commandeered a flatbed truck and crashed it at a Dunkin’ Donuts.....
Isn't it just Dunkin’ now?
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"Man charged with murdering shipmate allegedly assaulted wife in Virginia" by Travis Andersen Globe Staff September 25, 2018
As chilling details emerged about the fatal rampage on a fishing boat off Massachusetts, records show that the suspect had been arrested in March for allegedly trying to strangle his wife in Virginia.
An incident report from Newport News, Va., police shows Franklin Freddy Meave Vazquez, 27, a Mexico native who is living in the United States illegally, previously had been charged with assaulting and abducting his 20-year-old wife in that state in the predawn hours of March 8.....
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The Globe put it below the B-section fold and will bury it as soon as they can.
"Man accused of shooting in Roxbury held for mental evaluation" by Jerome Campbell Globe Staff September 26, 2018
A Roxbury man who shot a member of his mosque and was found in possession of 10 firearms was ordered held Tuesday at a state hospital for mental evaluation.
My first thought was ISIS™.
Police said that Ismail Abdurrashid, 50, went to the Mosque for the Praising of Allah in Roxbury early Monday morning and shot a man twice. The man, who is in his mid-50s, is expected to survive.
The man told police Abdurrashid targeted him because he didn’t like how the mosque was being run, according to a police report. Abdurrashid was also angry because he believed the man was a sex offender, police said.
A court clinician told the court that his family and friends had seen a severe change in Abdurrashid’s behavior in the past month and said he needed help.
“There has been a significant change to his mental status over the last month and it has been dramatic,” said Sandra Ehlinger, the court clinician. “Virtually anyone who knows him has reported that it is very much out of character and very much is in need of some sort of psychiatric care.”
Speaking on his own behalf, Abdurrashid said he was “more than competent to answer to these allegations.”
“I am not crazy,” he said. “I am sane and I will answer to any and all charges in the court of law.”
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Time for the overture:
"Boston Philharmonic artistic adviser arrested on child pornography charges" by Danny McDonald Globe Staff September 25, 2018
The artistic adviser for the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and its youth orchestra was arrested Tuesday and charged in federal court with possession of child pornography, law enforcement officials said.
David St. George, 71, of Arlington, is accused of storing online 83 images and videos depicting sexual abuse of children, including a 1-year-old girl, according to the US attorney’s office.
He was charged with one count of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography, prosecutors said in a statement.
Authorities in Boston received information regarding an online storage account suspected of containing child pornography, the statement said. The IP address linked to the account was assigned to St. George’s Internet account, according to the US attorney’s office.
The youth orchestra, according to its website, was formed in 2012 and includes 120 musicians, ranging in age from 12 to 21.
A search of St. George’s home on Tuesday yielded “thousands of files of child pornography, including the sexual assaults of children between six-and-eight years old,” according to the US attorney’s office statement.
Oh, wrong note!!!
“It is alleged that St. George has been receiving and downloading child pornography from the ‘Dark Web’ and taking steps to conceal his identity,” prosecutors said.
So no more anonymous except in newspapers, huh?
I sure hope the stuff wasn't planted.
According to an affidavit of a special agent with Homeland Security investigations, St. George admitted to law enforcement agents “that he had a large collection of child pornography in his home.”
A three-ring binder containing images of child pornography was found at St. George’s home, according to the affidavit. St. George, according to the affidavit, told authorities he “is employed by both the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra.”
He had books full of them, huh?
That has to give them the willies.
You know, if they really wanted to get Kavanaugh.....
According to the affidavit, St. George “has occasionally posted articles to the Boston Philharmonic blog, including reflections on time he spent observing the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra (BPYO) while on tour.”
He was helping kids build their confidence.
St. George denied “engaging in any sexual contact with children and denied any sexual interest in children apart from looking at child pornography,” according to the affidavit.
In the privacy of his own home.
The charge of receipt of child pornography provides for a mandatory minimum sentence of five years and up to 20 years in prison, and possession of child pornography carries a sentence of no greater than 10 years in prison, authorities said.
Both counts carry a minimum of five years supervised release up to a lifetime of supervised release and a fine of $250,000, according to prosecutors.....
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Globe buried in the top-right corner of page B4, shhh!
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