The Power of the Paedos - another high profile case hits the 'never happened' wall?

[Peter Presland]

I'm not as on top of this thread as I should be given it's massive significance, so sorry if this has already been posted.

Stuart Syvret is an ex-Jersey Senator who has been a thorn in the side of the corrupt Jersey Establishment for years now, and especially over the Haut de La Garenne boy home scandal - a couple of minions have been suitably disgraced and pilloried but, as is always the case, those at the top of a pyramid of depravity remain unscathed.

His blog is probably about the best and most comprehensive source available on the subject applied to Jersey.

On 16 November he was sentenced to 10 weeks imprisonment and fined £4,500 with £10,000 costs for 'contempt of court' evidenced by his failure to attend court hearings between May and November this year. The required appearances involved allegations of leaking a confidential police report into suspicious deaths at a Jersey hospital and a couple of data-protection (ie contrived) charges.

He is unrepentant and his blog is well worth bookmarking

BBC report of his imprisonment here

[Ed Jewett]

Vatican Warned Irish Bishops Not to Report Abuse

January 18th, 2011 Via: AP:
A newly revealed 1997 letter from the Vatican warned Ireland's Catholic bishops not to report all suspected child-abuse cases to police a disclosure with the potential to fuel more lawsuits worldwide against the Vatican, which has long denied any involvement in cover-ups.
The letter, obtained by Irish broadcasters RTE and provided to The Associated Press, documents the Vatican's rejection of an Irish church initiative to begin helping police identify pedophile priests.
The letter's message undermines persistent Vatican claims that the church never instructed bishops to withhold evidence or suspicion of crimes from police. It instead emphasizes the church's right to handle all child-abuse allegations, and determine punishments, in house rather than hand that power to civil authorities.
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[David Guyatt]

It's a pity the letter hasn't been published, I think. It would have even more impact.

But it reveals the deceit of the Vatican. Imagine their arrogance of believing they have the right to investigate themselves.

Only Parliament and the police, TV broadcasters, big corporations and a few dozen others have that right.

So that's alright then...

[Jan Klimkowski]

The Vatican has a holy spindoctor claiming the letter has been misunderstood.

His spin is far from convincing......

The Vatican defence is that "the Holy See wanted to ensure paedophile priests would not have any technical grounds to escape church punishment on appeal". However, the reality is that the Vatican simply moved paedophile priests from one diocese to another, allowing them to carry on abusing.

And Cardinal Ratzinger was at the heart of these crimes.

Vatican says Irish abuse letter has been 'misunderstood'

Victims groups claim 1997 letter is 'smoking gun' that shows the church enforced culture of concealing crimes by paedophile priests

Associated Press guardian.co.uk, Thursday 20 January 2011 10.37 GMT

The Vatican said yesterday that a 1997 letter warning Irish bishops against reporting priests suspected of sexual abuse to police had been "deeply misunderstood."

The contents of the letter, in which the Vatican's top diplomat in Ireland told bishops their policy of mandatory reporting such cases to police "gives rise to serious reservations of both a moral and canonical nature", were reported on Tuesday.

Marked "strictly confidential", the Irish broadcaster RTE said it had been given it by an Irish bishop. It has undermined persistent Vatican claims, particularly when seeking to defend itself in US lawsuits, that Rome never told bishops not to co-operate with police.

An Irish government-ordered investigation into decades of abuse cover-ups in the Dublin archdiocese concluded that Irish bishops understood the letter to mean they should not report suspected crimes.

And victims groups say it is a "smoking gun" that shows the church enforced a worldwide culture of concealing crimes by paedophile priests, of which Rome bears ultimate and legal responsibility.

"The letter confirms that the cover-up goes as far as the Vatican, that Vatican officials knew exactly what was going on, and that they proactively sought to deter Irish bishops from co-operating with civil authorities in Ireland," said Andrew Madden, a former Dublin altar boy who was raped repeatedly by a priest, Ivan Payne, in the 1980s.

However, the Vatican said yesterday the letter was intended to emphasise that Irish bishops must follow church law meticulously.

The Vatican spokesman, the Reverend Federico Lombardi, said the Holy See wanted to ensure paedophile priests would not have any technical grounds to escape church punishment on appeal.

It by no means instructed bishops to disregard civil reporting requirements about abuse, added the Vatican's US lawyer, Jeffrey Lena, who said the letter had been "deeply misunderstood" by the media.

At the time, there were no such reporting requirements in Ireland. In fact, the Irish bishops were ahead of Irish legislators in pledging co-operation with law enforcement as dioceses were hit with the first lawsuits by victims of abusive priests.

Yet as a result of the 1997 letter, most Irish dioceses never implemented the 1996 commitment to report all suspected abuse cases to police, according to the conclusions of the government-mandated investigation into the Dublin archdiocese published in 2009.

"This in fact never took place because of the response of Rome," the commission said in its report, although it quoted Dublin archdiocese officials as saying it was implemented there.

That eight-year inquiry interviewed two senior Dublin archdiocese canon lawyers involved in handling abuse complaints. They were quoted as saying the letter discouraged bishops from pursuing their 1996 initiative for fear of being overruled by Rome, as had happened in one notorious case of a serial paedophile.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan...understood

[Ed Jewett]

Boston, with its heavy Catholic and Irish populations, went through this a while back with Archbishop Law (who was kicked upstairs to Rome) implicated in the "moving. I can remember the apologists then. I don't think it'd possible to misunderstand what's going on when an adult in a socially powerful position is messing with children.

[Magda Hassan]

Shock as Catholic bishop who brokered multi-million dollar sex abuse settlement is found GUILTY of importing child porn


By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 4:52 PM on 5th May 2011

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A Roman Catholic bishop has been found guilty of importing child pornography in a case that has sent shockwaves through Canada and the Church.

Bishop Raymond Lahey was stopped at Ottawa Airport after border guards found 588 images and dozens of videos of naked boys as young as eight on his computer and phone.

He was also carrying a bag of personal sex toys. He was found guilty on the charge today.


Bishop Raymond Lahey was stopped at Ottawa Airport after guards found 588 images and dozens of videos of naked boys as young as eight on his computer and phone and a bag of personal sex toys
It is extremely rare for a bishop to be found guilty of a criminal charge. The case will also likely act as a test of the Vatican's new strict sex abuse laws, which it approved last year.
The bishop's crimes are especially shocking for Canadians because Lahey was the public face of an historic apology and $15million (£8million) settlement for victims of sexual molestation by a priest in his diocese.



Intervention: Pope Benedict is believed to have asked top Church officials in Canada to do what they can to alleviate the distress caused by the his arrest

Pope Benedict even asked top church officials in Canada to do what they could to alleviate the distress caused by the arrest of such a senior figure.
Lahey was charged after being intercepted at Ottawa Airport while returning home from a trip to Europe in September 2009.
Police claimed the 70-year-old former head of the diocese of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, was targeted after being evasive during questioning and refusing to make eye contact with border guards.
Further investigations revealed extensive travel since 2005 to countries notorious as sources of child pornography, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Spain and Germany.
A forensic examination of Lahey's computer and several memory sticks revealed hundreds of files and around 60 videos, some of them showing boys between the ages of eight and 12 engaged in sexual acts.
He was also in possession of numerous texts featuring themes of humiliation, degradation and slavery of young boys.
After some of the images were discovered Lahey initially denied having an interest in child pornography, but told the officers that he was attracted to males aged 20 to 21'.
The native of Newfoundland and Labrador resigned from the Antigonish diocese the day after he was charged but before his crimes became public.
Lahey today pleaded guilty in an Ottawa courtroom to importing child pornography but told a judge he was not guilty of possessing child pornography for the purpose of distribution.
Lahey, here in 2009 with lawyer Michael Edelson, had videos showing boys ages of eight and 12 engaged in sexual acts and texts featuring themes of humiliation, degradation and slavery of young boys

The case is highly significant because law enforcement agencies have long looked the other way in prosecuting sex-related offences where high-ranking church officials were involved.
It will also act as a test of the Vatican's stringent sex abuse code, approved last year.

The new rules take away protection for bishops and cardinals who abuse minors - allowing them to be investigated and punished in the same way as Catholic priests.
Father Francis Morrisey, a professor of canon law at the Roman Catholic University of Saint Paul in Ottawa, claimed it was highly unusual for a bishop to face criminal charges.
Pornography was only formally added to the church laws in May 2010 and with this case, it shows how seriously those decisions have been taken,' he said.
The Vatican claimed today it was considering appropriate disciplinary or penal' action against Lahey: The Catholic Church condemns sexual exploitation of all kind, in particular when minors are targeted,' a statement said.
While the church awaits his sentencing before continuing with its own trial, survivors of sexual abuse believe the hearing could be used as a precedent internationally.
We hope that the Lahey case is a sign that the era of deference by civil authorities toward bishops may be coming to an end,' said Anne Barrett Doyle, co-director of BishopAccountability.org.
Lahey, who is facing a mandatory 12-month minimum prison term, voluntarily entered custody today. The images and videos will be viewed by the judge in private before official sentencing.
In addition to the criminal charges, Lahey also faces accusations in a civil suit of sexually abusing an orphanage resident in the early 1980s.
The Mount Cashel Orphanage in St. John's, Newfoundland was closed in 1990 after it was revealed that staff had systematically abused some 300 residents over several decades.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z1LdIWGaZg

[Jan Klimkowski]

Further investigations revealed extensive travel since 2005 to countries notorious as sources of child pornography, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Spain and Germany.
A forensic examination of Lahey's computer and several memory sticks revealed hundreds of files and around 60 videos, some of them showing boys between the ages of eight and 12 engaged in sexual acts.
He was also in possession of numerous texts featuring themes of humiliation, degradation and slavery of young boys.
After some of the images were discovered Lahey initially denied having an interest in child pornography, but told the officers that he was attracted to males aged 20 to 21'.

Cue Vatican spindoctor to assert that the Holy Bishop was merely Spreading the Faith... :pope:

[Jan Klimkowski]

Massive UK-based paedophile network busted, with the majority of the paedophile customers in the US:

Four men in court after police smash global paedophile ring

Lincolnshire police led operation to crack UK-based network distributing child pornography to 46 countries

Matthew Taylor guardian.co.uk, Friday 6 May 2011 18.34 BST

More than 130 children in the UK have been rescued from immediate danger after police smashed an international paedophile ring that distributed millions of indecent images and films to 46 countries.

Four men Ian Frost, 35, Paul Rowlands, 34, Frost's brother Paul, 37, and Ian Sambridge, 32 pleaded guilty at Nottingham crown court on Friday to various charges of making, distributing and possessing indecent images of children.

The Lincolnshire police force, which led the operation, said it was the biggest paedophile ring of its kind in the UK and that 132 children in had been "safeguarded" and a number of paedophiles had been removed from positions of trust, including jobs as teachers, doctors, youth workers and police officers.

Detective Chief Superintendent Roger Bannister said: "Protecting and safeguarding children has been our main focus throughout this investigation and it is satisfying for those involved to see these really good results. It has always been in my mind, and that of the investigation team, that every single face in the millions of child abuse images in this case is someone's daughter or son."

The four men masterminded an illegal uncensored newsgroup on the internet in order to circulate images and movies.

The UK authorities were tipped off by police in Germany in November 2005. The subsequent operation was jointly run by Lincolnshire police and the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), but nearly all of the UK's forces, the Serious and Organised Crime Agency and several international law enforcement agencies were involved.

Police say that of those subscribers investigated in the UK so far, nearly two-thirds either admitted possession of indecent images or the images were found upon initial analysis of their computers. Police said the vast majority had been previously unknown to the police.

Peter Davies, the senior police officer heading CEOP, said: "Many of the images being shared online were horrific.

"The lengths to which people went to try and conceal their criminal activity were huge but did not prevent them being caught by persistent and dedicated work... Offenders out there thinking they can operate online anonymously should look at these results and think again." The net began to close on the gang in 2006 when officers raided Ian Frost's house in the small picturesque hamlet of Martin Dales in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, which he shared with Rowlands.

Police found an industrial-sized server that was so large that the lights in the room dimmed when it was turned on because of the amount of power it required to operate. Officers said it had a memory capacity of 4.5 terabytes, equivalent to 3.2m floppy disks.

Officers found other news services were being run by Paul Frost, also an IT worker, from Woodhouse in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Sambridge, a legal adviser, was running another from a property in St Albans, Hertfordshire.

Police estimate the group netted about £2m over seven years, although they did not appear to have had extravagant lifestyles. Of those receiving the illegal content, there were 211 in the UK, and 38 have been dealt with to date. Police said the largest number of subscribers were in the US.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/may/06...NTCMP=SRCH

Customers arrested and tried as a result of the operation include the Deputy Head of a Cumbrian NHS trust, who pleaded guilty to possessing indecent images of children, a scout leader and ex-school governor from Devon, and a school crossing patrol worker from Humberside.

http://www.channel4.com/news/internation...ng-smashed

The original intelligence is from 2005:

At a briefing ahead of the court hearing, Detective Superintendent Paul Gibson, of Lincolnshire Police, said officers first received intelligence from German Federal Police in November 2005 that Ian Frost was running a news service that had an association with indecent images of children. Officers executed a search warrant at Frost's home in 2006 in the small picturesque hamlet of Martin Dales in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, which he shared with Rowlands.

Police found a piece of equipment Det Supt Gibson called a "raid array" - a redundant array of independent disks - which is made up of a number of hard drives wired together. Officers found the raid array had been operating an uncensored news service in Manhattan, New York, in 2005 before moving to the location in Lincolnshire.

http://www.echo-news.co.uk/uk_national_n...g_smashed/

[Ed Jewett]

Dutch Priest Belonged to Pedophile Club

May 21st, 2011
Via: New Zealand Herald / AP:
The head of a Catholic religious order in the Netherlands has confirmed one of his subordinate priests served on the board of an organisation that promotes paedophilia.
Herman Spronck, head of the Dutch arm of the Salesian order, said in a statement Friday the priest served on the board of the "Martijn" organization, which is widely reviled but not illegal.
"Of course we reject this and distance ourselves from this personal initiative" on the part of the priest, Spronck's statement said.
"Membership in such organizations does not fit with the ethos of the Salesian order."
However, RTL Nieuws, which broke the story, published interviews both with Spronck and the priest, identified as 73-year-old "Father Van B.," in which they defend some paedophile relationships.
"Society thinks these relationships are harmful. I disagree," RTL quoted Van B. as saying. He served on Martijn's board from 2008 until 2010, when the organization's founder was arrested for alleged possession of child pornography. That case is ongoing.
RTL quoted Spronck as saying that "formally I always say that everyone must obey the law. But these relationships do not necessarily have to be damaging."
Spronck and his organisation could not be reached for comment.
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[Jan Klimkowski]

Faux outrage from the Vatican:

Vatican recalls ambassador after Irish PM's comments on sex abuse row

Archbishop Guiseppe Leanza, papal nuncio to Dublin, returns to Rome following Enda Kenny's attack on Vatican role in cover-up

Henry McDonald in Dublin guardian.co.uk, Monday 25 July 2011 18.59 BST

Relations between the Irish government and the Roman Catholic church reached a historic nadir on Monday when the Vatican recalled its ambassador to Dublin, claiming "excessive reactions" in the Republic to the clerical child sex abuse crisis.

The Vatican confirmed that papal nuncio, archbishop Giuseppe Leanza, was returning to Rome for discussions over a damning report published earlier this month that had accused the Catholic hierarchy of undermining the Irish church's own policy of reporting child abuse to the authorities.

His recall followed an unprecedented and blistering attack by the Irish prime minister, Enda Kenny, on the Vatican's role in the alleged cover-up of abuse in the County Cork diocese of Cloyne.

Vatican watchers claim that a recall is diplomatic speak for "showing displeasure" with some act of the host state and indicates a cooling in relations.

Since a historic denunciation of the Vatican in the Irish parliament last week, Kenny has become something of a hero-figure across the Republic. He received a standing ovation at a writers' summer school in County Donegal on Sunday when he said he had been "astounded" over the number of messages of support he had been given.

The Taoiseach's withering criticism of the Vatican is all the more historic given that his party, Fine Gael, has been traditionally the stoutest defender of the church's power and privilege in the Republic.

Kenny is a Catholic whose political base is rooted in Ireland's conservative, rural west.

Seeking to play down the diplomatic row between Dublin and the Vatican City on Monday night, the vice-director of the Vatican press office, Father Ciro Benedettini, said that the recall "should be interpreted as an expression of the Holy See for serious and effective collaboration with the Irish government".

But he added: "It denotes the seriousness of the situation and the Holy See's desire to face it objectively and determinately. Nor does it exclude some degree of surprise and disappointment at certain excessive reactions."

Breaking with decades of deference to the Catholic hierarchy both at home and in Rome, Kenny told the Dáil last week that "the rape and torture of children were downplayed or 'managed' to uphold instead the primacy of the institution, in power, standing and reputation".

He stuck to his critical stance over the Vatican and the Cloyne report at the event on Sunday.

He said that it reflected the way Irish people felt about the Catholic Church's role in the clerical abuse scandal.

The deputy editor of the Irish Catholic claimed on Monday night that most Catholics in the Republic would back Kenny rather than the Vatican in this controversy.

Michael Kelly said: "I would expect that the diplomats in the Vatican's secretariat of state will have been extremely surprised by the tone of Enda Kenny's speech in the Dáil, but also by the widespread and positive public reaction to the speech."

He added: "Mr Kenny was, I believe, articulating the sense of exacerbation that a lot of Irish people, not least Irish Catholics, have felt for too long about the church's disastrous inability to come to terms with this crisis."

Although Ireland's foreign minister and deputy prime minister, Eamon Gilmore, said the recall of the papal nuncio was a matter for the Vatican alone, one of his cabinet colleagues described the move as "appropriate".

Joan Burton, the minister for social protection, said that it was very welcome if there was going to be "deep reflection in the Vatican" into the Cloyne and indeed other reports that found the church hierarchy both in Ireland and in Rome culpable of covering up abuse scandals.

The Vatican has always looked upon Ireland as being one of its most loyal nations that always toed the Holy See's line on moral and social issues.

When Joseph Walshe was appointed Irish ambassador to the Vatican in 1946, the future Pope Paul VI told him that "you are the most Catholic country in the world".

But although abortion on demand remains illegal and most citizens still describe themselves as Catholic, the Republic's population is more secular minded than at any time in Irish history with divorce legal, contraception widely available and church attendance numbers falling.

Kenny's once unthinkable assault on the Vatican's role in Ireland was prompted by the Cloyne report's conclusion that the Vatican stymied Irish church policy of informing the Garda Siochana about sex abuse allegations levelled at its priests.

Yvonne Murphy, the judge who headed the Cloyne investigation, hit out at the Vatican's description of 1996 guidelines for reporting abuse allegations as "merely a study document".

She said that this led to the Bishop of Cloyne, John Magee, feeling he could deviate from measures other bishops had established to protect children.