The Catholic Church’s Hidden Shame: Priests Abused Grown Women, Too

[phands]

Not surprising that true xtians abuse everyone.....

In a brief aside in its stunning report on clergy sexual abuse of some thousand children, a Pennsylvania grand jury noted finding “numerous other cases” of Catholic priests’ misconduct, but with adults. That was outside the scope of its investigation, but it’s a problem some experts say may be more pervasive than the abuse of children.
For women like Rachel Mastrogiacomo, it can be just as devastating. At age 23 and filled with religious zeal, she studied Catholic spirituality in Rome, where she met a deacon studying for the priesthood in 2009. After he was ordained a priest in the Diocese of San Diego, she invited him to meet her family in Wisconsin and Minnesota, where, authorities said, the priest violated her when they were alone during two private masses.
“In plain terms, Father Jacob Bertrand sexually injured me in humiliating and degrading ways during the central liturgical ritual of the Catholic Church, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass,” she said at the priest’s May 7 sentencing for criminal sexual conduct.
Kathleen Clement was also devastated—not by physical contact but by what she said was a pastor’s sexual harassment. She felt compelled to leave her job as a religious education administrator at three northwestern Pennsylvania parishes after the Diocese of Erie failed to take action on her complaints. Her experience with church officials—she says a diocesan official told her to “politely resign” if the pastor kept grabbing his scrotum in her presence, and that a bishop urged her to sign a non-disclosure agreement and not speak to the news media—echoes what the grand jury said about past abuse of minors in the same diocese.
Clerics’ misuse of their power and prestige to harass and abuse women has been large.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-c...shame-priests-abused-grown-women-too?ref=home

 

[Lion IRC]

So if I’m reading the article correctly...
a victim reports a crime to the police,
the police investigate,
the police prosecute the offender.

Where’s the rest of the story?

You know, the bit where they had to torture dozens of clergy conspirators high up in the Vatican in order to get them to reveal the name and safe-house location of the suspected perpetrator? The story made no mention of the desperate late-night document shredding done in an attempt to shelter this deacon from the police. No clergy were charged with being accessories or attempting to pervert the course of justice.

 

[Lion IRC]

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Beuller?
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[lpetrich]

Seems like some Catholic priests are indeed heterosexual.