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The Penn State precedent:
Penn State Athletic Director Tim Curley, 57, and the school's vice president for finance and business, Gary Schultz, 62, were each charged with one count of felony perjury and one count of failure to report abuse allegations about Sandusky. Their preliminary court hearing is set for December 16 at the Dauphin County Courthouse in Harrisburg.
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VirtueOnline - News - Exclusives - Episcopal Presiding Bishop Replies to Critics on Abusive Priest Charges:
The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church is defending her decision to allow a former Roman Catholic monk to become an Episcopal priest even after he admitted to sexual misconduct with a minor.
The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori has been under increasing pressure to answer charges that she did not properly investigate the Rev. Bede Parry's past when she was bishop of Nevada in 2004.
She initially brushed off inquiries and then remained silent till this week when, under increasing pressure from VOL and canon law attorney A.S. Haley, she issued a statement arguing that she knew of only one incident when Parry, now 69, sought ordination as an Episcopal priest. She also said that Parry passed a background check and a psychological evaluation before he was ordained.
"The condition of his ordination, said Jefferts Schori, was that Parry was to be supervised by another priest and not permitted to work alone with children.
"I made the decision to receive him believing that he demonstrated repentance and amendment of life and that his current state did not represent a bar to his reception," she wrote in her official statement."
In a signed statement and newspaper interview this year, Parry admitted to several acts of sexual misconduct with young adults and teenagers while he was a Catholic monk in the 1970s and 1980s. "Frankly, those allegations, most of them are true," Parry told the Kansas City Star in June.
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GJ - The criminal complaint against WELS Director of Communications Joel Hochmuth shows that people had prior knowledge of his addiction to homosexual child pornography. His current collection, found by the police, included grown men raping very young boys. There is no way to morph this into a traffic ticket, although Hochmuth's attorney has tried that approach already.
Prior counseling means prior knowledge. I am betting on Wisconsin Lutheran Child and Family Services, which means they violated the law on reporting child abuse. That also means the WELS leaders had prior knowledge and failed to report the crime.
The current series of crimes includes downloading hundreds of pictures and videos, swapping them with others (perhaps 400 other criminals) - using them at WELS headquarters and at home. The synod will be spending plenty of money dealing with its involvement in this crime.
The apostate leaders today are shameless in their efforts to hide behind repentance and restrictions. They imagine that their protestations of innocence will make people forget that they allowed known criminals to be sheltered by their denomination.
ELCA plunged into the worst phase of its activism after they lost a $40 million judgement for ordaining a known homosexual child abuser and predator.
The problem is that people soon forget the headlines. That makes it easy for leaders to say a bit later - "Oh, I don't know about that. I think you have your facts confused."
The laity and ministers in WELS have let previous crimes go down the memory hole:
- DP Ed Werner convicted for molesting minor girls in his congregation.
- Vicar Scott Zerbe convicted for having an affair with a minor girl while counseling her, using Fred Adrian's church facilities and computers.
- ALA teacher Al Just convicted for murdering his wife, marrying his children's babysitter while still in prison.
- Pastor William Tabor's mistress gunning down his wife, with Tabor moving to a new call!
- Taking a man kicked out of the LCMS ministerium, dubbing him an "evangelism consultant" so they could make him a WELS pastor. Did WELS need another skirt-chaser and teen groper?
- The Green Bay arrest of a homosexual predator - and many more episodes.
