Immigrant Communities Were The 'Geographic Solution' To Predator Priests

[Pope George Ringo II]

Catholic Church leaders in Los Angeles for years shuffled predator priests into non-English-speaking immigrant communities. That pattern was revealed in personnel documents released in a decades-old legal settlement between victims of child sex abuse by Catholic priests and the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

Now clergy sex abuse victims throughout California are calling on the state's attorney general to investigate clergy abuse and force church officials to release more information about their role covering it up. The goal is to discover how wide-spread the practice of hiding abusers in immigrant communities really was.

Manuel Barragan was one of those victims.

After Father Carlos Rodriguez abused a child in south Los Angeles, the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles sent him into an out-of-state treatment program for pedophile priests. Then, local officials brought him back to minister to Spanish speakers in the Office of Family Life.

https://www.npr.org/2018/11/08/665251345/immigrant-communities-were-the-geographic-solution-to-predator-priests


If you pick on a minority which doesn't speak the same language as the authorities, you'll probably be safe. Although apparently only for a while.

[MineralMan]

1. That there is a "treatment program" for pedophile priests

is damning in itself. That the RCC set up such a thing means that they knew the problem existed, or no such thing would have been instituted. That they then returned "treated" priests to voiceless immigrant parishes where they would be in contact with children compounds the problem.

The RCC knowingly subjected children to abuse, and continued doing that for a very long time. There should be prosecutions of the leadership of that organization. This entire thing is unconscionable and evil.

[Pope George Ringo II]

2. It's unspeakable.

Children are so seldom believed even by their own parents when they report abuse by clergy. But to then deliberately add another layer to that by victimising children whose parents have even less recourse to justice based on the colour of their skin and their limited language skills is simply appalling. And yet that's exactly the system they set up as a solution to their embarrassment problem. Because apparently they didn't see a child abuse problem.