'A spent volcano': 'old, ill' former priest bailed on 131 charges

[trotsky]

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/a-spent-volcano-old-ill-former-priest-bailed-on-131-charges-20190409-p51cip.html

(Australia)

A former Catholic priest facing trial on more than 130 sexual abuse charges has been bailed after being described as a "spent volcano" who may have only six months to live.

With a walking stick across his lap, a wheelchair-bound David Joseph Perrett, 82, faced the NSW Supreme Court via audio-visual link from Long Bay prison hospital after being charged with abusing 37 children over more than 20 years.

...He was originally granted bail before his freedom was automatically revoked after 30 fresh charges were laid in August 2018, including for the alleged rape of two girls, aged five and eight.

Since then more charges have been laid, with the count now standing at 131.

Protected by his church and now justice will never be served.

[Major Nikon]

1. You don't rape that many kids without the church knowing

Another example which proves the RCC’s culture of child rape. Meanwhile the child rape apologists will continue to claim this is just “human nature” while conveniently ignoring organized religion’s support role.

So yeah, religion doesn’t rape children. It just makes the raping of children much more efficient.

[akraven]

2. I hope his ride to Hell is agonizingly painful.

The Church has a lot to answer to.

[Act_of_Reparation]

4. There is no hell.

The only justice is what we make for the living, here on Earth... which is why addressing this shit is so important.

[MineralMan]

3. Bring all 37 of his victims to him.

Most are adults now. Make him listen to them for as long as they want. Let them tell him what his abuse meant to them. Let them decide how to express themselves. Let him go to his grave with their stories weighing on him.

That would be my choice of punishment for his crimes.

[guillaumeb]

5. A "spent volcano"?

On a vu souvent
Rejaillir le feu
D'un ancien volcan
Qu'on croyait trop vieux