200,000 ABUSED BY PRIESTS AND RELIGIOUS IN FRANCE IN PAST SEVEN DECADES!
A commission investigating child sexual abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church said on Tuesday the nearly 300 testimonies of alleged victims it has collected so far were “just the tip of the iceberg”.
“There have been multiple cases of sexual abuse of children and teenagers in the past,” said the head of the commission, child psychiatrist Pedro Strecht, explaining that more than half of the 290 testimonies indicate “many more victims”.
The abuse allegations have come from people born between 1933 and 2009, from various backgrounds, from every region of the country and also from Portuguese nationals living in other European nations, the United States, Mexico and Canada.
Most of the alleged victims are men, and were sexually abused as early as when they were 2-years-old.
The commission started its work in January after a report by a commission in France revealed last year around 3,000 priests and religious officials sexually abused more than 200,000 children over the past 70 years.
PAT SAYS
If there were 200,000 people in France by priests and religious over 70 years what will the world total be?
Surely this means MILLIONS of clerical abuse victims world wide?
This is a massive number of human beings.
If any other world organisation hurt and abused MILLIONS of people it would become an international pariah.
Why is the Roman Catholic Church getting away with this colossal massacre of minds, souls and lives?
Why have they not been banned from countries?
Why are they allowed observer status at the likes of the United Nations?
Why do over 160 countries have diplomatic relations with the so called “Holy See”?
It’s not as if the Vatican has gas or oil like Saudi Arabia or Russia.
Can any reader explain why this is?
GER’S EXs MEET FOR MUTUAL SUPPORT IN ONE OF GER’S HAUNTS.
After the EAMON CASEY scandal I started a support for women in relationships with priests called BETHANY.
It was NOT a lobby group.
It was a support group whereby I introduced these women to each other for mutual support.
We eventually heard from roughly 200 women.
Bonnie and Carole are VICTIMS of GER FITZGERALD.
He only had sexual intercourse with one woman.
But there are such things as emotional and spiritual abuse and Ger is abusing women emotionally and spiritually.
And Ger targets vulnerable women, uses them, leads them on and when finished with them, dumps them.
If a lay man did that, we would regard him as a jerk.
For a priest to do it, I can’t think of the appropriate word.
And, to date FINTAN MONAHAN, is facilitating the abuse.
Ger needs to leave the priesthood.
But would he be a danger to women even as a bus driver?
And there are still people and even women, telling Ger he is the victim!
BISHOP PAT BUCKLEY 