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Tutti
ricordano la storia delle buone suorine ruandesi inseguite da un
mandato di cattura per genocidio. Le care sorelle, a lungo
nascoste dalla tentacolare omertà cattolica, furono infine
condannate dalla giustizia belga (5 giugno 2001).
Ora però si bissa alla grande.
In giro per il mondo ci sono 200 preti cattolici, americani e
pedofili, che, inseguiti dalla polizia, sfuggono, grazie alla
benevola distrazione di Santa Romana Madre Chiesa, alla
giustizia e al discredito, passando da un paese all’altro e da
un parrocchia all’altra. Questa vicenda promette di essere molto
più avvincente della precedente, perché a stanarli dai meandri
della multinazionale vaticana ci si è messo il Dallas Morning
News.
Runaway priests hiding in plain sight
The
Dallas Morning News
Monday, June 21, 2004
Catholic priests accused of sexually abusing children are hiding
abroad and working in church ministries, The Dallas Morning News
has found.
From Africa to Latin America to Europe to Asia, these priests
have started new lives in unsuspecting communities, often with
the help of church officials. They are leading parishes,
teaching and continuing to work in settings that bring them into
contact with children, despite church claims to the contrary.
The global movement has gone largely unnoticed -- even after an
abuse scandal swept the U.S. Catholic Church in 2002, forcing
bishops to adopt a "zero tolerance" policy and drawing
international attention.
Starting this week and continuing in coming months, we report
the results of a yearlong investigation that reaches all six
occupied continents. Key findings include: Nearly half of the
more than 200 cases we identified involve clergy who tried to
elude law enforcement. About 30 remain free in one country while
facing ongoing criminal inquiries, arrest warrants or
convictions in another.
Most runaway priests remain in the church, the world's largest
organization, so they should be easier to locate than other
fugitives.
Instead, Catholic leaders have used international transfers to
thwart justice, a practice that poses far greater challenges to
law enforcement than the domestic moves exposed in the 2002
scandal.
Police and prosecutors, however, often fail to take basic steps
to catch fugitive priests.
Church discipline, such as the U.S. bishops' new policy, doesn't
keep all offenders out of ministry. Dozens of priests who are no
longer eligible to work in this country have found sanctuary
abroad.
www.dallasnews.com
Claudio Giusti
COMITATO “3 LUGLIO
1849”
Per i diritti umani, contro la pena di morte
e-mail:
giusticlaudio@aliceposta.it
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