3rd May
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What MacIntyre and his team have done is take a scandal that was already in the public domain and landed it right where it belongs: on the doorstep of Cardinal Brady
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11th May
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A Catholic priest in Italy has been sentenced to almost a decade in prison for sexual violence against minors.
A court in the northwest city of Genoa sentenced Riccardo Seppia to nine years, six months and 20 days in prison and fined him 28,000 euros.
Seppia was found guilty of attempted sexual violence, attempted prostitution of a minor and of attempting to furnish cocaine to minors.
The priest was arrested in May 2011 on suspicion of sexual violence against a 16-year-old altar boy and sex abuse of other youths.
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20th March
2012
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Teenage boys surgically castrated whilst in the care of the Dutch Catholic Church of the 1950s
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At least 10 teenage boys or young men under the age of 21 were surgically castrated to get rid of homosexuality while in
the care of the Dutch Roman Catholic Church in the 1950s.
Evidence of the castrations has emerged amid controversy that it was not included in the findings of an official investigation into sexual abuse within the church last year.
The NRC Handelsblad newspaper identified Henk Heithuis who was castrated in 1956, while a minor, after reporting priests to the police for abusing him in a Catholic boarding home.
Joep Dohmen, the investigative journalist who uncovered the Heithuis case, also found evidence of at least nine other castrations. These cases are anonymous and can no longer be traced, he said. There will be many more. But the question
is whether those boys, now old men, will want to tell their story.
Two clergymen were convicted of abuse but Heithuis, the victim, was nonetheless transferred by police to a Catholic psychiatric hospital before being admitted to the St. Joseph Hospital in Veghel later that year. There, court papers confirm, he
was castrated at his own request , despite no submission of his written consent. Sources told Dohmen that the surgical removal of testicles was regarded as a treatment for homosexuality and also as a punishment for those who accused clergy
of sexual abuse.
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7th December 2012
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A Somerset vicar has admitted serious sex offences against a teenage boy. David Roberts, vicar of St John's, Taunton, pleaded guilty at Taunton
Crown Court to two charges of indecent assault and three more serious sex offences between January 1985 and January 1988 when the boy was aged 13 to 15.
The case was adjourned for sentencing and Roberts was remanded in custody.
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23rd November 2012
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Peter Ball, 80, has been arrested on suspicion of eight sex offences against eight boys and young men in the late Eighties and Nineties.
Ball, former bishop of Lewes and later Gloucester, is thought to be the highest member of the clergy to be arrested in connection with a sex abuse investigation.
A second clergyman, an unnamed 67-year-old retired priest, was also detained on suspicion of separate sex offences against two teenage boys in East Sussex between 1981 and 1983, Sussex Police said.
The arrests follow a review and subsequent inquiry over the past six months by a team of Sussex Police detectives.
The investigation followed receipt by police in May this year of two reports from a CofE safeguarding consultant. They contained reviews of Church files relating to safeguarding matters of young people in the Diocese of Chichester during the 1980s
and early 1990s.
Police said there were no allegations of recent or current offending, and there was no suggestion that any young people are at risk.
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23rd July 2012
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The former imam of Wellingborough mosque has been convicted of sexually abusing two girls while privately teaching them passages of the Koran.
Abdul Marin was found unanimously guilty of seven sexual assault charges at Northampton Crown Court having told a jury he was the victim of a conspiracy.
The imam, who resigned last year, was accused of sexually touching two girls, who cannot be named, kissing them and putting his hands inside their clothing during religious lessons.
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7th July 2012
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A retired Church of England priest has been charged with sex attacks on 18 girls and boys dating back 50 years. Canon Gordon Rideout, 73, is
accused of committing 38 offences over an 11-year period between 1962 and 1973.
Rideout will appear on bail at Mid Sussex magistrates court on 16 July.
A total of 36 of the 38 alleged offences are of indecent assault on girls and boys in their early teens, a Sussex police statement said today. Of those, 31 are alleged to have been committed at a property in Crawley, West Sussex, and one in Barkingside,
Essex, between 1962 and 1968. A further four indecent assaults are alleged to have taken place in Middle Wallop, Hampshire, between 1971 and 1973. The other two allegations are of attempted unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl in Crawley between
1962 and 1966.
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20th June 2012
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A Roman Catholic priest from Wirral who admitted sexual activity with an underage boy has been jailed for five years by Liverpool Crown Court.
Father Peter Hooper, 55, admitted 10 charges of sexual activity with the teenager, and inciting him to engage in such activity, at an earlier hearing.
Hooper was formerly parish priest of St Luke The Physician in Bebbington
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10th June 2012
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Pahalagama Somaratana Thera is one of the few Sri Lankan Buddhist monks to have been found guilty of child abuse inside or outside
the country.
But if Children's Affairs Minister Tissa Karaliyadda is to be believed, child abuse in religious establishments by both Buddhist and Christian clergy in Sri Lanka is rampant.
Yet according to figures from Sri Lanka's National Child Protection Authority (NCPA), only three Buddhist monks have been convicted of child abuse in Sri Lanka in recent history.
Research carried out by the BBC Sinhala service has revealed that over the last decade, nearly 110 Buddhist monks have been charged for sexual and physical assaults on minors in Sri Lanka. Many of these cases, especially those
of a sexual nature, were barely reported by the Sri Lankan media and seldom resulted in convictions. The issue of child abuse by Buddhist monks is regarded as taboo in what is an overwhelmingly Buddhist country.
Against that backdrop, the 3 May conviction of Pahalagama Somaratana Thera - who runs children's homes in Sri Lanka - has come as a surprise, as well as a shock, to many expatriate Sinhalese Buddhists in the UK. There are concerns
that Thera's conviction may just be the tip of the iceberg when it comes to abuses in Sri Lankan Buddhist temples.
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2nd May
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One of Britain's most senior Buddhist monks is accused of carrying out a string of sex attacks on two young girls
aged under 10.
The Venerable Pahalagama Somaratana, 66, is facing nine counts of rape, indecent assault and sexual assault.
One girl claims Somaratana abused her in the shrine room of Croydon Temple - where he has been chief monk for the past 31 years.
The attacks are alleged to have taken place on one victim in Chiswick, London during the summer of 1978.
Update: Convicted of Assault
4th May 2012. Via article from bbc.co.uk
Pahalagama Somaratana was convicted of four counts of indecent assault on a female. But he was found not guilty of rape.
He was the chief incumbent of Thames Buddhist Vihara. Police said the assaults had taken place in Chiswick, west London, in the 1970s.
The 65-year-old will be sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court on 1 June.
Update: Jailed
3rd June 2012. See article from bbc.co.uk
A senior Buddhist monk from south London has been jailed for seven years after he was found guilty of four counts of indecent assault.
Pahalagama Somaratana was also put on the sex offenders register for life.
He was also ordered at Isleworth Crown Court to never work with children.
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6th April
2012
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Yazeid Osama Aqqad, 24, touched one boy when he was sitting on his lap on two occasions and abused another boy after inviting him
to sit on his lap.
Aqqad denied the offences during his trial, but was found guilty unanimously of three allegations of sexual assault on a male child under the age of 13 years.
Judge Andrew Hamilton disqualified him from working with children and ordered him to sign the sex offenders' register for life.
The mother of the two boys has been vilified by the Muslim community for reporting the assaults, Nottingham Crown Court heard. She has been subjected to a number of unpleasant incidents including an episode at her home and damage
to her car, Sarah Knight, prosecuting, said. The mother told the court she felt the acts were aimed at encouraging her to withdraw the allegations because in the eyes of the Muslim community, she had committed a sin.
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26th August 2012
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An Oregon Catholic priest is under arrest, charged with molesting a 12-year-old boy and then chasing him down the street when he tried to escape.
The Rev. Angel Armando Perez, the 46-year-old pastor of St. Luke Catholic Church in Woodburn, was charged with sexual abuse, sexual abuse of a child, giving a child alcohol and drunken driving.
The victim told police Perez had offered to take him on a camping trip and he was to spend Sunday night at the rectory. He said he fell asleep on an air mattress on the living room floor after drinking beer with Perez and woke to find the priest
touching him.
The 12-year-old went running down the street and sought help from James Curths, who was giving a barbecue.
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10th August 2012
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After hearing of the Jerry Sandusky and Philadelphia Catholic priests child-sexual-abuse cases in December, a 25-year-old man found
the courage to tell police about his alleged ordeal of being sexually assaulted by his Catholic priest when he was 10 years old in 1997, Philadelphia law-enforcement officials said.
And the young man had quite an tale to tell against the Rev. Andrew McCormick, District Attorney Seth Williams said. Williams said that McCormick assaulted the boy inside the rectory at St. John Cantius Church in Bridesburg.
To keep him quiet, the priest reportedly told the boy, Masturbation is a sin, homosexuality is a sin, premarital sex is a sin, and lying is a sin.
An investigation by the D.A.'s office and the police Special Victims Unit led to an arrest warrant for McCormick, 56, who turned himself in Thursday.
He's been charged with involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, statutory sexual assault, child endangerment and related counts.
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26th June 2012
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Areas of Brooklyn feel like a trip back in time. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities live a lifestyle that mirrors that from centuries ago. What is not visible are shameful secrets. Child sex abuse scandals have been making headlines for years.
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28th March
2012
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Malcolm John Fraser, the assistant pastor of Enumclaw's Sound Doctrine
Church, has been formally charged with first-degree rape of a child.
He will be arraigned April 5.
According to charging papers, Fraser is alleged to have had repeated
sexual contacts with a girl during 2005 and 2006. While it was noted
intercourse did not occur, other sex acts have been alleged. Papers filed by
the King County Prosecutor's Office state that Fraser forced the young girl
to engage in certain sex acts.
A probable cause statement issued by the Enumclaw Police
Department said the issue was first brought to police attention in a report
from Child Protective Services saying that a youngster had been molested
by the assistant pastor of a local church during the time frame of 2005 to
2006. The girl is now 17.
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28th March
2012
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jury has found a leader of a religious sect guilty of raping his daughter
and allowing his friend to rape her as well.
Terrill Dalton, 45, who used the name the Holy Ghost, was
convicted of two counts of rape, a first-degree felony.
Defense attorney Rudy Bautista said jurors were emotional, and one was
crying as they announced the verdict. He said he plans to appeal the
verdict.
Prosecutors say Dalton condoned an impression that Geody Harman,
38, said he had received indicating that he needed to have sex with the
then-15-year-old girl. Both Dalton and Harman were leaders of a small
religious group called the Church of the First Born and the General Assembly
of Heaven.
Dalton called himself the Holy Ghost while Harman was often
referred to as God in the flesh. In a prior hearing, Dalton's
daughter testified that she was promised she would receive blessings if she
had sex with the two men and felt extreme pressure from her father and those
in his church to comply. She was raped at 15 years old by a person who
should have protected her. Instead of protecting her, he served her up on a
silver platter. ... In raping her, he manipulated her. He used religion,
said this is what God wanted. --Tupakk Renteria
Dalton will be sentenced May 11.
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