Yes, thanks. Good point. I specifically looked for Massachusetts, since we’re discussing a Boston archbishop. This was the first (only) thing I could find that also mentioned when the law was changed. Every state has different laws and changed them on a different schedule…
Apparently the same thing is still happening today in New Orleans:
Reading the item I posted, it occurs to me it’s aimed at those who have interactions with children. I suppose the mandated reporting still applies if the professiona;'s interaction is with possible molestors too? Basically, if you are this sort of professional… you must…
Every state has its own laws - but mandatory reporting of past abuse is not normally required of people who do not have contact with the abused/neglected children.There may be other laws/rules/regulations that apply in specific situations which have the same effect - for example, the police arrest someone and that person says their children are home alone . Technically, in many states there is no reporting required as the police have had no contact with the children . But the police will check on the children and if they are in fact alone , a report will be required - but by going to check , they have had contact with the children.
Another thing to mention - mandatory reporting to child protective services in many states only applies if the perpetrator is a parent or someone regularly present in the household. If a parent physically abused their child , the mandatory reporter must report to CPS but no report is required if a random person perpetrated the same abuse. And if the random person was reported, it would be to the police, not CPS.
Oregon’s statutes say that public or private officials who are mandated to report include members of the clergy, except when such communication is privileged.
According to this article, 33 states exempt clergy from reporting abuse. 33 states exempt clergy from reporting child abuse.
I personally knew a woman that had a weird fetish about seducing priests. I have no idea what her batting average was but she did have a good many stories. She had a very distinctive sexy voice and she would make it a point to talk with the priests before entering the confessional so they would know who they were talking to while she confessed her sins. The confessional is where she would start the seduction.
I actually do too. I imagine it isn’t that rare. An addictive thrill in being sexy enough to make someone break their vows for you. Ugh.
You may have missed it since IRC you took a break, but the poster in question HBDC, after certain existing issues with warnings and mod instructions, proactively requested to be banned. Although they could, of course, request said ban to be lifted in the future. So you’re speaking to the wall as it were.
Just FYI.
Say what now?
From their thread in which they were discussing their warning over defying a topic ban.
What_Exit forwarded the request to the mod team, they granted the request, and they are banned at this time.
My post was to inform @Ulfreida of that when they replied to one of the HBDC’s posts from a few months ago.
Update: Heckler was given a life sentence and served all 8 days of it.
There is a massive difference between " when was it known?" and “When did it matter enough to do something about it?”.
There’s a website, bishop-accountability.org that lists Catholic priests in the US that have been accused, indicted, etc. I’m not sure how up to date it is.
I had some traumatic experiences with catholic priests in the early to mid 1970s when I was a young teenager.
While on a youth group outing at a local amusement park I discovered this priest and an another adult woman in a passionate embrace in a fun house.
They were shocked.
Later in the day 15 year old me went to the cabin where he was staying with his family and chastised him with threats to tell the bishop lol.
At the time it felt like I had witnessed a volcanic hypocrisy and felt somehow betrayed. I was so seriously enraged that the guy was crying at the picnic table.
I never did tell the bishop.
For a couple years after this incident he would send me birthday and holiday greeting cards with money. Hush money?
At the time I just thought he “liked” me lol.
This particular priest was later accused of multiple sexual abuse incidents and removed from the priesthood in the mid 1980s.
He died about 10 years later of complications of AIDS.
This may have been one of the early steps on my eventual way to being a non believer. I just remember that it was soul crushing at the time.
It looks like that but it’s not. It evaluates to: https://www.rmit.edu.au/content/dam/rmit/documents/news/church-abuse/child-sex-abuse-and-the-catholic-church.pdf
My dad was an altar boy in the late 1940s and apparently all the altar boys were advised to avoid certain priests. Abuse was hinted at.
I grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where the Norbertine (also known as the Premonstratensian) order of priests is fairly prominent, as they have an abbey in the area. The Catholic all-male high school that I attended in the early '80s was run by the order, and many of my teachers were Norbertine priests.
I was pretty oblivious to it all at the time, but there was a Norbertine priest, as well as a “frater” (priest in training) who were teaching at my school, who were well-known among the students, at that time, to be on the creepy side; there were also several Norbertine priests who were the pastors at local parishes who had similar reputations at that time. Many years later, there was finally a formal investigation, and those priests were either defrocked or censured.
My father also grew up in Green Bay, and he attended a different Norbertine-run high school, in the early 1950s. Fairly recently, I learned from him that there were allegations, even back then, of some of the priests sexually abusing some of the students. One of his classmates always refused to attend the reunions of their class, and in his replies to the reunion organizers, always said something along the lines of “I’m not coming, because f*** those Norbertine pedophiles.”
Sexual abuse used to be common in many, perhaps most, institutions:
Excuse me, I meant to write “child sexual abuse”.