{"id":86083,"date":"2012-04-07T15:46:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T19:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/86083\/how-to-not-respond-on-the-cusp-of-easter-sunday-or-any-other-day-for-that-matter\/"},"modified":"2012-04-07T15:46:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T19:46:23","slug":"how-to-not-respond-on-the-cusp-of-easter-sunday-or-any-other-day-for-that-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/86083\/how-to-not-respond-on-the-cusp-of-easter-sunday-or-any-other-day-for-that-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW TO NOT RESPOND ON THE CUSP OF EASTER SUNDAY OR ANY OTHER DAY FOR THAT MATTER !!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SOOOOOO How does the Lawyer and thus the Bishop himself,and the Roman Catholic Church respond to these charges ?
\nWell here have a look for yourselves my friends\u2026.<\/p>\n

Catholic bishop had no \u201cduty\u201d to report child abuse: lawyer<\/p>\n

ReutersBy Carey Gillam | Reuters \u2013 Tue, Mar 27, 2012<\/p>\n

KANSAS CITY (Reuters) \u2013 A Catholic Bishop in Kansas City did not have a legal obligation to report suspected child sexual abuse by a local priest even if he knew about it, a lawyer for the bishop said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

In a preview to the upcoming trial of Bishop Robert Finn of the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, a lawyer for Finn asked Jackson County Circuit Judge John Torrence to dismiss the charge against him because he said there was another Diocese official who should have reported the priest to police.<\/p>\n

\u201cBishop Finn had no statutory duty to report. We believe that this is clear,\u201d said attorney J.R. Hobbs in arguing for Judge Torrence to dismiss the case against Finn.<\/p>\n

Judge Torrence said he would take the matter under advisement and likely rule on the matter next week.<\/p>\n

Bishop Finn is the highest-ranking Catholic leader to face criminal charges in the United States related to alleged abuse by a priest.<\/p>\n

His case marks what some observers see as a key turning point in assigning accountability to an organization that has a long history of protecting priests who abuse children.<\/p>\n

The priest in this case, Father Shawn Ratigan, has been charged with 13 counts of child pornography, some of which he kept on a church computer, and is jailed awaiting trial.<\/p>\n

Bishop Finn and others in the Diocese became aware of the pictures in December 2010 but Finn never made an official report to authorities even though he did send Ratigan for psychological evaluation and ordered him to stay away from children.<\/p>\n

Another Diocese official finally reported the situation to police in May 2011.<\/p>\n

During his hearing, the bishop sat stoically in the courtroom, clad in his cleric\u2019s collar with a large gold cross dangling from a gold chain around his neck.<\/p>\n

He joked afterward with his attorney, smiling and laughing before exiting through a back door to the courtroom.<\/p>\n

LEGAL DUTY TO REPORT?<\/p>\n

Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker argued against dismissal, saying Bishop Finn not only had a legal duty to report the suspected child abuse, but as the head of the Diocese, he was the key person who should have reported it.<\/p>\n

A Diocese \u201cresponse team\u201d set up to deal with suspected child abuse by priests was never even activated, she said.<\/p>\n

The \u201cpornographic pictures of young girls\u201d Finn became aware of more than fit the definition of what the Bishop knew authorities should be alerted to, Baker said. \u201cThere were policies in place. But they didn\u2019t use them,\u201d Baker said.<\/p>\n

Finn, who leads about 134,000 Catholics of the Kansas City-area Diocese, was charged in October with one misdemeanor count of failing to report suspected abuse of a child.<\/p>\n

The charges are based on \u201cmandated reporter\u201d laws, which require school officials, clergy and virtually anyone with access to and control over a child to immediately alert child protective services and law enforcement if they have any reason to suspect abuse or child endangerment.<\/p>\n

Finn\u2019s lawyer argued another Diocese official was designated as the mandated reporter, which meant Finn did not have to make a report himself. That individual, Monsignor Robert Murphy, was the one who ultimately did report Ratigan to police.<\/p>\n

Both Finn and the Diocese were indicted by a grand jury in Jackson County in October. It heard evidence that the Bishop had received warnings for months that the 46-year-old priest posed a threat. Both have pleaded not guilty to those charges.<\/p>\n

Finn faces a maximum sentence of one year in prison and a $1,000 fine on the misdemeanor charge.<\/p>\n

(Editing by Tim Gaynor and Todd Eastham)<\/p>\n

Source below.
\nhttp:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/catholic-bishop-had-no-duty-report-child-abuse-002054925.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Wait a minute did I just read that right my friends\u2026.?<\/p>\n

KANSAS CITY (Reuters) \u2013 A Catholic Bishop in Kansas City did not have a legal obligation to report suspected child sexual abuse by a local priest even if he knew about it, a lawyer for the bishop said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Oh really no legal obligation huh\u2026..
\nThis is total and complete horse crap my friends.
\nEach human being on this planet has that Legal and Moral responsibility to report suspected child abuse\u2026..oh yea that\u2019s right\u2026.\u201dmoralistic values and ethics are in no way the responsibility of the Roman Catholic Church \u201c..?????????
\nWHY,WHY,WHY,WHY Can the church not comprehend the Moralistic as well as the Legal ramifications of not doing anything to prevent child abuse from ever happening again\u2026..especially when it is their own doctrine that forbids others from doing it ?
\nSo then the rule is definitively,\u201ddo as I say,not as I do\u201d,and who would actually want to abuse children in the first place.The Roman Catholic Church\u2019s views are so completely and utterly out of whack on this entire subject of responsibility that it leaves all other people shaking their heads in disbelief that an Institution that has reportedly 7 BILLION members within it\u2019s confines could be so completely and totally devoid of any logic,intelligence,and basic common sense as they continually and so blatantly show the entire world that they do not process.
\nIt is far,far\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..far beyond appalling my friends\u2026.in fact you know it is Criminal !<\/p>\n

I mean really my friends\u2026WTH !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SOOOOOO How does the Lawyer and thus the Bishop himself,and the Roman Catholic Church respond to these charges ? Well here have a look for yourselves my friends\u2026. Catholic bishop had no \u201cduty\u201d to report child abuse: lawyer ReutersBy Carey Gillam | Reuters \u2013 Tue, Mar 27, 2012 KANSAS CITY (Reuters) \u2013 A Catholic Bishop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2,11,1428,25],"tags":[1583,3004,5011,4775,1124,5010],"class_list":["post-86083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-other","category-people","category-politics-2","category-world","tag-bishop","tag-child-abuse","tag-crime-etc","tag-etc","tag-responsibility","tag-roman-catholic-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}