Backstory:
• “Sacked, Sort Of: Cardinal Roger Mahony,” February 1, 2013
• “Cardinal Mahony Says He’s A ‘Scapegoat,’ Compares Himself to Jesus & Mary,” February 25, 2013
• “Black Collar Crime Round-Up” (Michael Stephen Baker), March 14, 2013
Joseph “JoJo” Giorgianni — the “Quarter-Ton Sex-Offender” who was elected three times as Republican Committeeman for New Jersey’s North Ward after being convicted of sexually molesting a 14-year-old girl he got liquored up in the back room of his Trenton restaurant — is one of those Conservative Babylonians whose story just plain sticks in our collective craw: He was sentenced to 15 years in prison but served only a measly three.
Thus, certainly unfairly but most unashamedly, we’re happy to see him up on charges of anything else — that’s how bugged we are that he’s been allowed to walk around free all these years (since 1985, when he was paroled, having nearly avoided prison altogether; his lawyer argued that his massive, and asthmatic, 565-pound bulk should amount to a get-out-of-jail-free card). (more…)
Courtesy of the Wisconsin Gazette:
March 14, 2013 — The former pastor of a northwest Indiana megachurch is scheduled for sentencing today for persuading a 16-year-old girl to engage in a sexual affair with him by telling her that Jesus desired it.
Claims to fame: 65-year-old founder and former pastor, Living Word Fellowship of Santa Clara, St. George, Utah; right-wing extremist; one-time Republican candidate for Utah’s 2nd District; repeat GOP delegate; ex-U.S. Marine; Vietnam veteran; husband; father of five; grandfather of 18; convicted child molester
Moral apex: Sexually molested at least four young girls as young as ten years old, all relatives, under the guise of having them to his home to give them a “Godly upbringing.” (Family members (more…)
We are so repulsed by this story, we can’t even comment. All we can do is give you our transcript of the audio interview with Erica Moore provided by CBSDFW.com (and warn abuse survivors to turn away now — major triggers ahead):
“My cousin at the time, he was 18, my son was 15, and I had walked in the room (more…)
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When the news broke on the 18th that Christine Shreeve Hubbs — the Livermore, California, Mormon mom who plied two young boys with gifts and then had sex with each (the first reportedly her daughter’s boyfriend, and the second reportedly a patsy used to make the first boy jealous when he started pulling away from the shameless old cougar) — had been released from prison and was busted again less than a week later on a parole violation, we had no idea what sort of violation it was. Now, we know — but the parole violation is nothing compared to the rest of the story that’s just now emerging. If this is accurate, it’s almost as sick as anything that’s come before in the Hubbs saga, and highly disturbing. (more…)
Kim John and Francis Philip, Rastafarian “prophets” — sent by God to destroy the demons that “infest” the Vatican — already escaped the death penalty once. Now they (and we) are waiting to hear their fate (their sentences were supposed to come down today, but we haven’t heard anything yet).
Both pleaded guilty last week to slaughtering a nun and a priest and setting parishioners on fire during a New Year’s Eve Mass in St. Lucia in 2000. (more…)
By Jack Bouboushian, Courthouse News Service
(CN) – Pope Benedict’s retirement plans may open him up to prosecution by the International Criminal Court for sheltering child abusers, an advocacy group said Monday.
Citing his frail health on Monday, Pope Benedict XVI announced that he will step down as pope after less than eight years in office. He is the first pope to retire in the last 600 years. (more…)
“Sometimes he would choke us, put a pillow over our faces, tie us up, use little chopsticks and knives and stab us.”
— Testimony of one of Daryl VonNeida’s victims
Bizarre. Gruesome. Avoidable. Something you won’t read in the mainstream media reports about the freakish Daryl E. VonNeida — who was convicted today of 14 charges of sexually (more…)
Released early: Daniel Earl Webster, 42, former Sunday school teacher, Life Adventure Church, Lebanon, Ohio, after serving only 305 days of a four-year prison sentence following a guilty plea to two felony counts of sexual battery committed over a year against one of his students, a 15-year-old boy. (At the same time, Judge Robert Peeler also granted early release to gym teacher Stacy Schuler, jailed for having sex with five students.) (more…)
Backstory:
• “16 Amish Beard Cutters Convicted of Hate Crimes Against ‘Religious Enemies’,” September 22, 2012
• “Somebody Call the Wahhhmbulance for the Amish Beard-Cutter Gang,” October 1, 2012
We think it’s a tad harsh to sentence anybody to 15 years for launching a mass hair-cutting attack — after all, Mitt Romney wasn’t even reprimanded for doing the same thing, and he apparently did it with his own two hands (unlike Amish ringleader Samuel Mullet) — but then, nobody asked little old us. In any case, here’s the latest, directly from our friends at the FBI: (more…)
Okay, he didn’t eat the guy’s ear — he just pulled a Mike Tyson and bit off a piece of it. A big piece. Two inches of it.
Nearly a year ago, we told you about three different parents, two dads and a mom, all of them Catholic, and all of them charged with assaulting other Catholics at Catholic schools and/or youth functions — all within a span of just over two weeks. (more…)
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (CN) — The Boy Scouts of America must cough up records of sexual abuse claims made against adults in the organization, a Texas judge ruled.
Lawyers believe the so-called perversion records will help them prove that the Scouts are liable for the alleged abuse committed by troop leader James Hiatt. A Bexar County jury convicted Hiatt of indecency with a child and aggravated sexual assault of a child in 2008.
In a 2011 petition, an 18-year-old former scout, using the pseudonym John Adams, claimed that Hiatt sexually abused him during his time with Troop 41 in 2004 and 2005.
The San Antonio resident sued the Irving, Texas-based organization and the Alamo Area Council for negligence. (more…)
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The music is a bit Faux News-style melodramatic, but this short news report (with part 2 on ABC 4/Salt Lake City tomorrow night, February 5th) is worth the watch; until you hear victims speak, it’s often difficult to imagine their very real agony. (more…)
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Isidro Zavala makes us wish we believed in Outer Darkness.
Marco was 11 and Eduardo was 12… (more…)
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We never did like him. Growing up in the Catholic church during his reign, it seemed like we were always hearing about Cardinal Roger Mahony (or “Roger Cardinal Mahony,” if you want to be all Catholic-y about it) shutting down one parochial school or another for reasons beyond our grade-school ken (although, from the way the adults talked, we got the idea it had everything to do with money). To little Catholic kids, he was just an unfair old poop whose reach extended (more…)
Four down, one to go:
The jury convicted Shero, 49, of Levittown, of rape, indecent sexual assault and other charges. They convicted Engelhardt, 66, of Wyndmoor, of charges including indecent assault of a child under 13, corruption of a minor and conspiracy with Avery. The jury deadlocked on one count, an indecent sexual assault count against Engelhardt, after deliberating since late Friday.
Suicide: Brother Stephen Baker, 62, Franciscan friar, St. Bernardine Monastery, Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, “named in legal settlements last week involving 11 men who alleged that he sexually abused them at a Catholic high school in northeast Ohio three decades ago,” reports AP. “The undisclosed financial settlements announced Jan. 16 involved his contact with students at John F. Kennedy High School in Warren, Ohio from 1986-90. … After the settlements were announced, the Altoona-Johnstown Diocese in central Pennsylvania said it received complaints in 2011 (more…)
Backstory: “Eagle Scout Quintin P. O’Dell Charged with Hatchet-Murder of One Woman & Gutting Another Like a Fish,” February 6, 2012
Quintin Phillip O’Dell, 23, the much-lauded Eagle Scout who smirked for his mug shot (left), avoided an armful of sodium pentothal by pleading guilty to slaughtering a young woman in his hometown of Platte City, Missouri, and slicing open the belly of another woman with a razor before sexually assaulting her. (Amazingly, the latter survived.) (more…)
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