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…)
Two videos after the jump.
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…)
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…)
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…)
Video after the jump.
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.
Backstory: “Anti-Gay Alliance Defense Fund Lawyer Lisa Biron Charged with Producing Child Pornography,“ November 18, 2012
The pathetic excuse for a human being you see at left (the sight of which has the same effect on us as syrup of ipecac) is Lisa Biron, lawyer for the professional anti-gay organization Alliance Defense Fund* (although they’re pretending she never was), graduate & board member of Pat Robertson‘s Regent University, and member of the just-as-wildly-homophobic Christian Legal Society and radical right-wing Federalist Society. (more…)
Backstory: “Caleb Hesse: Another Anti-Gay Proposition 8 Donor Charged With Sexually Assaulting Numerous Young Boys He Met As Church Youth Volunteer,” August 17, 2012
We’ve been waiting for this good news for nearly six months — which is nothing next to the decades of trauma suffered by the victims in this case; we sincerely hope their healing is far greater than our satisfaction in seeing this monster locked up forever: (more…)
First, the backstory from our original write-up of May 18, 2012:
Arraigned: Luis Morales, a.k.a. “Apostle Tito”, 57, founder, pastor & “prophet,” evangelistic En Fuego for Jesus Ministry (also MySpace), Ormond Beach, Florida, on charges of “sexually molesting several children who are members of his (more…)
H/T to our friend Jeri Massi!
Backstory:
• Black Collar Crime Round-Up, November 1, 2010
• Black Collar Crime Round-Up, January 8, 2011
• Black Collar Crime Round-Up, February 1, 2011
• “Pastor Chris Settlemoir sentenced,” Deep Thoughts, May 25, 2011 (more…)
Backstory:
• Black Collar Crime Round-Up, July 4, 2012
• Black Collar Crime Round-Up, July 13, 2012
• “Oscar D. Perez Perez Jury Foreman Speaks: ‘I Helped Convict a Pedophile Pastor’,” July 17, 2012
From the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, September 14, 2012: (more…)
It’s often difficult to decide who disgusts us more: child rapists, or the fools who defend them — “I refuse to believe it! He couldn’t have done it — he’s a good Christian!” which is sometimes, but seldom, followed much later by a begrudging “He made a mistake… and he’s paying for it” — or, more likely: “Who are you to judge? We’re all sinners!”
The good Christian you see at left is William Muth, 46, who was already in prison (more…)
Video after the jump.
ConBab readers and and Trentonians from way back will remember Joseph “JoJo” Giorgianni, a.k.a. “The Quarter-Ton Sex-Offender,” the morbidly obese restaurateur (JoJo’s Steakhouse, Trenton, New Jersey) and Republican Committeeman — elected three times, after he was convicted of sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl in a back room of his restaurant in 1978 (which makes you wonder about the “values” of his supporters) — who tried to avoid prison by saying he’d never survive life on the inside due to his weight (then 565 pounds) and his purported asthma. That ploy was blown to bits after he was spotted enjoying himself at a boxing match surrounded by “a cloud of cigar smoke.” (more…)
Who: Oscar D. Perez Perez, 69, pastor, Iglesia Antigua Católica, Laguna Hills, California, convicted just days ago of sexually assaulting five young boys, all parishioners, in Perez’s apartment. As recounted by the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, Perez “was found guilty by a jury of 22 felony counts of lewd acts upon a child under 14, four felony counts of lewd acts on a child, and sentencing enhancement allegations for lewd acts against multiple victims.” Scheduled for sentencing September 14, 2012, “Perez faces a maximum sentence of 330 years to life in state prison and mandatory lifetime sex offender registration.” (more…)
“If there is one thing that irks me, it is having the Roman Catholic Church preach to me about sexual morality. It is a religious sect led by a virulently homophobic Pope that goes out of its way to trash my family. Yet, my family hasn’t spent a cent defending itself against nonexistent charges of child rape, while the Vatican has spent $2.5 billion on legal fees, prevention programs, and settlements relating to the sexual abuse of minors. (more…)
There are no words in the English language to sufficiently express the depth of our revulsion for the subject of this story. All we can do is wonder what kind of spiritual abuse there must be in this man’s past — for we cannot help but believe there must be — and ask why he was ever allowed back on the streets.
Adam Lee Brown is a former “pulpit-pounding,” Satan-fixated lay preacher at Fair Oaks Community Church in Roseburg, Oregon — where his mother was pastor — one-time Marine, and repeat child molester who deliberately tried to infect his young victims with HIV: (more…)
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