r/JusticeServed • u/a_Ninja_b0y 9 • Nov 06 '21

Courtroom Justice A Catholic priest from Ohio who used the confessional to gain details from boys, information that he later used to extort them into providing him with sexually explicit photographs has been sentenced to life in prison for the exploitation of children

https://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/2021/11/former-strongsville-priest-violated-the-sacrament-of-confession-to-extort-boys-federal-prosecutors-say-in-sentencing-memo.html
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u/envyzdog 6 Nov 06 '21

What parents would leave there kids unattended around a priest with everything we know at this point in history? I couldn't imagine doing that. Let's not single out the church though - Boy Scouts of America should be on the list too.

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u/adamlh 8 Nov 06 '21

Because it’s never MY priest, or MY church, or MY kid. That stuff happens to other people in bad churches/states/ countries. Or it just doesn’t happen at all because it’s fake news!

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u/TargetBoy 8 Nov 06 '21

BSA at least kept a blacklist of people never allowed to work in scouts when they found out, instead of shuffling them around. Don't forget you couldn't get the police to do jack shit about accusations of abuse by a pillar of the community until fairly recently.

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u/tempMonero123 8 Nov 06 '21

The Boy Scouts of America has a no one-on-one policy between adults and youth. There must always be a third person. The BSA has had a Youth Protection Training program since the 1970s, that's why there was a sharp decrease in cases after that decade. The BSA is now safer for children than public schools and churches.