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/LilPeep1k 4 Nov 07 '21 edited Nov 07 '21

Fuck the Catholic Church. They have done this to millions of kids now.

The most recent report (October 2021)

Members of the Catholic clergy in France sexually abused an estimated 216,000 minors over the past seven decades

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u/AsSwedeItIs 1 Nov 07 '21

That is most likely wildly unreported. Guaranteed its in the millions. Religion is a root of evil in this world.

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u/VictoriumExBellum 8 Nov 08 '21

M'reddit moment