WILL KANSAS CITY FORGIVE AND FORGET BISHOP FINN'S FAILURE TO REPORT CHILD SEX ABUSE GUILTY VERDICT?!?!
Let's start out by looking toward the future . . .
TKC BREAKING NEWS!!! TODAY SNAP IS ORGANIZING A PROTEST GEARED TOWARD ASKING THE CHURCH HIERARCHY TO DISCIPLINE BISHOP FINN!!!
The details . . .
Victims seek Vatican rebuke
They want Pope to discipline KC bishop
Group also urges head of US prelates to act
SNAP blasts Finn for his latest legal maneuver
"His lawyers claim that accused predator priest isn't “employee” and they want diocesan abuse training 'outsourced' to independent agency"
However . . .
I know the twisted nature of this town better than anybody else and here's what really concerns me . . .
IS KANSAS CITY READY TO FORGIVE AND FORGET A GUILTY VERDICT AGAINST BISHOP FINN?!?!?
More . . .
WILL THE FAILURE TO REPORT SUSPECTED CHILD SEX ABUSE CONVICTION BECOME JUST ANOTHER TRAGIC LOCAL TOPIC THAT KANSAS CITY'S SCHIZOPHRENIC LEADERSHIP WILL POLITELY IGNORE!?!?
I have my suspicions and I'm already worried that very few people are talking about the consequences of yesterday's verdict or pretending like this thing is now a done deal.
Check the links . . .
New York Times: Kansas City Bishop Convicted of Shielding Pedophile Priest
Split reaction to verdict in Finn case
Bishop Robert Finn: Guilty On One Count
Bishop Finn found guilty of failing to report abusive priest
Community reacts to Finn verdict
Bishop Finn guilty on 1 of 2 charges
Finn, 59, was sentenced to two years probation, which was suspended. He will also have to attend a mandated sexual abuse reporter training program, and implement an FBI sex-abuse reporting training course for clergy.
A time line in the Bishop Finn case
Mixed reactions to Finn avoiding jail
Bishop Finn Conviction Brings Mixed Reaction
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12 Comments:
Of course nothing will change. He got away with it with a wrist slap.
The people will still keep shoveling the money into the collection plate every week. And the shit goes on.....
Not one fucking dime will I put into ANY church collection plate. They are just money machines and always have been.. Watch how fast they scatter when the money runs out.
Jean Peters Baker sought the easy conviction rather than seeking justice.
I would have had more respect for her if she had gone for a prison term and fine, and aired the facts, but lost in the pursuit of justice.
Sadly, 7:37 AM has it right. Jean Peters Baker DID take the easy way out. And REAL justice has been denied.
The biggest part of this cynical "settlement" was the obligation for the Church to fund $10,000 for counseling for victims.
Are you kidding me? ... $10,000 FUCKING DOLLARS? ... that is as pathetic as Finn's cynical excuses.
Pathetic.
Sad.
Immoral.
He should be locked up in a fuck him in the ass prison, where someone should not report him getting rapped everyday
How did the Vicar General Robert Murphy escape without any criminal charges? He had plenty of blame as well.
Remember the super-wimp prosecutor in Clay County who cut such a sweet deal with Finn? Let him off with only five years of supervised probation.
And "tough" Jean? Why, she took this to the mat. And got two years unsupervised probation and three of four charges dismissed.
Methinks the JaCo prosecutor took the best deal she could get.
So you saying Mean Jean took a little under the table cash?
Mean Jean is cowardly. She folds under pressure.
Jean got three years off of her time in Purgatory and seven prayer cards.
Jean caved in and liberal loser John Torrance, former railroad plaintiff attorney and known for his easy sentencing, made it all a walk in the park for Freaky Finn.
It is our guess that all of the US bishops have been watching this case against Bishop Finn very closely. The KC judge found Finn guilty of concealing and not reporting sex crimes against innocent little girls. This has NEVER happened to a US bishop before. and there are many other bishops who could have been sitting in that court room and been found guilty also.
This trial and verdict is only the beginning of getting this horrific abuse stopped. It is only the beginning of getting the enabling and empowering of child predators stopped. It is the beginning of protecting kids today.
The courage of brave victims of clergy sex abuse, who are speaking up and starting to contact police instead of contacting church officials, are to be commended for helping to expose the truth. Like Finn has now learned the hard way, it is not the church officials who should be deciding or investigating child sex crimes, that is the job for law enforcement.
Church officials are not able to police themselves because there is no punishment for the bishops who break their own rules. Victims deserve to be treated with respect no matter how long ago their abuse happened, Child predators need to be exposed and removed from their ministries no matter how old the allegations, because they can never be trusted to be around children.
Hopefully this trial and verdict will encourage other law enforcement agencies to investigate the handling of child sex crimes in other US dioceses across the nation. The KC diocese sexual abuse cover up is not an isolated case by any means.
This Bishop Finn trial was an amazing experience to witness. The guilty verdict gives hope to many thousands of clergy abuse victims that justice is possible and that there is hope that no other child will be given the life sentence of being sexually abused.
Judy Jones, SNAP Midwest Associate Director, USA, 636-433-2511. snapjudy@gmail.com,
(SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests)
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