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PORTLAND,Ore.-Holding photos of themselves as children, Elsie Boudreau and James Niksik described what they said were years of sexual abuse by Jesuit priests that led to the announcement of a $50 million settlement.They said Tuesday that their abusers were venerated in the isolated western Alaska villages where they grew up."This is a crime that our parents and our grandparents couldn't even conceive of," said Boudreau, who said her photo was taken for her first communion in the village of St. Mary's. The press conference was held two days after the announcement of the $50 million settlement with the Pacific Northwest branch of the Society of Jesus, which includes Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. The Jesuit organization's settlement covers 110 Alaska Natives who say they were abused by more than a dozen priests."This is how big I was," said Niksik, from the village of St. Michael, pointing to a photo of himself and another child at what he said was age 7 or 8. "We put our trust in the people who taught us religion."When he told his father about the abuse, Niksik said, his father didn't believe him.The settlement does not include the Fairbanks Roman Catholic Diocese, which owned and managed churches in rural Alaska.The settlement doesn't require the Jesuits to acknowledge wrongdoing, but lawyers for the plaintiffs said the size of the settlement spoke for itself.John Manly, who has handled several abuse cases, said the plaintiffs believe that church officials knowingly sent "the worst of the worst" to isolated villages and that the Jesuits continue to care for abusers. He said he believes abusers are still in the ministry.The Very Rev. John Whitney, provincial superior of the society, has denied that Alaska was a dumping grounds for pedophile priests.Whitney said in an interview Tuesday that he has often acknowledged the abuse in travels to Alaska. "There were Jesuits who abused native people," he said. "I'm deeply apologetic to those who were abused."He said three abusers in the case remain alive, in their 70s and 80s, and are living under [[["safety plans"]]] that limit their activities and contacts. To expel them from the Jesuits would end those plans, and "we take responsibility for them," he said.He said priests alleged to be current abusers in the ministry should be reported to the police and to the organization, which would remove offenders.On the Net:
Diocese of Fairbanks: http://www.cbna.info/
PS:I always wondered why in the world priests cannot be tried and sent to jail with all the other bunch of sex offenders-like any other regular human being....?
Once they commit these norrible acts,they are no longer-men or women(re:nuns)of the "cloth",actually they are a shame and a DANGER...
I was never personally molested by any priest-even tough nuns were mean to me and punished me several times(for absolutely no reason)as I think I wrote in this blog before,with things such as leaving me standing an entire morning by a statue of virgin Mary,outside in the patio under the torrential rain.I was 5.And I remember I cried and cried and called my mom and these nuns from hell were inside and looked at me thru these huge windows and laughed at me and told me to shut up many times.I'm not making this up this really happened to me....
When my mother went to pick me up and found out the mess I was....IT WASN'T NICE...I think my parents threatened to sue them and all.I got sick with sore throat and flu and they ended up pulling me from that school and sending me to another catholic school that was normal.
It was a known -fact as I was growing up-that you would never leave your boy alone with the priest,no matter what...
Actually one of my first cousins was sexually abused by one priest at his catholic school-and this went on for years.Finally when he was 13 he told my uncle....but the damage was already done.He has had innumerable problems and counselling and therapy,you name it.He is an adult now and still running around with a broken life.
THis sick monster(the priest) had threatened him many times telling him that if he would tell his parents he would go at nite at their home and hurt them and his siblings....That explained why he spent long nights awake late around the living room watching tv and like waiting for somebody.....
Let me tell you....we are living in end times and EVIL DAYS....
IF your kids attend a catholic school or a private school- a religious school if you want-double check the staff there and demand to know who they are.Predators are everywhere EVEN at christian schools.SO be watchful and keep an eye on these things for the sake of your children and grandchildren.
My heart goes out to the victims of abuse at the hands of these phony priests...the same way I hurt for my cousin.
As in the days of Noah...
