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Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
Sun Sep 28, 2014, 02:14 PM Sep 2014

Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski Stored Over 100,000 Child Porn Videos

A former Vatican archbishop accused of paedophilia stored tens of thousands of child porn videos and photos on a computer in his office at the Holy See diplomatic compound in the Dominican Republic, it has emerged.

Details of Jozef Wesolowski's massive child porn stash have been revealed after the 66-year-old was arrested at the Vatican earlier this week.

He is the highest-ranking Vatican official ever to be investigated for sex abuse, and the first top papal representative to receive a defrocking sentence. He has been charged with sexually abusing minors and child porn possession and might face up to seven years in the Vatican's tiny jail.

Vatican detectives analysed the PC Wesolowski used in his office in Santo Domingo, where he served as Holy See envoy from 2008 to 2012 as part of an investigation into the alleged sexual abuse of underage boys.

The probe reportedly revealed a collection of horrors. The Polish native held more than 100,000 sexually-explicit files, Il Corriere della Sera newspaper reported.


Some 160 videos showing teenage boys forced to perform sexual acts on themselves and on adults and more than 86,000 pornographic photos were meticulously archived in several category-based folders, the paper said.

Investigators said that at least another 45,000 pictures were deleted, while a second stash of material was found on a laptop Wesolowski used during his trips abroad.

The former clergyman was placed under house arrest in a pre-trial detention at the Vatican earlier this week. He has been detained in a small room in the basement of the Collegio dei Penitenzieri, a convent located in the same building hosting the Vatican's court and military police in the famous Santa Marta square.


http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/vatican-paedophilia-scandal-archbishop-jozef-wesolowski-stored-over-100000-child-porn-videos-1467410

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Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski Stored Over 100,000 Child Porn Videos (Original Post) Ichingcarpenter Sep 2014 OP
House arrest wtf? SummerSnow Sep 2014 #1
100,000 leads and faces for the police to follow Ichingcarpenter Sep 2014 #2
Freaking wow malaise Sep 2014 #5
This thread needs some Tim Minchin :) Electric Monk Sep 2014 #9
I was just about to post that...nt SidDithers Sep 2014 #14
Franklin is the ultimate example reddread Sep 2014 #8
I am not surprised that so many of the most wealthy and powerful men in tblue37 Sep 2014 #10
This is why so little prosecution; the game is rigged. Also, the newly-late Mr. Kidman has WinkyDink Sep 2014 #16
My siblings and I always say we're glad mum died when she did malaise Sep 2014 #3
This isn't just a church thing its a world wide ELITE organization Ichingcarpenter Sep 2014 #4
Please see my post #10 above. nt tblue37 Sep 2014 #11
I wonder if Benedict MFM008 Sep 2014 #6
His history in the church Ichingcarpenter Sep 2014 #7
Holy (^&$# RobertEarl Sep 2014 #12
Who has time to watch that much porn? spinbaby Sep 2014 #13
Archbishops and US Congressmen. lpbk2713 Sep 2014 #15

Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
2. 100,000 leads and faces for the police to follow
Sun Sep 28, 2014, 03:19 PM
Sep 2014

He had a lot of time and help to do this and what better place to hide it for a power player in the world organization.


This is much, much bigger than just the leadership of the Catholic church or just the Dominican Republic

New York City elite:
Gristina’s list of customers “included powerful politicians, top-law enforcement, influential lawyers, bankers, entertainment execs and Fortune 500 businessmen, as well as several ultra-wealthy European clients,” reports the New York Post.

Some of the sexual encounters included the involvement of children, according to Manhattan Assistant DA Charles Linehan.

http://nypost.com/2012/03/06/hot-mama-is-kink-link-to-rich-da/

NSA and Pentagon: workers tied to child porn

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/07/23/pentagon_workers_tied_to_child_porn/


England: 20 establishment figures 'in elite paedophile ring'


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10953043/20-establishment-figures-in-elite-paedophile-ring.html

Franklin satanic cult/sex/drug ring and the GHW Bush white house


http://www.apfn.org/apfn/ring.htm



Too often, we get focused on one festering boil, instead of pulling back and looking at the infectious disease at the root of it.

 

Electric Monk

(13,869 posts)
9. This thread needs some Tim Minchin :)
Sun Sep 28, 2014, 04:30 PM
Sep 2014

Last edited Sun Sep 28, 2014, 06:00 PM - Edit history (1)



edited to add: This was written during Benedict's term, but I think things are improving some with Francis, as evidenced by this ArchBishop getting charged.
 

reddread

(6,896 posts)
8. Franklin is the ultimate example
Sun Sep 28, 2014, 04:21 PM
Sep 2014

of how much the Bush Familia can get away with.
Put to bed that old saw about dead bodies and live boys.
how much more do you need to know?
Hey, whats on TV?

tblue37

(65,340 posts)
10. I am not surprised that so many of the most wealthy and powerful men in
Sun Sep 28, 2014, 04:46 PM
Sep 2014

society turn out to be rapists and child molesters. We all know that forcing sex on helpless and unwilling victims is not about the sex so much as it is about the thrill the rapists get from exercising power and absolute dominance over their victims.

Often the kind of man who rises to the top in a system that richly rewards the abuse of power and the desire to dominate others, while strongly discouraging or even actively penalizing those who seek to nurture or protect the weak and vulnerable, will end up with a hierarchy in which the most brutal and sexually abusive men are in the highest positions.

Those who find their greatest thrill in having the freedom to exercise dominance and to wield power over the weak and vulnerable are probably much more likely than ordinary people to enjoy sexually abusing the weakest, most vulnerable victims they can find.

 

WinkyDink

(51,311 posts)
16. This is why so little prosecution; the game is rigged. Also, the newly-late Mr. Kidman has
Sun Sep 28, 2014, 07:26 PM
Sep 2014

multiple accusers of same.

malaise

(268,982 posts)
3. My siblings and I always say we're glad mum died when she did
Sun Sep 28, 2014, 03:23 PM
Sep 2014

for the exposure of her church's hierarchy would have killed her.

Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
4. This isn't just a church thing its a world wide ELITE organization
Sun Sep 28, 2014, 03:29 PM
Sep 2014

that is within all the elite structures of society...banking, religion, military, political, entertainment... etc. as I noted in post 2....

Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
7. His history in the church
Sun Sep 28, 2014, 04:21 PM
Sep 2014

He was appointed as nuncio to Bolivia on 3 November 1999. On 6 January 2000 he was consecrated Titular Archbishop of Sléibhte by John Paul II. During the course of 2002 he was appointed as nuncio to the Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. On 24 January 2008 he was appointed nuncio to the Dominican Republic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Weso%C5%82owski

but i'm saying in post 2 its bigger than the church.

 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
12. Holy (^&$#
Sun Sep 28, 2014, 06:37 PM
Sep 2014

While one hand this is hard to believe, on the other it does not surprise me

There are some real wicked people on this planet. Where better place to hide than in a church?

Looks like this new Pope is, maybe, not a wicked one?

spinbaby

(15,090 posts)
13. Who has time to watch that much porn?
Sun Sep 28, 2014, 07:17 PM
Sep 2014

Seriously, he had to have been watching the stuff all day every day for YEARS.

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