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PfcHammer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-21-04 04:55 PM
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Supreme Court allows lawsuit in Catholic priest abuse case
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-06-21-court-churchabuse_x.htm

Supreme Court allows lawsuit in Catholic priest abuse case

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday allowed a lawsuit to proceed that accuses the Archdiocese of Milwaukee of transferring a child molester from Wisconsin to work as a Roman Catholic priest in California.

The justices declined without comment to block a lawsuit involving allegations that the priest, Sigfried Widera, molested an 8-year-old California boy after his move.

Widera committed suicide in 2003, a year after Eric Paino sued him and the Milwaukee Archdiocese over the alleged 1985 sexual assault. Before his death, Widera fled the country to avoid trial on dozens of counts of child molestation in Wisconsin and California.

He had been convicted of perversion with a boy in Wisconsin in the 1970s before he moved to California.
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Tosca Donating Member (540 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-21-04 05:03 PM
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1. Whoa!

Tony (Quack!) Scalia will be all over this one!

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Waverley_Hills_Hiker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-21-04 05:16 PM
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2. Child Molestors for Bush
The Roman Catholic Hierarchy with their great moral authority....
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Endangered Specie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-21-04 05:37 PM
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3. No wonder theyre against abortion...
fewer abortions = more kids to abuse!

Simple math.
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goforit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-21-04 09:51 PM
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4. Pat Robertson and Jerry Fawell's plan to mix Gov't with religion....LOL!!!
This can just slap those phoneys in their slimeball faces!!!
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