“’The tragic case of Father Lawrence Murphy, a priest of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, involved particularly vulnerable victims who suffered terribly," [Vatican spokesman Father Federico] Lombardi said in the statement. "By sexually abusing children who were hearing-impaired, Father Murphy violated the law and, more importantly, the sacred trust that his victims had placed in him.’
.....It involved abuse at confession, which is a violation of the Sacrament of Penance.”
The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith which is responsible for dealing the decision to “defrock” a priest for sexual abuse was informed of Murphy’s case by multiple bishops. However, the charges were dropped and the Vatican let him go free. There may have been up to 200 victims at t. John's School for the Deaf in St. Francis, Wisconsin.
I would like to know why the police dropped the charges. Was there proof of his innocence? Why wasn’t he legally punished for breaking such an important social code?
Twenty years later, he died with a clean record, still a priest. Some would like to put the blame on the Vatican, they say that he should have been denounced as a priest and it’s the Vatican’s fault that he wasn’t. But the Vatican couldn’t take away his priesthood if he wasn’t actually convicted of sexual abuse.
If he was guilty, then why did the police give up on the case? What about all of those victims? Where’s their say in all this? Why did Wisconsin police overlook this case?
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/03/25/church.abuse/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29
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