Pedophile Clergy Sent to Alaska
“The fourth lawsuit in less than two weeks accusing an Alaska-based Catholic priest of sexual abuse was filed Thursday, fueling a conviction among critics that Alaska was a dumping ground for problem clergy. The complaint alleges the Rev. James Laudwein molested a 14-year-old Western Alaska girl in 1980 when she visited the nearby Yup’ik Eskimo village of St. Marys. According to court documents, Laudwein agreed to hear the girl’s confession, then took her to a dark room and said ‘her sins would be forgiven’ if she touched his genitals. Laudwein is the latest of a dozen priests who served in Alaska and have been accused publicly of abusing a child or children in the past. Most of the abuse occurred in remote villages and most of the alleged victims were Alaska Natives — a common pattern over the decades, critics contend. ‘I absolutely believe that church officials intentionally sent abusive priests to minor communities, transient communities, where kids may be less apt to tell and have less faith in the justice system,’ said David Clohessy, national director of Chicago-based Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. Rural Alaska was a prime go-to place to send abusive priests, given its isolation and cultural reverence for authority figures, such as elders and priests…” — Anchorage Daily News (US)
(Thanks to alanr for the link.)
It’s not exactly a novel idea to use a remote locale as a dumping ground for criminals. The British Empire set up penal colonies in parts of Australia. France sent petty criminals to Devil’s Island in French Guiana. The Soviet Union regularly exiled dissidents to Siberia. So why shouldn’t pedophiles be sent somewhere too?
The catch with this case is just that, unlike those historical precedents, the Catholic church wasn’t being honest about what it was doing. When France sent a criminal to Devil’s Island, nobody was under any illusion that the guy was a saint. But the church, if this allegation is true, was doing just that: sending devils to Alaska but calling them angels. No wonder Alaskans are pissed off.
Though naturally the church shouldn’t have been more interested in protecting pedo priests than in protecting children, at the same time there was a certain logic to exiling clergy to remote locales. If you want to be cynical about it, the move enabled the church to put the problem out of sight and out of mind. If you don’t want to be cynical about it, you might think that the church believed small communities would offer pedo priests fewer opportunities to act on their deviant lusts. And perhaps the church also thought that the cold climate of Alaska would be the next best thing to a cold shower.
Then again, evidently the confession booth was always warm enough to enable these pervy priests to think with their dicks. How else can you come up with a blatant contradiction like Reverend Laudwein tried to pass off on his young victim? He promised that her sins would be forgiven — but only if she committed another sin? In fact, only if she committed this sin with the man of God himself? It’s hard to imagine anyone falling for such a blatant contradiction. But then again, if you can believe a virgin gave birth, you can believe anything.
I think he should be sent to some place like the West Bank, or Lebanon, somewhere where no one tolerates this kind of behavior, and have the inhabitants told of who he is. If not those places, then he should be sent to somewhere else, remote, like Bolivia, and be told of who he is. People like that are no better than the convicts sent to Australia from England, or the convicts sent to Devil’s Island, from France. It is a ginormous contradiction that touching his genitals will absolve the girl from her sins.
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