completer article available on link.
January 26, 2005
Vatican accepts
retirement of Auxiliary Bishop Rueger
WORCESTER— The Vatican announced yesterday that Pope
John Paul II has accepted the retirement of Auxiliary Bishop George E.
Rueger.........
In 2002, Bishop Rueger was named in a civil suit by a
Shrewsbury man, Sime M. Braio, alleging sexual misconduct. The
case was dismissed at Mr.
Braio’s request in 2003, after no evidence surfaced indicating that Bishop
Rueger had done anything improper or had been where the alleged incidents
occurred.
He is named in a
Texas lawsuit in which two men, named only as John Doe I and John Doe
II, allege sexual abuse by the Rev. Thomas Teczar, a priest of the Worcester
Diocese. The allegation is that Bishop Rueger helped get Rev. Teczar moved
to the Fort Worth, Texas, diocese after Rev. Teczar was accused of sexual
misconduct with minors in the Worcester area.
January 25, 2005
Rome accepts Worcester Auxiliary Bishop
George E. Rueger resignation.
Worcester Auxiliary Bishop
George E. Rueger,
who in 2002 was the subject of clergy sexual abuse allegations, since
dismissed by the plaintiff, to which no abuse was ever verified, has tenured
his resignation.
Bishop Rueger is additionally still
embroiled in a legal battle over the transferring of Worcester clergy Rev
Thomas Teczar, to Texas.
Today's posting on the
Vatican web site
Accepted the resignation from the office of auxiliary of the diocese of
Worcester, USA, presented by Bishop George E. Rueger, upon having reached
the age limit.
January 24, 2005
Tip to Worcester Telegram leads to
location of Wanted Priest In 1993.
Worcester DA Conte failed to execute warrant.
In a seven-section
outline dealing with some 56 news articles, scanning a thirty-year time span.
The complete public accounting of the attempt of two clergy sexual abuse
victims Mr.
Gary M. Melanson
and Mr.
Dana Vyska, to ascertain
justice in Worcester can be told in the Rev. Joseph Fredette case.
The road to justice
for the victims of Rev. Joseph Fredette was initiated by a phone call into
the Worcester Telegram and Gazette in 1992.
Telegram and
Gazette received word of the outstanding warrant against Rev. Fredette and
Kathy Shaw and George Griffin actively pursued the story based on the
stories that began appearing in the newspaper August 1, 1992, the first
story ran on
FREDETTE IN RURAL RETREAT \ PRIEST SAID TO BE IN NEW BRUNSWICK. the
story read He has been considered a fugitive from justice since he left
Worcester in 1974 and headed first to the Pope John XXIII Retreat in
Cassadaga, N.Y., then to the Sanctuary of the Sacred Heart outside
Sherbrooke, Quebec.
Complete
article on link
January 18, 2005
Same old news, old articles released on past clergy
sexual abuse.
The Worcester voice has been supplied old newspaper
article's that were thought too have been unattainable.
A painful and unthinkable pattern now vividly
presents itself, the Worcester Diocese Catholic Church by known published
documentation have since 1993, been actively practicing deception and
cover-up of clergy sexual abuse committed by diocesan priest. Theses
actions, chronicled by these articles are consistent for the past 12 years. See
Published cases, Removed clergy, Rev Robert E. Kelly links for articles.
Due to the amount of material, more will be added in time.
In 1993 clergy prosecution first began with Rev Robert E. Kelley, then
soon another and another. The
February 8, 1993 Boston Globe headline read,
ACCUSATIONS ROIL WORCESTER DIOCESE SEX ALLEGATIONS AGAINST SEVEN PRIESTS
ARE RAISING QUESTIONS OF TRUST. If you read the
headline only, it appears to be one of recent times. Just December
30, 2004, only three short weeks ago the Worcester telegram headlines
read
Sexual abuse lawsuits filed
Six diocesan priests named.
complete article on link
January 13, 2005
Lawsuit filed in priest's
alleged abuse
WATERBURY -- A Massachusetts man who claims his son was raped by a
Waterbury Catholic priest is suing church spiritual leaders, institutions
and the Worcester County district attorney, alleging they allowed the abuse
to occur and failed to do anything about it afterwards.
The man claims the Rev. John J. Szantyr, 73, of 55 Birch Place,
raped his son, who was an alter boy. Szantyr threatened to kill the boy's
parents if he told them about the attacks, the lawsuit claims. The man's son
is not involved in the lawsuit.
Szantyr's attorney and Worcester County District Attorney John J. Conte
could not be reached for comment. A lawyer for the Diocese of Worcester said
the diocese denies the man's claims.
January 12, 2005
Site safe place to report sex abuse
Victims can tell details to police anonymously
A new Web site went online last week as a safe place for sexual abuse
victims to report anonymously to police what happened to them.
Sgt. Gary J. Quitadamo, spokesman for the Worcester
Police Department, said it is not opposed to the Web site, but said police
need a victim before they can prosecute. The Web site could prove valuable
to law enforcement if it gives people a place to communicate until they are
ready to come forward and identify themselves to police or the district
attorney. He acknowledged that abuse victims sometimes have a difficult time
beginning to make themselves known to law enforcement.
“With
VictimPower.org victims can easily find out the proper legal, church,
school and other authorities for them to communicate with. Once they have
determined the best authorities, the victims can report anonymously what has
happened to them and what they have witnessed,” Mr. Ross said.
“This anonymity cannot be broken by an overzealous prosecutor or
unscrupulous hacker, because any identifying information linking the victim
to his report is destroyed at the conclusion of his session,” he said. “What
does not exist cannot be hacked and cannot be subpoenaed.”
Ex-priest gets jail time for molesting teens
WORCESTER—
A former priest was
sentenced to jail yesterday after pleading guilty last month to charges of
rape, assault and battery, furnishing alcohol to a minor and committing an
unnatural and lascivious act.
James D. Campbell, 59, a former Catholic priest in
West Warwick, R.I., was sentenced to 90 days in the House of Correction with
10 years of probation to follow after admitting Dec. 22 in Worcester
Superior Court that he molested two male teenagers in the 1970s in Uxbridge.
Mr. Campbell was assigned to St. Joseph Parish in West Warwick at the time
of the assaults, which occurred from 1975 to 1978.
Voice note: Again we see DA
Conte in true form with his "plea bargain" process. No priest from the
Worcester dioceses has been held responsible for any actions since the 2002
"grand jury subpoena". This case had nothing to do with any Worcester
dioceses investigation.
January 11, 2005
Rev James D. Campbell,
a former Catholic priest in Warwick, R.I. to serve 90 days in House of
Correction.
James D. Campbell, a former Catholic priest in Warwick, R.I.,
who pleaded
guilty to rape, on December 22, 2004 in Worcester Superior court
case
WOCR2003-01575
had his sentence of 90 days in the house of correction imposed today by
Worcester Superior Court Judge Peter W Agnes Jr.
Previously assistant district attorney Jeffrey T. Travers and Mr. Campbell’s
lawyer James T. McCormick recommended a 90-day jail term. During the victim
impact statement the victim also agreed to the sentencing.
Mr. Campbell admitted he took J.H. and another teenager to a
restaurant in Uxbridge nearly 30 years ago and molested them on
different occasions.
Rev Campbell while an ordained Catholic priest was
never assigned to the Worcester Diocese, his only association to Worcester
was the location of his crime.
Diocese facing new abuse suit
Man says not enough done to
stop priest who assaulted son
WORCESTER— Richard Chesnis, of 90 Canterbury St., has
filed a civil suit in Worcester Superior Court in connection with the
alleged sexual abuse of his son during the 1980s by the Rev. John J. Szantyr
of Waterbury, Conn.
He named as defendants Bishops Bernard J. Flanagan,
Timothy J. Harrington and Daniel P. Reilly of the Diocese of Worcester;
Cardinal Bernard Law, former archbishop of Boston; District Attorney John J.
Conte, Our Lady of Czestochowa Parish and St. Mary School of Worcester.
January 10, 2005
