Child Molestation

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We must take a stronger stand against child molestation. I live in Birmingham, Alabama, Where a Judge R. A.“Sonny” Ferguson, has made a special provision for a documented child molester to babysit a 3 year old girl, Mary Savannah Kerley. The court documents are posted on savemarysavannah.com.
This Judge Ferguson is a member of a local parish. Did he do this immoral act (I would also think illegal) because he has seen the church turn a blind eye to the molestation by the priests?
It is high time that the church condemn acts like this. We should admonish anyone who takes part in any manner of molesting a child.
 
lostwonderer said:
We must take a stronger stand against child molestation. I live in Birmingham, Alabama, Where a Judge R. A.“Sonny” Ferguson, has made a special provision for a documented child molester to babysit a 3 year old girl, Mary Savannah Kerley. The court documents are posted on savemarysavannah.com.
This Judge Ferguson is a member of a local parish. Did he do this immoral act (I would also think illegal) because he has seen the church turn a blind eye to the molestation by the priests?
It is high time that the church condemn acts like this. We should admonish anyone who takes part in any manner of molesting a child.
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I understand your outrage. Please understand though, that judges don’t decide what is right and what is wrong. They don’t have that freedom. Judges interpret the laws that are set before them and apply the individual case to the rule. This judge could have been sick to his stomach about the ruling he had to make, for all you know. Judges are bound by what the law says is right, not what they believe is right.
 
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This Judge Ferguson is a member of a local parish. Did he do this immoral act (I would also think illegal) because he has seen the church turn a blind eye to the molestation by the priests?
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This is a irresponsible comment.
 
lostwonderer said:
We must take a stronger stand against child molestation. I live in Birmingham, Alabama, Where a Judge R. A.“Sonny” Ferguson, has made a special provision for a documented child molester to babysit a 3 year old girl, Mary Savannah Kerley. The court documents are posted on savemarysavannah.com.
This Judge Ferguson is a member of a local parish. Did he do this immoral act (I would also think illegal) because he has seen the church turn a blind eye to the molestation by the priests?
It is high time that the church condemn acts like this. We should admonish anyone who takes part in any manner of molesting a child.
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Is there any actual evidence in support of this person’s claim? I went through that website, and all I could find was her repeated claim that the judge allowed a child molester to babysit, combined with a lot of wild accusations. There was no evidence posted at all.

Frankly, these types of allegations get made all the time by people who lose custody and visitation battles. It’s hard to take them seriously without seeing the actual evidence. She claims to have posted excerpts from her own motions, but they aren’t actual copies of the documents, so we don’t really even know that. More importantly, where are the responses from the other side? Where is the actual ruling by the judge? Contrary to the OP, the actual court documents are nowhere to be found on that site.

At worst, it sounds (we can’t tell based on what’s been posted) like the judge said something to this effect:

IF the grandmother (who, if I’m reading the site correctly, allegedly molested a daughter years ago) is permitted by the mother to babysit, THEN another specific person (it identifies the man but doesn’t say who he is; is he the father?) shall be present at all times.

That’s a fairly routine order; when allegations are made about abuse (sexual or otherwise) but not proven, supervised visitation is mandated. There’s nothing particularly outrageous about this case – at least as far as what’s posted is concerned.
 
lostwonderer said:
We must take a stronger stand against child molestation. I live in Birmingham, Alabama, Where a Judge R. A.“Sonny” Ferguson, has made a special provision for a documented child molester to babysit a 3 year old girl, Mary Savannah Kerley. The court documents are posted on savemarysavannah.com.
This Judge Ferguson is a member of a local parish. Did he do this immoral act (I would also think illegal) because he has seen the church turn a blind eye to the molestation by the priests?
It is high time that the church condemn acts like this. We should admonish anyone who takes part in any manner of molesting a child.
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I agree with you that a child molester should not in any circumstances be allowed to carry on in the priesthood and should have help to turn himself into the law although if it’s confessed in confession then I believe it is confidential and the priest can only advise. The priest would have to hand himself into the bishop. I believe there are certain people who have received the worst treatment of their life through the hands of clergy although it is not only in the Catholic Church and in all denominations and organisations. It has to be said that there may sometimes be false claims made against Catholic priests although there are Judas Iscariots in the priesthood and there was a Judas in the twelve apostles. The Catholic Church does stand up for children’s rights in terms of abortion which is probably a greater sin than child molestation and sometimes we can be attacked for that. So we should also be aware that there are women who have had abortions in our community and sometimes people have axes to grind against the Catholic Church. I don’t believe every single claim of child molestation but there are valid claims aswell.
 
wasmit said:
According to the Catholic League, child molestation isn’t that bad.

catholicleague.org/release.php?id=1616
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according to the Catholic League sexual assault of a child is serious, and confusing milder failures to provide optimal care for a child, as the report cited does, leads to a diminished response to the real serious abuse and trivializes the whole problem. they are actually agreeing with OP that this is serious.

However I would not take an isolated case to make my argument. OP’s case does not give the specifics of what the offender has actually been convicted of. Using terms like “sex offender” or “child molestation” makes it so vague that virtually any offense comes under that term, so a man who accidentally walked through the living room in his underwear with children present is held to the same standard as a multiple child rapist. What we should call for is a return to proper use of the English language and use terms that mean exactly what they say, instead of cloaking grave heinous offenses under innocuous terminology.

OPs very proper indignation should be directed to those who elected or appointed the judge in questions, and might also wish to post a link to an explanation of the particulars of the case he cites. in any case, on the basis of an unsupported allegation it is completely out of the question to judge the state of his soul and unwarranted, under Christian charity, at all times.
 
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