Is Mexico 'haven for pedophile priests'? -Lawsuit filed against Mahony yesterday

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Mexico 'haven for pedophile priests’

September 21, 2006 08:33am

Article from: Reuters
WEAK law enforcement and compliant Church authorities make Mexico a haven for US pedophile priests fleeing justice, a victims’ group said today.

The Survivors’ Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, which helped bring a lawsuit this week against two of North America’s top cardinals, said it knows of 46 mostly US priests hiding out south of the border. “Mexico has really become a secure place because here judicial authorities don’t track them down and nothing happens,” said group spokesman Eric Barragan. The US Catholic Church has been tarnished by a pedophile priest scandal that erupted in Boston in 2002 and spread to almost every diocese in the nation. Several US Catholic priests have been prosecuted, multimillion dollar payouts have been made to scores of pedophile victims and church files revealed that some bishops repeatedly transferred priests accused of abusing minors to other parishes rather than reporting them to police. Mr Barragan said Mexican pedophile priests, to a lesser degree, often flee to the United States.
His US-based group helped filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles yesterday that accused Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles and Mexico City’s Cardinal Norberto Rivera of allowing a priest wanted for multiple sex abuse to flee California for Mexico. Cardinal Rivera is Mexico’s most senior Catholic clergyman and was mentioned as an outsider candidate last year to succeed Pope John Paul II. The suit was brought by Mexican former altar boy Joaquin Aguilar, 25, who says he was raped by Catholic priest Nicolas Aguilar in Mexico in 1994.
It claims that Cardinal Mahony facilitated Father Aguilar’s flight to Mexico in 1988, when a US warrant was issued for his arrest, without notifying law enforcement in Los Angeles. Prosecutors were investigating allegations that he had abused more than 20 boys in the Los Angeles archdiocese.
Cardinal Mahony’s spokesman, Tod Tamberg, said the conspiracy charge was “preposterous and without foundation” and the Mexico City archdiocese said Cardinal Rivera “feels at ease because there was no cover up”.
**SNAP said it had hired private investigators who tracked down Father Aguilar to rural southern Mexico where he has been saying Mass at a convent and three different parishes and living out of his car with no fixed address. **
news.com.au/story/0,23599,20450323-1702,00.html
 
Jeff Anderson has been successful in pursuing clergy sex- abuse lawsuits against the Church. I don’t have any sympathy for abusers or those who enable them. We’ll see what the evidence shows.

As a professional matter, I am interested in seeing how a California state court can obtain personal jurisdiction of the Mexican cardinal.
 
Former altar boy sues Mexico City, L.A. cardinals over sex abuse cover-up

9/21/2006
Catholic News Service
MEXICO CITY (CNS) – A Mexican man is suing the cardinals of Mexico City and Los Angeles, claiming the cardinals covered up crimes of a priest accused of sexually abusing boys on both sides of the border.

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MEXICAN MAN SUES TWO CARDINALS – Joaquin Aguilar Mendez, 25, listens as his lawyer addresses a news conference Sept. 20 in Mexico City. Aguilar filed a civil lawsuit naming Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony and Mexico City Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera. He claimed the cardinals covered up crimes of a priest accused of sexually abusing boys, charges both cardinals have denied through their spokesmen. (CNS/Reuters)

In a civil suit filed in California, the man accused Cardinals Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles and Norberto Rivera Carrera of Mexico City of negligence, claiming they aided the flight of Father Nicolas Aguilar Rivera and that they were partially responsible for sexual battery due to their negligence.
Spokesmen for both cardinals denied the charges.
In a Los Angeles court Sept. 19, Joaquin Aguilar Mendez of Mexico City filed the suit against the cardinals and the Diocese of Tehuacan, Mexico, and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Aguilar alleged the cardinals transferred a Mexican priest to the United States in 1987 despite knowing that he had a record of molesting minors in Mexico. Cardinal Rivera headed the Diocese of Tehuacan at the time.
At a Sept. 20 press conference in Mexico City, Aguilar said the cardinals also helped Father Aguilar flee Los Angeles and return to Mexico, where Aguilar claims the priest raped him in 1994 when he was a 13-year-old altar boy.

catholic.org/national/national_story.php?id=21347
 
Hi all, From reading what has been happening round the world this is a possiblity, the reason i say this is because an order of nuns who claim never to have cared for children ,In fact 35 children burned to death in there care , plus bishops did not know any thing about child abuse in Ireland but they sent abusing priests to a treatment centre in England ,and they allowed abueive priests to go to the usa yours michael
 
Our country sees more and more frivolous lawsuits each year. What are two more? The irony is that just a few months ago Cardinal Mahoney fell under criticism for consulting an attorney on the best course of action. It appears his caution was warranted. What in the heck does SNAP want? For church officials to seek no legal advice and yet be held civilly liable? This case would have no merit in the U.S. In California, though, who knows?
 
If what is writen is true ,and the law is how stated what is wrong in suing both Dioceses ,If it was me suing i would want both Diocese heads in jail and all that helped them , As a reminder to others not to cover up abuse of children or ninors ,yours michael
 
michaelmac said:
If what is writen is true ,and the law is how stated what is wrong in suing both Dioceses ,If it was me suing i would want both Diocese heads in jail and all that helped them , As a reminder to others not to cover up abuse of children or ninors ,yours michael
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Many “ifs”. Still, the consequence of willingness to sue the diocese and bishops means that the bishop and diocese has the obligation to consult legal consul to safegard the funds on behalf of all the parishoners from whose pockets it comes. As a Catholic that donates money to my diocese and parish, those who sue, are suing me, and thus are my advisary.
 
pnewton said:
Many “ifs”. Still, the consequence of willingness to sue the diocese and bishops means that the bishop and diocese has the obligation to consult legal consul to safegard the funds on behalf of all the parishoners from whose pockets it comes. As a Catholic that donates money to my diocese and parish, those who sue, are suing me, and thus are my advisary.
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then thats what we would have be , I am involved in a court case in Englad that will decide wether every dioces has to pay out money to victims of abuse ,the court case is not about the church but the Government yours michael
 
michaelmac said:
then thats what we would have be , I am involved in a court case in Englad that will decide wether every dioces has to pay out money to victims of abuse
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You do understand, I hope, when you say the diocese paying out money that the reality is that it is money from parishoners that would be paid out. I wonder how much charity word will have to be eliminated. Oh well, God will sort that out.
 
pnewton said:
You do understand, I hope, when you say the diocese paying out money that the reality is that it is money from parishoners that would be paid out. I wonder how much charity word will have to be eliminated. Oh well, God will sort that out.
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The Good parishoners showed a lot care for one of my friends ,when she was forced to work as a slave in one of the Magdalen Laundarius age 12 , Before that she was locked away in an industrial school ,Her crime being poor ,neither of the two diocese where this happened have even offered to help her in any way yours michael
 
michaelmac said:
Hi all, From reading what has been happening round the world this is a possiblity, the reason i say this is because an order of nuns who claim never to have cared for children ,In fact 35 children burned to death in there care , plus bishops did not know any thing about child abuse in Ireland but they sent abusing priests to a treatment centre in England ,and they allowed abueive priests to go to the usa yours michael
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Please give a major news source for the information contained in your post. I for one would like to have the facts as proven.
 
michaelmac said:
If what is written is true ,and the law is how stated what is wrong in suing both Dioceses ,If it was me suing i would want both Diocese heads in jail and all that helped them , As a reminder to others not to cover up abuse of children or minors ,yours michael
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The majority of those being monetary punished had nothing to do with the situation. Why should my children and grandchildren not have a church building and school available to them because of what happened. It was the parishioners that paid for the buildings etc not the abusers.
 
michaelmac said:
The Good parishoners showed a lot care for one of my friends ,when she was forced to work as a slave in one of the Magdalen Laundarius age 12 , Before that she was locked away in an industrial school ,Her crime being poor ,neither of the two diocese where this happened have even offered to help her in any way yours michael
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Can you provide actual references (in a court of law) or is this just anecdotal?
 
Regarding the Magdalene Laundries referred to you may visit this site. Also, on the web you will find other references to the Magdalene Aslums. If I recall correctly, a year or so ago the head of the order apologized for what had gone on.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalen_Asylum
 
OriginalJS said:
Regarding the Magdalene Laundries referred to you may visit this site. Also, on the web you will find other references to the Magdalene Aslums. If I recall correctly, a year or so ago the head of the order apologized for what had gone on.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalen_Asylum
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Well most everyone knows about the Magdalene scandals-there was even a movie about it. but you specifcally claimed to have a friend that was enslaved there and know of a Parish that turned their backs on her. Can you give us some details or is your evidence purely ancedotal.

BTW-I could go to wikepeida right now and edit it to say the Madgalena laundrys were havens of peace and joy-such is the nature of Wikepedia-one of the most unreliable sources on the web
 
michaelmac said:
The Good parishoners showed a lot care for one of my friends ,… ,neither of the two diocese where this happened have even offered to help her in any way yours michael
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At least now I know where you are coming from. Interesting that you claim connection with two major scandals, unrelated. Still, I believe the issue is the same. Those out to get money in lawsuits will then have it available to expand their lifestyle, while charity work goes undone as a direct result of their greed. Will a man rob God? (Mal 3:8-9) Only if you want to be accursed.
 
pnewton said:
At least now I know where you are coming from. Interesting that you claim connection with two major scandals, unrelated. Still, I believe the issue is the same. Those out to get money in lawsuits will then have it available to expand their lifestyle, while charity work goes undone as a direct result of their greed. Will a man rob God? (Mal 3:8-9) Only if you want to be accursed.
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You said it well. As I said before the people responsible should be held responsible for their deeds. Charity work suffers as a result of the taking of money from the parishes. Religious education is no longer available to our children.
 
If there is anything holding open the door out of Catholicism for me, it is this scandal. I cant take it anymore :mad:
 
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