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Originally posted by triumph
mother fucker had it coming, molesting over 150 boys! and he only had a 10 year sentence? is this true? how fucked up is our system.
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accused by 130, I believe he was convicted of 2. And yeah, 2 is 2 too many, but let me tell you a little story.
In 1983 there was a big scandal around here, that you may have heard of, the McMartin Pre-School. The owners of this well established pre-school were accused of all kinds of weird things, including child abuse, maiming and killing of small animals, you name it, they were accused of it.
I happened to have a close association with the mother of 2 of the kids that had been allegedly abused. I even became personally involved in the hysteria that followed. For a while.
The more I learned about what was happening, the more I knew this was pure bullshit. I assisted in getting a newspaper reporter fired from his job (in retrospect, he most likely had done nothing but befriended a woman in an attempt to get more info for his story), and even had an opportunity to attack Raymond Buckey as he stood in the hallway of the court, but luckily I restrained myself. Why luckily? Because he was innocent.
While I have no doubt that some of the accusations against some of the priests are true, I also have no doubt that a majority of the accusations are unfounded.
Mass hysteria is an amazing thing. I was an altar boy for many years. With the way the newspapers have told the story I should have been molested dozens of times.
Sure the Catholic Church is going to settle out of court on some of these accusations, they can't afford not to. The judicial system forces decisions to be made on a completely financial basis.
The point is, this guy was sentenced to 10 years, would have probably served 6. Instead he got the death penalty. You can murder someone in MA, shit, you can murder 130 people in MA and not get the death penalty.