"The fifth is now living in India and Nessel said authorities hope to extradite him to the U.S." [1]
These men are Catholic priests. As reported by the Detroit Free Press, quoted in part [2]:
[Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel] said the five cases were the "tip of the iceberg" as investigators continue to track down hundreds of tips on abuse by Catholic priests.
In some of the incidents, the priests mixed their sexual activity with references to Catholic beliefs or committed the acts during Catholic rituals such as confession, according to allegations in affidavits.
In other cases, the priests plied children with drugs such as cocaine, marijuana and alcohol before sexually assaulting them, allege prosecutors and police. In one case, a priest is accused of threatening to kill his victim if the boy reported the abuse.
Deputy Solicitor General Ann Sherman, who is helping with the investigations, said that some Catholic Church officials have alarming views on sexual abuse of children.
"I am deeply disturbed by what we have discovered," Sherman said at the news conference. "I'm also disturbed by some attitudes of some of the hierarchy in the church ... who demonstrated a serious misunderstanding of sexual assault."
In one case, a priest "explained that this child victim needed to simply admit that he teased, enticed, or gave permission for the abuse to occur," Sherman said. "This attitude is horrific. Sexual abuse is never the fault of the victim and it certainly can never be that sexual abuse of a child is a child's fault."
What were these priests thinking? Had thoughts of spending an eternity in Hell ever crossed their minds?
Can priests who sexually abuse be forgiven? How far does God's mercy go? Perhaps the "holy father" over at the Vatican will talk about mercy for sexually abusive priests.
As far as this blogger is concerned, they and others like them that are yet to be charged and arrested, as well as those who turn a blind eye and shield them from prosecution are vermin, scum of the earth. They are not to be thought of as part of the Catholic Church even though in every other way they act in persona Christi, and good actors they truly are. The one who can impersonate Christ better than these Satanic precursors is the Antichrist who has yet to show his face.
[1] https://abcnews.go.com/US/priests-charged-sexual-misconduct-amid-michigan-investigation-tip/story?id=63256738
[2] https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/05/24/michigan-catholic-priests-sexual-abuse-nessel/1221964001/
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