MO- Former principle charged with sexual abuse

Im sure no one will care..but a few years back a teacher named terry hartman who is a friend of dennis amsden..the pastor at this school, sexually abused several boys at this same school…i wonder what would happen if someone asked them to explain him. It was handled “internally” and he quietly left the school with zero consequences.

I don’t know why, but over these last 25 to 30 years, or so, it seems that southern California has suffered very much child sexual abuse, and suffered it in nearly all venues: In private secular daycare (Mc Martin Preschool), in public (K-12) schools, and catholic schools, seminaries, orphanages and churches (remember roger mahoney and those he abetted). At the beginning of those years, was the Mc Martin Preschool calamity and atrocities, and subsequent bungled trial. As a young adult parent, living through that time, I cannot stress enough to you, how much it seemed to me that the press and media joined together to “hold the trial on tv” and how much I believe that adversely effected the results and the judge’s decisions in that trial. They (the media) were able to sway many people into believing that the children were “lying”. (Today, I know people my age, who to this day, don’t believe any child sexual abuse occurred there.) It’s awful.
And, now, fast-forwarding to today, even though in the past I would have agreed with you that public schools are generally safer for children, than catholic or other private schools; we here in Los Angeles county have experienced in the last 4-5 years, a terrible increase in (the discovery, at least) child sexual abuse in the public schools; the checks and balances you describe, Mr. Clohessy, notwithstanding. I don’t disagree with you that there has been MORE sexual abuse of children in the catholic church, than in public schools.
But, I would like to suggest to you, that it is likely due to many, many new things happening globally, in this past quarter century that are now making the discovery of pedophiles, and their heinous acts, more public, and sadly it might be that nearly as much sexual abuse against children has been happening in public schools all along, just on perhaps a smaller scale because of the checks and balances you mention.
I think the origination of organizations like SNAP and others, have contributed a huge groundswell of assistance in achieving the goal of exposing pedophiles and the horrible abuse still occuring in the catholic church, today.

However, I think SNAP is unique in its mission and in the history of this catholic church scandal of child and disabled adults sexual abuse, and I am very, very grateful for all of your accomplishments, thus far; I think this (your) organization’s actions have also been influencing the course of discovery and acknowledgement to the public of such abuse committed not only by catholic pedophiles, but also of non-catholic pedophiles and reporting not only the few legal actions taken against them, but encouraging further legal actions in the U.S. and in thecase of the catholic church, in the ICC. Thank you very much.

Former principle charged with sexual abuse http://www.snapnetwork.org/mo_former_principle_charged_with_sexual_abuse?recruiter_id=21019