France- Priest indicted for rape and torture, SNAP responds

April 10, 2014

For immediate release: Thursday, April 10, 2014

Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314-503-0003, [email protected])

A French priest was indicted for raping and torturing multiple women at a private religious school. We are saddened by this revelation, but glad victims are speaking up and action is being taken.

http://www.thelocal.fr/20140410/french-priest-raped-teachers-during-exorcism

The priest, who is part of the fundamentalist society of St. Pius X, had been tried in a religious hearing and sentenced to two year in a monastery for his sexual attacks several years ago. We are disappointed that it has taken several years for this dangerous predator to be indicted.

(NOTE: A former member of the St. Pius X Society, Fr. Carlos Urrutigoity, is now second-in-command of a diocese in Paraguay, despite several credible allegations of child sex crimes against kids in Scranton Pennsylvania. http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140314/NEWS/403140330/-1/NEWS01)

We hope that anyone who saw, suspects or suffered abuse will call police and that Catholic officials will be proactive and aggressively seek out victims and witnesses.

(SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, is the world’s oldest and largest support group for clergy abuse victims. We’ve been around for 25 years and have more than 15,000 members. Despite the word “priest” in our title, we have members who were molested by religious figures of all denominations, including nuns, rabbis, bishops, and Protestant ministers. Our website is SNAPnetwork.org)

Contact - David Clohessy (314-566-9790 cell, [email protected]), Barbara Dorris (314-862-7688 home, 314-503-0003 cell, [email protected]), Barbara Blaine (312-399-4747,[email protected]), Peter Isely (414-429-7259, [email protected]), Joelle Casteix (949-322-7434, [email protected])

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Jay Be commented 2014-04-10 18:47:41 -0500
In a monastery ?? Two years ? Hardly bread and water – What’s going on, what about public court and jail ? Medieval ritual abuse would best be met by equivalent punishment.
James LeBoeuf commented 2014-04-10 12:09:15 -0500
This is much more common than anyone wants to believe, inside and outside of the church. Most severe mental illness is in fact post-traumatic hysteria of one sort or another, caused originally by rape which was combined with some sort of ritualized torture, usually elaborated in a religious/“demonic” context. This has been going on for countless centuries, since before the time of Caligula. There have been over one hundred thousand credible reports of ritualized sexual torture since the time Freud caved into pressure and changed his assessment of mental illness from his original observations of ritual sexual torture, into the overblown nonsence exaggerating the role of infintile sexuality and so forth – which protected the predators and blamed the victims.
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