All kinds of sex abuse litigation got through Marland last year, but they don’t have the Catholic Church coming in and testifying against them

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By Kay Ebeling

As I watched Barney Frank grill one of the bank CEOs who were in front of the US Senate this week, I thought I heard him grilling a bishop someday in the future. "What made you think the rape of children, repeated and systematic rape of children, was not a crime that should be handled by law enforcement? Even as far back as the 1950s and 1960s, how could you ever think rape of children was not a problem that should be worked on immediately, first priority, above all others?"

A goal of the upcoming Electronic Storm is to get the bishops up in front of Senators like the Bank CEO's are today. Meanwhile, here is more of the phone call from David Fortwengler, about his experience testifying in front of the Judiciary Committe of the Maryland State Senate last week:

DAVID: “Survivors who were there were testifying for SB 238 in Maryland were from everywhere, foster families, boys & girls club. survivors of rape by rabbis along with priest rape survivors. What bothers me is because of the Church lobbyists, whose job is to keep the Church from facing accountability, those victims of other institutionally enabled child rape will also never get justice.


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The only entity testifying against the law was the Roman Catholic Church
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"With all the other organizations represented by survivors at the Maryland SB238 hearings last week, the only entity testifying against the law was the Roman Catholic Church."

ME: So you're saying, all those other crime victims are looking for the same opportunity for justice, and the Catholic Church is blocking it for them, in order to keep its own assets covered. I don't know how they continue to get away with it, especially today with everyone understanding that it often takes years for child sex crimes to be reported.

“In Maryland there is no other offense that is three years from age of majority, except child sex crimes, because the Catholic Church keeps paying lobbyists to fight any change in the law.

“They think that giving a child sex abuse victim seven years to report is way out on a limb, because it was three before.

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To get them to go to the age of fifty is something.
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“So for now to get them to go to the age fifty is accomplishing something. I looked up bios of members of the committee. One was instrumental in getting Jessica’s Law through Maryland last year.

“All kinds of sex abuse litigation got through every year. But they don’t have the Catholic Church coming in and testifying against them.

“Would you want to have 25 percent of your base if you were a politician?

"They keep saying it’s impossible to investigate cases because the witnesses die. They said, ‘the victims die.’ Well, in 2002, my perp was convicted in court, he pled guilty to three counts, he was found guilty after 35 years. The victims didn't die, worst of all the memories didn't fade."

ME: With all the other states that have changed the statute of limitations for sex crimes, when crimes are deliberately concealed, the SOL should be irrelevant.

What a great scam for predator pedophiles, knowing your victims will likely not report because they won’t even recognize what was done to them for decades. Kids bury bad experiences.

What a great scam for the Catholic Church, which by its very secretive sex obsessed nature, harbors pedophiles in the role of priests.

Keep the SOL inoperable, by keeping it short, especially knowing so many times, the survivor if they make it too adulthood still often hesitates, and then waits too long, to handle litigation and criminal charges, the way SOL laws are written today.

The very nature of the crime victims’ experience allows the perpetrators to continue operating.

CEO of banks that took bailout money being questioned finally in front of the senators.
That's where we need to see the bishops soon.

I want to see Barney Frank say, what made you think it was not a crime to be reported to law enforcement back in the 1950s and 1960s, how could you ever think rape of children was not a problem that should be worked on immediately, first priority, above all others.

Stay tuned at City of Angels for more, maybe this weekend...