Rinsing victims’ mouths with holy water and making one boy pose as Jesus: Grand Jury reveals the depravity of 301 priests who sexually assaulted at least 1,000 children – which the Catholic church covered up
The 900 page grand jury report is based on records from six dioceses
It puts the ‘real number’ of child victims ‘in the thousands’
One group of priests is accused of producing child porn and using whips on children
The abuse ranged from groping and masturbation to anal, oral and vaginal rape
Most of the victims were boys but there are some girls included in the report
The clergymen tried to claim they were ‘wrestling’ with the children when they were in fact sexually assaulting them
Two have been charged while others are either dead, previously faced charges, or can’t be prosecuted due to statute of limitation
JENNIFER SMITH
DAILYMAIL.COM
15 August 2018
Hundreds of Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania have molested more than 1,000 children and senior church officials, including the now archbishop of Washington, D.C., systematically covered up the abuse.
A grand jury report released Tuesday reveals the horrific predatory behavior which included making young boys rinse their mouths with holy water to ‘purify’ them after they were forced to give oral sex to clergymen and the abuse of one boy who was made to pose naked as Jesus while other priests took pornographic pictures.
The priests would mark out which boys had been groomed for abuse by giving them gold crosses to wear as necklaces.
The 800-page report refers to more than 300 priests in six diocese where children were raped, plied with alcohol, or forced to perform for clergymen to produce pornographic material since the mid-1950s.
Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the former longtime bishop of Pittsburgh who now leads the Washington archdiocese, was among the high-ranking clergy who turned a blind eye to the abuse.
The ‘real number’ of abused children might be in the thousands since some secret church records were lost, and victims were afraid to come forward, the grand jury said.
The 886-page report contains hundreds of examples of horrifying abuse. All were disturbing but some were particularly troubling. They include;
A priest who forced a boy to wash his mouth out with holy water after making him perform oral sex
A priest who raped a seven-year-old girl while visiting her in hospital after she’d had her tonsils removed
A ring of pedophiles who whipped little boys and allowed other men to rape them for a fee
Another priest, grooming his middle school students for oral sex, taught them how Mary had to ‘bite off the cord’ and ‘lick’ Jesus clean after he was born
Priests who had children were gold crosses to mark which of them had been abused
A priest who went to work at Walt Disney World, with a glowing recommendation letter from the church, after quitting over complaints about him abusing children
Others, when questioned over their behavior, said ‘anything is possible’.
One, who targeted young boys, denied molesting two little girls by telling the church: ‘They don’t have a penis.’
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