| | - The
bishop in charge of an Austrian diocese at the heart of a sex scandal is resisting
calls to resign
Several pressure groups have called on Bishop Kurt
Krenn to quit, after child pornography was allegedly found at a Catholic priests'
training college. - Priest
in sex abuse case posts $100,000 bail in sodomy and sexual abuse case
The
Rev. Albert Liberatore Jr. remains free on bail after being arraigned on
sodomy and sexual abuse charges in New York City on Thursday evening. - San
Antonio: former Catholic priest gets 20 years for molesting four high school seminary
students
The State District Judge revoked Carlos Lozano's deferred
adjudication sentence after a hearing on sexually explicit material allegedly
found on Lozano's home computer hard drive. A condition of Lozano's probation
had been that he not have access to sexually explicit material. He had pleaded
no contest to having sexual contact with four of his students in 1993. One student,
Eduardo Ramon III, committed suicide
in 1997 at age 20.
- Louisiana:
Catholic Diocese pulls priest over FBI investigation
The Rev. Jules
Arceneaux of St. Francis Regis Catholic Church has been placed on administrative
leave pending a federal investigation into pornography discovered on a church
computer.
- Australia:
Ex-priest faces child sex charges
A former Anglican priest now living
in Canberra faced a Tasmanian court on Friday over a string of child sex charges
dating back to the 1970s. Louis Victor Daniels, a 57-year-old librarian
from suburban Charnwood, has been charged with 14 counts of indecent assault and
two counts of sexual intercourse with a young person under the age of 17. The
charges involve a total of five male complainants,
who were aged between 11 and 17 when
the incidents allegedly occurred. It is alleged Daniels had unlawful
sexual intercourse with one boy at Burnie over the school holidays
between December 1971 and January 1972.
- Roman
Catholic Scranton priest arraigned on charges of buggering an altar boy
A
suspended Roman Catholic priest has been arraigned in Pittston and in New York
city on charges that he sexually molested an
altar boy while serving as a parish priest at Sacred Heart of Jesus
Catholic Church in Duryea. The Reverend Albert Liberatore Junior of Scranton
was charged after a young man told police he had been in a sexual relationship
with the clergyman when in high school.
- Defrocked
Gay Roman Catholic Priest Starts Own Church
 Joseph
Collova Accused Of Homo Sexually Assaulting Young Man A Roman Catholic priest
defrocked over sexual abuse allegations has started his own church in western
Waukesha County. Just last week, the Milwaukee Archdiocese listed Joseph Collova
on its restricted priest list.
- Former
Local Priest Investigated
Former fort Ann priest Dozia Wilson
has dodged several legal bullets--- so far. He was arrested in albany back in
19-76--allegedly caught molesting two
young boys in a local motel room---but not prosecuted---agreeing,
instead to move to Boston. That's where he was again
accused of molesting boys, and sent to fort ann---where he's accused
of molesting this guy, Joe Woodward, as a boy.
- Memo
a 'smoking gun' in Roman Catholic church sex abuse case
A Roman Catholic
Church official acknowledged having "serious concerns" about the Rev.
Raymond Melville even before the priest was accused in 1990 of sexually
abusing a teenager in Maine. Michael
Fortin, who claims that Melville, a priest assigned to St. Mary's Church
in Augusta, sexually abused him for seven years beginning in 1985, when Fortin
was 13.
- Seven
little orphan sisters file lawsuit alleging abuse by priest, two Roman Catholic
nuns
Seven people sued a local order of Roman Catholic nuns yesterday,
alleging sexual abuse by a priest and two nuns at an Anchorage orphanage run by
the order in the 1950s and 1960s. The plaintiffs include five biological sisters
who say they were sexually molested by Monsignor Herman J. Lammers, a resident
chaplain at the home. One sister also says a nun, Sister Mary Ann Powers,
abused her.
- Northern
California Catholic priest molest lawsuits head for trial
OAKLAND
– Hundreds of men and women claiming they were molested
by priests as children got their first day in court Thursday as they
seek millions of dollars from Catholic dioceses in Northern California.
- Faggot
Roman Catholic Modesto Priest Removed
 A
longtime Merced priest was removed from duties at St. Patrick's parish amid allegations
he posted messages on a homosexual dating Web site. The Bishop of the Diocese
of Fresno said in a statement that he is sending the Rev. Jean-Michael Lastiri,
48, to a Maryland treatment facility after learning Wednesday of "a Web page
and chat room of (Lastiri) that was totally inappropriate." - (NNN
Norcal)
- Serbian
Orthodox Priest Filip Velisavljevics is sentenced to probation for defrauding
church
- Gay
Cruise Meets Protest in Bahamas
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New
Orleans police are asking for the public's help in locating and identifying a
man wanted in connection with the aggravated rape of a 38-year-old New Orleans
woman. The man is described as black, 19 to 20 year old, 5 feet 6 inches
tall with a slim build and a dark complexion. His hair was in twists and he had
a tattoo on his left forearm of a cross with the words "Live 2 Die."
He has several gold front teeth. - (Tyrone
N. Butts)
Dwayne
Whitehead, 20, is one of the men arrested Friday in a string of random shootings
this week in New Haven, Connecuticut that wounded five people. Three of the victims
remained in the hospital Friday. There's no explanation yet as to what the motive
may have been in the shootings. One of the victims, Angel
Colon, was shot as he waited for a bus. He saw a car drive by and then
turn around. Someone in the car rolled down the window and shot him nine times.
- (Tyrone
N. Butts)
BALTIMORE
- A man who shot and wounded a priest who had allegedly molested
him as a boy pleaded guilty to gun charges and was let off without
a prison sentence. It's a big relief," said Dontee
Stokes, a 28-year-old barber. "I'm thankful to have the support
of other victims and the support of the community." He had already served
18 months under house arrest. A jury acquitted him in 2002 of attempted murder
and other charges in the shooting of the Rev. Maurice Blackwell.
Monsignor
John Woolsey agreed to step down from his Upper East Side parish yesterday
while prosecutors investigate what happened to hundreds of thousands of dollars
of church funds. Officials from the Archdiocese of New York had asked Woolsey
to voluntarily step down from his post at St. John the Martyr Church after they
said he couldn't provide them with "a reasonable explanation" about
what happened to church money. Probe
$1M missing from church - (Sophia)
Tts
1:7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled,
not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; 
Rev 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my
people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
ATLANTA
-- Fulton County Sheriff Jackie Barrett will take paid leave for the rest
of her term amid criticism over jail overcrowding and an investigation into her
investment of $7.2 million of public money. Barrett, who became the nation's
first elected black woman sheriff when she won her first term in 1992, will
begin the leave Aug. 1 and stay away until Dec. 31, when her term expires, the
attorneys said. FBI
investigating $7.2 million of county money she invested last year
- (Tyrone N.
Butts) 
CAMDEN,
N.J. -- A woman says her husband kidnapped her, held her hostage and sexually
attacked her. The woman's 15-year-old niece
also allegedly was taken hostage and sexually assaulted. Dorsia
Jackson Derek Wilds, broke into her sister's house with a gun.
Wilds allegedly held the two at gunpoint and made them walk to an abandoned apartment,
where for four days they were locked in a closet, sexually assaulted and beaten.
- (The
Bobster)
Sodomite
dads fight to keep custody of two little White sisters
A
Newport News man in behind bars in Hampton facing charges of burglary and sexual
battery.
DURHAM,
N.C. -- Durham police were looking for a man being tried on kidnapping and malicious
castration charges who fled from the courthouse during a break in his trial.
Monday,
a 15-year-old suspect accused of shooting a man during a robbery after the victim
stopped to ask directions appeared in court. Police arrested Twain Demario
Vaughn, 15, on Friday. He was accused of murdering Kristopher
Carlyle after Carlyle and his family got lost while driving around
south Nashville Wednesday night. When the family stopped to ask for directions
they were robbed by four males. - (Tyrone
N. Butts)
Three
Milwaukee men were charged with beating a 14-year-old boy into a coma at a playground
last week while more than a dozen people looked on. Timothy Owens, 31,
faces one count of first-degree reckless injury. According to a criminal complaint,
Owens struck the victim, Tyrin Douglas,
in the head with a two-by-four as the boy was on his back trying to shield himself
from kicks and punches. The other two men, Mario Brown, 21, and Davell
Going, 22, were charged with physical abuse of a child. - (
A
illegal migrant doused his girlfriend and three small children with petrol inside
a car and set them on fire as he drove, according to a US police spokesman.
All five died after the car crashed in flames. Residents reported hearing the
crash early yesterday and seeing two adults
engulfed in flames, stumbling across a road near Bonny Lake, a small
town east of Tacoma. Firefighters found the bodies of a
baby boy, 1-year-old boy and 2-year-old girl in the back of the burned
car. 
"He
was a good person," she said. "He was an illegal immigrant here,
but he was a hard worker and tried to do what he had to do to make it. -
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