CHRISTIAN PRIEST RAPED CHILDREN FOR 20 YEARS
and/or www.mantra.com/jai
Daily Nation
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Father Renato Kizito during an interview at Shalom House on Ngong
Road in Nairobi on Wednesday. Photo/STEPHEN MUDIARI
Father Renato Kizito during an interview at Shalom House on Ngong
Road in Nairobi on Wednesday. Photo/STEPHEN MUDIARI By CAROLINE
RWENJI and FRED MUKINDA Posted Wednesday, June 17 2009 at 22:30
Sexual abuse against children has been on the increase over the
years, but many of the cases are never reported, police have said.
Information available at police headquarters shows that 1,626 cases
of attacks against children were recorded in 2007. The number rose to
1,984 in 2008, representing an increase of over 300.
The Cradle, a child rights organisation, on Wednesday said that an
average of 10 cases involving child abuse have been reported at its
Nairobi offices every week since January. The police figures
translate to an average of five children being defiled every day.
Cradle's deputy director, Mr Gilbert Onyango, described the
prevalence as "very high" while the deputy spokesman of the police
department, Mr Charles Wahong'o, said the number of defilement cases
of paedophilia was "quite high".
According to the Cradle, 74 per cent of all cases of violence against
children involved defilement. Girls between the ages of 12 and 14
were the most vulnerable. The minors are often abused by people they
know and trust, particularly in whose care they are entrusted.
Eighty six per cent were defiled by someone they knew, according to a
2007 report by Cradle, which adds, 43 per cent of the children were
molested repeatedly by the same abuser.
Child abuse cases have been in the headlines this week, with police
arresting a suspect with a pack of pictures of naked children. A
well-known Catholic priest, Father Renato Kizito, is defending his
reputation against claims that he sexually abused children under his
care for 20 years.
The Catholic church, whose reputation in other countries is damaged
by cases of child sexual abuse, has promised to investigate all cases
and punish appropriately those found guilty. "Children are easy
targets because they are vulnerable," said nominated MP and former
Cradle executive director Millie Odhiambo.
Children's Legal Action Network (Clan) executive director Tom Chavaga
said his organisation deals with between 5,000 and 6,000 cases of
child abuse each year, some of which involve defilement. His
organisation's rescue centre receives 230 victims of violence a
month, with 45 per cent being children.
Cases of child abuse are rampant in urban areas especially Nairobi
and the coastal region, he said. A disproportionate number of sex
abusers are foreigners. Some are probably criminals in their own
countries. They settle in low-income areas pretending that they want
to help the residents.
The Nairobi Women's Hospital Chief Executive Officer, Dr Sam Nthenya,
said his hospital has treated over 12,000 cases of sexual and
domestic violence in its Gender Violence Recovery centre. Child
rights organisations are concerned that only a few of the cases of
abuse are reported. Most abused children prefer to say nothing for
fear of repercussions.
Some of these cases have, however, found their way to the courts,
although there are complaints of justice being slow and sometimes
compromised. In 2008, a court ordered the CID to investigate
corruption claims in a defilement case.
The mother of a five year old girl who had been abused complained to
the Attorney-General that the investigating officer approached her on
behalf of the accused and offered Sh50,000 to withdraw the case.
On Wednesday, former nominated MP Njoki Ndung'u asked the government
investigate Father Kizito. "I don't understand why the police have
not taken legal action," she said.
She called on the Children's Department to check orphanages to
protect the welfare of children. On Wednesday, police said they were
making good progress in the eight cases of sexual abuse of children
which they are investigating.
Related Stories
* 'They are out to get me, for money'
* Church to use Canon law to probe sex case
More at:
http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/612244/-/ukayts/-/
Jai Maharaj
http://tinyurl.com/24fq83
http://www.mantra.com/jyotish
Om Shanti
Hindu Holocaust Museum
http://www.mantra.com/holocaust
Hindu life, principles, spirituality and philosophy
http://www.hindu.org
http://www.hindunet.org
The truth about Islam and Muslims
http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate
DISCLAIMER AND CONDITIONS
o Not for commercial use. Solely to be fairly used for the educational
purposes of research and open discussion. The contents of this post may not
have been authored by, and do not necessarily represent the opinion of the
poster. The contents are protected by copyright law and the exemption for
fair use of copyrighted works.
o If you send private e-mail to me, it will likely not be read,
considered or answered if it does not contain your full legal name, current
e-mail and postal addresses, and live-voice telephone number.
o Posted for information and discussion. Views expressed by others are
not necessarily those of the poster who may or may not have read the article.
FAIR USE NOTICE: This article may contain copyrighted material the use of
which may or may not have been specifically authorized by the copyright
owner. This material is being made available in efforts to advance the
understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic,
democratic, scientific, social, and cultural, etc., issues. It is believed
that this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as
provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title
17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without
profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included
information for research, comment, discussion and educational purposes by
subscribing to USENET newsgroups or visiting web sites. For more information
go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml
If you wish to use copyrighted material from this article for purposes of
your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the
copyright owner.
harmony
in other words, every priest nearly has screwed all the believers.
<use...@mantra.com and/or www.mantra.com/jai (Dr. Jai Maharaj)> wrote in
message news:20090617Dyloy1gEtxaU6GnBugotdgG@VhoCR...
Dragonblaze
Jai Maharaj) wrote:
> Child sex: The cruel truth
Hindus are no saints when it comes to this heinous crime:
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2007/05/09/stories/2007050903072100.htm
and/or www.mantra.com/jai
An unspeakable reality that must now be faced
Sunday Business Post
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Why? Why did this state and this society allow the lives of tens of
thousands of our citizens to be blighted over a period of decades?
How did we, and they, tolerate this evil in our midst? The reasons
are many, and complicated.
But we must examine them, both because we owe it to the victims of
the abuse and the torture, and because we need to ensure that these
acts cannot take place again, in any guise.
The Ryan Commission report has destroyed the two principal defences
of the religious orders: that the abuse was confined to a few bad
apples, and that these boys and girls were effectively put in the
care of the religious orders without any subsequent provision for
them.
In fact, sexual abuse was ''endemic'' in boys' institutions, and
violence and degradation were the norm in the 216 institutions
scrutinised in the report. And the state generally provided adequate
funds to the religious orders to care for the children in an adequate
fashion.
Reading through the report, it is hard to believe the scale and
systematic nature of what was uncovered. Yet the work of the
commission is thorough and backed up by thousands of witness
statements. It is a reality which is hard to face -- but face it we
must.
There is one overarching truth that links the strands of this awful
story. It is that the state, its agents and its citizens believed
themselves powerless in the face of the Catholic Church's might. To
that extent, our society was complicit in the abuse. But this is not
an entirely historical submission.
The state's agreement with the religious orders to assume the lion's
share of the cost of compensating the victims of rape, torture and
abuse by priests, nuns and brothers displays the same supine
approach.
It was a betrayal of victims and of all citizens. It was one of the
worst acts by any government in any era.
The deal was agreed in circumstances of secrecy and obfuscation. It
was signed in haste. And it has not been honoured in its spirit by
the religious orders. Instead of the state receiving tens of
millions' worth of marketable property from the religious orders, it
has meekly accepted a series of schools and health facilities that it
was using and paying to support anyway.
There is little or no financial benefit for the state in owning many
of these properties. It is merely window-dressing. Surely the
ministers who agreed the deal and those representing the clerics
could see that this would happen?
Whatever the ministers' intentions, the taxpayers were not made aware
of the huge risk being assumed by the state. Meanwhile, the
intervening years have seen the religious orders sell off genuinely
valuable properties in a massive liquidation of their assets.
Political pontificating aside, the only thing that can prompt a re-
opening of the deal now is if the religious orders decide to do so.
The moral case to do so is unanswerable.
Yet we are told by the Conference of Religious of Ireland (Cori),who
negotiated the deal on behalf of the religious organisations, that it
was not aware that any of the orders were willing to re-examine its
terms. In justice, the deal must now be re-examined, even if in law
there is no mechanism to achieve this.
Meanwhile, the government and its agents must heed the
recommendations of the report. It recognises that we have made
progress as a society in introducing new rules and guidelines in
relation to child abuse and neglect -- but says that we have been
poor and inconsistent in implementing them. Consistent and clear
implementation of policies is essential in areas such as identifying
and responding to cases of suspected abuse and inspecting
institutions where children are resident.
In the months ahead, we need to move on from the understandable shock
at the report, to a commitment to learn the lessons and do what is
necessary to protect our children.
Jai Maharaj
http://www.mantra.com/jyotish
Om Shanti
In article <4a395cd0$0$23752$bbae...@news.suddenlink.net>,
"harmony" <a...@hotmail.com> posted:
>
> my calculations show the priest to krime ratio is 1:100.
> in other words, every priest nearly has screwed all the believers.
> Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:
Kick RSS ass
Of course they are not. But the worst ones are the asstrollogers who
prey on gullible Hindus and incite murders of innocent Christians. One
such is "Jai Maharaj", who is Jay Stevens aka the jumpin' jackass
jyotishit(asstrolloger).
--
THE NAZI-STYLE HATE-MINORITIES MESSAGE OF THE `RSS BIBLE'
"The foreign races in Hindusthan must either adopt the Hindu culture
and language, must learn to respect and hold in reverence Hindu
religion, must entertain no idea but those of the glorification of the
Hindu race and culture, i.e., of the Hindu nation and must loose their
separate existence to merge in the Hindu race, or may stay in the
country, wholly subordinated to the Hindu Nation, claiming nothing,
deserving no privileges, far less any preferential treatment -- not
even citizen's rights. There is, at least, should be, no other course
for them to adopt. We are an old nation; let us deal, as old nations
ought to and do deal, with the foreign races, who have chosen to live
in our country".
-- Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar's, We or Our Nationhood Defined
fanabba
> Dragonblaze wrote:
> > On Jun 17, 9:38 pm, use...@mantra.com and/orwww.mantra.com/jai(Dr.
> > Jai Maharaj) wrote:
> >> Child sex: The cruel truth
>
> > Hindus are no saints when it comes to this heinous crime:
>
>
> Of course they are not. But the worst ones are the asstrollogers who
> prey on gullible Hindus and incite murders of innocent Christians. One
> such is "Jai Maharaj", who is Jay Stevens aka the jumpin' jackass
> jyotishit(asstrolloger).
>
> --
> THE NAZI-STYLE HATE-MINORITIES MESSAGE OF THE `RSS BIBLE'
>
> � � "The foreign races in Hindusthan must either adopt the Hindu culture
> � � and language, must learn to respect and hold in reverence Hindu
> � � religion, must entertain no idea but those of the glorification of the
> � � Hindu race and culture, i.e., of the Hindu nation and must loose their
> � � separate existence to merge in the Hindu race, or may stay in the
> � � country, wholly subordinated to the Hindu Nation, claiming nothing,
> � � deserving no privileges, far less any preferential treatment -- not
> � � even citizen's rights. There is, at least, should be, no other course
> � � for them to adopt. We are an old nation; let us deal, as old nations
> � � ought to and do deal, with the foreign races, who have chosen to live
> � � in our country".
>
> � � -- Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar's, We or Our Nationhood Defined