Unseal DCF's Pedophilia Files, too!!
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Subject: Unseal DCF's Pedophilia Files, too!!
Date: May 24, 2009 7:43 AM
DCF Pedophilia and other beatings:
http://www.actionlyme.org/andersonpenisbiter.htm
The whole world needs to see what kind of epidemic of
child physical and sexual abuse is hidden by duh DCF's
secret courts, in addition to the murders performed by DCF.
DCF also actively promotes homosexuality among their
kidnappees. DCF literally puts on "coming out" shows for
their kidnapped teenagers which have been captured on YouTube.
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
http://www.relapsingfever.org
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courant.com/news/local/hc-priest-
unsealed-0523.artmay23,0,5600649.story
Courant.com
BRIDGEPORT DIOCESE
Connecticut Supreme Court: Unseal Priest Abuse Documents
By DAVE ALTIMARI
The Hartford Courant
May 23, 2009
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For more than 15 years, some of the 23 lawsuits alleging sexual abuse
claims against at least seven priests from the Bridgeport diocese have
remained sealed, but on Friday for the second time the state Supreme
Court ruled the public should have access to nearly all of the 12,675
pages.
As church officials criticized the court's decision and vowed to
review all options to keep the files secret, victims' advocates hailed
the ruling and questioned whether the documents will have a lasting
negative impact on recently retired Cardinal Edward Egan, who ran the
Bridgeport diocese as a bishop when many of the priest abuses were
alleged to have occurred.
"Sadly, the history of this case has been about access by the secular
media to internal church documents of cases more than 30 years ago to
suggest, unfairly, that nothing has changed," the diocese's statement
said.
"From the anti-church rhetoric of the first trial judge who proceeded
to 'invent' an entirely new procedure to accommodate the press, to the
lack of an impartial trial judge to reconsider the case on remand from
the Connecticut Supreme Court, the history of this case raises issues
that should be of concern to all. We are, therefore, currently
reviewing our options in response to this decision."
That the church may continue the fight didn't surprise victim
advocates who have battled across the country to get access to priest
files.
"We know desperate church bureaucrats will fight to keep documents
secret until the bitter end," said David Clohassy, national director
of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.
Clohassy said the release of the Bridgeport documents is important for
future cases as well as for public safety.
"These documents will likely expose current church employees who
suspected child sex crimes and either ignored them or concealed them,"
Clohassy said.
Terence McKiernan, president of BishopAccountability.org, said church
officials must know that the sealed files will taint Egan's
reputation.
"It's hard to think of another case, except perhaps out in Los
Angeles, where the church has fought so hard to keep files secret,"
McKiernan said. "It is going to be very interesting to see what is
going to come out of those documents that the church felt would be so
damaging."
Four newspapers, including The Courant, have been fighting since 2002
to get the files unsealed. Many of the lawsuits go back to the
mid-1990s and were settled all at once in March 2001. However, the
files were not destroyed and the newspapers went to court seeking
intervenor status into the cases.
The court's decision Friday came after two years of deliberations, an
unusually long time for the court to decide a case.
The court ruled that all but 15 documents in the 23 separate files are
public records. Those 15 documents, at least two of which are
depositions, were not submitted as legal documents and will remain
sealed, the court ruled.
The justices rejected the church's main argument that Superior Court
Judge Jon M. Alander, who ruled in 2006 that the files be unsealed,
should have recused himself from making that decision because he was
also serving at that time on a judicial committee reviewing public
access to court documents.
The court ruled that just because Alander was a member of the task
force did not mean that he couldn't be fair and impartial. It also
ruled that just because one of the other members of the judicial task
force was a reporter from The Courant didn't mean that Alander had a
conflict.
"There is no reason to suggest that a judge who is exposed to
information concerning potential future changes to the law while he is
presiding over a case that implicates existing law in that area
compromises his ability to be impartial," Justice Joette Katz wrote.
In his dissenting opinion, Judge William J. Sullivan wrote that any
"person of ordinary intelligence and experience" could question
Alander's impartiality.
"Judge Alander served as the chairman of the very committee that was
charged with making the recommendations for these new policies and
procedures, and he served on the committee with a representative of
one of the intervenors in the case," Sullivan wrote.
Church officials in their statement said they were "deeply"
disappointed that the court didn't uphold their conflict of interest
claim involving Alander.
"The Connecticut Supreme Court has failed to uphold the Diocese's
right to a fair adjudication of its claim by an impartial judge, Judge
Jon Alander — a right that is fundamental to any legal proceeding,"
the statement said.
This is the second time the case went before the Supreme Court since
2002. Judge Robert F. McWeeny, in Superior Court in Waterbury, first
granted four newspapers — The Courant, Boston Globe, New York Times
and Washington Post — the right to intervene in the closed cases and
seek the documents.
The Bridgeport Roman Catholic Diocesan Corp. appealed that decision
but lost as the court remanded the case back to the court in
Waterbury, where Alander ruled in 2006 that the files should be public
record.
Alander ruled that he didn't find compelling the argument by the
diocese that the files remain sealed out of concern for ensuring a
fair trial, should one become necessary. The diocese argued that this
is a legitimate concern because two sex abuse lawsuits remain pending
and future claims could be brought.
But Alander ruled the "right of access to those documents is
particularly strong in these cases due to the extraordinary public
interest in knowing whether minors in Connecticut were sexually abused
by priests employed by the Diocese and whether the Diocese was
responsible for perpetuating that abuse."
The diocese appealed that ruling, sending the case back to the state
Supreme Court for the second time.
The abuse cases in question involved more than 23 victims. The Courant
obtained copies of some of the sealed documents about a year after the
settlement, including depositions taken of Egan, who was bishop of the
Bridgeport diocese from 1988 to 2000, and other diocesan officials.
Egan was in charge of the Bridgeport diocese when most of the lawsuits
against priests under his control were filed and adjudicated.
Stories detailing how Egan and other officials in Bridgeport ignored
accusations or protected abusive priests were published in The Courant
in 2002. The stories were based on depositions from the lawsuits,
documents from the personnel files of accused priests and other
diocesan memorandums.
Egan could not be reached for comment Friday. He retired as the
archbishop of New York in April.
McKiernan said the timing on the heels of Egan's retirement also is
interesting.
"I believe that the Vatican has known that someday these documents
would become public and they wanted Egan to retire before that
happened."
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