Surprise! CO Christian Camp Couselor Arrested for Molesting Kids (Re: Atheism is detrimental to society)

[Church Of The Painful Truth]

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> http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~11741~2014683,00.html
>
> Robert Kosanke's time at camps brought numerous abuse allegations
> By Eric Gorski and John Moore
> Denver Post Staff Writers
>
>
> Sunday, March 14, 2004 -
>
> Robert C. Kosanke's name is written in bold print in two Colorado criminal
> convictions and in the minds of the victims he was accused of molesting.
>
> Nearly 35 years have passed since the first known allegation against him.
> Memories have faded, key figures have died and employment records have
> burned.
>
> What is known is this: Kosanke worked at Camp St. Malo, a historic Roman
> Catholic youth camp at the doorstep of Rocky Mountain National Park.
>
> He was fired from the camp, then started his own "creative growth" boys'
> camp called White Raven, which opened in Colorado and later moved to
> Wyoming.
>
> He was convicted in 1977 and 1983 in connection with sexual contact with
two
> boys and spent time in jail.
>
> He moved to California in 1983. His actions are now a key component in an
> off-Broadway play written by a 44-year- old Denver native whose life was
> irrevocably changed at age 10, when he met Kosanke as a 27-year-old
> counselor at Camp St. Malo in summer 1970.
>
> Martin Moran, the playwright, uses a thinly veiled pseudonym for Kosanke.
> Moran said that when he was 12, he began a three-year intermittent sexual
> relationship with Kosanke, but he did not know by then that Kosanke had
been
> fired by the Catholic camp's superior.
>
> But news stories and a new interview with a former camper point to a
pattern
> of abuse by Kosanke that also reached to his Camp St. Malo days.
>
> A fixture in the life of many Colorado Catholics, St. Malo was opened in
> 1916 by the Denver Archdiocese after a local monsignor saw a meteor fall
> from the sky in the area and took it as a message from heaven.
>
> St. Malo opened as a summer camp in 1934, beckoning hundreds of Catholic
> boys with horseback riding, swimming, archery and group hikes. In 1972,
> girls began attending the camp as well.
>
> Most of the camp counselors were seminarians from St. Thomas Seminary in
> Denver. Kosanke declined through a close personal contact to be
interviewed
> for this story, but the contact said Kosanke has never been a Catholic.
>
> One camper grew up to be a 47-year- old Denver lawyer and married father
of
> three. He told The Denver Post on condition of anonymity that Kosanke
abused
> him a handful of times at St. Malo during summer 1969, when he was about
12.
>
> His story might help explain how incidents of child sexual abuse happen.
> The man recalls Kosanke as a pleasant guy who made fast friends by handing
> out jawbreaker candy in the lodge.
>
> He said that one night, shortly after lights out, Kosanke crawled into his
> bunk. Following Kosanke's whispered directions, the boy rubbed Kosanke's
> penis, he said.
>
> The man said that scene replayed itself over five nights.
>
> "I never voiced opposition," he said. "I know I didn't like it. I didn't
> want to get on his bad side, and I didn't think it was anything I could
talk
> to somebody about."
>
> On subsequent nights, the man said he feigned sleep and Kosanke left him
> alone. He said Kosanke stayed away from him when he returned to the camp
the
> next summer.
>
> "I was just a naive kid," the man said. "I wish I had known I could have
> just gone to (another) counselor, because I'm confident something would
have
> been done. You're a kid. You're ashamed. You don't want to describe
anything
> that's happened down there to anybody."
>
> Camp St. Malo's records from the era were lost in a 1979 fire that
destroyed
> the camp director's cabin, and the Denver Catholic Archdiocese has no way
of
> confirming Kosanke's employment record, said Sergio Gutierrez, the
> archdiocese spokesman.
>
> The archdiocesan records in Denver hold no clues about any allegations
> against Kosanke, Gutierrez said.
>
> However, the Rev. Robert Jerrard, who oversaw the camp from fall 1970 to
its
> closing in 1984, said in an interview that his predecessor, the Rev. John
> Anderson, fired Kosanke. Anderson, who has since died, was in charge of
the
> camp in 1969 and 1970.
>
> A Denver Post story about Kosanke's 1977 sentencing on a Boulder County
> conviction cites court records showing Kosanke was fired in 1970 from a
job
> as counselor at a Boulder County church camp "because the director
believed
> he was involved with three 12-year-old boys." Those court records are now
> sealed.
>
> Jerrard, who is 93, retired and living in a Denver parish rectory, said
> Kosanke's chief responsibilities at Camp St. Malo involved physical upkeep
> of the property. He also spent time with campers, and suspicions were
> raised, Jerrard said. He recalled no details.
>
> "He was a good man insofar as he knew how to do a lot of things," Jerrard
> said. "He wasn't always a good guy when it came to dealing with the kids.
He
> didn't belong with the kids as far as nighttime is concerned at all."
>
> At that time, the Denver Archdiocese had no policy that would have
required
> alerting authorities about Kosanke. In 1991, the archdiocese adopted a
> sexual misconduct policy mandating that law enforcement be contacted
> whenever an abuse allegation is brought against clergy, staff or
volunteers.
>
> Within two years of being fired from St. Malo, Kosanke opened his own
White
> Raven boys camp about 10 miles east of Allenspark, near Camp St. Malo.
After
> one year, he and his co-counselor, whom he would later marry, moved White
> Raven to a Wyoming ranch 20 miles outside Pinedale in the Bridger National
> Forest.
>
> In 1976, Kosanke was charged with two felony counts of sexual assault on a
> child involving a 13-year-old boy who attended Kosanke's camp in Wyoming,
> according to news stories.
>
> The boy testified that Kosanke, who had paid him $5 a day to do yard work,
> twice sexually assaulted him at his cabinet-making shop in rural Boulder
> County.
>
> A jury found Kosanke guilty on both counts, and a judge sentenced him to
an
> indeterminate term of up to five years in prison, court records show.
>
> Kosanke served four months at the Colorado State Reformatory in Buena
Vista,
> where he was to get therapy, corrections records show. The case is sealed.
>
> The Wyoming camp was closed after Kosanke's arrest.
>
> In August 1981, Kosanke was arrested again, this time in Estes Park.
>
> A 13-year-old boy who was vacationing with his family said Kosanke fondled
> him in a motel swimming pool, according to an Estes Park police report.
The
> boy said that when he returned to his room and took a shower, Kosanke came
> into the shower and raped him, the report said.
>
> Afterward, Kosanke warned the boy that if he told anyone, he'd say the boy
> instigated it, the report said.
>
> Kosanke was charged with felony sexual assault on a child, court records
> show. The case went to trial, but a mistrial was declared when the jury
> deadlocked. The alleged victim's mother said she did not want her son to
> testify again, it was reported.
>
> A new trial was avoided when Kosanke agreed to plead guilty to
third-degree
> assault, a misdemeanor, and was sentenced to two years in jail, court
> records show. He was credited for time served - 30 days - and the rest of
> the sentence was suspended.
>
> Kosanke moved to Southern California three months later, and there is no
> known evidence of a criminal record there. His most recent known address
was
> in Santa Barbara.
>
> At least one other allegation of child sexual abuse at Camp St. Malo has
> been aired publicly.
>
> In 1993, John Patrick Michael Murphy of Colorado Springs went to the news
> media with a letter he wrote to Pope John Paul II detailing how he been
> molested at age 7 by a priest at Camp St. Malo in the early 1950s. Murphy
> wrote the letter shortly before the pontiff visited Camp St. Malo during a
> respite from World Youth Day events in Denver.
>
> Murphy, 58, a retired lawyer, said that he didn't report the abuse
> immediately. He said the priest was moved to rural Colorado parishes and
> died in the late 1990s.
>
> After Camp St. Malo was closed as a boys summer camp in 1984, it underwent
a
> $5 million renovation and reopened in 1987 as the St. Malo Religious
Retreat
> and Conference Center. A lay Catholic group stages retreats there for a
fee,
> and the facility is available for group rentals.
>
>
>
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Surprise!Nowhere in the article does it mention the counselor as being a
*Christian*.

"He was fired from the camp, then started his own "creative growth" boys'
camp called White Raven, which opened in Colorado and later moved to
Wyoming."

[yang AthD (h.c)]

"Church Of The Painful Truth" <Nos...@Nomarketing.com> wrote in message
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> "yang AthD (h.c)" <eac...@SPAMmail.com> wrote in message
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> > "...Cum bah yeah, my Lord...."
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> > http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~11741~2014683,00.html

> > St. Malo opened as a summer camp in 1934, beckoning hundreds of Catholic
> > boys with horseback riding, swimming, archery and group hikes. In 1972,
> > girls began attending the camp as well.

> Surprise!Nowhere in the article does it mention the counselor as being a
> *Christian*.

Surprise!!! Christians boys are just sent to the wolves, thanks to you
Christian morons.

[deanna....@gmail.com]

I'm very interested in speaking to the person that posted this. I am aware of more predators at Malo...

[Robert Carnegie]

You replied to an article sixteen years old.
Journalists at the Denver Post newspaper are mentioned
who may be still working, although the paper's web site
seems to not contain the article and it is possible that
it never did.

You also could try out the e-mail address that was
used to post it here, although it looks like it was
put into alt.atheism as a prank against another
writer. Nos...@Nomarketing.com anyway does not look
like a real e-mail address, but the other one involved
is given as eac...@SPAMmail.com which may or may not
be valid AFTER you remove the capital letters.
The article's end "credit" to "EAC crimewatch"
seems to belong with that identity.

And, as I say, that was in March 2004.

[deanna....@gmail.com]

On Sunday, 14 March 2004 19:58:32 UTC-7, Church Of The Painful Truth wrote:

Thank you!

[Cloud Hobbit]

> > Wyoming."age ofthe article
>
> Thank you!

You should be talking to law enforcement to see if there is any chance they might have use for it.

Given the age of the article, it might be passed time re statute of limitations.
Find out. There might be a chance of putting away some other pedophile and make the camp a bit safer it's still in business.