11/09/02: Josh Guimond, 20, Collegeville, MN
Josh Guimond left a small card party at Metten Court on the St. John's University campus in Collegeville, MN, to walk back to his own dorm room at St. Maur House. It was a three minute walk, but he never made it home
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The Search
A lake runs in an open area between the two buildings, and Metten Court is about a half-block from the edge of the water. A search dog led officers to the lake after it was given a scent of Guimond's clothing. Guimond has not been found.
Josh is unlikely to have just run off. He is active in student organizations, and a friend describes him as “brilliant student of the law, shrewd politician.” His goal was to serve in the Minnesota House of Representatives. Friends and family say that Josh's life was so well-planned that his disappearance has to be foul play. He did not have his glasses, his car, his credit cards, or even a coat that was appropriate for the weather. No belongings missing from his apartment. His parents, from Maple Lake, Minnesota, are convinced that he was taken against his will.
If you have information about Josh Guimond's disappearance, please contact America's Most Wanted, 1-800-CRIME TV1-800-274-6388.
Facts of Interest:
Name/age: Josh Guimond, 20 (from Maple Lake, MN)
College: St. John's University (political science)
Physical description: 6," 176#, blonde hair
Last seen: 11/09/02, Metten Court on Fruit Farm Road, Collegeville, MN
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Curious thing about the missing in these cases. If they, too, have been abducted and killed, why haven't they been found? Answer: they resisted their abductors and were immediately shot, stabbed or bludgeoned to death. Take Josh Guimond, for example, an apparently streetwise kid who would have sized up his true predicament in about two seconds and made a dash for the van door. Bang! He's gone. But now the killers have to deal with a physical trauma case with all the hallmarks of murder. Josh ain't going over the brink at this point, with his recovered body likely to raise police eyebrows across a sinuous stretch of states from Wisconsin all the way to New York. No, Josh is going somewhere else, where elbow grease and a good pick and shovel will leave him well out of eyesight and the meticulous searching of overly obsessed detectives like Duarte and Gannon. Trouble is, that takes planning and effort, and there are at least four of these cases to date. So, where are the bodies? No slip-ups to date, it seems. And none likely anytime soon. And yet on and on it goes. This is big and well-planned, I believe, going well beyond the actions of private parties.
I don't believe this one is related. I think this has to do with the corruption within the campus. Why else would they have refused to let his father search the grounds and to go as far as to file a restraining order against Josh's father. My father went to school with two girls that were murdered and a monk at st.johns was the main suspect. The lead investigator was an alum of the school and burned all the evidence incriminating the monk before he died.
St. John's (Benedictine) Abbey and University in Collegeville was the base from which the catholic church hatched its attempted international cover up of sexual and satanic abuse,em ploying specialists experts ready to try and debunk the soon coming avalacnhe of cases, which famously disgraced the vatican and the riegn of pope john paul II and the present pope Gregory who was the man behind the strategy of denial for all those years..
http://www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology/GESUND/ARCHIV/IES/USA11.HTM#TOPOFPAGE
In 1992, the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago adopted a model plan for processing allegations of clergy abuse; unfortunately, it remains incompletely and unevenly implemented. In 1993, St. John's (Benedictine) Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minnesota, established an ecumenical Interfaith Institute to study this problem.
How survivors are treated by a religious community varies greatly, and survivors should be reminded that, when they set out to seek legal action against anyone, the course may be extremely difficult. Far too often, survivors feel that they are revictimized by a system that protects the abuser, rather than one that is sensitive to the trauma of the victim.
Satanic Ritual Abuse
SHARON E. KING
“Satanic” ritual abuse is another area of recent concern. As the 1989 report by the ritual abuse task force by the Los Angeles County Commission for Women shows, it is a controversial area that requires careful and serious attention. Books and groups dealing with cult and ritual abuse continue to expose this alarming and controversial topic. Unfortunately, it often takes on the atmosphere of a circus and witch hunt. There is no scientific evidence that this type of CSA is widespread or common.
Recovered Memories and False Memory Syndrome
DIANE BAKER AND SHARON E. KING
Of great concern recently are a number of cases involving children in day-care centers reporting that they were sexually abused by their caretakers. Although some investigations have led to convictions, other cases have been found to lack any substance at all. In one case, a middle-aged male retracted his charge that a prominent Catholic cardinal archbishop had sexually abused him when he was in the seminary, claiming that his lawyer had probably prompted or influenced his “recovered memory” of being abused.
Concern over false reporting is not limited to young children. Teachers all over the country report that they no longer touch their students as they once did. Hugging a child, allowing a young child to sit on one's lap, or being alone in a room with a child are just some of the things that teachers must now monitor. Cases in which children have projected sexual abuse that was happening at home onto a teacher, and the false reporting of sexual abuse by a teacher in order to get back at the teacher are now issues that mental-health workers and the legal system must unravel in some of the more unusual cases placed before the courts.
Better questioning of young victims by mental-health and legal workers is one area that continues to improve. As with any inquiry, it has become evident that the invitation to tell what happened cannot, in any way, be colored by suggestive questioning on the part of the interviewer.
Increasing numbers of adult women and men have begun to disclose incidents of sexual abuse that happened to them when they were children. Their sexual abuse occurred during a time when it Was not safe for children to disclose such information and when the support systems of the state and therapeutic communities were not in place.
In some incidents where adults disclose what happened to them as children, they have always known what happened to them, but they have never before spoken out or sought help. In some instances, however, adults report “remembering” or retrieving lost memories of childhood sexual abuse. Remembering and dealing with unresolved issues of childhood sexual abuse can often explain to a victim how and why his or her life has been affected by the abuse. Weight problems, depression, sleep disturbances, intimacy and sexual disorders, unexplained fears, compulsive behaviors, self-esteem issues, and psychosomatic disorders are just a few of the symptoms that can be resolved when an adult finally confronts the repressed and unresolved trauma of childhood sexual abuse.
In a response to their own daughter's accusation of being sexually abused by her father, the Freyds' of Philadelphia started an organization that examines the False Memory Syndrome. Dr. Pamela Freyd and her husband have been most public in their denial of their daughter's accusations, basing their response on a belief that her “memories” were suggested by her therapist. After a period of silence on her part, Dr. Jennifer Freyd publicly countered her parents' denial of what happened to her, citing her mother's public debate as yet another example of her intrusiveness. Whatever the struggle between the members of the Freyd family, this small organization has brought forth a concern about the authenticity and reliability of retrieved memories.
The strategy of denial was carefully crafted at the very college Josh Guimond went missing from.
Ofcourse this plan in the end did not achieve it's hoped for purpose, with billions being paid out to victims of both sexual and occult abuse cases in the coming years after the 1990's planned strategy of plausable deniability employing the works of the likes of that written above.
Josh Guimonds' scent and chris Jenkins' scent traced by a bloodhound to the abbey at St. John's University-
6 Disappearances: Coincidence Or Serial Killer?
(The Father of Chris ) Jenkins said a Milwaukee-based bloodhound tracked the scents of two of the missing to the abbey at St. John's University, where Guimond disappeared. Hoover identified Guimond's scent and the scent of Chris Jenkins, who had no known connection to the school.
(For this to be dismissed as meaning nothing , with no further investigation is an outrage )
* Oct. 31: Friends saw the 21-year-old Jenkins, from Racine County, leaving a downtown Minneapolis bar dressed in his Halloween costume. No one's seen him since.
* Nov. 6: 75 miles east, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire student Michael Noll vanished after leaving a party at the Nasty Habit tavern. It was his 22nd birthday.
* Nov. 9: 75 miles west, 20-year-old Josh Guimond disappeared as he headed home from a card party in a dorm at St. John's University.
* Dec. 12: 18-year-old Chad Sharon was going back to the dorm after an off-campus party near Notre Dame. There's been no trace of the northern Wisconsin teenager.
* Dec. 20: 17-year-old Brian Carrick was seen walking into the Johnsburg, Ill., grocery store where he worked. No one saw him walk out.
* Jan. 10: 21-year-old Nathan Herr headed home from Thursday's $10-all-you-can-drink night at a Sheboygan sports bar and vanished without a trace.
http://www.wisn.com/news/1973837/detail.html
Why was the fact that Chris Jenkins scent was found at the abby of St. John's University, where Josh Guimond scent was found , NOT INVESTIGATED THOROUGHLY INSTEAD OF BEING DISMISSED?
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St. John's Abbey abuse Abbey addressed decades of sex abuse allegations .... MN, where he taught philosophy to students at St. John's University, ...
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3 named in abuse allegations
Jul 29, 2006 ... Collegeville — New allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced Friday ... the counseling center at St. John's University until 2003; he is now retired. ... St. John's Abbey has contracted with the Walk-In Counseling Center ...
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Bishop Accountability
The abbey in Collegeville is adjacent to St. John's University and St. John's .... Vogel said when he brought abuse allegations forward 12 years ago, ...
www.bishop-accountability.org/ma-bos/settlements/SettlementStJohnsAbbey.html - 62k - Cached - Similar pages
Church in Crisis: Abbey has turned corner in abuse scandal ...
Dec 13, 2002 ... St. Paul lambasted Benedictine monks at St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, ... of the abbey, which will immediately report abuse allegations in keeping with state law. St. John's has agreed to collaborate with four professionals ... associate dean and law professor at the University of St. Thomas ...
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St. John's Abbey Settles Sex Abuse Suits - News Story - Minneapolis
It was back in April -- amid a national focus on spreading allegations of decades of sexual abuse by priests and monks -- that St. John's Abbey became the ...
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Dialogue 15
Sep 30, 2007 ... Both of these men had deep concern for the problem of abuse of minors ... Certainly the majority of monks in Collegeville are good men, ... I served as the personnel director of St. John's Abbey from 1968-1970. ... of the St. John's University Interfaith Sexual Trauma Institute from 1994 to 1996. ...
www.richardsipe.com/Dialogue/Dialogue-15-2007-09-30.html
Behind the Pine Curtain - Documents » Bruce Wollmering
The Abbey and University allegedly covered up the harassment claims, failed to report ... today outside a Shoreview church where a Collegeville monk worked for two years. (more…) Sep 7, 2006 - Abuse allegations shake St. John's Abbey ...
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Sisters go public with abuse allegations at St. John's University
Prince said her father told St. John's Abbey about the abuse after it first ... father and a St John's University employee regarding the abuse allegation. ...
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Feb 11, 2008 - Credibly Accused of Sexual Misconduct
Filed Under: A.W. Richard Sipe, Allen Tarlton, Andre Bennett, Brennan Maiers, Cosmos Dahlheimer, Dunstan Moorse, Finian McDonald, Fran Hoefgen, Francisco Shulte, Isaac Connolly, Jeff Anderson, John Eidenschink, John Kelly, John Klassen, Patrick Ryan, Patrick Wall, Paul GoPaul, Rene McGraw, Review Board, Richard Eckroth, Vogels
St. John’s Abbey Benedictine establishment at Collegeville, MN, the largest Benedictine monastery in the western world, adjacent to St. John’s University and St. John’s Preparatory School. At least 14 of the abbey’s nearly 200 monks have been credibly accused of sexual misconduct.
http://www.behindthepinecurtain.com/wordpress/?cat=22
THE USE OF OCCULT RITUAL IS NEARLY ALWAYS INVOLVED WITH CATHOLIC SEX ABUSE
Our guest this week is author William H. Kennedy, whose book Lucifer's Lodge is a disturbing analysis of Satanic sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church.ÂÂ* Bill told us that as many as two-thirds of the Roman Catholic bishops and cardinals worldwide have knowingly reassigned pedophile priests without disciplining them or even taking steps to keep them away from children!
Even more sinister was the savage 1998 murder of Father Alfred Kunz in Wisconsin--shortly after he threatened to go public with evidence of Satanic rituals and pedophilia in the church.ÂÂ* His stabbing death, which was accompanied by the ritual mutilation of a calf at a nearby farm, has yet to be solved.
It's a dark, evil topic that sounds like a conspiracy theorist's hallucination, but Lucifer's Lodge is thoroughly documented from news accounts published in mainstream newspapers and magazines.ÂÂ* And the evidence suggests that the Satanists and pedophiles were protected by powers at the highest levels inside the Church of Rome.
William H. Kennedy (b. 1964) is a writer and speaker on religious topics. Kennedy has written articles for academic journals like Sophia: the Journal of Traditional Studies and popular magazines like New Dawn.
In 2004 Kennedy authored Lucifer's Lodge: Satanic Ritual Abuse in the Catholic Church (Sophia Perennis: 2004) followed by Satanic Crime: A Threat in the New Millennium (MVM: 2006) & Occult History: Collected Writings 1994-2008 (MVM: 2008).
Road to Freedom hosted by Eleanor White. Catholic Church Satanism confirmed in the Irish Ferns Report, Father James Grennan sexually abused girls on the altar of his church, Pamela Vitale was a ritual murder, how the police failed to investigate priest pedophilia and why victims groups should lead the investigation of Catholic Religious Orders.
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http://www.shoestringradio.net/audio/show19.mp3
or this show
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http://www.mysticvalleymedia.com/PID6108.mp3
MOST SEXCUAL ABUSE OF MINORS BY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HAS MOVED TO AFRICA AND SOUTH AMERICA SINCE THE BIG SCANDALS BROKE IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.
A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF THE CLERGY ABUSE CASES HAD A OCCULTIC SATANIC RILUTALISTIC ASPECT THAT WAS ALMOST NEVER SPOTLIGHTED AND WAS HIDDEN IN THE BACKROUND OF THE DETAILS OF CASES.
NOW THEY NO LONGER CAN DO THEIR RITUALS ON "MINORS" WITH THE SAME DEGREE OF SAFETY.........
BEGS THE QUESTION.........?
Abuse allegations shake St. John's Abbey
The Record, St. John's University/September 7, 2006
By Matt Smith
Pat Marker kept it all inside for nearly 10 years.
He moved to St. John's Prep School before his junior year of high school. Marker, now 41-years-old, says what Fr. Dunstan Moorse did to him in his late teens changed the course of his life forever.
Until late this August, Marker was a member of the St. John's Abbey external review board, a group of nine professionals who assess alleged monk offenders and provide help to victims. Marker was selected because he's a survivor of sexual abuse.
But in August, he resigned from his position following new allegations of sexual misconduct from three monks of the St. John's monastic community.
New allegations
On July 28, Abbot John Klassen made public the names of three more monks who he said, substantial facts shows committed sexual misconduct.
"There was enough evidence to convince us it happened," Klassen said. "I delayed this one probably longer than I should have, but nevertheless, made it public."
Frs. Michael Bik and the late Robert Blumeyer, the Abbot said, face several allegations of sexual abuse. Two allegations of sexual harassment against Fr. Bruce Wollmering were also brought to light in 2004.
The statute of limitations is expired on each allegation, Klassen said, making it impossible to prosecute.
Klassen says that brings the total number of monk offenders at St. John's to 10, out of the 150, currently residing at the Abbey.
Klassen said two victims just came forward in the fall of 2005 accusing Blumeyer, who died in 1983, of sexual abuse between 1969 and 1979.
But the Abbot says he's known about the allegations against Bik since 1998, and let him continue teaching at the prep school until 2002.
"At that point [in 1998], the culture within our leadership would be to say as long as we put Michael in a situation where he is not in a residential hall, or not counseling, it should be OK," Klassen said. "It was my call in the summer of 2002 to make his name public or not … In fact, I would say this was an error on my part."
The delay prompted Marker's resignation.
"They are going to either under report or minimize every chance they have," Marker said. "And that's exactly what's happening."
Marker's story
Although Marker has considered himself a survivor since the early 1990s, he's confident that many victims from St. John's are holding on to the secret like he once did.
"I'm very concerned about the people who went to the prep school for one or two years and dropped out, or to the college for one or two years and dropped out," he said.
Marker says he formed a relationship with Moorse when he moved to St. John's after being severely homesick. The trust that was formed, he said, was violated.
"At one point we were down in the dorms of the prep school and he tried to masturbate me, and wasn't successful, and got frustrated," Marker said. "There was sexual contact."
Marker says it took years for him to understand the drastic impact.
"I was very frustrated with the church, and very frustrated with my peers and not really understanding where that came from," he said.
But in early 1990, that changed.
"I called him up on the telephone and I said, 'Listen, I know what you did to me. I understand what you did to me now … And I need some counseling,'" Marker said. "And he said he couldn't help me."
Marker accuses Moorse of attempting to silence him when he feared his removal from the Abbey.
"When I was going through the low point of my life … he took advantage of that," Marker said.
The abuse, he said, has shaped his life, making him a leading advocate for sexual abuse victims from St. John's.
Victim's support
Klassen said the external review board began meeting three years ago and is confident the Abbey is making strides in its work.
"What I can assure you is this is a very important and sensitive area and we are looking at this very carefully and want to err on the side of accountability," Klassen said.
The Abbey has formed a partnership with the Walk-In Counseling Center in Minneapolis, where victims are urged to go for help.
"Our job is to be a safe place to talk and to get the ball rolling," said Gary Schoener, executive director and contact for Abbey abuse victims.
Klassen said the Abbey asked the center for the partnership to provide professional help for victims.
"[The victims] have never been a distraction to us," Klassen said. "They are real human beings who have suffered enormously."
Although a settlement was reached between Marker and the monastery, Marker said that wasn't the case with him.
"They've been working under a cloak of secrecy for so long and they continue to," he said. "That's the attitude and personality of the Abbey."
Marker said his extensive research shows more monks will be named and more victims will come forward. That's prompted him to create a Web site, which he says, will shed light to the on-going abuse.
But that accusation, and the Web site, Klassen said, is "a whole lot of innuendo."
"That is totally an unfounded, false statement. I mean false," Klassen said. "Our students can be confident that we are doing our level best with the help of skilled professionals to make sure that your education and time here is safe, and that it is an opportunity for an outstanding educational experience."
http://www.rickross.com/reference/clergy/clergy599.html
They didnt used to kill their victims usually, although they used the occultic ritual in the abuse.
but now maybe another avalanche of survivor scandals are too risky, and child deaths too suspicious?
Plus if they actually believe in this evil power, which they do...
then an actual sacrifice of a life maybe to them - their only hope of regaining the footing they have lost in recent years.
CATHLOIC ABUSE VICTIM Patrick McSorley, 28 NEARLY DROWNS
" McSorley was with a friend Wednesday afternoon at Pope John Paul II Park, Boston television station WCVB reported. The two became separated. The friend later found McSorley in the Neponset River, pulled him out and started CPR."
Alleged sex abuse victim nearly drowns
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BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) -- One of the alleged victims of the clergy sexual abuse scandal in Boston's archdiocese was recovering after nearly drowning in a river last week, his attorney said Monday.
Lawyer Mitchell Garabedian said Patrick McSorley, 28, had been taken off life support and was breathing on his own and speaking when he visited him Sunday night at Boston Medical Center.
"He's doing better but he's still recovering," Garabedian told CNN in a phone interview.
McSorley was at the heart of a lawsuit against the Catholic Church in Boston, claiming he was sexually assaulted by now-defrocked priest John Geoghan in 1986, when McSorley was 12.
Authorities said McSorley was with a friend Wednesday afternoon at Pope John Paul II Park, Boston television station WCVB reported. The two became separated. The friend later found McSorley in the Neponset River, pulled him out and started CPR.
Garabedian said his client was not yet in a position to talk about the circumstances of the incident.
McSorely's near-drowning came one day before the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops met for a conference in St. Louis, where bishops said the church had made progress in rooting out sexually abusive priests and protecting children. (Full story)
John Geoghan
John Geoghan
Geoghan is currently in prison after receiving a sentence in January 2002 of up to 10 years for fondling a young boy, and he faces other child sexual abuse charges. Authorities believe Geoghan was a serial sexual offender over many years, with as many as 200 victims.
Last fall, the Boston archdiocese paid $10 million to settle a suit by 86 plaintiffs, including McSorley, who said they were sexually assaulted by Geoghan.
The abuse crisis in the American Roman Catholic church began last year with evidence that church leaders in Boston had shuffled abusive priests from parish to parish rather than remove them.
Since then, at least 325 U.S. priests have resigned or been dismissed from their duties.
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/06/23/church.abuse.mcsorley/index.html
Alleged victim of Geoghan nearly drowns
By Michael S. Rosenwald, Globe Staff, 6/19/2003
Patrick McSorley in May 2002. (Globe Staff Photo / David L. Ryan)
One of the alleged sexual abuse victims of convicted child molester and defrocked priest John J. Geoghan nearly drowned yesterday afternoon in the Neponset River in Dorchester's Pope John Paul II Park, authorities said.
Patrick McSorley, 28, of Hyde Park, was in critical condition last night at Boston Medical Center, where he was taken by ambulance after a friend found him splashing and struggling in the river, said David Procopio, the Suffolk district attorney's spokesman.
Mitchell Garabedian, a lawyer who represented McSorley in one of the 84 lawsuits brought against Geoghan and church officials, said that McSorley was unconscious and on life support last night. His family told Garabedian that he had a ''50-50 chance'' of survival.
State Police are investigating how McSorley wound up in the river and the events leading up to what transpired, Procopio said. A preliminary inquiry indicates that around 2:30 p.m., McSorley and his friend became separated somewhere in the sprawling park, which has a long, sloping grass embankment along the water.
Moments later, the friend and a passerby heard him splashing. The friend then pulled a submerged McSorley from the river, performed CPR, and called 911. McSorley had scrapes and a contusion ''consistent with being pulled out of the water,'' Procopio said.
Garabedian refused to comment on whether he thought McSorley had tried to kill himself. The two spoke on Monday, and Garabedian said, ''He was talking about how the church hasn't changed its attitude at all with regard to helping victims heal.''
McSorley was 12 years old and living in a Boston housing project when he was molested by Geoghan, according to Globe reports and ''Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church,'' a book by the newspaper's Spotlight team.
Geoghan learned of the suicide of McSorley's father and not long after dropped by to offer his condolences, according to the book. Then, he took the boy for ice cream. On the way home, Geoghan patted McSorley's upper leg, then slid his hand up toward his crotch and molested him.
''I didn't know what to think,'' McSorley says in the book.
McSorley, who has young children of his own, was outspoken during the church abuse scandal that shattered support of the Catholic Church and led to the resignation of Cardinal Bernard F. Law last December.
He sat in on hours of depositions, including Law's. During one session, he said he could not bring himself to shake the hand that Law offered him as the morning testimony got underway.
He characterized the cardinal's testimony as not believable. ''It was despicable,'' McSorley said. ''We couldn't get the truth out of someone who is supposed to tell nothing but the truth.''
Garabedian said McSorley sat through the lengthy depositions because he ''felt he should inform the public as to the pedophile priests in the Archdiocese of Boston.''
''Patrick is a hero,'' Garabedian added. ''Patrick poured his heart and soul into making the public aware of the pedophilia within the Catholic Church. It was very important to Patrick that other people be protected.''
When Superior Court Judge Constance M. Sweeney in September accepted a $10 million settlement of 84 lawsuits against Geoghan and church officials, she said in the courtroom: ''There is no question from the point of view of the civil side that Mr. Geoghan either raped or assaulted you or members of your family ...''
Afterward, McSorley said: ''Those words were honest words. That was exactly what I wanted to hear. We were sitting there, we were noticed by her, and that was very comforting.''
The money, he said, would not change his life. ''My heart is always going to be broken because of this,'' he said. ''I mean these are people my family once loved. And they let something go tragically wrong.''
Globe correspondents Jared Stearns and Heather Allen contributed to this report.
This story ran on page B1 of the Boston Globe on 6/19/2003.
© Copyright 2003 Globe Newspaper Company.
http://www.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/stories4/061903_mcsorley.htm
THEY MANAGED TO KILL HIM ANYWAY
McSorley's death recalls a life long lost
By Brian MacQuarrie, Globe Staff | June 13, 2004
The late-night arrival had occurred many times. Patrick McSorley, perhaps the best-known victim of clergy sex abuse in the Boston Archdiocese, had made his way to Alan Brini's North End apartment -- distraught, exhausted, desperate for a place to sleep.
His girlfriend, Kristin Carter, had just barred McSorley from her Taunton home, fed up with a drug addiction that had worsened like a gathering hurricane since McSorley received nearly $200,000 in a landmark settlement in 2002.
Now, he was inside Brini's cluttered apartment near Faneuil Hall Marketplace in the early hours of Feb. 22, sobbing as the older man sought to comfort him.
"He put his arms around me," recounted Brini, a confidant of McSorley's. "He was crying and said, 'She did it again.' "
McSorley, 29, sat in a soft black leather chair, his favorite spot in the apartment where Brini shuffled from room to room with the aid of a cane and tended to a serious nerve disorder with powerful drugs that filled his medicine cabinets.
All during that night, McSorley placed call after call to Carter, as Brini fell asleep from medication that sometimes blotted out entire days. When Brini woke in the bathroom, nearly 24 hours later, McSorley was lying flat on the bed.
"I said, 'Patrick, are you cold?' " Brini, 64, recalled. "I tried to give him artificial respiration, but everything was so hard."
A 911 call from an emergency transmitter draped around Brini's neck brought police to the apartment. Until that time, Brini said, he continued to try to revive McSorley, refusing to accept his friend's death until he heard an officer remark, "He's A to Z."
"In my heart, I knew he was gone, but I didn't want to accept it," Brini said, the tears falling from his eyes and onto his shirt.
The Suffolk District Attorney's office has labeled McSorley's death, alone and untended, a drug overdose.
But among McSorley's family and friends -- among those who watched, stunned, as this unremarkable Hyde Park man suddenly became the telegenic face of the clergy scandal -- the death seemed the sadly predictable destiny of a troubled project kid who found his mission in helping others, but was tragically unable to help himself.
An unlikely spokesman McSorley burst into the public eye in 2001 with an unexpected intensity that mirrored the widening impact of the clergy sex-abuse scandal. He and 85 other plaintiffs represented by attorney Mitchell Garabedian pursued civil claims against the Boston Archdiocese stemming from their abuse at the hands of the Rev. John J. Geoghan, who was accused of molesting nearly 150 children over three decades.
But almost alone among the victims, McSorley gravitated to the spotlight with an ease and enthusiasm that belied his roots as the youngest of six children from a poor Boston family that had lurched from dysfunctional homes in Mission Hill to Jamaica Plain to Hyde Park.
McSorley attended depositions of Cardinal Bernard Law, sat beside Garabedian at news conference after news conference, and spent many of his days in the company of out-of-town reporters seeking the same insight, over and over, into what had become the biggest scandal ever to shake the Roman Catholic Church in the United States.
His mother, Geraldine McSorley, was startled by her son's sudden transformation into an eager, ready source for the media.
"I said, 'Patrick, you don't know what you're into there. This'll be something that goes down in the annals of Catholic history,' " she recalled. "He had gone nowhere, gotten nowhere, and done nothing, but then he found himself in the midst of all this social turmoil. My son was like a child the way it went."
To Garabedian, who did not know McSorley before he walked into the lawyer's State Street office to talk about Geoghan, McSorley was a driven, guileless champion for those victims who could not face the cameras to speak of their anger and shame.
"Patrick's legacy can be summed up in one word: courage," Garabedian said.
To other survivors of Geoghan's molestation, McSorley was the street-smart articulator of their hunger for delayed justice.
"When I saw him on TV speaking out, he made me want to be that person," said Alexa MacPherson, 29, of Dorchester, a victim of clergy sex abuse who befriended McSorley in the last year of his life.
But to Stacey McSorley Stokes, Patrick's oldest sibling, her brother's role in the limelight was a passion she opposed. "I didn't think it was a good idea, only because of the aftereffects I thought it could have on Patrick," Stokes said. "I was like, 'Pat! Pat? What are you doing, bro?' "
Still, she did not fight her brother's penchant for the spotlight.
"He had a mission going on, and he was on a roll, and he had an aim and he was going for it," she said. "But after the case was ended, after all was said and done, he had to look at himself, and all that pain came back to him."
That pain had roots in McSorley's abuse by Geoghan when he was 12 years old. But the trauma of a chaotic family life also appears to have contributed to a dangerously fragile spirit.
Troubled family Billy McSorley and Geraldine Payne were little-noticed products of Boston's working class, she from the shadows of Mission Church in Roxbury and he from South Boston. They met as teen-agers and married in 1965, moving to the Mission Hill neighborhood where Payne's world had been dominated by the spires of the nearby church and by the Catholic faith that prompted many of her peers to become priests and nuns.
"When you walked away from church, you felt like you were walking on a spring of clouds," said Patrick's mother, now 61. "The church was very important. That was your spirituality right there."
Her faith helped Geraldine McSorley weather the rigors of a tumultuous marriage in which her laborer husband bounced from job to job, and brought a ferocious drinking problem into a household that once squatted in a condemned building in Jamaica Plain.
Strains of mental illness in some family members combined with other problems to break up the McSorleys. Three children were sent to a Catholic foster home; two to state custody.
However, most of the family reunited in Jamaica Plain near St. Andrew's Church, where a small, smiling priest named John J. Geoghan imparted a sense of comfort to his blue-collar parishioners and their children at the affiliated Catholic school. Stacey Stokes, Patrick's sister, recalls Geoghan as a reassuring, non-threatening man who seemed imbued with a quiet peace.
But if the world seemed stable enough at church, the domestic scene had not improved. The McSorleys moved again, this time to subsidized housing in Hyde Park, where Billy McSorley continued to drink heavily. He ended his life one night in 1980 by jumping from a railroad bridge.
Patrick, the youngest, was 6 years old. But the worst was still to come. In 1986, as Stokes walked in the Forest Hills neighborhood, she met Geoghan by chance. The fateful location remains etched in her mind: Walk Hill and Wenham streets.
There, she hugged this avuncular reminder of her school days and told him of her father's suicide. "I was so happy to see him because he was such a humble, little man," Stokes said.
Geoghan asked where the family lived. The next day, Geoghan offered his condolences in person to Geraldine McSorley and offered to take Patrick, then 12, out for an ice cream.
For a poor boy, an ice cream spoke of rare luxury. But Patrick unknowingly stepped into the predator's path, one that the priest had trod before. On the drive back to Patrick's house, Geoghan patted the boy's leg, moved his hand to Patrick's genitals, and fondled the stunned child as the priest masturbated himself.
After the car stopped, Patrick emerged in numbed disbelief, the ice cream dripping down his hand and forearm as Geoghan warned him not to speak of the incident.
"When Patrick walked in the house, I knew something was wrong," Geraldine recalled.
A double life Patrick eventually told his mother about his encounter with Geoghan, but the shame of the incident and the intimidating authority of a church to which his mother always had deferred combined to keep the episode closely guarded for years. McSorley did not even disclose the incident to his sister until 1999, when Stokes mentioned over dinner that Geoghan, their former parish priest, had been named in sex-abuse complaints reported in the media.
McSorley rose from the table, left the room briefly, and returned to tell his story. Nothing was ever the same again.
At first reluctant to join the growing number of plaintiffs who said Geoghan had molested them, McSorley took the advice of his sister to join the lawsuits and "validate" what had happened to him.
"He said, 'OK,' just like that," Stokes recalled. "But I didn't expect him to be a spokesman. I didn't expect him to go all out."
Garabedian said he noticed something special in McSorley, something that would translate well to television, news conferences, and public appearances. "He always spoke from the heart, he always spoke sincerely, and there was a certain genuineness to him that couldn't be defeated," Garabedian said.
McSorley also had a street-bred fearlessness, his admirers said, that gave him the confidence to venture before the cameras that other plaintiffs shunned.
But if McSorley combined a blue-collar sense of virtue and verve, family and friends said, he also appeared to be the poster boy that could attract attention and sympathy to the case.
"He was the young, vulnerable victim," MacPherson said. "He was the handsome boy that's standing up for justice."
Garabedian played a big role in encouraging McSorley to become the face of the scandal, MacPherson said. But McSorley also relished the spotlight in a cause to which he had become wholeheartedly attached, she added.
"I think the only time he felt in control was when he was out there doing that," MacPherson said.
The idea of "control" was, literally, a concept of night and day with McSorley. During the day, he busied himself with the case and media requests. At night, Stokes said, a frightening world of hard drugs and shadowy friends ruled his life.
Cocaine, OxyContin, Percocet, marijuana, and alcohol were frequent means of escape, Carter said, even after she became pregnant with Patrick Jr. six years ago. There also was heroin, which his family and friends agree McSorley abused but which they rarely saw used in their presence.
The drugs changed McSorley dramatically. Normally caring, breezy, nonjudgmental, and generous, the natural charisma that drew people to McSorley turned dark and ominous.
"He became a different person when he did drugs," MacPherson said. Overly self-righteous. Fidgety. Prone to short-tempered outbursts.
Stokes said she became concerned about the effect of McSorley's behavior on her two daughters, now 12 and 4. "It was in this kitchen about a year ago," she said recently at her Taunton home. "When he came in, he was ready and reeling," Stokes said of Patrick's startling mood.
"I said, 'Wait a minute. What are you on?' " Stokes recalled. "I realized he's going to get himself killed."
In a June 2003 incident widely reported as a mysterious, accidental plunge into the Neponset River, McSorley actually did try to commit suicide, MacPherson said.
Brini, his North End friend, said McSorley had been high on PCP when he fell into the river beside Pope John Paul II Park in Dorchester. Although McSorley denied at a news conference that he had tried to kill himself, MacPherson said McSorley later told her he did not want to leave the river alive.
"He wanted the pain to end. He wanted the memories to end," MacPherson said. "He didn't know how to pick up the pieces."
The legal settlement in September 2002, in which the archdiocese agreed to give $10 million to the 86 plaintiffs, did not ease McSorley's pain. Neither did McSorley's share.
If anything, his family and friends agreed, the windfall hastened his death.
Financial downfall The money became the fuel that stoked McSorley's worsening drug addiction. "When you think that things would get better, they spiraled out of control for him," Stokes said.
At the time of the settlement, McSorley said: "The money is not going to change my life. My heart is always going to be broken because of this."
But according to relatives and friends, McSorley spent tens of thousands of dollars on a Caribbean cruise, cottage rentals on Cape Cod, a speedboat, and a new drum set. A fast life had suddenly become faster.
"He knew what he wanted to do with the money -- enjoy it, poor kid," McSorley's mother said. "After the money, he got confused."
McSorley's aunt, Jane Scarborough of Quincy, said the ready cash could not mask the pain that had been dredged up, relived, and recounted in public.
"He said he was sorry he came forward because his life then became screwed up," said Scarborough. She had cared for McSorley for three years after his father died, and even she did not know of the abuse until after he joined the lawsuit.
But the money began to dry up. MacPherson said her friend sometimes would beg for a few dollars to buy a cup of coffee or a pack of cigarettes. Brini estimated he spent $15,000 on McSorley's needs, from hundreds of parking tickets to co-signing for a car loan.
"Last summer, he was almost unrecognizable," Carter said. "He was very thin. His eyes just looked different, almost like he didn't have a care, like everything was for the drugs."
Less than a month after McSorley was pulled from the Neponset River and placed on life support, he was arrested in a Dedham motel and charged with possession of the powerful painkiller fentanyl, marijuana, and drug paraphernalia that included hypodermic needles. The charges were continued without a finding for a year, with the condition McSorley remain clean. After that, according to family and friends, McSorley's habits waned somewhat but remained worrisome.
"He had no friends who were clean," MacPherson said. "His cellphone was ringing off the hook. People knew he had the money or he had something on him."
Brini recalled nights when a drug-dazed McSorley would come to the apartment, unable to recognize Brini, swinging appliances around the room and punching gaping holes in the walls. And then there were the sober times, MacPherson said, when McSorley would be painfully sick from drug withdrawal, sitting for hours in waiting rooms at various hospitals with cracked, bleeding feet, pleading for admission to detoxification and rehabilitation units.
"I knew he was going to die," Stokes said. "It was only a matter of time."
Garabedian said he was concerned about McSorley's drug habit and tried to help. At one time, friends said, McSorley received church-paid treatment after Garabedian prodded the archdiocese to help his client.
The lawyer, however, said that attributing McSorley's problems solely to drugs and alcohol is a mistake.
"It's convenient to blame other sources. The blame really lies with the pedophile priests and their enablers," Garabedian said. "The monsters who created this know who they are: One of them has passed away, and one of them has gotten out of the country."
The villains, according to Garabedian, are Geoghan, who was killed in prison last year, and Law, who has been appointed to a ceremonial position in Rome.
McSorley's mother said she still does not blame Law, asking how the cardinal could be responsible for the day-to-day observation of priests suspected of pedophilia. And Geraldine McSorley believes that Geoghan's death caused her son to question whether the high-profile case was worth another tragedy.
"I know it was wrong," McSorley's mother recalled him saying of Geoghan's abuse. "But was it worth a man dying over? Was it worth a man's life?"
Carter said she misses McSorley terribly, and her 5-year-old son, Patrick Jr., echoes that sentiment in a small apartment where pictures of the smiling family are everywhere.
Despite the turmoil and the anxiety, McSorley's absence has left a void in the circle of people who cared for him. The irony of his death -- quickened, his family believes, by his participation in the case -- also has a permanent place in their hearts.
"He had no coping skills," Stokes said. "Here he was, fighting for everyone else. But he couldn't even fight for himself."
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CANADA ABUSE VICTIM suing the United Church of Canada United Church of Canada DROWNS
DEAD.
"Authorities are unsure whether Darryl Watts fell or jumped into the water."
Victim drowns (sexual abuse victim possible suicide).
By David Wiwchar
Windspeaker Contributor
NANAIMO, B.C.
One of the 31 plaintiffs suing the United Church of Canada United Church of Canada, Protestant denomination formed in 1925 by the union of the Methodist, Congregational, and Presbyterian churches in Canada. A large number of Presbyterian congregations, however, remain outside the union. and the federal government for their involvement in the abuse of students at the Alberni Indian Residential School was found floating face down in the cold October waters of Nanaimo, B.C. harbor.
Authorities are unsure whether Darryl Watts fell or jumped into the water, but according to according to
prep.
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.
2. In keeping with: according to instructions.
3. Darryl's brother, and co-plaintiff in the case, there is "a good probability" it was suicide.
According to Marlon Watts, Darryl had become depressed, and started drinking heavily after convicted pedophile pedophile Forensic psychiatry A person with pedophilia; there are an estimated 500,000 pedophiles in the world. See Child prostitution, Megan's law, Pedophilia. Arthur Henry Plint appeared as a witness at the trial.
"Seeing Plint in the courtroom turned us into little kids again," said fellow plaintiff Melvin Good. "Whether it was a suicide or an accident, it was still caused by the residential school."
Darryl Watts was only four years old when he and his three brothers were taken from their home on the Kincolith Reserve and forced into the Alberni Indian Residential School. The physical and sexual abuse suffered while a student remained with Darryl for the rest of his 40 years. With their trial in Nanaimo, B.C. adjourned early because of new evidence, many plaintiffs remained in Nanaimo with family before heading back to their home communities. That was when Darryl slipped back into alcoholism alcoholism, disease characterized by impaired control over the consumption of alcoholic beverages. Alcoholism is a serious problem worldwide; in the United States the wide availability of alcoholic beverages makes alcohol the most accessible drug, and alcoholism is .
A sailor aboard a Canadian Navy ship said he saw Watts sitting at the end of the pier, drinking what appeared to be vodka vodka (vŏd`kə), traditional spirituous drink of Russia, the Baltic states, and Poland; it is now consumed internationally. The best vodka is distilled from rye and barley malt, but the cheaper corn and potatoes are commonly employed. . The sailor continued his duties aboard the ship paying little attention to Watts. When the sailor again looked out to the pier an hour or two later, he saw that the dock was empty.
Stepping down off the boat on to the pier, the sailor saw Watts floating face down and quickly rushed to call the police. The following day, Darryl's mother, Marie Watts Marie Watt (born 1967) is a contemporary artist living and working in Portland, Oregon. Part Seneca, Watt has created work centered on contemporary Native American themes. She holds a B.A. in art from Willamette University and a Master's Degree from Yale University. , a witness in the trial, and numerous other plaintiffs held a dockside vigil vigil (vĭj`əl) [Lat.,=watch], in Christian calendars, eve of a feast, a day of penitential preparation. In ancient times worshipers gathered for vespers before a great feast and then waited outside the church until dawn for the liturgy (Mass). where the body was found. Watts was buried near his home in Greenville, B.C., just outside of New Hazelton.
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Riddle of drowned priest in sex abuse probe
May 17, 2001
AN open verdict has been recorded on a Catholic priest who drowned in a river while being investigated for an alleged sex offence against a teenage boy in Manchester.
Deputy Gloucester coroner Alan Crickmore said there was no evidence to suggest that Father William Welsford, 68 - known as Father Bonaventure - had committed suicide.
But there was also insufficient evidence to reach any other verdict on how the priest came to drown in the River Severn in Gloucestershire, said Mr Crickmore.
He had heard that just a week before Fr Welsford died, he had written to a friend and fellow priest. In the letter, he dismissed the claim that he indecently assaulted a boy aged 14/15, at the All Saints children's home in Barton, Trafford, in 1977.
The claim was investigated by police who were leading the Operation Cleopatra probe into abuse at children's homes in the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
At the time of writing the letter - just three days after being arrested and interviewed about the allegation - Fr Welsford had moved away from the house where he had been staying since his retirement in Milford Haven, west Wales, and was looking for a new home in Bristol.
He had retired as priest in Presteigne in Wales a couple of months earlier. Although he appeared unworried about the indecent assault allegation, he had been showing concern about his health and feared that he may have prostate cancer.
The inquest heard that six days after writing the letter, Fr Welsford parked his caravanette alongside the A40 at Over, near Gloucester. The vehicle was reported abandoned on December 2 and his body was found in the river on December 27.
Pathologist Dr Jeremy Uff said Fr Welsford's body showed no sign of illness. He died of drowning and had probably been in the water for a month.
The coroner added: ''This is one of those cases where the evidence simply does not disclose the reason for the cause of death.''
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Police: Man presumed drowned arrested at Wal-Mart
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FORT SMITH, Ark. — Police in Fort Smith say they've arrested a man who detectives presumed drowned in the Gulf of Mexico after spotting him in the local Wal-Mart.
Police say an off-duty detective spotted the 36-year-old at the store. The detective, who worked the case for about three years, called for backup and another officer arrested the man after a chase.
The man had been wanted for incest and sexual assault charges.
Police say the man left Fort Smith after the charges were filed and a family member told investigators the man drowned near Corpus Christi, Texas.
SO IT it also used as a cover?
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SATANISM AND RITUAL ABUSE
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Kinds of Torture Endured in Ritual Abuse and Trauma-Based Mind Control
NEAR DROWNING
OR
"commonly asphyxiation by choking or drowning"
(Ellen P. Lacter, Ph.D., March 4, 2004)
Knowledge of the methods of torture used within ritual abuse and trauma-based mind control provides a basis for recognition of related trauma disorders. Individuals subjected to these forms of torture may experience intense fear, phobic reactions, or physiological symptoms in response to associated stimuli. In some cases, the individual, or particular dissociated identities, experience a preoccupation with, or attraction to, related stimuli.
Victims may be able to describe the torture they have endured, or they may fear doing so. In many cases of ritual abuse and mind control trauma, the abuse remains dissociated when the individual first seeks treatment. Typically, the initial presenting problems are symptoms of anxiety, depression, or trauma derived from childhood sexual abuse, usually by a family member, who is eventually understood as a participant in the abuser group.
The following is a partial list of these forms of torture:
1. Sexual abuse and torture.
2. Confinement in boxes, cages, coffins, etc, or burial (often with an opening or air-tube for oxygen).
3. Restraint; with ropes, chains, cuffs, etc.
4. Near-drowning. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
5. Extremes of heat and cold, including submersion in ice water, and burning chemicals.
6. Skinning (only top layers of the skin are removed in victims intended to survive).
7. Spinning.
8. Blinding light.
9. Electric shock.
10. Forced ingestion of offensive body fluids and matter, such as blood, urine, feces, flesh, etc.
11. Hung in painful positions or upside down.
12. Hunger and thirst.
13. Sleep deprivation.
14 Compression with weights and devices.
15. Sensory deprivation.
16. Drugs to create illusion, confusion, and amnesia, often given by injection or intravenously.
17. Ingestion or intravenous toxic chemicals to create pain or illness, including chemotherapy agents.
18. Limbs pulled or dislocated.
19. Application of snakes, spiders, maggots, rats, and other animals to induce fear and disgust.
20. Near-death experiences; commonly asphyxiation by choking or drowning, with immediate resuscitation.
22. Forced to perform or witness abuse, torture and sacrifice of people and animals, usually with knives.
23. Forced participation in child pornography and prostitution.
24. Raped to become pregnant; the fetus is then aborted for ritual use, or the baby is taken for sacrifice or enslavement.
25. Spiritual abuse to cause victim to feel possessed, harassed, and controlled internally by spirits or demons.
26. Desecration of Judeo-Christian beliefs and forms of worship; Dedication to Satan or other deities.
27. Abuse and illusion to convince victims that God is evil, such as convincing a child that God has raped her.
28. Surgery to torture, experiment, or cause the perception of physical or spiritual bombs or implants.
29. Harm or threats of harm to family, friends, loved ones, pets, and other victims, to force compliance.
30. Use of illusion and virtual reality to confuse and create non-credible disclosure.
To illustrate, ritual abuse survivors may experience intense phobic reactions to spiders or maggots (item 19). They may fear water and baths (item 4). They often fear hypodermic needles (item 16). They become easily too cold, too hot (item 5), or thirsty (item 12). They may have aversive reactions to cameras (item 23). They may become upset upon seeing babies, dolls, or particular animals, or they may strongly identify with abused and abandoned animals and children (items 22 and 24). Sexual aversions are common (items 1, 23, and 24), as are vulnerability to repeated sexual victimization, sexual compulsions, and in some cases, paraphilias, such as sadism (Young, Sachs, Braun, & Watkins, 1991).
Food aversions and eating disorders are common. Ritual abuse survivors may not be able to eat food that is brown or red because these remind them of feces and blood. They are often repulsed by meat, are vegetarian, or fast excessively, or regurgitate food, derived from forced ingestion of body matter and fluids (item 10).
Ritual abuse survivors, by and large, believe in the presence and power of spiritually evil forces, and often feel personally plagued by these (items 25, 26, 27, and 28). They may experience anxiety or an aversion to God and religion (item 26 and 27), or may alternatively be devout in their spiritual beliefs and practices.
Art productions, creative writing, and sandtrays, will often reflect their torture; including knives, religious symbols, frightening figures, coffins, burials, etc. Children unconsciously reenact elements of torture they have witnessed or experienced with toys and other objects. For example, a 3-year-old boy wrapped a rope three times around his neck and pulled upward, as if to hang himself. A 3-year-old girl sang about marrying Satan.
External or internal reminders of torture-related stimuli often precipitate dissociative responses, such as entering a trance state, falling asleep, or an other personality taking executive control of the individual. Torture-associated stimuli may also elicit disturbing impulses to re-enact unprocessed trauma, such as impulses to self-mutilate, or thoughts of stabbing or sexually assaulting an other person.
Somatoform and conversion reactions occur frequently in response to ritual abuse and mind control trauma-reminders. Individuals often experience localized pain, especially genitourinary, musculoskeletal, and gastrointestinal, motor inhibitions, nausea, or even swelling in the affected area, prior to retrieval of any visual or narrative memory of the related torture. These are generally very distressing to the affected individual. Once the trauma is re-associated and processed within the context of psychotherapy or other forms of support, these somatoform and conversion reactions usually dissipate.
Survivors of trauma-based mind control often respond with anxiety to flourescent lighting, since so much programming utilizes intense lighting (item 8). They may startle in response to a telephone ringing, related to programming to receive or make calls to abusers. They may believe they have microphones inside their heads that will relay their disclosures to their abusers (item 27). Fears of electronic or spiritual surveillance, and threats to loved ones (item 29) inhibit their ability to defy and escape their abusers or to disclose their abuse.
Victims of trauma-based mind control also usually experience intense or odd reactions to benign stimuli that were used in their programming. For example, they may have been programmed to remember to forget every time they see an apple, or to remember they are being watched every time they hear a police or fire siren. Similarly, they may make repetitive, robotic statements that do not make sense in the context of dialogue, e.g., "I want to go home", a common programmed statement intended to keep them obedient to the abuser group and reporting to their abusers. Specific songs may be compulsively sung for similar programmed purposes.
All of these symptoms can occur prior to the individual having any conscious understanding of the related abuse. This point is critical. Dissociative and neurobiological responses to overwhelming trauma (van Der Kolk, McFarlane, & Weisaeth, 1996) often prevent these experiences from being processed into a coherent narrative memory. The diagnostician cannot rely on the patient to put the pieces together of their clinical picture.
Finally, generalized guilt and survivor guilt are strongly associated with ritual abuse, since participation in victimization of others is a mainstay of ritual abuse and mind control torture (items 22 and 29).
For more on recognition of symptoms specific to ritual abuse trauma, see Boyd (1991); Coleman (1994); Gould (1992); Hudson (1991); Mangen (1992); Oksana (2001); Pulling and Cawthorn, 1989; Ross (1995); Ryder (1992); Young (1992); and Young and Young (1997).
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Boyd, A. (1991). Blasphemous rumors: Is Satanic ritual abuse fact or fantasy? An investigation. London: HarperCollins
Coleman, J. (1994a). Presenting features in adult victims of Satanist ritual abuse. Child Abuse Review, 3, 83-92.
Gould, C. (1992). Diagnosis and treatment of ritually abused children. In D.K. Sakheim & S.E. Devine (Eds.), Out of darkness: Exploring Satanism and ritual abuse (pp. 207-248). New York: Lexington Books.
Hudson, P.S. (1991). Ritual child abuse: discovery, diagnosis and treatment. Saratoga, CA: R & E Publishers.
Mangen, R. (1992). Psychological testing and ritual abuse. In D.K. Sakheim & S.E. Devine (Eds.), Out of darkness: Exploring Satanism and ritual abuse (pp. 147-173). New York: Lexington.
Oksana, C. (1994, revised 2001). Safe passage to healing: A guide for survivors of ritual abuse. NY: Harper Perennial.
Pulling, P., & Cawthorn, K. (1989). The devils web: Who is stalking your children for Satan?. Lafayette, Louisiana: Huntington House.
Ross, C.A. (1995). Satanic ritual abuse: Principles of treatment. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Ryder, D., & Noland, J.T. (1992). Breaking the circle of Satanic ritual abuse: Recognizing and recovering from the hidden trauma. Minneapolis, MN: CompCare Publishers.
van der Kolk, B.A., McFarlane, A.C., & Weisaeth, L. (Eds.) (1996). Traumatic stress: The effects of overwhelming experience on mind, body, and society. New York: Guilford.
Young, W.C. (1992). Recognition and treatment of survivors reporting ritual abuse. In D.K. Sakheim & S.E. Devine (Eds.), Out of darkness: Exploring Satanism and ritual abuse (pp. 249-278). New York: Lexington.
Young, W.C., Sachs, R.G., Braun, B.G., & Watkins, R.T. (1991). Patients reporting ritual abuse in childhood: A clinical syndrome. Report of 37 cases. Child Abuse and Neglect, 15, 181-189.
Young, W.C., & Young, L.J. (1997). Recognition and special treatment issues in patients reporting childhood sadistic ritual abuse. In G.A. Fraser (Ed.), The dilemma of ritual abuse: Cautions and guides for therapists (pp. 65-103). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press.
THE PERVESISTY OF THE SATANIC
<< Matthew 18 >>
King James Bible
1 At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? 2 And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, 3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. 4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5 And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. 6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
UNDERSTAND these who committed occlutic ritual abuse and sexual abuse of children, can no longer get away qwith it as easilly as they did.
There focus was children
they read scripture they were bent on twisting and opposing the commandments- the turn everything on its head.
the verse above is about children, they cant get them easilly as they did.
"But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea"
They were inspired by this?
PATRICK MCSORLEY DENIED HE HAD ATTEMPTED SUISIDE IN RIVER
"The cause of the death was not immediately disclosed. McSorley nearly drowned in a river last year but denied he had attempted suicide."
Priest Sex Abuse Victim Found Dead in Boston
Monday, February 23, 2004
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BOSTON — Patrick McSorley (search), who accused defrocked priest John Geoghan (search) of molesting him and became one of the most outspoken victims in the Boston Archdiocese (search) sex scandal, was found dead Monday at 29.
The cause of the death was not immediately disclosed. McSorley nearly drowned in a river last year but denied he had attempted suicide.
Attorney Mitchell Garabedian said police called him early Monday and told him McSorley's body was found in a friend's apartment in Boston.
An autopsy was performed Monday; the state medical examiner's office said results would not be made public until completion of toxicology tests, which could take up to three months.
McSorley had been one of the most vocal critics of the archdiocese since the scandal broke two years ago. He often appeared at news conferences held by Garabedian, criticizing the archdiocese for shuffling Geoghan and other child-molesting priests from one parish to another instead of removing them.
McSorley's lawsuit in the Geoghan case was among the first of hundreds eventually filed against the archdiocese. The church settled with 86 plaintiffs, including McSorley, for $10 million in 2002. Geoghan was beaten and strangled in prison last year.
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IS THIS AN OLD RITUAL >?
KILL TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE?
priests' role in drowning is raised
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Priest's Role in Drowning Is Raised
Diocese accused of cover-up on Rev. James Quinn regarding boy's 1968 death
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Priest's Role in Drowning Is Raised
Diocese accused of cover-up on Rev. James Quinn regarding boy's 1968 death.
By Renee K. Gadoua
Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
July 29, 2003
The accidental drowning of a Utica boy in 1968 so traumatized another boy that he was unable - until
this year - to report he was sexually abused by a priest, a lawyer says.
The statute of limitations, therefore, does not apply in a $150 million lawsuit filed in May against the
Rev. James F. Quinn and the Syracuse Diocese, said Utica lawyer Frank Policelli.
In a motion filed Friday in Oneida County, Policelli claims the Syracuse Diocese covered up Quinn's
negligence in the 1968 drowning of a 12-year-old boy at Camp Nazareth at Little Long Lake in the
Adirondacks.
"This concealment by the diocese of Quinn's negligence having been a substantial factor in causing
(the boy's) death is a factor in showing a pattern of misconduct on the part of the defendant diocese
to cover up the misdeeds of its priests," Policelli writes in legal papers.
Policelli requests the Syracuse Diocese release Quinn's personnel records related to the drowning. He
said the victim's presence at the drowning and severe mental health problems related to sexual abuse
by Quinn prevented the plaintiff from filing suit within the statute of limitations, generally three years
from the alleged incident.
According to affidavits from the victim, and a brother of the victim, Quinn was supervising a group of
altar boys swimming and boating at the diocesan-owned camp. They said when the boy was reported
missing, Quinn was not at the camp. Nor was he at the camp when New York State Police found the
boy's body, according to the legal papers.
"That's absolutely untrue," Quinn said. "I was supervising the boating at the other end of the lake. I
was in an outboard motorboat. There were other adults supervising the swimming area."
Quinn said he called the state police to report the boy missing. He said he did not leave the camp
until state police dragged the lake and found the boy's body.
Policelli does not say Quinn is responsible for the boy's death, but he and witnesses suggest the
priest was negligent because he left the camp and did not adequately supervise the boys.
The death was ruled accidental, according to a June 14, 1968, article in the Utica Observer-Dispatch.
Quinn said diocesan officials did not reprimand him after the accident, nor does he recall anyone else
being disciplined.
Quinn was ordained in 1958 and was 35 at the time of the drowning.
A lawsuit filed in May accused Quinn, former director of the Office of Vocation Promotions, of sexually
abusing a boy 40 years ago, when he was assistant pastor at St. Agnes Church, Utica. The lawsuit
seeks $100 million in compensatory damages and $50 million in punitive damages. It is the largest
amount sought in at least 11 lawsuits accusing priests in the Syracuse Diocese of sexual abuse.
The Post-Standard does not name victims of alleged sexual abuse
FULL ARTICLE IS AT ABOVE ADRESS
the drowning of a Utica boy in 1968 so traumatized another boy that he was unable - until
this year - to report he was sexually abused by a priest, a lawyer says.
Policelli requests the Syracuse Diocese release Quinn's personnel records related to the drowning. He
said the victim's presence at the drowning and severe mental health problems related to sexual abuse
by Quinn prevented the plaintiff from filing suit within the statute of limitations, generally three years
from the alleged incident.
TRAUMA BASED RITUAL ABUSE (see above)
"This concealment by the diocese of Quinn's negligence having been a substantial factor in causing
(the boy's) death is a factor in showing a pattern of misconduct on the part of the defendant diocese
to cover up the misdeeds of its priests
Critic of Boston Archdiocese Is Found Face Down in River
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/20/us/critic-of-boston-archdiocese-is-found-face-down-in-river.html
Patrick McSorley survived and later said it was NOT A SUICIDE ATTEMPT SEE ABOVE FOR ARTICLE.
BUT I CAN FIND NO OTHER STORIES ON AN EXPLANATION OF HOW HE ENDED UP IN THE RIVER
Anonymous,
I would like to ask you to please be respectful of the amount of space that we have here on the comments. I am noticing that you are posting everything you find under both Josh Guimond and Chris Jenkins posts. I know it is only because you feel so strongly about your theory. If you would like to write something up about it, please send it to me at footprints.blogmail@yahoo.com, then I will post it under "Theories" so people can comments about them. I think that might be a better use of space. Thanks so much!
his near-drowning in the Neponset River was accidental
UPDATE
his near-drowning in the Neponset River was accidental
• McSorley: Suicide not the answer. BOSTON (MA): Patrick McSorley, the alleged clergy abuse victim who almost died June 18, said yesterday his near-drowning in the Neponset River was accidental and urged molestation survivors to reject notions of suicide. "Suicide is out of the question," the 28-year-old Taunton father of two declared. "All people who were victimized by the Catholic Church priests and leadership must be strong and hang in there. What I did was not a suicide attempt and I do not condone it." McSorley spoke after a press conference in which he thanked supporters for their prayers and for hundreds of cards and calls in support. He was on life support for six days and hospitalized a total of 10 days at Boston Medical Center. "It was a miracle," he said. -- Boston Herald, "McSorley: Suicide not the answer,"
http://www2.bostonherald./com/news/local_ regional/mcso 07012003.htm , by Tom Mashberg, Tuesday, Jul 1, 2003
i BELIEVE THIS INFORMATION IS OF VITAL IMPRORTANCE TO JOSHUAS CASE
For it shows evidecne offered by a witness talking with someone who was in authority, cliaming they had information st johns was involved in an abduction aswell as abuse.The abuse is known about but the charge of st johns being involved in and so covering up a kidannaping is not known nor has it ever been publicly stated.
the allegations are very serious and connect obviously with Josh Guimonds case as he went missing at st johns university and also was tracked by sniffer dogs to the abby in queston .
This infromation has been censored. And the lady who served official capacaity and was working with law enforcement was basically silenced and not given a voice, for no where else in the media or or the internet is their any trace of the claims and information below.
I doubt even that Jcob wetterlings family have read this.It was put on a forum of the radio host alex jones the person was trying to get intouch with jones people to get an interview set up for this LE connected lady who had information from an informant.the interview never happened (alex jones has oft been critisized for not making any ruffles against the catholic church )
Title: Info about Jacob Wetterling, who was kidnapped in 1989 at age 11
Post by: kfresh on August 05, 2008, 12:41:37 PM
I wanted to get a hold of you for the lady who has all this info on Jacob Wetterling's disappearance and the tapes upon tapes upon tapes of confessions,talks with f.b.i. and with private investigators. I have tried to contact you through the infowars site and by phone but when I talked to your secretary she said I needed to send proof of all this. I provided her name where she works and the story behind it and she said that she has fought for 5 plus years to get this info out with no one believing her, that she was hoping to just talk to prove her credibility. She said she will not send any tapes because she said she has been burned too many times with requests just like this. You can verify online that she is who she says she is and wants very badly to get this story out. This story could be almost as big as the conspiracy of silence boys town story. Please respond to this.
The disappearance of Jacob was shrouded in mystery and pediphilic,satanic and coruption also surrounded the case and that is what this lady I am in contact with will speak to. Her name is Diane Muehlbauer and she is listed on the Minnesota list of now expired (as of june 30) bail bonds agents.
The father of Jacob was friends with a pedophile who was questioned after his abduction.
I said the Diane would say all that needs to be said but just to keep this post alive I will divulge other things. Diane(the bail bondsman) who was connected to this case and saw so many things not being asked went ahead and did some digging of her own after the pedophile that had been questioned about wetterling's disappearance, confessed to Diane that he had foreknowledge of the act and of the pedophile ring at St. Johns Abbey where Jacob was "a favorite".
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?action=printpage;topic=52616.0
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