News Articles June 21st, 2002
 

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-000043415jun21.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dcalifornia
June 21, 2002
LA Times

Three sisters are alleging they were molested as youngsters by a priest after the Los Angeles archdiocese transferred him to their parish despite knowing allegations of abuse had been made against the priest in the past.
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Rucker came to St. Agatha in 1970, three years after two 9-year-old girls told the El Segundo police that the cleric molested them while he was at St. Anthony Church, police records show. Rucker retired in 1987.  In April, Mahony removed him from the ministry because of the 1967 allegations and forced him to move out of the Pacific Palisades rectory, saying Rucker had run afoul of the archdiocese's new zero tolerance policy for priests who molest minors.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/wplg/20020621/lo/1234307_1.html
Friday June 21 09:56 AM EDT
Miami Herald

South Florida Priest Accused For Second Time Of Abuse A South Florida priest is being accused for the second time in two months of sexual abuse.
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"Father Rubio encouraged him, (a) troubled youth, to come to a seminar in Fort Lauderdale. There was no seminar, no other children. (He) took him to a hotel, then he raped him," said Jeff Herman, the plaintiff's  attorney.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/sentinel/20020621/lo/priest_suspended_in_sex_scandal_went_to_work_for_disney_1.html
Friday June 21 08:46 AM EDT
Priest suspended in sex scandal went to work for Disney

A prominent Missouri priest, suspended in 1999 after allegations of sexual abuse of pre-pubescent girls and teens dating to 1971, found work at Walt Disney World -- until last week.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/krdetroit/20020621/lo/evidence_haunts_3_priests_1.html
Friday June 21 06:38 AM EDT
Evidence haunts 3 priests

BY PATRICIA MONTEMURRI, FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
The Wayne County prosecutor said Thursday he has new evidence that three priests now working at  Detroit area parishes sexually abused minors years ago, despite earlier investigations by Catholic  leaders that cleared them.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020621/ap_on_re_us/church_abuse_24
L.A. Priest Abuse Claims Increase
Fri Jun 21, 1:21 AM ET
By EUGENE TONG, Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES (AP) - More than 100 people in the nation's largest Catholic diocese have complained to authorities in recent months of sexual abuse by priests, authorities said Thursday

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020619/ap_wo_en_ge/vatican_northern_ireland_1
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams meets pope
Wed Jun 19,10:48 AM ET

VATICAN CITY - Sein Fein leader Gerry Adams met briefly Wednesday with Pope John Paul ( news - web sites) II, attending the pope's weekly public audience before talks at the Vatican ( news - web sites) later this week.

(Sinn Fein is the political branch of the IRA terrorists. Gerry Adams raises money for it, and here the Vatican is meeting with it. Search history for the number of Vatican sponsored revolutions)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020621/ap_wo_en_po/us_church_abuse_shanley_1
Fri Jun 21, 9:12 AM ET
By GREG SUKIENNIK, Associated Press Writer

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts - Retired Roman Catholic Rev. Paul R. Shanley was indicted on new charges of child rape and indecent assault on four boys during the 1980s.
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The allegations span 1979 to 1989, when he was at St Jean's parish in Newton, a suburb of Boston. The indictment includes 10 counts of child rape and six counts of indecent assault and battery.
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Prosecutors said Shanley would take one of the boys, who is now 24, out of religious classes and abuse him in the rectory, the bathroom of the church or a confessional.

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/3512008.htm
Police continue search of former priest's Truckee home
By Lisa Fernandez
Mercury News
Posted on Thu, Jun. 20, 2002

Pinole police used sonar equipment Thursday to check underneath the Truckee garage of Stephen Kiesle, a convicted child molester and former priest who lives on the same street where an East Bay girl disappeared  14 years ago.

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/167/nation/Private_service_held_for_Gotti+.shtml
Private service held for Gotti
Hundreds gather for final farewell
Verena Dobnik, Associated Press, 6/16/2002
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Daily did allow Gotti's burial in the Catholic cemetery, where a who's who of 20th century Mafiosi are buried. Some, like Carlo Gambino and Joseph Profaci, died of natural causes. Others, like Carmine Galante and Joe Colombo, were shot to death. The infamous mobster Charles ''Lucky'' Luciano also is buried there.

(Note: The Roman Catholic church has excommunicated and killed many Christians, but they never even excommunicate their mobsters. For example, the pope ordered the bones of Wycliffe to be dug up and scattered. Wycliffe was the first person to translate a full bible into the English language.  Not a little hypocritical or evil.  God will destroy this church.)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/06/21/national1408EDT0639.DTL
(06-21) 11:08 PDT NEW YORK (AP)

A Roman Catholic priest was arrested Friday in Texas on charges of raping a woman two years ago while working in the Brooklyn Diocese.

Udegbulem formerly worked in a parish in the Brooklyn Diocese. The alleged victim said the priest raped and sodomized her during a meeting in 2000, District Attorney Charles Hynes said.