tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43776717876520515922024-03-18T00:49:01.068-07:00Religion and Child Abuse NewsAn archive of news items related to child abuse or neglect, or infringement of children's rights, in a religious context.
Copyrighted materials appearing on this blog are provided under Fair Use provisions to facilitate education and further research into the issues documented in these news reports.Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comBlogger3234125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-62772356043416894142016-04-07T15:41:00.000-07:002024-02-12T09:49:01.313-08:00A Snapshot of Religion Related Child Abuse From June 2007 to June 2011
A Snapshot of Religion Related Child Abuse From June 2007 to June 2011
Somewhere right now children are suffering because of religious superstition, tradition and dogma
by Perry Bulwer
The first news article in this archive is dated June 6, 2007, the last one June 10, 2011. Those coincidental dates encompassing four years almost to the day were not planned by me. I had no end date Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com81tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-91826094667461017772016-02-19T16:04:00.000-08:002020-08-16T11:48:58.180-07:00American evangelists export biblical literalism to Africa triggering murderous homophobia and child sacrifice
AlterNet - May 10, 2011
How American Evangelism Triggered the Murder of Gays Overseas
By Valerie Tarico, Away Point
Christian extremists in Uganda’s parliament are hoping that hunger and high gas prices will provide the cover they need to finally subject gay men to punishment of biblical proportions. They have introduced a bill, up for vote on May 11, that seeks life imprisonment for Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-86134076882395811322011-06-20T14:13:00.000-07:002011-06-20T14:13:19.412-07:00Why Do Children Suffer?
If God is good, omnipotent, compassionate and loving, then why do children suffer?
by Perry Bulwer
This archive of news articles related to child abuse in religious environments demonstrates just how dangerous religion can be to children. The abuses, atrocities and crimes documented in these pages, committed against children in the name of God or gods, ought to give thinking people of Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-74683005585894590992011-06-13T11:07:00.000-07:002011-06-13T11:08:33.360-07:00Religious groups say proposed circumcision ban is attack on religious freedom, but ignore a child's right to be free from religion
Globe and Mail - Canada June 10, 2011
Russell Crowe launches Twitter tirade: Circumcision is ‘barbaric’
DAVE MCGINN
Oscar-winning actor Russell Crowe is not a fan of circumcision.
“Circumcision is barbaric and stupid. Who are you to correct nature?” Crowe tweeted on Thursday. “Is it real that God requires a donation of foreskin? Babies are perfect.”
Crowe Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com63tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-4544172391894414202011-06-12T14:19:00.000-07:002020-08-16T11:52:19.536-07:00Nigerian police rescue 32 pregnant teens locked up and forced to produce babies for witchcraft rituals
BBC News - June 1, 2011
Nigeria 'baby farm' girls rescued by Abia state police
Nigerian police have raided a hospital in the south-eastern city of Aba, rescuing 32 pregnant girls allegedly held by a human-trafficking ring.
Aged between 15 and 17 years, the girls were locked up and used to produce babies, said Abia state's police chief.
These were then allegedly sold for Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com45tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-76838489726944061752011-06-12T13:48:00.000-07:002015-02-16T10:32:17.158-08:00US 1st Amendment was not intended to protect crimes but religious institutions say it gives them the right to protect child abusers
Huffington Post - June 11, 2011
Churches Use 'Free Exercise' Defense To Block Abuse Cases
By Cecile S. Holmes | Religion News Service
(RNS) Jeremiah Scott was 11 when the abuse and molestation began in 1990 at the hands of an elder in his Mormon church in Portland, Ore. After the man died in 1995, Scott's mother sued the church in 1998 for putting her son at Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-8953498206126014652011-06-12T11:37:00.001-07:002020-04-26T15:28:06.789-07:00Review of sex abuse guidelines at US bishops conference will not close loopholes that continue to endanger children
USA Today - June 10, 2011
Catholic bishops to take second look at abuse reforms
By Daniel Burke, Religion News Service
(RNS) A review of church sex abuse guidelines will top the agenda when the nation's Roman Catholic bishops meet in Seattle next week (June 15-17). But no major changes have been proposed, according to church leaders, even after several recent reports have raised Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com73tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-29960808021257762932011-06-12T11:08:00.001-07:002022-08-21T15:43:00.489-07:00Catholic clergy abuse review boards made ineffective by bishops who hide cases from them
National Catholic Reporter - June 11, 2011
What's a review board to do?
By Joshua J. McElwee
Catholics in Kansas City, Mo., learned in May something that Nicholas Cafardi has known for some time: “A review board” -- the confidential consultative body each bishop is supposed to have for advice on cases of sexual abuse by clergy -- “is only as good as the cases a bishop puts before them.”Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com42tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-59038987972599308672011-06-10T15:08:00.001-07:002012-04-08T08:49:36.772-07:00Catholic reform groups hold conference in Detroit, Archbishop warns priests who attend could be defrocked
Detroit Free Press - June 8, 2011
Liberal Catholics pushing changes in the church to gather in Detroit
BY NIRAJ WARIKOO | DETROIT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
Calling for more democracy within the Catholic Church, liberal Catholics from around the world are coming to Detroit this weekend for a conference to help revitalize what they say is an archaic institution in need of reform.Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-47702963432986104602011-06-10T14:41:00.000-07:002011-06-10T14:42:44.309-07:00Black Hebrews cult leader and six others charged with murder after bodies of missing woman and boy found
News & Observer - North Carolina June 10, 2011
Cult leader Pete Moses Jr. charged in boy's death
BY THOMASI MCDONALD AND MANDY LOCKE - N&O Staff Writers
DURHAM -- Investigators found the remains of a child Thursday at the same East Durham house where a missing woman's body was discovered Wednesday.
Pete Lucas Moses Jr., 27, is charged with Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-16578999267165163172011-06-10T14:14:00.000-07:002013-11-04T11:03:20.214-08:00Measles killed 164,000 children last year and maimed many more so failing to vaccinate children is criminal
Globe and Mail - Canada June 8, 2011
The return of measles: Where did we go wrong?
by André Picard
Welcome to the 1960s. Not in a cool, retro way but in the “how have we failed so miserably to make progress?” way.
Measles is back.
In recent weeks, there have been more than 250 cases of the dreadful childhood disease in Quebec. The outbreak was sparked by vacationers returning fromPerry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com98tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-10905287566899560402011-06-10T12:46:00.000-07:002011-06-10T12:53:32.862-07:00Forced marriage of children is widespread but some child brides are fighting back against powerful religions and traditions
National Geographic - June 2011
Too Young to Wed
The secret world of child brides
By Cynthia Gorney
Because the wedding was illegal and a secret, except to the invited guests, and because marriage rites in Rajasthan are often conducted late at night, it was well into the afternoon before the three girl brides in this dry farm settlement in the north of India began to prepare themselves for Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com55tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-46456270573926323972011-06-09T13:10:00.000-07:002020-03-08T12:44:08.853-07:00Oregon parents guilty of criminal mistreatment of baby daughter for relying on faith healing instead of real medical care
The Oregonian - June 7, 2011
Timothy, Rebecca Wyland guilty of criminal mistreatment in faith-healing trial
By Steve Mayes, The Oregonian
OREGON CITY – A Clackamas County jury spent one hour deliberating Tuesday before unanimously finding an Oregon City couple guilty of felony criminal mistreatment for treating their infant daughter with faith-healing rather than taking her to a doctorPerry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com96tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-62668966573444777292011-06-09T11:43:00.002-07:002023-03-05T13:14:52.752-08:00Ontario Catholic priest who sexually assaulted his students for three decades sentenced to just two years
Toronto Star - Canada June 9, 2011
Priest who taught at St. Michael’s College sentenced to 2 years for sex abuse
by Mary Ormsby | Feature Writer
The Roman Catholic priest who routinely pulled boys out of class to sexually assault them at schools where he taught was sentenced to two years in prison on Thursday.
Rev. William Hodgson Marshall, 88, was led outPerry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-76765473001951986452011-06-08T15:56:00.001-07:002022-06-02T15:02:43.013-07:00Baptist school teacher charged with sexually assaulting her teen students and members of her father's church
Chicago Sun Times June 8, 2011
Bail set for former Christian school teacher accused of sexually assaulting students
By Lauren FitzPatrick Sun-Times Media
A decade ago, when a teacher at a private Christian school was in her young 20s, she began molesting students from the Northwest Side school next to a church where her father is pastor, Cook County prosecutors said.
Elisa Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-50074289912935483842011-06-08T15:33:00.000-07:002011-06-08T22:22:23.016-07:00Irish priest who was known pedophile but transferred to California extradited to Ireland to face criminal charges
Press Democrat - California June 6, 2011
Former Irish priest accused of molesting boys extradicted to Ireland
By GUY KOVNER | THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
A former Irish priest accused of molesting four men in Humboldt County in the 1980s has been extradited to Ireland, where he faces criminal charges for sexual misconduct, authorities said.
Patrick Joseph McCabe, 75, Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-15506990096681762302011-06-08T15:05:00.000-07:002011-06-08T15:05:52.954-07:00Woman raped when 5 by stranger allowed to sue Seattle diocese because priest who enabled it was known pedophile
Seattle P-I June 6, 2011
Appeals court says woman can sue archdiocese over alleged sexual abuse
BY SCOTT SUNDE, SEATTLEPI.COM
A woman who was allegedly sexually abused as a 5-year-old on her way to a picnic arranged by the family priest can sue the Seattle archdiocese, a state appeals court ruled Monday.
The question before the appeals court was whether the lawsuit should go Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-90881339526395361462011-06-08T14:42:00.000-07:002015-04-21T15:49:31.632-07:00Only one US bishop has resigned for neglect during decade of clergy crimes, Kansas City bishop unlikely to join him
Kansas City Star - Missouri June 6, 2011
Despite uproar in diocese, KC bishop is unlikely to resign
By JUDY L. THOMAS and GLENN E. RICE | The Kansas City Star
As more details emerge about a priest charged with possessing child pornography, calls are escalating for the leader of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph to step down.
But if history is any Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-76691621211764564622011-06-08T14:24:00.000-07:002014-05-05T11:19:47.547-07:00Northern Ireland survivors of clergy crimes say Vatican investigation inadequate, call for government inquiry
UTV - UK June 6, 2011
Victims hit out at church abuse inquiry
Members of an NI survivors group have expressed their disappointment after a party of senior Catholic churchmen from the Vatican completed a series of meetings across Ireland, in the wake of the sex abuse scandal.
The trip to Ireland, known as an "apostolic visitation, was announced by Pope Benedict last year, following thePerry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-39645087533696940762011-06-07T14:48:00.000-07:002015-12-28T11:31:30.731-08:00Government report says UK universities have become breeding grounds for recruiting extremists and terrorists
Daily Mail - UK June 6, 2011
40 UK universities are now breeding grounds for terror as hardline groups peddle hate on campus
By JAMES SLACK, HOME AFFAIRS EDITOR
England's universities have become a breeding ground for extremism and terrorist recruitment, according to a disturbing government report.
Officials have identified 40 English universities where ‘there Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-62001568102871725072011-06-07T14:27:00.000-07:002011-06-07T14:29:11.211-07:00Campaign to ban circumcision in San Francisco spreads to San Diego with comic book considered anti-Semitic
Los Angeles Times - June 6, 2011
Campaign against circumcision evokes images of anti-Semitism
Anti-Defamation League criticizes "Foreskin Man" comic book, in which a superhero battles villains dressed as ultra-Orthodox Jews. Author Matthew Hess says he is merely in favor of human rights.
By Mitchell Landsberg, Los Angeles Times
The image of a bearded, black-hatted Jew with an Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-51406276572656114822011-06-06T16:04:00.001-07:002022-05-15T14:08:13.747-07:00Nuns among worst perpetrators of horrific violence and sex abuse in Jesuit-run schools and missions on Indian reservations
The Missoulian - Montana June 5, 2011
Anguish has never healed for Natives physically, sexually abused at St. Ignatius mission
By GWEN FLORIO of the Missoulian
Part One
ST. IGNATIUS - The small brick mission is a jewel, stunning in its setting at the foot of the Mission Mountains.
"I want to be here," says Garry "Bob" Salois, "the day an earthquake Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-47758233523400595352011-06-06T14:59:00.000-07:002011-06-06T14:59:33.826-07:00Archbishop of Dublin earns respect from clergy crimes survivors but is shunned by Irish Bishops and the Pope
New York Times - June 4, 2011
An Archbishop Burns While Rome Fiddles
By MAUREEN DOWD
THE archbishop of Dublin was beginning to sniffle.
He could not get through a story about “a really nasty man” — an Irish priest who sexually abused, physically tortured and emotionally threatened vulnerable boys — without pulling out his handkerchief and wiping his nose.
“He built a Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-68194282262370490162011-06-05T16:39:00.000-07:002011-06-05T22:11:39.638-07:00Catholic bishops to hold conference in Bangkok to address serious problem of pedophilia in Asia
Ecumenical News International - June 3, 2011
Pedophilia a serious problem in Asia, say Catholic bishops
Tokyo (ENInews)--The clergy office of the Federation of Roman Catholic Asian Bishops' Conferences has announced that it will hold a seminar on "The Impact of Pedophilia-Crisis on the Church in Asia." "[I]t is an urgent task before us, especially the leaders of the Church, to come Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-17959960744298618412011-06-05T16:11:00.000-07:002011-06-05T16:11:34.567-07:00Two men ordered beaten by Tony Alamo enforcer awarded millions by jury, 5 women raped by Alamo received far less
Forbes - Associated Press June 3, 2011
2 ex-ministry members get $33 million each in suit
By JEANNIE NUSS
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- A jury awarded two former members of imprisoned evangelist Tony Alamo's ministry $33 million each on Thursday in response to charges that Alamo ordered them to be beaten.
But Seth Calagna, 21, and Spencer Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com19