Miami Catholic Church Pays for Raping Boys

The Archdiocese of Miami has agreed to settle six separate sexual abuse cases, including two involving Neil Doherty, a Broward priest accused of drugging and raping boys in incidents dating back to 1973.

The civil suits were settled in the past few weeks for $750,000. The cases include alleged sexual abuse that occurred in Broward and Miami-Dade counties mostly in the 1970s and 1980s. Doherty, 64, raped a boy over a five-year period, starting when the boy was 11. Doherty has a court hearing today to ask a judge if he can remove the electronic ankle bracelet he has been wearing since he was released from jail on bond pending his trial. Doherty's lawyer said his client is having difficulty sleeping with the device.

Among the civil suits that settled:
• Two male victims alleged that they were drugged and raped by Doherty when he was a drug and alcohol counselor for the Archdiocese in the 1970s.
• A woman said she was abused in 2005 by the Rev. David Dueppen, who at the time worked for St. Francis De Sales in Miami Beach.
• The Rev. Don Walk, who at one point was chaplain for the Miami Dolphins, was not assigned to a particular church at the time -- in the '70s and '80s -- of the alleged abuse of a male teenager.

''This is the church's effort into moving forward and bringing closure and resolution,'' said spokeswoman Mary Ross Agosta.

Perverted North Miami City Attorney

Seven months after authoring a sworn statement admitting he had sex with an underage teenager, North Miami City Attorney Barry Kutun surrendered to police after detectives sought his arrest Tuesday on related charges. Four plainclothes detectived had tried to arrest him Tuesday at North Miami City Hall but he was not in his office.

The married former state representative is accused of having sex for money with a 16-year-old in a tryst arranged by a Hollywood woman named Roberta Orenbuch. Hollywood police arrested Orenbuch last month for arranging sexual encounters for the teenager.

Orenbuch signed an affivadit -- notarized by Kutun's city-paid paralegal at City Hall -- which was later leaked to police and reporters. In the Oct. 28, 2005 affidavit, Orenbuch says she arranged for Kutun to have sex with teen about eight times, telling Kutun the girl was 18. State law allows a person to be charged with having sex with a minor, even though they did not know he or she was underage.

Kutun briefly left his $170,000-a-year post at North Miami City Hall, but had returned despite the buzz of the scandal. Detectives executed a search warrant in January. They found sexually explicit photos. Kutun admitted to having sexing relations with a 17-year-old, taking photos of them having sex and e-mailing them to Orenbuch, according to the warrant.

The affidavit was prepared to protect himself from a friend of Orenbuch was allegedly blackmailed the attorney with the photos. Kutun paid the man $2,000.

Excerpted from Miami Herald article by David Ovalle

Catholic Church rapes children more than one way

An advocacy group criticized the Archdiocese of Miami, saying it is blaming a young man for an alleged rape by a priest in its response to a lawsuit.

A group for survivors of assaults by priests urged the Archdiocese of Miami on Thursday to stop blaming a young man for his alleged rape by the Rev. Neil Doherty -- a crime the man claims happened when he was a child.

Six members of the group tried to hand-deliver a letter to Archbishop John Favalora blasting the archdiocese's legal response to a civil lawsuit filed by the young man that suggested one possible defense could be that the alleged victim's ''own negligence'' caused the abuse. The protesters were turned away by security guards who monitored closed gates around the archdiocese's headquarters on Biscayne Boulevard in Miami Shores. " (end of excerpt)

What happened to the Catholic Church? Did child molestors become the majority of the Cardinals? When all these kids were getting molested (some at least as far back as the 1930s) the Church's Bishops, Cardinals, etc. should have been the first ones contacting the Police and Law Enforcement and demanding that all pedophile priests be investigated and arrested.

Instead, the evidence clearly shows that time after time, year after year, in numerous different parts of the USA, the Church has protected the child molestors. Any settlement with the Church has required silence by the molested victims. The Church has never accepted responsibility for its criminal actions. The Church has at all times put its billions of dollars into hiring lawyers and getting politicians to help them silence the victims.

Why is the Catholic Church so evil? Why does it act in a manner that allows sin and evil to continue to be done to children? Where are the Christians in the Catholic Church? (the excerpt of the story was by Lisa Arthur, The Miami Herald)