More Republican Sex Skeletons

[struggle4progress]

By Colin Benjamin
October 28th, 2007

... Then we have Republican Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani and his childhood friend Monsignor Alan Placa. Monsignor Placa now works for Giuliani’s firm Giuliani Partners after being forced from his power position within the Catholic Diocese of Rockville Center in the aftermath of a scandal revolving around sexual atrocities committed in the Long Island area ...

In 2002, a Suffolk County, Long Island grand jury stated that because of the statute of limitations Placa could not be prosecuted for his crimes, including the molestation of at least three boys. But they found that Placa, who also served as legal counsel for the church was among those clergy officials who engaged in “deception and intimidation” to silence the sexual sins committed by himself and his pedophile peers within the priesthood.

The Suffolk County grand jury report states that on one occasion Placa “pulled up a chair next to the boy and put his right hand on his thigh. Slowly his hands began to creep up toward the boy’s genital area.” He was said to be “cautious, but relentless in his pursuit of victims. He fondled boys over their clothes, usually in his office.” One of Placa’s victims Richard Tollner, 48, says the priest molested him and two others that he knows of.

Ironically, this is the kind of issue that may become a drag for Giuliani like it was for his Republican colleagues last November in wake of the Mark Foley scandal. The same pattern of Republican cover-up that was employed to hide the repressed closeted pedophilia of Foley was also used to protect both DiFatta and Monsignor Placa. How else can one explain why DiFatta was able to engage in such behavior while he was still a Louisiana councilman? Wasn’t anyone aware of his penchant for anonymous sex with men? And is it plausible to think no one knew of Craig’s prurient proclivities? ...

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