Notorious Irish pedophile priest discovered working with kids in Holland

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http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/periscope/notorious-irish-pedophile-priest-discovered-working-with-kids-in-holland-92049089.html


A notorious Irish pedophile priest who abused children for many years in America has been discovered helping out as a church deacon in Rotterdam under an assumed name and working a shelter for abused women and their children.

Father Oliver O'Grady served as a priest at St. Anne's Catholic Church in Lodi, California from 1971 to 1978. He later served at Church of the Presentation in Stockton, California, Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Turlock, California, St. Andrew's Parish in San Andreas, California, and St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Hughson, California.

In 1993 he was convicted on four counts of "lewd and lascivious acts" on two minors, the brothers John and James Howard, and was sentenced to 14 years in prison. Attorney Jeff Anderson said the Howards were repeatedly molested between 1978 and 1991, from age three to 13. Anderson claimed church officials knew that O'Grady had abused children as early as 1976 and 1984 but had done nothing. Police had been informed of earlier charges and had declined to prosecute.

In 1998 a civil jury ordered the Catholic Diocese of Stockton to pay US$30 million in damages to the brothers. A judge later reduced the amount to $7 million.

O'Grady was paroled from prison in 2000 after serving only seven years, and went to Ireland after being deported from the United States.

He claimed to have been himself molested by a priest at the age of 10, and that he was involved in sexual abuse in his own family, both as perpetrator and victim. One of his victims was just nine months old.
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there is a picture of the creep

child sexual abuse is like the saying 'what goes around comes around', sadly to say.

[cliffordu]

1. If someone put a bullet into this creep, he couldn't hurt any more kids.

Gene pool's closed. Everybody out.

[NightWatcher]

2. I'm starting to feel sorry for John Q. Average Catholic.

it's got to be harder and harder to defend this crap. I have two friends who are big Catholics and we just cannot talk religion anymore. The entire religion is run by a former Nazi Youth member, pedophile hiding, __________.

Or not.

If my __________ (anything) was run like, or by people who...... I would leave said group.

[pnwmom]

8. The Church kicked him out of the Priesthood long ago, and he's been to prison.

He was able to get a part-time position helping as a Deacon by using a false identity.

I don't know what else the Church could have done in this case.

[foxfeet]

3. And how long before he's caught with his finger in a tyke?

Not to minimize the gravity of the situation. He probably was molested as a child. That in no way mitigates his own behavior; rather, it underscore the multigenerational horror of child sexual abuse.

[Nothing Without Hope]

4. How did this happen? And are they absolutely certain it is the same man? n/t

[Karenina]

5. Sinead O'Connor is taking names and kicking butt.

She's done many interviews and is, in my mind, the Joan d'Arc on this issue. I would recommend that anyone interested check them out. Her visit with Rachel can be found in the Political Videos forum.

[myrna minx]

11. I am so impressed with her advocacy on this issue.

Her interview with Rachel was amazing.

[pnwmom]

6. He is no longer a priest -- he was "defrocked" years ago.

Under an assumed name he'd managed to get a job helping out as a deacon. In addition to working at the shelter, he was also working at a fast food restaurant in a capacity that let him help with children's parties.

[defendandprotect]

13. O'Grady was abusing children from '76 and not prosecuted til '93 . . .

while the Church officials knew and police failed to prosecute --

In 1993 he was convicted on four counts of "lewd and lascivious acts" on two minors, the brothers John and James Howard, and was sentenced to 14 years in prison. Attorney Jeff Anderson said the Howards were repeatedly molested between 1978 and 1991, from age three to 13. Anderson claimed church officials knew that O'Grady had abused children as early as 1976 and 1984 but had done nothing. Police had been informed of earlier charges and had declined to prosecute.

There were rather famous cases in Louisiana where Harry Connick, Jr's father who was an official
in government/police enforcement also kept much of the sexual abuse from being known and/or prosecuted! An avid Catholic, he destroyed many of the records, as I recall it.

Police officers have also been known to be aiding "Pro-life" violence at women's clinics.


Meanwhile, here's an interesting question . . .

Also : The right-wing "Family Research Council" notes/confirms findings that "almost all child sexual abuse is committed by men."



And that's HETEREOSEXUAL MEN who are 100X more likely to sexual abuse children than homosexual
males.

Q: Why does the Catholic Church have a male priesthood and male-supremacist teachings?

[pnwmom]

15. HIs case is old news. He went to prison in 1993 and hasn't been a priest since then. n/t

[defendandprotect]

16. A priest who raped babies will never be "old news" ... I assure you--!!

No crack at answering the question re male-supremacist religion and

all-male Vatican?

[pnwmom]

17. Why should I try to defend the male priesthood? I've always disagreed with it.

But unlike conservative Catholics and many non-Catholic progressive Dems, I think it's quite possible to be Catholic and not agree with all of the policies and decrees of the hierarchy -- in fact, to work to change them.

[defendandprotect]

18. Good for you -- keep at it --

:)

Recovering Catholic here -- !!

[defendandprotect]

7. On and on and on and on . . .

[pnwmom]

9. Drip. Drip. Drip. n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. He's the one in the documentary 'deliver us from evil'. he's a baby raper

Yes, he raped babies

[defendandprotect]

14. Never caught up with that documentary . . . thanks --

I've generally been opposed to any law which reverses the notion of "time served"

being payment for one's crime --

But obviously pedophiles are different -- this certainly looks like a mental disease

and since it overwhelmingly is crime by hetereosexual males, it should be seriously

studied!

[Dorian Gray]

12. I have a friend

who attends that parish in Holland, and they found out just this past week that this ex-priest (an active parishoner considered a friend to many) had this sordid past. It was shocking to everyone. Horrible horrible horrible story.