From: Steve in UK
To: cityofangelslady@yahoo.com
Sent: Tue, August 31, 2010 1:40:29 PM
Subject: Father Bob Poandl
Hi, you might be interested to know that Father Bob has been cleared of all charges and the Judge who dismissed the case actually called his accuser a liar in court.
I trust that you will remove your post about this good man whose life has been devastated by this false accusation.
SD
From: cityofangelslady@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Father Bob Poandl
To: "Steve"
Date: Tuesday, 31 August, 2010, 22:57
Can you tell me where I posted about Poandl?
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From: Steve
To: "cityofangelslady@yahoo.com"
Sent: Tue, August 31, 2010 3:01:34 PM
Subject: Re: Father Bob Poandl
On your blog
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On Tue, 31/8/10, cityofangelslady@yahoo.com
I'm sorry, I can't find the post and don't remember it, do you have the link?
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From: Steve
To: "cityofangelslady@yahoo.com"
Sent: Tue, August 31, 2010 3:04:22 PM
Subject: Re: Father Bob Poandl
http://cityofangels8.blogspot.com/2010/04/bishop-corrada-sj-of-tyler-texas.html ...
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From: "cityofangelslady@yahoo.com"
To: Steve
Okay, it's updated, but this dismissal does not mean he's innocent. Sorry, but most the 5,500 priests in U.S. identified as pedophile predators in the U.S. are not judged guilty in our screwed up criminal court system, this dismissal does not make him innocent.
As far as I'm concerned anyone who continues to be a priest in this epidemic is as guilty as the rest, you can't be surrounded by all this filth and think there is nothing wrong, and the same goes for parishioners who apologize for these perverts.
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From: Steve
To: "cityofangelslady@yahoo.com"
Sent: Tue, August 31, 2010 3:52:16 PM
Subject: Re: Father Bob Poandl
YOU don't know this good man who has been devastated by someone seeking a large payout
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From: "cityofangelslady@yahoo.com"
To: Steve in the UK
With all the damage that was done to all of us, how dare you waste time defending one of them
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(A minute later I sent him another one:)
To you 1 priest is more important than 1 hundred thousand victims, that's why so many of us were raped to begin with. The whole church is corrupt for letting this happen, sorry you can't see that.
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Phew. Wish I didn't have to quit Anger Management Class, may have to go back, and just be quiet and listen...
Still I stand by what I said. If Catholics in the church were half as concerned about the victims as they are about supporting an accused priest, when THEY don't really know the circumstances, the survivors would all be doing a lot better right now.
After all that's come out nationwide, why assume another accused priest could not possibly be guilty?
Plus, another place the past 20 years of "advocacy" has backfired: Thanks to all the emphasis on lawsuits, parishioners still think victims only come forward to "seek a large payout."
If Catholics gave one-tenth the resources to victims as they give to these priests, who all end up with cushy retirements (so they never talk) while their victims struggle to find support in nonprofits, maybe I wouldn't be so angry.
UGLY
All the way around it's ugly. And my karma to be in the middle of it, like it or not.
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Posted by Kay Ebeling, Producer of City of Angels Blog
UPDATE:
Email to Steve Sept 3 AM, not publishing his anymore:
Per Bishop Accoutability, the current John Jay numbers with newly ID'd predators added through 2008 puts it at 5.7 Percent of priests who were pedophiles. Twenty times higher than in regular population. They do not count many priests, perps like mine who was never officially accused, though my sister and I are living proof he was a perpetrator. In my research I find 1-2 more accused priests a week who are not included in the data as it is very stringent. So the numbers are still lower than reality.
Children with blood coming out of them doesn't seem to reach people, it's still abhorrent to have to end up in numbers, because the story is about children bleeding from their private parts. Most people only hear about the money, can't handle the details, so the truth is conveniently swept away.
Read something besides Catholic produced literature, which includes almost all news media as they are scared to dig into this story, so they just publish what the Church says, or what SNAP says, both of which are corporate PR statements. My blog is one of few sources of truth on this topic, including about Poandl. He was not proved innocent, he was credibly enough accused for a broke West Virginia DA's office, one of the poorest states in the US, to try to pursue the Goliath Church.
You are not getting the truth nor are most Catholics, I can tell by what they say. Your bishops are the leaders of a criminal organization, and there is probly a lot more crime hidden there, this is just what is coming out now, a fluke of our times and over sexually curious culture.
No genuine church would have let this happen at all.
To me it's a litmus test. You see the truth and take action or you bury your head in the folds of their robes and contribute to the problem. Which path will you take?
1 comment:
Ted
Dayton, New Jersey, sends this comment:
Kay: The world is filled with "Steves." You can talk to them until you're blue in the face and never raise their level of awareness above that of a clam. Their brains have become too flabby from their having sat on them too long. Keep writing. "It's better to light one candle, than to curse the darkness!"
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