UPDATED::Bridgeport Priest Gets 65-Month Sentence For Selling Drugs - Hartford Courant

I'm shocked,,,NOT! 

UPDATE::  'Monsignor Meth' fails drug test, may go back to prison

Court records say a former Roman Catholic priest dubbed "Monsignor Meth" because he ran a meth distribution ring has failed a drug test and may have to return to prison.

The Hartford Courant reports that court documents show Former Bridgeport Diocese Monsignor Kevin Wallin recently tested positive for amphetamine at the facility where he's been receiving treatment.
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He has failed drug tests before but was given another chance and ordered to complete drug treatment programs.

Mean while my nephew is still dead and his killer has yet to be found,,,

UPDATE::  Convicted priest remains free despite failing drug tests

A Connecticut priest convicted of selling methamphetamine won’t be sent back to prison despite failing drug tests while on parole.

WVIT-TV reports that federal Judge Alfred Covello decided Thursday that Kevin Wallin, a former pastor at St. Augustine Parish in Bridgeport, will remain on supervised release rather than return to prison.

For a moment I am going to ignore the religious overtones regarding this story.  Not because they aren't relevant, but for differing reasons.  What this story highlights is summed up in this statement and why, after a month, it still irks me:

"How could an individual of this caliber fall to what he became?" asked Dr. Richard Malone, a friend and psychiatrist who specializes in treating addictions among priests. "The answer to this is: 'This is the nature of addiction.'"

If an individual of Wallin's "caliber" can be corrupted by the lure of drugs as a faulty coping mechanism, what chance do we "normal folk" have?

Although Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Caruso believes Wallin will not re-offend, he undermines his own statement,

But, Caruso said, when Wallin "crossed over," he devoted all his considerable skill to drug dealing. And, Caruso said, not one of the 90 or so letters to the court from Wallin's supporters "sheds a single tear" for the addicts who bought drugs.

"There is no dispute about Mr. Wallin's role," Caruso said. "He was the leader, the leader of the business. He reached out to these people and handed them a $50 bag of meth. He trapped these most vulnerable people in their addiction. This wasn't about behavior that went on for 30 days. It went on for years."

You see, addicts lie.

Mr Wallin may feel at "peace" but what about all the lives you helped to destroy?  I do not trust people who can be forgiven by magical, invisible, supernatural gods for the wrongs they do; especially when they are telling other people how to live their lives.  And yes, "Our humanity is our greatest strength and also our greatest weakness."

Bridgeport Priest Gets 65-Month Sentence For Selling Drugs - Hartford Courant