Welcome to H&C,,, where I aggregate news of interest. Primary topics include abuse with "the church", LGBTQI+ issues, cults - including anti-vaxxers, and the Dominionist and Theocratic movements. Also of concern is the anti-science movement with interest in those that promote garbage like homeopathy, chiropractic and the like. I am an atheist and anti-theist who believes religious mythos must be die and a strong supporter of SOCAS.
A Roman Catholic priest on Friday became the first person sentenced to prison as a result of a Pennsylvania grand jury investigation that found hundreds of clergy had abused children over seven decades.
The
Rev. John Thomas Sweeney, 76, received 11½ months to five years in
state prison and will have to register as a sex offender for 10 years.
He pleaded guilty in July to misdemeanor indecent assault on a minor after being accused of forcing a 10-year-old boy to perform oral sex on him while counseling the fourth-grader about misbehaving on a school bus.
"I
want the public to know that he's profoundly remorseful for any pain,
anguish and discomfort that the victim has suffered as a result of his
actions," said Sweeney's lawyer, Fran Murrman, after the sentencing in
Westmoreland County.
A Roman Catholic priest was charged
Tuesday with groping a 17-year-old girl and sending her nude images of
himself, just a week after a Pennsylvania grand jury reported the church
had covered up decades of priests' child molestation across the state.
The
charges of felony corruption of minors and misdemeanor indecent assault
against the Rev. Kevin Lonergan, 30, a Pottstown, Pennsylvania, native
who most recently served as pastor at the Cathedral of St. Catherine of
Siena in Allentown, were not a result of the landmark grand jury
investigation but stemmed from a complaint filed in June after the grand
jury had finished its work, authorities said.
This is but one of many current abuse related cases that pepper this blog. So yes Bill, this is an ongoing problem and not one from a century ago.
These are cases were the victims are, for the most part, still alive; some of the perps are not. You make it sound as if nobody should be accountable for an institutional problem.
As a reminder the issue of child sexual abuse is not only a RCC problem nor is it a religious one!
2] According to Bill we are to ignore all the abuse cases that have occurred in the last 70 years,like this one,
A former priest implicated in the explosive Pennsylvania child sex
abuse report served at multiple Colorado churches in the early 1980s,
just a few years after allegedly engaging in repeated sexual assault of
three brothers in Pennsylvania.
Stephen Edward Jeselnick, 67, was among hundreds of clergymen accused
of child sexual abuse by a Pennsylvania grand jury last month. The
two-year investigation revealed that leaders within six Catholic
dioceses worked to hide the sexual abuse of more than 1,000 children
over 70 years.
Jeselnick, who currently lives in Colorado Springs, served in the
Archdiocese of Denver for nearly seven months from December 1982 to June
1983 on a trial assignment, according to the Archdiocese. Just a few
years prior, in the late 1970s, he allegedly engaged in repeated sexual
assault of three brothers in Meadeville, Pa., according to the grand
jury report. The Pennsylvania brothers, now adults, told the grand jury
that Jeselnick’s abuse included genital fondling, oral sex and anal sex,
the report states. Jeselnick allegedly abused them in their home and at
church, where their mother worked, the report continues.
Initially assigned to St. Mary’s Church in Littleton, Jeselnick was
reassigned to the Shrine of St. Anne Church in Arvada in the spring of
1983.
He then served at the Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Colorado
Springs as assistant pastor from 1983 to 1985. He requested, but was
denied, formal acceptance into the Colorado Springs diocese in 1985, the
grand jury report states, before joining the Air Force as a chaplain.
To borrow from Hitch, you Mr Donohue - your church - has institutionalized the rape and torture of children.
And for the record Bill, your lobbying and the church's lobbying in reality show the Church's guilt. You have admitted that the child abuse problem and its potential cost to the Church are bigger than we know. Despite promises Pope Francis has no plans for justice or compensation for victims
My question to you Mr. Donohue is why? Why are you so against legal justice? Why spend over $2 million on lobbying from 2007 through the end of 2015, want to prevent this bill from passage? Why would you not want to end many legal roadblocks for victims of childhood sexual abuse?
Answer:: you dont want your money cow being "raped".
You are content to play the "what-aboutism" game. Forgetting that people who are guilty can find comfort in finding others to be as bad or worse. As I noted above about your lobbying, you have admitted to the child abuse problem. You discredit yourself as a critic. Rhetorical devices prevent discussion of issues at hand; it is a strategy of false moral equivalences.
Neither Hollywood nor public schools hold themselves to a higher moral standard. Nor do they expect gov't or individuals to cow-tow to your special needs.
The other day I posted concerning a recent episode of BTTP (#164). I had mentioned the Servants of the Paraclete foundation in Jemez Springs, NM. Low and behold what shows up,
The grand jury found that sending priests to the foundation was part of
the systematic cover-up to protect priests accused of sexually
assaulting children that extended back to the 1950s. At least 12 priests
from the six dioceses in Pennsylvania were sent to the New Mexico
facility over the years.
,,,
“Put plainly, these institutions laundered accused priests, provided
plausible deniability to the bishops, and permitted hundreds of known
offenders to return” to active ministry, the grand jury report says.
Pennsylvania’s
Catholic bishops were not alone. For decades, priests accused of child
sexual abuse were sent to the Servants of the Paraclete by bishops from
around the country. Some priests remained in New Mexico, but many others
returned to their home dioceses and were transferred to different
churches.
A point I noted on BTTP last night concerning disregard for the safety of others. "Moving" accused priest in and out of various locales, some out of country. Ganster was first accused of abusing a teenage boy in 1977. According to Business Insider, "Ganster was given counseling and
reassigned to another church,,, Throughout his career, Ganster also
worked at two high schools and as a Catholic student adviser at Penn
State University Campus Ministry."
Ganster died in 2014, aged 71.
One priest got a job at Disney World after alleged abuse in Schuylkill County.
The Diocese of Allentown gave Fr. Edward Ganster a positive reference to Disney where he worked for 15 years driving a train.
Three boys accused Ganster of abuse, including one who said he was abused for a year and a half at St. Joseph’s in Frackville.
It must be
acknowledged what was done to us so we can forgive and be free. If
the truth remains hidden then the brutality under which I grew up
will continue for thousands of Irish children. And I must by any
means necessary WITHOUT the use of violence prevent that happening
because I am a Christian.
The Catholic
Church have controlled us by controlling education. Through their
teachings on sexuality, marriage, birth control and abortion. And
most spectacularly through the lies they taught us with their history
books.
That was penned by Sinead O'Connor back in Oct of 92 concerning her appearance on SNL in which she tore a
picture of JPII. As I noted in the show description, she took much
flack. Since, O’Connor has endured her fair share of ups and downs.
She has struggled with her mental health, often very publicly, and
has had every facet of her life closely scrutinized.
She has also been dismissed time and
time again as a “crazy bitch”.
When asked about
Father Crowley at the church this past week, parishioner after
parishioner struggled to respond. A man leaned on the railing of the
church steps and cried as he remembered how Father Crowley had
baptized his children. Women confided that they had been tossing and
turning every night, unable to sleep. After long silences, many
insisted the allegations just had to be false.
So the other day I posted concerning
California's move to declare conversion therapy fraudulent. A
comment then brought to my attention a recent Liberty Counsel (Matt
Staver) press release concerning "new" research that shows
CT to be effective and not harmful. As I noted to RH's comment, the
so-called report is from the Catholic Medical Association which isn't
saying much as they hold to the teachings of the RCC above everything
else. Hemant notes one of the authors worked for Joseph Nicolosi, the
father of gay conversion therapy AND (I just saw this) not a random
survey but current/former clients,,, Just from a brief skim of
Hemant's write-up he hit all the "good" points as far as
criticism.
So I did a bit of digging and perused
the comments and found this little nugget.
"If gay
conversion therapy works and is not harmful to anyone then I am sure
the Catholic Medical Association would like to put all of the
catholic priests through it so that no child stands a chance of being
molested ever again. They could do this and guarantee it just to
prove how right they are to the world."
Further discussion, when I found this,
'Servants of the Holy Paraclete' which was founded in 1948. It was basically an organization, within
the Church proper, created for the sole purpose of 'curing' pedophile
priests. At one point it was intent on purchasing an island so as to
isolate them from the general population.
The founder of
this organization, a father Gerald Fitzgerald, suggested keeping
these priests in monasteries as he soon realized they could not be
'cured'. In fact, he even wrote the Vatican saying as such. I suggest
the documentary 'Mea Maxima Culpa', it was through it I came to know about this.
(Documentary is available)
This goes to a point made clear by my
partner in crime,
We've known that
the Catholic Church is the largest and oldest organized child sex
ring known to history for some time now. The events of Spotlight,
which exposed the problem both nationally and globally, happened 17
years ago.
Anyone giving
money to them in the last decade (being generous here) is directly
supporting the sexual abuse of children. There's just no way around
it.
Oh and if you
think equivocating on terminology like "pedophile vs hebephile"
and such is a valid response to such criticism, you're probably part
of the problem.
The Church has had
centuries of chances to clean their shit up. The time for patience
and mercy has long since passed. It's time to take responsibility for
their actions and pay for their crimes.
There is much to unpack concerning the
debacle in PA as I foresee other states following suit. But
a "report" does not solve the
issue. Now throw in the issue of CT and that complicates things.
So with this in mind I decided to check
out this information concerning Congregation of the Servants of the
Paraclete as well as the mentioned documentary Mea Maxima Culpa:
Silence in the House of God.
I don't want to go too deep as I also want to get to the Donohue,
Marshall, and Burke statements as well.
The Congregation
of the Servants of the Paraclete is a Latin Rite, Catholic
religious congregation of men dedicated to ministry to priests and
Brothers with personal difficulties. The congregation was founded in
1947 by Father Gerald Fitzgerald in New Mexico; they are named for
the Paraclete - a representation of the Holy Spirit interpreted as an
advocate or helper.
Although Fitzgerald started the
Servants of the Paraclete to assist priests who were struggling with
alcohol and substance abuse problems, he soon began receiving priests
who had sexually abused minors. Initially, Fitzgerald attempted to
treat such priests using the same spiritual methods that he used with
others. By 1948, Fitzgerald had set a policy whereby he refused to
take priests who were sexually attracted to young people.
Over the next two decades, Fitzgerald
wrote regularly to bishops in the United States and to Vatican
officials, including the pope, of his opinion that many sexual
abusers in the priesthood could not be cured and should be laicized
immediately.
“This is my
thesis and I am going to hold to it because I think it has proved out
— the problem is at the top. If you have people at the top who are
sexually active and they are in charge of people who are acting out,
you can’t afford to expose that, lest you be exposed.”
So to my surprise
this Congregation of the Servants of the Paraclete did actually exist
and there was controversy surrounding such. Being that I
generally do not follow the Pedo Priest issue within the RCC (too big
for one person in regards to civil actions), I was really taken aback
by this information. Not surprised, but the enormity and the length
of time involved is huge.
And I will state
this again as I have before the diddling priest issue is not just a
RCC problem. From my perspective I believe that due to the RCCs
physical size, the number of parishioners, and money is what makes
this a headline grabber. The fact that so many of the hierarchy is
involved adds to that. While the actions are beyond appalling it
happens in EVERY religion, (Mormons and JWs currently are facing
their own scandals.)
As I have also noted pedophilia is also
not just a problem within religion. It occurs in the secular world,
and BTTP is well aware of that point. What makes this so egregious
goes back to a point Deb made in her posting,
Anyone giving money to them in the last decade (being generous here)
is directly supporting the sexual abuse of children. There's just no
way around it.
That's ignoring
the whole higher standard of morality crap. And we will come back to
that point as Deb is have an interesting discussion on her wall
ATM.
Fitzgerald's convictions appear to significantly contradict the
claims of contemporary bishops that the hierarchy was unaware until
recent years of the danger in shuffling priests from one parish to
another and in concealing the priests' problems from those they
served.
It is clear, too, in letters between Fitzgerald and a range of
bishops, among bishops themselves, and between Fitzgerald and the
Vatican, that the hierarchy was aware of the problem and its
implications well before the problem surfaced as a national story in
the mid-1980s.
That
brings us to Mea Maxima Culpa, 2012 documentary film directed by Alex Gibney. The film
details the first known protest against clerical sex abuse in the
United States by four deaf men.
Gibney examines the abuse of power in
the Catholic Church system through the story of four deaf men —
Terry Kohut, Gary Smith, Pat Kuehn and Arthur Budzinski — who set
out to expose the priest who abused them during the mid-1960s at St.
John's School for the Deaf. Each of the men brought forth the first
known case of public protest against clerical sex abuse, which later
led to the sex scandal case known as the Lawrence
Murphy case. Through their case the film follows a cover-up that
winds its way from the row houses of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, through
Ireland's churches, all the way to the highest office of the Vatican.
The documentary also serves as a detailed and wide-ranging look at systemic clericalabuse, examining cases in the US, Ireland and Italy. It narrates the
Church’s knowledge and handling of child abuse throughout the 20th
century, the explosion of attention following the Boston Globe
stories in 2002, and the ramifications of the scandal over the next
ten years.
Milwaukee priest
named Lawrence Murphy who abused 200 deaf children,,, It also
happened to be the patient-zero case of modern clerical sexual abuse:
so far as we have been able to determine, the leafletting of the
Milwaukee Cathedral by three young deaf men in 1974 is the first
public protest over clerical sex abuse in the United States.
So, at minimum - ignoring
the Servants of the Paraclete - this shit has been known for
44 yrs. One man abused 200 children but yet nothing was done to
change a damn thing.
One thing that needs to be mentioned,
we are only touching the surface here on BTTP. It would be a massive
understatement to say this issue is huge. What complicates it
further for a lay person to track, The Catholic Church responds to
these scandals at three levels: the diocesan level, the episcopal
conference level and the Vatican. Responses to the scandal proceeded
at all three levels in parallel with the higher levels becoming
progressively more involved as the gravity of the problem became more
apparent. So while individual diocese may deal
with each individual accusation, it's not until the accusations have
gotten out of hand until the real hierarchy gets involved. Their
response have not been so good.
In
his post titled “Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report Debunked,” Donohue desperately tries to minimize the findings and in so doing
reveals the profound poverty of both his intellect and his character.
Here are 3 examples.
1] Myth: The priests “raped” their victims.
Attempting
to justify his assertion that the claim that “the priests raped
their victims” is a “myth,” Donohue writes:
Fact: This is an obscene lie. Most of the alleged victims were not
raped: they were groped or otherwise abused, but not penetrated,
which is what the word “rape”
means.
2]
Myth: The report was warranted because of the on-going crisis
in the Catholic Church.
Fact:
There is no on-going crisis—it's a total myth. In fact, there is no
institution, private or public, that has less of a problem with the
sexual abuse of minors today than the Catholic Church.
As
already discussed, this has been an ongoing issue since at least the
late 1940s. An issue the RCC was well aware of
3]
Myth: The abusive priests were pedophiles.
Fact:
This is the greatest lie of them all, repeated non-stop by the media,
and late-night talk TV hosts.
There
have been two scandals related to the sexual abuse of minors in the
Catholic Church. Scandal I involves the enabling bishops who covered
it up. Scandal II involves the media cover-up of the role played by
gay molesters.
Donohue goes on to denounce the media for
using the term “pedophilia” to describe the incidents when,
Donohue claims, most of the victims were “postpubescent.”
And,
as he always does, Donohue rants that the media is providing cover
for the LGBT movement by not describing the assailants as “gay
priests” and by sensationalizing the “minority” of cases
involving preteen girls.
If these are the excuses given a smart
Catholic, the Church is so screwed. Point one is so absurd
nothing needs to be said. Point two, homosexuality is not
pedophilia; it’s not about sexual orientation, it’s about power
and access. Point three, abuse also occurs in smaller churches where
victims have no one in a position of authority to talk to or trust.
So it seems Cardinal Burke has added his appalling two-cents stating,
It was clear after the
studies following the 2002 sexual abuse crisis that most of the acts of
abuse were in fact homosexual acts committed with adolescent young men.
There was a studied attempt to either overlook or to deny this. Now it
seems clear in light of these recent terrible scandals that indeed there
is a homosexual culture, not only among the clergy but even within the
hierarchy, which needs to be purified at the root. It is of course a
tendency that is disordered.
Sound familiar?
What's worse, Burke thinks that the RCC has done more than enough to address the issue,
There is no need to develop new procedures. All of the procedures exist
in the Church’s discipline, and they have existed throughout the
centuries. What is needed is an honest investigation into the alleged
situations of grave immorality followed by effective action to sanction
those responsible and to be vigilant to prevent that similar situations
arise again.
This
morning, in a letter directed to Catholics around the world, Pope
Francis said the Church must “condemn these atrocities.”
He acknowledged how the Church “showed no care for the little ones;
we abandoned them.”
That’s all well and good — he
expressed deep remorse for the victims — but the real questions are
what the Vatican plans to do to prevent future crimes and how they’ll
punish those responsible for committing and covering up the abuse.
Instead of actually offering any
solutions, though, the pope called for fasting and prayer.
… penance
and prayer will help us to open our eyes and our hearts to other
people’s sufferings and to overcome the thirst for power
and possessions that are so often the root of those evils. May
fasting and prayer open our ears to the hushed pain felt by children,
young people and the disabled. A fasting that can make us
hunger and thirst for justice and impel us to walk in the truth,
supporting all the judicial measures that may be necessary. A fasting
that shakes us up and leads us to be committed in truth and charity
with all men and women of good will, and with society in general, to
combatting all forms of the abuse of power, sexual abuse and the
abuse of conscience.
Pope Francis said
there were efforts underway to do something but they haven’t
been implemented just yet.
I am conscious of the effort
and work being carried out in various parts of the world to come up
with the necessary means to ensure the safety and protection of the
integrity of children and of vulnerable adults, as well as
implementing zero tolerance and ways of making all those who
perpetrate or cover up these crimes accountable. We have delayed in
applying these actions and sanctions that are so necessary,
yet I am confident that they will help to guarantee a greater culture
of care in the present and future.
The RCC has had 70+ years to
implement something, anything but have done nothing. As Hemant
notes, “The pope’s letter is a distraction. A way to pretend the
Vatican cares without detailing how they will actually protect
victims over priests. It’s another victory for the PR Pope but
there’s absolutely nothing in here that should encourage doubting
Catholics that everything will work out.”
And this brings me to a recent
discussion the Deb was involved in, I will be making a separate
posting concerning said discussion but it is too good not to mention.
This past Thursday deb posted,
We've known that
the Catholic Church is the largest and oldest organized child sex
ring known to history for some time now. The events of Spotlight,
which exposed the problem both nationally and globally, happened 17
years ago.
Anyone giving money to them in the
last decade (being generous here) is directly supporting the sexual
abuse of children. There's just no way around it.
Oh and if you think equivocating on
terminology like "pedophile vs hebephile" and such is a
valid response to such criticism, you're probably part of the
problem.
The Church has had centuries of
chances to clean their shit up. The time for patience and mercy has
long since passed. It's time to take responsibility for their
actions and pay for their crimes.
Well Deb knows how to attract the crazy
and she got a dousey with this,
Stop blaming bad
apples on the tree assholes. 99% of Catholic clergy have nothing to
do with pedophilia. Your stupid statements go to show your only
interested in degrading religious belief.
It devolves from there, to which Deb
makes this response,
Catholics KNOW
that the church uses their money to cover up and thus perpetuate
abuse. So YES they are complicit. What I find offensive is the sexual
abuse of children, full stop. If Catholics are truly mostly good
people as you say, then they wouldn't still be Catholics.
Instead,
they have put the institution and its reputation ahead of the safety
of thousands of children. THAT is unacceptable and BEYOND offensive.
To which TW responds,
Bullshit. Every
organized religion has pedaphiles stop blaming the CHURCH itself. It
has a higher authority than man and it teaches that the wolves in
sheep clothing are completely evil.
Deb re-iterates, as TW doesn't seem to
get it,
I don't think you
seem to grasp the difference between an institution that HAS sex
abusers in it and one that PROTECTS the sex abusers in it. You're the
one making excuses for the church and what it's been doing.
The clincher for me is TWs response,
,,,your so full of
crap it's alarming. The Church is not just an organized group of
humans it is an infallible authority instituted by God. Who the fuck
are you to judge every Catholic as if they are partaking in
pedophilia. Many Catholics were killed by the Nazis dumbass and
they willing became martyrs for the sake of their Jewish brethren.
Respecting life at all it's stages and encouraging strength
through suffering is not a bad thing. What doesn't kill you makes you
stronger. Medical miracles happen all the time. Giving up on life or
your baby because you think your in control of your life is just
hypocritical stupidity. Catholicism changed the world for the
better. We could all be nazis or muslins now if it wasn't for
Catholics and Catholic soldiers.
That last bit, if you have been
following the apologia spewing forth from the hierarchy, tells me he
has absorbed everything the church tells him.
After long
silences, many insisted the allegations just had to be false.
One thing that should be said, there is
going to be an over abundance of information coming forth. Part of
the reason I was hesitant to even broach the topic on a personal
level but things just sorts came together into a blog posting and
diverged from there. I urge you to read the AGs report. It's long,
1400 pages long. I urge you to read every nugget and listen to every
media report you can get your hands on. If you're not convinced that
this is real, nothing I say nor what Deb has said will make a damn
bit of difference.
It will not change the fact that you
are complicit in the sexual abuse of children.
So it seems Cardinal Burke has added his appalling two-cents stating,
It was clear after the
studies following the 2002 sexual abuse crisis that most of the acts of
abuse were in fact homosexual acts committed with adolescent young men.
There was a studied attempt to either overlook or to deny this. Now it
seems clear in light of these recent terrible scandals that indeed there
is a homosexual culture, not only among the clergy but even within the
hierarchy, which needs to be purified at the root. It is of course a
tendency that is disordered.
Sound familiar?
What's worse, Burke thinks that the RCC has done more than enough to address the issue,
There is no need to develop new procedures. All of the procedures exist
in the Church’s discipline, and they have existed throughout the
centuries. What is needed is an honest investigation into the alleged
situations of grave immorality followed by effective action to sanction
those responsible and to be vigilant to prevent that similar situations
arise again.
So IOWS the RCC is going to do nothing!!
I don't know how much I will cover the pedophile debacle within the Pennsylvania RCCs. It's huge and I am only one person, I dont feel I would be able to do a proper presentation it deserves. TBH there will be much coverage by media and media personalities which much better resources than I. Obviously if actual criminal charge come forth I will note those individual cases.
With that said there will be bits and pieces that catch my eye. Two such are included here:: Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League who defends predatory priests by claiming it’s not rape if the child isn’t penetrated; and, Dr. Taylor Marshall, a Catholic theologian, who haas presented a list of three reasons sex scandals occur in the Church:
First Donohue,,,
In his post titled “Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report Debunked,”
Donohue desperately tries to minimize the findings and in so doing Donohue reveals the profound poverty of
both his intellect and his character.
Myth: The priests “raped” their victims.
Attempting to justify his assertion that the claim that “the priests raped their victims” is a “myth,” Donohue writes:
Fact: This is an obscene lie. Most of the alleged victims were not raped: they were groped or otherwise abused, but not penetrated, which is what the word “rape” means.
Donohue goes on to denounce the media
for using the term “pedophilia” to describe the incidents when, Donohue
claims, most of the victims were “postpubescent.”
And, as he always does, Donohue rants
that the media is providing cover for the LGBT movement by not
describing the assailants as “gay priests” and by sensationalizing the
“minority” of cases involving preteen girls.
I knew before reading bloviating Bill's eleven pages of garbage it would be bad; I am appalled at his response. There is no justification, for the actions of the religionists involved nor the hierarchy of the RCC, it is disgusting.
If these are the excuses given a smart Catholic, the Church is so screwed. Point one is so absurd nothing needs to be said. Point two, homosexuality is not pedophilia; it’s not about sexual orientation, it’s about power and access. Point three, abuse also occurs in smaller churches where victims have no
one in a position of authority to talk to or trust.
Any who tries to justify the actions of the RCC church are explicitly supporting the harming of children. That includes the PR Pope!
If you tithe to the Catholic Church, you helped pay for this. If you
continue to tithe, you're paying for this now. Giving
money to the catholic church is morally indefensible.
The priests, George testified, had a group of favored boys who they would take on trips and give gifts.
"He
(Zirwas) had told me they, the priests, would give their boys, their
altar boys or their favorite boys these crosses," George testified. "So
he gave me a big gold cross to wear."
In the
report, the grand jury said, the crosses "were a designation that these
children were victims of sexual abuse. They were a signal to other
predators that the children had been desensitized to sexual abuse and
were optimal targets for further victimization."
,,,
When the new school year began, and she didn’t improve her math, she was
sent to Sperber again. The victim told the principal that he touched
her in weird ways. The principal became angry, scolded the child and
said “How dare you make these terrible accusations? You are a
demon-child.”
