EASY JUSTICE
January 18th 2007 21:42
A friend of mine recently wrote about a judge in Vermont giving a child molester a pass when it came to sentencing. It's gratifying to see that Canada is not the only one to be saddled with left wing liberal nuts.
We recently had a case where a Roman Catholic priest was convicted of child molestation. He went through 47 girls between the ages of eight and 15 over a period of 30 years in five parishes across Southwestern Ontario. Since he has been convicted 10 more women have come forward alleging his abuse. The man is now 84 years old, and I believe that's why the judge was easy on him. Rev. Charles Sylvestre was sentenced in October to three years in a penitentiary for sexually abuse.
Sylvestre was quite contrite when he was on the front pages during his trial. Now that he's had some time to think the whole thing over, he seems to have changed his mind. He's blaming everyone but himself. He blames his victims, other clergy and a school principal for the abuse he caused the more than 50 young girls, Chatham-Kent Crown Attorney Paul Bailey said Wednesday. "What we have here is a man who minimized his own involvement, blamed others, showed no (remorse) whatsoever to the psychological carnage that he caused," Bailey said. "According to him, these eight-year-old girls planned the destruction of their own lives," he said. Apparently, these girls conspired to let him molest them. "These girls that came over there every day, they planned it," Sylvestre told Bailey. "I could hear them talking and they'd come in and sit on a chair and their skirt would be up to their crotch.... Well, it was kind of attracting." Yeah, I can see myself saying that I'd let myself be abused so that 30 years down the road I might make some money or at the least get an apology from him. Far fetched? It only gets better.
When Sylvestre was confronted by the school principal, our good Father turned his anger towards him. Sylvestre says he knew what he was doing was a sin, but he went to confession hoping his acts would be forgiven. "I go to confession and say I had bad thoughtsand it would end there," he told Bailey. "I'd go to confession and tell my sins and then spend the rest of the hour talking about French." So now we have Sylvestre blaming his confessor for not delving deep enough into the problem. It seemed to be his confessors fault for not drawing enough information out of him to do something about it. We now have the girls, the principal and Sylvestre's confessor to blame for his deeds.
Irene Descheneswas one of the girls he molested. A court order prevented her from talking publicly about it. Bishop Ronald Fabbro of the London diocese was instrumental in getting that gag order lifted. Thank God, but now he's also one of the ones to be blamed. Without his intervention, perhaps none of this would've come to light. And last but not least, apparently the local media had something against him. "If you read XXXXXX you will realize they are so happy to have something to print about the Catholic Church," he said. Bailey says this is indicative of Sylvestre's greater concern about bad publicity than making a genuine apology.
I agree. I think Sylvestre doesn't like prison too much, so he's trying the insanity gambit to get into a cushy hospital. He'll make a remarkable recovery and be able to go home to finish his last days in a bit of comfort. Because no one was killed here, we can't sentence him to death. But a paltry 3 years for what he did? Ludicrous. Let him rot in prison until he dies there.
He deserves no better.
We recently had a case where a Roman Catholic priest was convicted of child molestation. He went through 47 girls between the ages of eight and 15 over a period of 30 years in five parishes across Southwestern Ontario. Since he has been convicted 10 more women have come forward alleging his abuse. The man is now 84 years old, and I believe that's why the judge was easy on him. Rev. Charles Sylvestre was sentenced in October to three years in a penitentiary for sexually abuse.
Irene Descheneswas one of the girls he molested. A court order prevented her from talking publicly about it. Bishop Ronald Fabbro of the London diocese was instrumental in getting that gag order lifted. Thank God, but now he's also one of the ones to be blamed. Without his intervention, perhaps none of this would've come to light. And last but not least, apparently the local media had something against him. "If you read XXXXXX you will realize they are so happy to have something to print about the Catholic Church," he said. Bailey says this is indicative of Sylvestre's greater concern about bad publicity than making a genuine apology.
I agree. I think Sylvestre doesn't like prison too much, so he's trying the insanity gambit to get into a cushy hospital. He'll make a remarkable recovery and be able to go home to finish his last days in a bit of comfort. Because no one was killed here, we can't sentence him to death. But a paltry 3 years for what he did? Ludicrous. Let him rot in prison until he dies there.
He deserves no better.
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