While the catholic cult in the US may be on the side of illegal
immigrants (probably because most are catholic), they are up to
their usual tricks: protecting paedophiles.
http://www.topix.net/content/trb/0967256398196813802112279949470609590161
As much as I'm against racist anti-immigrant idiocy, the risk of
allowing paedophiles unchecked access to kids is worse. Who
cares about "affidavits of character" by sworn by the immigrants,
that never kept priests from fucking little kids.
Bob Dog
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Diocesan Screenings for Abusers Give Slack to Undocumented
Los Angeles Times
By Jennifer Delson
June 21, 2006
They are just trying to be too politically correct, even though
it means putting the kids at risk. If someone can't prove who
they are, they shouldn't be volunteering.
Not wanting to lose illegal immigrant volunteers, the Los
Angeles and Orange Roman Catholic dioceses have quietly backed
away from a pledge to root out pedophiles by running fingerprint
background checks on anyone who works with children.
The revamped policy in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles allows
church volunteer candidates without government-issue
identification to give instead a sworn affidavit stating that
they have not been convicted of any crime. In Orange, potential
volunteers without photo IDs can submit a sworn affidavit and
two letters of reference attesting to their character.
Church leaders said background checks of illegal immigrants are
virtually impossible without government photo identification,
and the church stood to lose a small army of volunteers in
heavily Latino parishes unless the photo ID requirement was
dropped.
Those who don't have background checks are allowed to work with
children, but only under supervision, church officials said.
The policies, revamped last year and recently uncovered by The
Times, outraged victim advocates who said the dioceses are
putting concern for illegal immigrants before the protection of
children.
'It's scary. I didn't know they were doing this,' said Rita
Milla, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles-area Survivors Network of
Those Abused by Priests. 'They are just trying to be too
politically correct, even though it means putting the kids at
risk. If someone can't prove who they are, they shouldn't be
volunteering.'
In response to the church's molestation scandal, which erupted
across the nation in 2002, U.S. bishops mandated background
checks that same year for priests and deacons. In the following
years, the mandate expanded to include diocesan employees and
volunteers.
The L.A. Archdiocese, on its website, recommends that 'adult
parish volunteers who have regular supervisory contact with
minors be fingerprinted.'
The Diocese of Orange policy states that it 'conducts
fingerprint background checks on all adults who have regular and
consistent contact with minors.'
Between the two dioceses, more than 70,000 priests, employees
and volunteers have been fingerprinted, church officials said.
In Orange, the background checks resulted in the removal of 11
employees or volunteers, said chancellor Shirl Giacomi. Nine had
been convicted of violent crimes and two had records of sexual
abuse, she said.
Figures for Los Angeles were not available late Wednesday.
Fingerprint background checks, which are processed by the
federal Department of Justice, cannot be done without
government-issue photo identification. 'Individuals who are
fingerprinted must show a valid form of photo identification to
ensure the person being fingerprinted is the person they say
they are,' said Tom Dresslar, spokesman for the state attorney
general's office.
In Orange County, Auxiliary Bishop Jaime Soto wrote to priests
and Catholic educators in the Orange Diocese in August to say
that the Department of Justice would not conduct criminal
background checks with a Mexican-issued identification card
known as matricula consular.
'I propose that we continue with the provisional policy
requiring an affidavit in lieu of the fingerprints because the
[Justice Department] has made it impractical, if not impossible,
for all our volunteers to comply,' Soto wrote.
Teresa Kettelkamp, executive director of the office of child and
youth protection of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops,
said the church's national policy stipulates only that a diocese
'figure out a methodology to check those who have contact with
children. It doesn't specify they must be fingerprinted.'
Church officials said volunteers who are immigrants are
essential to many parish programs, especially the religious
education of children.
Soto said if the Department of Justice would do fingerprint
background checks without government photo IDs, the diocese
would do them. But until then, the auxiliary bishop said the
Orange Diocese must find ways to allow illegal immigrants to be
involved in parish life.
The immigrant community is a 'significant segment of our church
and we want them to participate,' Soto said. 'We are doing this
because these people want to participate, they want to serve
their church and we want to welcome them.'
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