Martha Jean Lorenzo is a victim of sexual abuse at the hands of a
member of the Catholic clergy.
She is also a member of The Survivors
Network of those Abused by Priests or SNAP.
Lorenzo and other SNAP members work to protect children from pedophile
priests and to hold the Catholic church accountable for their crimes
against children and for their coverups of those unnatural and
disgusting crimes.
On Thursday she was in front of the Diocese of St. Petersburg
headquarters bringing attention to the fact that the Diocese of St.
Petersburg did not keep their end of a bargain regarding notifying its
parishioners about settlements reached regarding sex abuse by priests.
A
recent settlement the diocese reached with a former parishioner who was
sexually molested when he was 17 by Msgr. Norman Balthazar was not made
known to parishioners by the diocese.
The diocese agreed to pay the
victim $75,000.00.
A spokesman for the diocese, Frank Murphy, claims
the diocese is not in violation of the agreement because the victim is
no longer a child. This is typical of the Catholic church.
It does
whatever it can to protect itself at the expense of innocent children
and the truth.
They look for loop-holes to escape through so they will
not be held responsible for their hideous crimes.
One diocese in
Delaware actually filed
for bankruptcy protection the day before a trial was to start brought
by over 140 victims of the Catholic church and its sexually deviant
child-molesting priests.
Since the church is morally bankrupt it should
also be financially bankrupt as well.
Balthazar has a history of sexual problems. In 1991 he was arrested
by the Tampa Police during a sex sting undercover operation.
A judge
eventually dismissed the charges against him.
However, Balthazar told
the media at the time, "I had too much to drink and was not in control
of my senses."
Perhaps, as people see more and more that the "revealed" religions
don't even work for their own clergy, they will begin to put a new value
on their God-given reason instead of on the man-made holy books and
dogmas which make up the various contradictory and anti-God-given reason
"revealed" religions.
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