Catholic Church to appear before UN Commission on Torture

[D1B]

NEW YORK
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

Groups blast Vatican before UN panel
Victims & advocates file detailed new complaint
Top Catholic officials will soon be questioned in Geneva
A similar UN panel harshly criticized church after first such hearing
This time, it's the Committee Against Torture looking at church hierarchy
Groups document on-going Catholic child sex abuse scandal as 'acts of torture'
Their goal: to “expose, punish & deter widespread & systematic sexual violence”

WHAT
Holding signs and childhood photos at a sidewalk news conference, leaders of an abuse victims’ support group and a human rights organization will disclose and discuss their new formal complaint to a United Nations panel that sharply criticizes top Catholic officials for enabling and concealing sexual violence.

Next month in Geneva, Vatican officials will appear in person before that panel.

WHEN
Monday, April 14 at 1:00 p.m.

WHERE
Outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Ave (between 50th & 51st) in Manhattan

WHO
Four-six members of two groups - an international support group called SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAPnetwork.org) and the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)

WHY
Next month in Geneva, the UN Committee on Torture will question Vatican officials on their compliance with an international treaty condemning and forbidding torture.

Representatives of SNAP and CCR are formally making a detailed and extensive complaint to the UN Committee. The 80+ page submission documents a systematic, widespread and on-going global practice of concealing rape and abuse, tolerated and enabled by the Vatican and shows how these acts constitute torture.

The jurisdiction of the UN Committee Against Torture names rape as a form of torture. Top Catholic officials signed and ratified the Convention on Torture nearly 15 years ago. By doing this, they legally agreed to uphold the rights and regulations laid out in the treaty.

The Vatican is now being called by the committee for its periodic review on how they have implemented the treaty.

SNAP and CCR’s submission shows the role played by Vatican officials in the on-going protection of perpetrators, the hiding of crimes and the enabling of rape, sexual assault, and torture of thousands of innocent children and vulnerable adults around the world.

In January, Vatican officials were called before the Committee on the Rights of the Child, also in Geneva, for their periodic review under another UN treaty which top church officials also signed. A month later, that committee released a long and scathing report on how the Catholic hierarchy is refusing to protect children and stop the systematic and widespread cover ups. The report attracted worldwide attention.

[D1B]

Joe, take the E train to GCS and counter these protesters. Tell em everything is cool in the church, regardless of your popes apology.

Better yet, let's schedule a debate between you and Clohessy or Jeff Anderson?

[JoltinJoe]

Better yet, let's schedule a debate between you and Clohessy or Jeff Anderson?

Sex abuse scandal is over, except for people who are trying to make money of it. This UN Commission has already been panned for what it is doing with the Catholic Church, but it nonetheless still plods along doing the work an Ander$NAP, Inc.

You want me to debate Jeffrey Anderson? He's a moron. He was the class caboose at William Mitchell Law School, one of the worst law schools in the nation, and one of the easiest to gain admission. I mean, you might even have gotten in to William Mitchell Law School.

He's made a lot of money by being a whore, but he's still a moron.

[D1B]

Better yet, let's schedule a debate between you and Clohessy or Jeff Anderson?

Sex abuse scandal is over, except for people who are trying to make money of it. This UN Commission has already been panned for what it is doing with the Catholic Church, but it nonetheless still plods along doing the work an Ander$NAP, Inc.

You want me to debate Jeffrey Anderson? He's a moron. He was the class caboose at William Mitchell Law School, one of the worst law schools in the nation, and one of the easiest to gain admission. I mean, you might even have gotten in to William Mitchell Law School.

He's made a lot of money by being a whore, but he's still a moron.

Joe, the King of Catholicfantasyland, where no kids are raped and all priests are hetero ex-Fordham baseball players who gave up promising careers in the Yankees organization to spread the gospel of Jesus.

Yet he has your church on its knees. With no end in sight.


He'd annihilate you.


Let's get you and Clohessy. I could set that up.

[JoltinJoe]

Clohessy's probably a little smarter than Anderson (that's a pretty safe bet ), but I read his deposition in a Missouri case and he's a dupe.

[D1B]

Clohessy's probably a little smarter than Anderson (that's a pretty safe bet ), but I read his deposition in a Missouri case and he's a dupe.

Yet him and Jeffrey have your church bent over and taking in the ass, like they like it, to the tune of billions.....with no end in sight. You're not smart enough to wipe their assess.

So, can we set up a debate between you and Clohessy? We can do it online if you want.

[D1B]

Clohessy's probably a little smarter than Anderson (that's a pretty safe bet ), but I read his deposition in a Missouri case and he's a dupe.

Probably aint a good endorsement for Fordham Law that you've gotten your ass kicked by me and others for almost a decade.

The only thing you've accomplished during this tenure was embarrass yourself and your school.

[JoltinJoe]

Clohessy's probably a little smarter than Anderson (that's a pretty safe bet ), but I read his deposition in a Missouri case and he's a dupe.

Probably aint a good endorsement for Fordham Law that you've gotten your ass kicked by me and others for almost a decade.

The only thing you've accomplished during this tenure was embarrass yourself and your school.

Deal with it.

[JoltinJoe]

Google news search indicates that, worldwide, one news source (some local, liberal rag in Illionois) has picked up the Ander$NAP, Inc. press release.

https://www.google.com/search?q=SNAP+UN ... al&tbm=nws" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The secular press crushed the UN "report" months ago and is now paying no attention to the "proceedings" because the scandal is over.


You need a new hobby.

[D1B]

Another Joltin Joe lie.

Joltin Joe- lying for pedophiles and church criminals for 50 years.

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