In 2006, the Boston Archdiocesan Review Board returned Rev. Charles J. Murphy to ministry, with access to children, saying that accusations of sexual abuse against him lacked credibility. Cardinal Sean O'Malley lifted all restrictions on Rev. Murphy allowing him to return to ministry. Now, another victim has come forward to accuse Murphy, who has, once again, been removed from ministry, but that doesn't matter to Murphy's parishioners. Click here for the video of parishioners in Weymouth defending a the accused priest. They echo the voices of Murphy's lawyers, who in 2006 accused those suing Murphy of trying to cash in on the sexual abuse scandal. Here's the news from Minnesota and India. Ravi Nessman of the Associated Press reports:
A Catholic priest charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Minnesota is working in his home diocese in India and has no plans to return to the U.S. to face the courts, he and his bishop told The Associated Press on Monday.Church documents obtained by the AP show the Vatican was alerted to the accusations against the Rev. Joseph Palanivel Jeyapaul more than three years ago but, according to the bishop, the Most Rev. A. Almaraj, did not take any part in disciplining him. The priest has received only a minor punishment and is currently working in his bishop's office processing teacher appointments for a dozen church schools in the diocese of Ootacamund in southern India. "We cannot simply throw out the priest, so he is just staying in the bishop's house, and he is helping me with the appointment of teachers," said Almaraj, the bishop of Ootacamund. "He says he is innocent, and these are only allegations. ... I don't know what else to do."
What to do? Let the priest stand trial in a court of law to determine whether he is innocent or guilty!
I sat across a table from a man who sexually abused me and watched him lie under oath. People lie, bishop Almaraj, especially bad people, who abuse children.
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