Isn’t this disgusting; just think about it… The Catholic Church has actually established a sliding scale payoff system whereby they determine the amount of money given to victims of sexual abuse by priests and other members of the clergy.
I suppose at the bottom end of the scale is basic fondling, followed by kissing, all the way up to forced oral sex and rape.
What amazes me, more than anything else, is that there are still hundreds of millions of morons in this world that are ignorant and/or shameless enough to call themselves Catholic. TGO
Refer to brief story below. Source: Associated Press
AP
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch branch of the Catholic church has agreed to launch a compensation system that clears the way for victims of abuse by priests and other church workers to receive payments of up to euro100,000 ($138,000).
The country’s Bishops’ Conference and Conference of Religious Orders said in a statement Monday the new compensation system will likely come into effect next month.
Thousands of past cases of alleged sexual abuse by Dutch priests are under investigation by an independent but church-funded commission in the Netherlands, where the Catholic church has more than 4 million members.
The new compensation system has a scale of payments starting at euro5,000 ($6,886) and rising to a maximum of euro100,000 depending on the nature of the abuse.
Indeed, and undoubtedly, given that at least 105 of the abusers are still alive, some of those assessing the eligibility of some abused victims for appropriate payoffs, would themselves have at some point violated children. It is not impossible to imagine a scenario where one of the abusers determines the payoff for someone he himself abused!!! And these are the chaps advising the world on moral issues?
Excellent point! How pathetic would that be?