AFTER CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF DALLAS TRIED TO THWART INVESTIGATION INTO ACCUSED PEDOPHILE PRIESTS, TEXAS POLICE CONDUCT SURPRISE RAID AND RETRIEVE ‘SECRET FILES’ by Geoffrey Grider for Now The End Begins
Investigators searched the diocesan headquarters, a storage unit it uses and the offices of a church, police Maj. Max Geron told reporters. “We believe at this point that the execution of the search warrants was wholly appropriate for the furtherance of the investigation at this point,” Geron said.The events began last August with the investigation of Edmundo Paredes , a former priest who is believed to have fled Texas following claims that he abused three teenagers. That investigation resulted in allegations of abuse by others, Geron said.
Investigators who were “thwarted” during earlier investigations of child sexual abuse by priests on Wednesday searched the offices of the Catholic Diocese of Dallas to obtain evidence of sexual misconduct, according to a police commander and police records.
The Catholic Diocese of Dallas, Texas, tried to thwart police investigations into sexual misconduct of accused pedophile priests, and for awhile their stalling tactics worked pretty good. Right up until yesterday when police conducted a surprise raid on the church facilities and were able obtain the ‘secret files’ on the accused priests that the diocese had hidden.
“And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.” Revelation 17:6 (KJV)
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The real crime in all this is not only the fact that these thousands of Catholic pedophile priests raped and molested children, but that at the highest levels in the Vatican orders were issued to cover it up and pretend it wasn’t happening. There is seemingly no end in sight to the abuse of children by Catholic priests both in America and around the world.
Police execute search warrant at Catholic Diocese of Dallas
FROM AP: Investigators searched the diocesan headquarters, a storage unit it uses and the offices of a church, police Maj. Max Geron told reporters. “We believe at this point that the execution of the search warrants was wholly appropriate for the furtherance of the investigation at this point,” Geron said.
The events began last August with the investigation of Edmundo Paredes , a former priest who is believed to have fled Texas following claims that he abused three teenagers. That investigation resulted in allegations of abuse by others, Geron said.
Copies of the warrants refer to the 70-year-old Paredes and four others. All five were named in a report released in January by the diocese that identified former priests credibly accused of sexually assaulting a child.
PAREDES IS SUSPENDED FROM THE DIOCESE; THE OTHER FOUR ARE SUSPENDED, ON LEAVE, RETIRED OR REMOVED FROM THE MINISTRY.
Police Detective David Clark in an affidavit supporting the warrants described a diocese that wasn’t forthcoming with critical files and relied on personnel to identify predatory behavior when they had no background or training to do so.
