Pedophilia Irish Style

[Lamplighter]

NY Times
JOHN ELIGON and LAURIE GOODSTEIN
9/7/12

Kansas City Bishop Convicted of Shielding Pedophile Priest

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Roman Catholic bishop was found guilty on Thursday
of failing to report suspected child abuse, becoming the first American bishop
in the decades-long sexual abuse scandal to be convicted of shielding a pedophile priest.

In a hastily announced bench trial that lasted a little over an hour, a judge found the bishop,
Robert W. Finn, guilty on one misdemeanor charge and not guilty on a second charge,
for failing to report a priest who had taken hundreds of pornographic pictures of young girls.
The counts each carried a maximum penalty of one year in jail and a $1,000 fine,
but Bishop Finn was sentenced to two years of court-supervised probation.

The verdict is a watershed moment in the priest sexual abuse scandal
that has plagued the church since the 1980s.
Bishops have been eager to turn the page on this era and have put in place
extensive abuse prevention policies, which include reporting suspected abusers
to law enforcement authorities.

But the Kansas City case has served as a wake-up call
to Catholics that the policies cannot be effective if the bishops do not follow them.<snip>

[tw]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

Kansas City Bishop Convicted of Shielding Pedophile Priest

If American DA finally start prosecuting, will Vatican City become a sanctuary for pedophiles? How many kids live in Vatican City?

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by tw

How many kids live in Vatican City?

(age of consent: 12)

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

(age of consent: 12)

Ew

[xoxoxoBruce]

They've just been carrying on tradition.

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

(age of consent: 12)

As much as I can be considered anti-Vatican, your link suggests nothing of the sort:

While the Vatican State has not made its own complete separate criminal code, and generally uses the Italian criminal code that was in effect at the time of the Lateran Treaty, there are exceptions to this rule. The "Law of the Source of Law" of the Vatican State requires that any Italian laws must first defer to divine law, to Papal decrees, and to canon law. As the Vatican understands divine law, all sex outside of marriage is illicit, and therefore the only lawful consent that may be made for sexual relations is the consent between a husband and a wife. Canon 1083 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law states that "A man before he has completed his sixteenth year of age and a woman before she has completed her fourteenth year of age cannot enter into a valid marriage." Thus, assuming the couple is married, the minimum age of consent for lawful sexual relations according to Vatican law is 14 for females, and 16 for males.