79 yr old Nun pleads no contest to sex abuse
Talk about bizarre . . . I thought this sort of stuff happened only in the fervent male imagination.
Apparently, life is stranger than fiction...
A 79-year-old Roman Catholic nun from Illinois pleaded no contest Monday to two counts of indecent behavior with a child for alleged sexual encounters with two male students at a church convent and school where she was principal during the 1960s.The nun, Norma Giannini, listed in online court records as living in Oak Lawn, Ill., and her attorney left the courthouse without comment after entering the pleas in Milwaukee County Circuit Court.
Giannini faces a maximum 10 years on each count when sentenced Feb. 1.
According to the criminal complaint, the two men told authorities they had dozens of sexual encounters with Giannini, including intercourse, while attending St. Patrick's School in Wisconsin.
One man said the nun told him in 1965, when he was 13, to open the buttons of her habit, but he was shaking so badly he could not do so. He said she then unbuttoned her clothing and had him touch her breasts, the complaint said.
The first incident was followed by 60 to 80 others, including two involving sexual intercourse, it said.
The other man said he had sexual contact with the nun more than 100 times, beginning when he was in seventh grade. At least one incident involved sexual intercourse, the complaint said.
Giannini went on to work in Illinois from 1970 to 1994.
Sister Betty Smith, regional president for the Sisters of Mercy in Chicago, has said the nun received extensive counseling at a St. Louis treatment facility after the order "learned of the situation" during the 1990s.
Giannini has been closely monitored and separated from minors since then, Smith said. The nun has been retired from active work for five years because of failing health, she said.
This seems a bit bizarre to me.
Assuming arguendo the unlikely scenario that while it was happening, these two young men kept their mouths shut about having sexual relations with a nun in her 30's (not the same thing as being molested by an old priest, btw), at some point in the '90's the church learned about "the situation" (when these two men were in their 40's), yet somehow she isn't prosecuted until 2007 when she's 79 years old and about to kick the bucket?
Something is very wrong with this picture.
The Catholic Church is an excellent CASH COW for those who don't fear God... and seek early retirement!
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To Jesus Through Mary
..in the congregation, pulpit or both?
..here's a tidbit:
Those who would say they are Jews/Christian/Muslim, and are NOT, but ARE the synagogue of satan.
..you see, what possible reasons could someone have for molesting children (etc), abusing the trust given to a clergy member.. it's like the sickness of the hockey coaches (etc).
..it doesn't matter if the statutory rape was comitted by a man or woman, but the devil's in the details.
The Devil is where ever we allow him to be. Happy Nazi hunting!
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To Jesus Through Mary
Young males bursting with hormones get a chance to score, and remain “traumatized” forty years later?
Eleven years ago, Sister Giannini confessed to her religious order (the Sisters of Mercy) and was removed from active service. Last year, two “men” filed a complaint against the church.
Had Giannini remained in Wisconsin, the statue of limitations would have expired years ago. However in the 1970s the Sisters of Mercy moved Giannini from St. Patrick's Church and School in Milwaukee to an all-girls school in Illinois, a state that has no limitations for such “crimes.”
Giannini has been living in a suburban Chicago retirement home. She wanted strike a plea deal, but her two “victims” insisted on a public trial.
"We're prepared to go to a jury trial if that's what it takes,” accuser Jim St. Patrick said. “I know it will be really, really rough for us, but we just want to get some finality to this after all these years."
Really, really rough? And these are men? No wonder the USA is getting stomped in Iraq.
I haven’t been able to find the name of the prosecutor.
Probably Jewish.
..as i said, the devil's in the details! i would not discount at all; the monetary or political motivations, even if the allegations are true, they're perhaps not so heinous in this case, just totally misguided, but t'is a very old story.. the missionary.
See the Hagee posting.
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