Defrock and jail priests who abuse people
Re: “East Bay priest asked to leave school as police investigate sex-misconduct claims” (Eastbaytimes.com, Feb. 4):
Modern Catholics pride ourselves on our awareness of psychology and avoid victim-shaming at all costs.
No priest who attempts or succeeds in attacking another person sexually is a representative of God. In that moment, he is like a demon who will possess his victim for the rest of their life, through flashbacks.
An inappropriate act by a priest never recognized by, apologized for or reported to the law by anyone else in the church for the crime that it is can damage a person’s faith in God forever.
Healing for the victim in those circumstances is extremely difficult, impossible perhaps as the priest is sent on to another parish to continue his crimes without real consequence. Priests who abuse people should be defrocked and jailed.
Sandra Nepacena
Concord
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