Slog - Comments on Seattle Times Sins of Omission http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/seattle_times_sins_of_omission Yesterday's Seattle Times picked up my story from a couple of weeks ago about interim KC Prosecutor Dan Satterberg's failure to subpoena personnel files from the Seattle Archdiocese. A local attorney who had seen the files—and was winning settlements from the Church in child sex abuse cases—wrote a letter to the KC prosecutor's office telling them they should see the files and file criminal charges. Part of my story focused on the notion that Satterberg's position on a special Archdiocese panel to help the Church deal with sex abuse cases was a conflict of interest. After all, the attorney asked,... Copyright 2008 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:06:38 -0800 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:04:10 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Will in Seattle Not a conflict of interest?

Um, what color is the sky in their world?

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/seattle_times_sins_of_omission#c825544 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/seattle_times_sins_of_omission#c825544 News Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:40:53 -0800 Comment by lawrence During the 1980's and 1990's a pattern emerged of confusing, misleading and intimidating clergy abuse victims who contacted the Seattle AD for emotional and spiritual help in dealing with their sexual assault. These victim disempowerment tactics were all done under the guise of pastoral response to what the church then knew was in many times criminal behavior on the part of its clergy. The church withheld and misrepresented information to various types of secular evaluators over the years. There are victim and accountability groups who gather the data, testimony and information which supports claims such as this one. (SNAP and bishopaccountability.org to name only two)I encourage people to check out what the victims have to say about their experience with the Seattle AD before coming to any conclusions.

]]> lawrence http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/seattle_times_sins_of_omission#c825728 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/seattle_times_sins_of_omission#c825728 News Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:57:37 -0800 Comment by Issur As a Jew you are the right reporter for this story Josh. I'm glad you are going after these Christian child molestors. Christianity is a religion of perverts.

Josh I loved your story last year demanding a menorah in the Seattle Airport. How is that going? As Jews we must force racist Seattle to place symbols of our belief in all public spaces that Christian symbols appear.

]]> Issur http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/seattle_times_sins_of_omission#c826757 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/seattle_times_sins_of_omission#c826757 News Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:04:10 -0800