Bishop Robert Finn of the Diocese of Kansas City, who was found guilty of failing to report suspected sexual abuse of a child to authorities, is now refusing to resign, and the Roman Catholic Church is wholly supporting him in this refusal.
Unfortunately it seems that the Roman Catholic Church has absolutely no problem with these types of activities based on their reaction to this case, although to their credit they have removed some clergy in the past over sex abuse allegations. What might be even more troubling is that one such Catholic priest was later hired as a supervisor for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
That being said, they are about as far from blameless as they could get, since Pope Benedict XVI himself refused to remove a priest "who molested as many as 200 deaf boys, even though several American bishops repeatedly warned them that failure to act on the matter could embarrass the church, according to church files newly unearthed as part of a lawsuit," according to The New York Times.
The charges brought against Robert Finn were, in my opinion, far from adequate seeing as he was only charged with two crimes and only found guilty of a single misdemeanor charge.
He was found guilty for "failing to report a priest who had taken hundreds of pornographic pictures of young girls," according to The New York Times and each count carried a maximum penalty of up to one year in jail and a $1,000 fine.
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