Extraditions

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A priest and former Scottish Benedictine monk lost his fight against extradition from Australia to Scotland to face six men who allege he “engaged in acts of physical and sexual abuse” against them when they were between 11 and 15 years of age.  The allegations date to the early to mid 70s when Alexander was teaching at Fort Augustus Abbey School in Scotland.

According to media reports the priest has 28 days to appeal.   Will he appeal?   Does he have the monies to appeal?  I have no idea, however, for the sake of the complainants, I hope and pray he is right now regretting his decision to drag this on, packing his bags and preparing for the long flight to face his accusers.

07 November 2019:  “Monk accused of Scottish child abuse loses extradition appeal” & relates articles

Meanwhile here in Canada Father Robert Mackenzie,  one of Alexander’s former confreres,  is fighting his order of extradition.   MacKenzie, who is both a former student and teacher at Fort Augustus Abbey School, arrived in Regina Saskatchewan in 1988 and was incardinated into the Archdiocese of Regina in 1993.

Scottish authorities attained a surrender order from Canada’s Minister of Justice in March of this year.   MacKenzie appealed.  A  judicial review is scheduled for 04 December 2019

04 December 2019:  10 am, Appeal, Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan ( 2425 Victoria Avenue, Regina, Saskatchewan)

This will be open to the public.  I encourage those who can do so to attend to hear why Father MacKenzie believes he should not return to Scotland to face his accusers.

Please keep all those with allegations against these two former Benedictines in your prayers.

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I must say I commend Bishop Fabbro for attending:

07 November 2019:  “Bishop Fabbro attends opening of documentary Prey to support abuse survivors” & related articles

Good for you Patrick for asking the bishop to attend, and, truly, good for the bishop for attending.  Change has to start somewhere.

Enough for now,

Sylvia

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2 Responses to Extraditions

  1. Phil Johnson says:

    And just when I thought the church had turned a corner on altar boy abuse, this article demonstrates how boys are not safe…in the 90s…and in the vatican. Unbelievable and maddening!!

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/vatican-altar-boys-sex-abuse-1.5362240

  2. bc says:

    “I can’t remember…I’m not saying they’re lying, I’m saying they have misunderstood.”
    That’s is the response of one of the accused priests which will air tomorrow.
    see here:
    https://www.thedailybeast.com/three-more-altar-boys-say-they-were-abused-by-priests-inside-vatican-youth-seminary

    Thanks to the Holy See`s secret proceedings designed to cover-up Catholic criminality; they`ll be tokenly sentenced and urged to live in penitence and prayer in a lovely pastoral setting where their job will be to sort and archive the Church`s treasured child pornography collections for the Vatican Apostolic Archive.

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