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MineralMan

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3. Such callous disregard for the victim!

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Feb 27, 2019, 09:06 AM

Feb 2019

This is a big part of what is so wrong with priestly child sexual abuse. The perpetrators and their supporters couch their heinous acts in minimizing language.

The judge was absolutely correct in rejecting that minimization.

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George Pell's lawyer says child abuse was 'plain vanilla' sex as cardinal heads to jail [View all] Eugene Feb 2019 OP

Ewww LW1977 Feb 2019 #1

... Major Nikon Feb 2019 #2

Such callous disregard for the victim! MineralMan Feb 2019 #3

Robert Richter apologises for describing George Pell's abuse as 'vanilla sex' Eugene Feb 2019 #4

Wow, just wow! n/t trotsky Feb 2019 #5