Child Sex Trafficking/Pizzagate/Pedogate/Organ-Harvesting

[Mystic Wanderer]

This is one of those things where you just want to go into a verbal rage, but unfortunately, this is the world we live in.
Is it because they are within the "church" that they are getting off the hook? 
If anything, this should increase their punishment, in my opinion.

France's most important church sex abuse trial to date is likely to end in acquittal for a cardinal and other senior Catholic officials accused of protecting a pedophile priest, despite years of efforts by his victims to seek justice.

The Rev. Bernard Preynat confessed to abusing Boy Scouts, and his victims say church hierarchy covered up for him for years, allowing him to work with children right up until his 2015 retirement.

But by the time the cover-up trial reached court in Lyon this week , the statute of limitations had expired on some charges. Even the prosecutor argued Wednesday against convicting Cardinal Philippe Barbarin and other church officials, saying there were no grounds to prove legal wrongdoing.

Victims' lawyers seemed to have little hope for a conviction, despite an emotional trial in which grown men recounted their childhood fear and shame after alleged abuse by a respected priest.

"That was no surprise," lawyer Yves Sauvayre said after the prosecutor's unusual request not to push for a conviction.
Still, victims are hoping the trial leads to a broader public reckoning with clergy sex abuse in France, which is predominantly Roman Catholic and divided over how to deal with the issue .

The trial ends Thursday, and then it's up to the judge to decide what to do when she delivers the verdict March 7.
The victims accused Barbarin, who became archbishop of Lyon in 2002, of having allowed Preynat to continue serving as a priest in contact with children, despite years of rumors about his actions.

Barbarin, 68, testified that he was unjustly accused, saying, "I don't see what I am guilty of."
If convicted, he faces up to three years in prison and 45,000 euros ($51,550) in fines if convicted.

Preynat himself is going on trial separately for sexual violence against multiple children. So far, 13 victims are involved in that case, but he is accused of having abused as many as 70 children. Preynat hasn't publicly spoken about the allegations against him, but he has written letters to some families confessing to abuse in the 1970s and 80s.

This week's trial in Lyon was more significant, however, because it involved some of France's most powerful Catholic leaders — and even reached the Vatican. The Vatican's top official for sex abuse cases, Cardinal Luis Ladaria, was among the accused, but avoided appearing in court because of diplomatic immunity.

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