Arizona Catholic Priest Sexual Abuse Covered Up by Pope Benedict - Our Mother of Sorrows, Tucson

Al Jazeera, April 2010. In recent months a number of abuse claims have emerged in the US leading to increased pressure on Pope Benedict XVI to issue a public apology to the victims. In Arizona, Benedict - then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger - is accused of siding with priests rather than those they are accused of abusing. Al Jazeera's John Terrett reports from the US state on a scandal that has gripped North America. It matters little to Daniel Montgomery whether Pope Benedict slowed the defrocking of a Tucson priest who he says sexually abused him when he was seven - all he knows is that he can't forget it. There's not a day that goes by I don't think about what happened to me ... everyday". Daniel received a substantial sum of money from the Diocese of Tucson after suing over sexual abuse he says took place in the confessional at Our Mother of Sorrows church by Father Michael Teta - a priest his family regarded as a friend. "I can smell his breath right now and remember what it ... him breathing on me" Arizona is not the only place where Benedict is accused of siding with priests rather than those theyre accused of abusing. As Archbishop of Munich in the eighties he's said to have approved housing for a priest accused of child abuse. In the nineties hes accused of failing to act quickly enough to stop abusing some 200 boys at a school for the deaf in Wisconsin and hes also said to have resisted defrocking California priest Stephen Kiesle a convicted offender saying, "the ...



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Disabled Mother Deprived of Her Children in US, Terri Schiavo II, Discriminatory Hate Crime

Fighting for a Disabled Mother's Right to See Her Children; After a Mother's Brain Injury Following Childbirth, Her Family Fights for Her to See Her Triplets. April 14, 2010, ABC news. Growing up, Abbie Dorn always dreamed of becoming a mother. Now, at age 34, she is the mother of three healthy toddlers. Her home is filled with pictures of the children, triplets named Esti, Reuvi and Yossi. But in the 4 years since her children were born, Dorn has not been able to talk to them. She can't hold them or watch them play. That's because Dorn endured severe brain damage following their birth. Now, while her children run and play in their Los Angeles home, Dorn's family, more than 2500 miles away in Myrtle Beach, SC, is locked in a legal battle with the children's father to grant Dorn the right to see her children. The family's lawsuit, which could make its way to a courtroom by May, could become a landmark in defining what it means to be a parent, especially when that parent is disabled. After graduating from college in Ohio and becoming a chiropractor in Atlanta, she married Dan Dorn, a devoutly religious man who shared her beliefs in Orthodox Judaism. They settled in Los Angeles near his family, and began to plan a family of their own. But Dorn struggled to conceive. After turning to fertility treatments, she finally received word in the fall of 2005 that she was expecting triplets. "She was so excited to be pregnant, she was beginning to say, 'I don't know if I'll ever get ...



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