Surely
a great deal of this misery and damage could have been avoided, by the
Roman Catholic Church acting more responsibly, by requiring all
claimants to alleged priest/church sexual abuse to be required to first
take a polygraph test? The thought of this procedure would put off so
many blatent liars from ever proceeding with their sick and dangerous
fantasies:-
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Accused Priests
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February 18, 2016 by The Beat Man
Rolling Stone’s Disgraced UVA Reporter Faces Scrutiny on Catholic Child
Rape Story
A
Philadelphia priest died in prison after being convicted of repeatedly raping a
10-year-old boy. A new report from
court-appointed psychiatrist concludes the accuser, now a young man with a $5
million settlement in his pocket, may be a pathological liar and his whole
testimony has been thrown into serious doubt.
Daniel
Gallagher made national news in 2011 when he charged two Catholic priests and
one teacher with serial rape when he was a fifth and sixth grader at St.
Jerome’s parish in Philadelphia. His testimony put four people in jail,
including two Catholic priests — Charles Engelhardt and Edward Avery — and one
Catholic school teacher, Bernard Shero.
His
testimony also led to the conviction of Monsignor William Lynn, then Secretary
for Clergy at the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, for endangering the welfare of a
child. Lynn became the first Catholic administrator jailed for failing to
protect a child.
Gallagher,
then identified as “Billy Doe” and described as “a sweet gentle kid with boyish
good looks,” charged that on January 30, 2009 a priest assaulted him after
Gallagher served as altar boy at a 6:15 a.m. Mass. He said the priest got him
drunk on sacramental wine and then anally raped him for five hours. After it
was over, Gallagher said the priest told him, “If you ever tell anyone, I will
kill you.”
In another
attack he charged that the priest “punched him in the back of the head, and he
fell down.” When he woke up “he as completely naked, and his hands were tied
with altar boy sashes.” The priest then anally raped him, and supposedly “made
him suck all the blood off of his penis.”
Other lurid
details followed.
Gallagher’s
brutal tales even caught the attention of now disgraced Rolling Stone reporter
Sabrina Rubin Erdely who included the “Billy Doe” story in a mammoth 2011 story
called “The Catholic Church’s Secret Sex-Crime
Files.” Erdely is the one who reported the story, now retracted and
under multiple law suits, about the gang rape hoax at a University of Virginia
fraternity house. Erdely reported that the boy was “passed around” from
priest to priest who “raped and sodomized the 10-year-old, sometimes making him
perform stripteases or getting him drunk on sacramental wine after Mass.”
It turns
out that all of Gallagher’s charges very well might be lies told by a
sociopath.
Besides the
multiple criminal convictions that led to the jailing of the priests, the
teacher and the administrator, Gallagher filed a civil suit against the
Archdiocese of Philadelphia and the individuals convicted of the alleged
crimes. Newsweek reports that the Archdiocese settled late last summer for $5
million.
The
individual civil suits were still in play, however, and the court ordered a
forensic psychiatric evaluation of Gallagher which was obtained by Newsweek
reporter Ralph Cipriano who concludes, “Judging from
[the report], Billy Doe has as much credibility as Jackie [the now disgraced
UVA accuser].”
Cipriano reports that Dr. Stephen
Mechanick gave Gallagher the “Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory test
known as the MMPI-2.” In his report about Gallagher, Mechanick writes,
The client
is apparently immature and self-indulgent, manipulating others to his own
ends…. He refuses to accept responsibility for his problems. He may have an
exaggerated or grandiose idea of his own capabilities and personal worth. He is
likely to be hedonistic and may overuse alcohol or drugs. He appears to be
quite impulsive, and he may act out against others without considering the
consequences…. Paranoid features and externalization of blame are likely to be
present…. His manipulative and self-serving behavior may cause great
difficulties for people close to him…. An individual with this profile is
usually viewed as having a Personality Disorder, probably a Paranoid or
Passive-Aggressive Personality. Symptoms of a delusional disorder are prominent
in his clinical pattern.
The
psychiatrist concludes Gallagher lied about a great deal including his drug
abuse, psychiatric history, and “his personal and medical background.” He lied
about being a paramedic and a professional surfer.
Even more
damning, the psychiatrist concluded Gallagher provided “conflicting and
unreliable information” on the sexual abuse that sent two priest to prison, one
to die there. “It is not possible to conclude to a reasonable degree of
psychiatric certainty that Mr. Gallagher was sexually abused as a child,” he
writes.
Newsweek reports that the
psychiatrist is not the only person who has questioned the veracity of
Gallagher. The lead detective at the time has “disturbing doubts” because
during the investigation Gallagher was nonresponsive, “claimed he was high on
drugs” or “told a different story.”
Gallagher’s
stories kept changing. Where he first reported the five-hour rape after the
morning Mass, he later testified “he and priest had engaged in mutual
masturbation and oral sex.”
What’s
more, it is now doubtful that Gallagher had ever served at the 6:15 a.m. Mass.
His mother kept meticulous notes about his schedule and that Mass never appears
in her notes. It is also doubtful his helicopter mother would have allowed her
small child to walk nearly a mile in the cold and dark to serve at Mass and
then afterward sit outside his school until it opened more than an hour later.
Where he
first said he had been punched in the head and woke up naked and tied with
sashes, in later testimony “he dropped the punch in the head, as well as the
claims about being tied up with altar sashes, smacked in the face and forced to
suck blood.”
Besides
being accused of being “an habitual liar,” Gallagher is a multiple drug abuser
who has been in and out of jail. He now lives in Florida with a new wife and a
$5 million bank account, thanks to the Catholics of Philadelphia.
Father
Engelhardt died in prison strapped to a gurney and not allowed medical
attention. Now-former priest Avery is still in prison, as is the teacher Shero.
Monsignor Lynn is still there, too, though judges and prosecutors have fought
for his release.
Once the
damning forensic psychiatric report on Gallagher was released and on the eve of
jury selection, Gallagher’s lawyers dropped the civil charges against the
surviving accused.
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