From Oregon Live:
It was close to midnight Sunday when Woodburn resident James Curths saw the 12-year-old boy running down the street toward him. Curths said the child, panting and out of breath, begged for help, telling him a man was chasing him.
Moments later, a man rounded the corner wearing only underwear. He stood a short distance away, trying to wave the boy over as Curths and his sister-in-law prepared to drive the boy to relatives.
“He was staring at us,” said Heather Rodriguez, 28, Curths’ sister-in-law, who was also outside. “Then he stood there with his hands on his hips like, ‘You’re really not going to give him to me?’”
Rodriguez and Curths, 35, told the man they were calling the police. Only then, they said, did the man jog away.
The man who chased after the boy that night, Woodburn police say, was the Rev. Angel Armando Perez, the parish priest at St. Luke Catholic Church in Woodburn. Early Monday, the boy gave police a detailed account of the alleged sex abuse he said occurred at Perez’s home, leading to Perez’s arrest later Monday.
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12 Comments so far. Leave a comment below.Clergy being more active in the community, you’re doing it wrong.
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Traditional christian “outreach”.
I am absolutely shocked that a secrect christian pedophile clubs/organizations produce pedophiles!
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Okay, someone has to make the “Touched by an Angel” joke…
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can anyone actually provide a compelling reason for why the catholic church shouldn’t be listed as a criminal organization due to their history of protecting criminals like this?
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Because you said “shouldn’t” rather than “isn’t”, I can give you no answer.
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Because raping children is A-okay, as long as you do it in the name of christ.
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I heard it said somewhere that if, say, Pizza Hut managers molested children with the frequency and gusto of priests, christians worldwide would protest Pizza Hut out of business. And yet, they keep going back to their churches. What gives?
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Destroying children is fine, as long as you have the pope’s say-so.
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I was telling a co-worker about this story and got a reaction I hadn’t at all expected. “Well if they let them get married maybe this wouldn’t happen!”
1. They’re child molestors, they didn’t catch this guy with a consenting adult woman, they caught him with a little boy. Had he been after a woman of consenting age he probably could’ve made that happen and then nobody would really care but you’d have a valid argument.
2. I refuse to believe that not being able to get married has any kind of direct correlation to fiddling kiddies.
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I think the point they were trying to make is that the whole celibacy thing means that only people with sexual … um … ‘issues’ are drawn to the priesthood. That maybe used to be true, but now that atheism is finally taking hold even in the USA, even allowing priests to marry means you’ll still only get those simpletons who fervently believe in Invisible Sky Grandpa.
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Article written by Maxine Bernstein. Why do those Jews have it in for those Catholics?
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Same reason the Crips don’t like the Bloods. It’s all about market-share (and molesting children, most faiths love molesting children.).
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