MY RESPONSE

PDN: SNAP: Clergy abuse cases could hit 1,000
http://www.guampdn.com/story/news/2017/09/09/initial-estimate-clergy-sex-abuse-cases-conservative-says-survivor-group/645035001/

MY RESPONSE:

LINK to Casteix testimony on Bill 334-30. By the way, Casteix gets all her Guam intel from the fugitive "priest," Blockley, who continues to hide in Manila. And it's time Cardinal Tagle get rid of him. 

SMH!

Posted by Tim

Back on September 6, the local media was licking up SNAP's slobber over a supposed United Nations story about the Vatican failing to submit a report about it's progress in addressing clerical sex abuse:

“And children remain at risk while Vatican officials engage in power struggles, finger pointing and deflection,” stated SNAP managing Director Barbara Dorris. (PNC)

As much as I understand the pathetic state of the Filoni-controlled Vatican, I've warned the local media wannabe journalists NOT to bend over every time some SNAP thug spits on the ground. 

The UN's chastising of the Vatican is an annual charade, and I laughed at the pathetic swarming of our childish local media swarming to the story like flies on &%$t. And here's why:

UN mission in Congo forces reckoning over sex abuse scandal

https://www.apnews.com/abbc13a929264889a110d2bb2cccf01f/UN-mission-in-Congo-forces-reckoning-over-sex-abuse-scandal

UN peacekeepers accused of thousands of cases of abuse, AP finds

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/un-peacekeepers-accused-thousands-cases-abuse-ap-finds/

AP Exclusive: UN child sex ring left victims but no arrests

https://www.apnews.com/e6ebc331460345c5abd4f57d77f535c1/AP-Exclusive:-UN-child-sex-ring-left-victims-but-no-arrests

More than 100 UN peacekeepers ran a child sex ring in Haiti. None were ever jailed

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/04/12/un-peacekeepers-child-sex-ring-left-victims-but-no-arrests.html

Just google "United Nations sex abuse" for more. 

Note to media: Time to grow a brain and maybe at least try to find "the rest of the story." SMH!

WHAT'S YOUR ADDRESS, SUCKER?

Posted by Tim

LOL. As we used to say in East LA: "Pobrecito!" Poor thing!

Some news for you: I'm not blaming Casteix for anything other than her trying to destroy everything we have worked for: 1) the removal of Apuron, 2) compensating and truly helping ALL victims. And I've already explained how Casteix and SNAP are undermining that effort, and in such a persistent way we have to believe that Casteix and SNAP  are actually in cahoots with Apuron. 

Because if Casteix and SNAP get their way Apuron will remain Archbishop of Agana and hundreds of sex abuse victims will die in their silence.

So we're supposed to care that because she had alcoholic parents that that somehow gives her the right to meddle in our affairs?!

That reminds me of the story Earl Nightingale often told: Two brothers. Twins in fact. An abusive, alcoholic father. One became an abusive alcoholic just like his father. The other never touched the stuff. Interviewed in adulthood as to why they ended up like they did, both had the same answer: "What would you expect with a father like mine?"

Think about it, turkey. 

CHILDISH PARROTING

Posted by Tim

In the wake of SNAP's going into convulsions after a little criticism of their motives, I was reminded of something I had written in May of 2010 after Joelle Casteix' first intrusion into Guam. It is amazingly relevant 7 years later. I'll copy it here:

Joelle Casteix (SNAP) and I have a few things in common. 1. We're both from Southern California. 2. We both attended Catholic schools. 3. The high school we attended were in the same athletic league (I attended Bishop Amat in La Puente, and she attended Mater Dei in Santa Ana). 3. Both of us experienced "abuse" in a Catholic setting in our teens. 4. Both of us developed a passion to do something about what we believed to be wrongs in the Church.

SNAP JOINS APURON

Following is a letter to the editor from another SNAP turd. My comments in RED. 

SNAP: Our goal is to expose the abuses in Guam

https://www.postguam.com/forum/letter_to_the_editor/snap-our-goal-is-to-expose-the-abuses-in-guam/article_73c53f30-7bfc-11e7-a300-d32c96164933.html

Dear editor,

After months of unfounded and defamatory rants against our organization – and especially our volunteer leader Joelle Casteix – we felt it was time to respond to Mr. Tim Rohr's latest attack: his Aug. 7 letter to the editor published in The Guam Daily Post. [If the SNAP turd took the time, she would see that I had nothing to say about Casteix until she and her little friend from Anderson and Associates began attacking everything I spent four years working for. I'll explain at the end.]

In the ugly personal attacks that Mr. Rohr has decided to pursue, the public may not see something very important: Joelle Casteix is first and foremost a survivor of child sexual abuse. She is a wife and mother. She is a volunteer who reaches out to help Guam's victims for no financial gain. She does the work that she does because she wants to make sure that what happened to her doesn't happen to anyone else. [LOL. I have only attacked what Casteix is doing. I don't know anything about her personal life and I DON'T CARE. The SNAP turd doesn't know what I am a survivor of because I didn't make it a career like Casteix. Such fools.]

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Casteix, SNAP bad for Guam

Joelle Casteix and SNAP (a support group for victims of sexual abuse in institutional settings) are bad for Guam. After doing absolutely nothing to either help expose clergy sex abuse on Guam or to help a single survivor, Casteix and SNAP suddenly want to dictate the terms of our local fight as if we need them. We don’t!

From the outset of the announcement of Apuron’s canonical trial, Casteix has been going nuts trying to discredit everything about it. That’s dangerous. That’s bad for Guam. And here’s why. CONTINUED

JOELLE CASTEIX - THE NEW DIANA

Posted by Tim

Joelle Casteix and SNAP are the new child molesters. 

In Casteix' press release received by local media today, Casteix tries to discredit Fr. Justin Wachs, the notary for Apuron's canonical trial. Casteix bases her attack on Wachs on a 2014 anonymous allegation of sexual harassment against Wachs when he was a pastor in South Dakota. 

JOELLE CASTEIX ABUSE NO. 1.  Simply on the face of it, the mere equating of the alleged sexual harassment of an adult (even if it is true) with what we are uncovering here in Guam - the sexual abuse, molestation, and raping of children, is sickening, pathetic, and an ABUSE of the already abused children, who now as adults, have painfully come forward. Sexual harassment (a la allegations against Clarence Thomas) could be the leaving a pubic hair on a coke can. Yet, Casteix implies that this is as serious as the raping of helpless children. 

JOELLE CASTEIX ABUSE NO. 2. Everyone in our situation has had to put a face and name to their allegations, and at great cost. The first person to put a name and face to an allegation was John Toves. Apuron threatened to use all the resources of the church to sue him into silence. Next, he threatened to sue me. Then it was Roy Quintanilla and Doris Concepcion. Apuron was removed before Walter Denton and Roland Sondia came forward, but all four came forward under great duress and an awareness of the danger they were subjecting themselves and their families to.

These four, and others who have come forward since, have been publicly mocked, spit on, impugned, called liars, ignored, and threatened. There was a price to pay for standing up to power and they have been willing to pay it. Not so, Casteix' "victim," who, like The Diana, hides behind the cloak of anonymity. Shame on Casteix - the New Diana. 

JOELLE CASTEIX ABUSE NO. 3. The alleged victim in the Wachs situation is not only an adult, but at the time of the incident was not barred by the expiration of the statute of limitations to report the incident to the civil authorities - as were the clergy sex abuse victims in our situation. This is a grown adult, an employee of the diocese where Wachs worked. Apparently the incident wasn't serious enough to report to civil authorities because there does not appear to be any civil action taken against Wachs or any news about it, only the anonymous charge made to the bishop of the diocese. 

******

ONE STUPID PERSON!

http://www.kuam.com/story/35830710/group-wants-church-leadership-not-laity-to-make-amends

REMEMBERING THAT DEAD FISH SMELL AND WHY WE CAN'T TRUST THE "JUSTICE" SYSTEM EITHER

Posted by Tim

SNAP, Joelle Casteix, and her little friend, Patrick Wall, have persistently bashed our attempts to solve our own problems out of court. 

Their only aim is "the courts, the courts, the courts." And for obvious reasons. Not that there is justice there, but because there is money there. So much money that they are blinded to any understanding of the reality of our situation. So they should shut up about it. 

The prospect of justice for clergy abuse victims in this diocese through the "justice" system is already a mess. 

SNAP CONTINUES TO MAKE AN ASS OUT OF ITSELF

Posted by Tim

SNAP continues to make an ass out of itself in trying to pretend that they matter. In the release today by SNAP Regional Leader, Joelle Casteix - an apparent knee jerk to Archbishop Byrnes' call for a Year of Reparation, Casteix says: 

The only way that the Archdiocese can now make amends is to stop fighting victims in the civil courts, cooperating completely with civil authorities, and turning over and making public all evidence of child sex abuse and cover-up in their secret personnel files. 

As usual, she doesn't know what the hell she's talking about. 

SNAP - PERSECUTING VICTIMS OF CLERGY SEX ABUSE...AGAIN

Poor Joelle Casteix of SNAP. She has nothing better to do than brood over the fact that normal people like us in the pews were actually able to stand up to evil all by ourselves and not depend on the professionals like her and her lawyer friends who have made a nice career out being the "professionals." 

It is critical for SNAP and the law firms it sleeps with to destroy any alternative to themselves, lest they cease to matter, and more importantly, line their own pockets. This is why Casteix is obsessed with destroying Attorney Michael Caspino to the point of laughable lies.

Casteix writes: 

In April, a mainlander church lawyer came to Archbishop Michael Byrnes and told him he had a plan. A plan get the sex abuse cases out of the courts. They’d disguise it as “Hope and Healing.” They’d focus messaging on rebuilding spiritual bonds with the church, prayer … things like that. And no one would ever learn the truth.

It is hard not to use profanity in responding to such a small brain pretending to be a big one. Casteix either doesn't know crap or she's a pathetic liar. After all we have been through to expose Apuron and his evils do you really think we would support an organization that was here to hide what we have worked four years to expose? 

Hell no!

LOL! WHO THE HELL CARES!

PACIFIC DAILY NEWS:
SNAP: Not optimistic about Apuron canonical trial
http://www.guampdn.com/story/news/2017/05/14/snap-not-optimistic-about-apuron-vatican-trial/321511001/

SNAP's narrative is that you people on Guam are too stupid to do this yourself so you need us. And beyond that, SNAP and the attorneys they feed NEED us to fail. Because should we succeed, should we actually get Apuron thrown out of town, should we actually restore our church all on our own, should we actually get justice for the victims of child sex abuse, we will have shown the rest of the world that they can do it too and they don't need groups like SNAP and their "superlawyer" friends. 

WE are going to clean up our church and we don't need SNAP's slimy hands on it:

SNAP EXPOSED: Unmasking the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests”

SNAP UNRAVELS. Clohessy Deposition

Ex-Employee's Lawsuit Puts SNAP in the Spotlight

Louisiana state medical board documents shed light on Covington psychiatrist's guilty plea in child porn case ("He also collaborated with the Louisiana chapter of the Survivors Network for those Abused by Priests, or SNAP. His wife, Lyn Taylor, is the group's founder.")

SNAP Shocker: SNAP Trumpeted Shrink as a ‘Leader’ Even After His Child Porn Arrest

SNAP IS NO FIT ADVOCATE FOR SEXUAL ABUSE VICTIMS

PDN: SNAP SAYS NO TRANSPARENCY NO JUSTICE

Survivors network not confident Vatican probe will lead to justice

The world’s largest network of clergy sex abuse survivors said the Vatican’s ongoing investigation into sexual abuse allegations against Archbishop Anthony S. Apuron will not lead to justice for former altar boys, citing a lack of transparency in the canonical trial process and the absence of punishment for church officials who helped cover up the abuses. CONTINUED

SNAP SAYS VICTIMS SEEK TRUTH, HEALING

PDN: Church apologizes to new Apuron, Brouillard accusers

The Catholic Church apologized and offers prayers to all victims of priest sex abuse after another batch of lawsuits, filed Thursday, by two former altar boys and the estate of a deceased former altar boy against Archbishop Anthony S. Apuron and former Guam priest Louis Brouillard. CONTINUED

THE COMPASSIONATE RESPONSE

Rather than wait around for Church leaders to do the right thing there is nothing that is keeping each one of us from doing the right thing. Joelle Casteix, a regional director for Survivors Network for those Abused by Priests (SNAP), after being horrified by Walter's account of what Apuron did to him, is offering her book THE COMPASSIONATE RESPONSE at no charge. Let us educate ourselves. Stop waiting for the Church. We keep saying "We are the Church." Okay. NOW would be a good time to act like it. 

Download PDF copy here

Additionally, here are some resources Joelle shared with us:

http://theconversation.com/why-does-it-take-victims-of-child-sex-abuse-so-long-to-speak-up-46412

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/matter-personality/201210/why-dont-child-sex-abuse-victims-tell

https://victimsofcrime.org/media/reporting-on-child-sexual-abuse

Joelle's website is 

http://www.casteix.com/

GET YOUR FREE EBOOK FROM JOELLE CASTEIX

Joelle Casteix of SNAP is offering a free ebook. While I initially opposed her work when she was on Guam in 2010 in an attempt to uncover some of Apuron's secrets, what I later learned has made me a supporter. As the events unfold in the Archdiocese of Agana, Joelle and SNAP will play an increasingly important role. I urge you to get her book today - especially since it's free, and check out her other books. 

THE WORTHY ADVERSARY: IT'S TIME FOR THE BISHOP QUIZ

Of course this is exactly what Apuron did...or should we say, his handlers (blackmailers) had him do. Just insert RMS for "parishes."

6) Have you transferred land to parishes? Why? Do you still exercise all oversight on those properties—choose pastors, approve spending, take a percentage of collections, pay the salaries of priests? Can you cite the exact canon law where it says that parishes should own their own land? Why does your lawyer contradict you—saying that transferring the land “reduces your legal exposure” in sex abuse cases? - See more at: http://theworthyadversary.com/3775-its-time-to-take-the-bishop-quiz#sthash.8x4xdIIS.dpuf

ANYONE KNOW IF APURON WILL BE THERE?

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/09/23/442798997/pope-francis-heads-to-white-house-for-meeting-with-obama

Retired Cardinal Roger Mahony will be attending papal events just like other cardinals and bishops, says Adrian Marquez, a spokeswoman for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Marquez says Mahony will not be traveling with Pope Francis, but that because he is retired, they don't have the exact details of his schedule. 

Earlier today, the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests sent a press release saying that Mahony's attendance was a "callous move" because he has a "dishonorable reputation" of "covering up abuse." 

"His attendance at White House and Congress is a slap in the face to the more than 500 L.A. victims who sought justice for crimes committed against them," Joelle Casteix, a member of the group said in a statement. "It's a slap in the face to L.A. Catholics who are rightfully disgusted at Mahony's enabling of abuse." 

In 2013, Mahony was publicly censured. Los Angeles Archbishop José Gómez relieved Mahony of his public duties over his mishandling of clergy sex abuse of children.

Anyone know if Apuron will be there?

SNAP DOES NATIONAL RELEASE. JUNGLEWATCH NAMED.

SNAP has released the following. A few clarifications are needed. I highlighted the parts that need clarification. The clarifications are supplied after SNAP's email.

WHY ARE WE DOING THIS? WHAT DO WE HAVE TO HIDE?

Dear Diana,

I understand that you are saying that SNAP "investigated" Archbishop Apuron and he was found to be "okay."

A few facts, Diana: