A priest and a bishop will stand trial at the Orléans Court this afternoon: Father Pierre de Castelet, 69, former vicar general of the Diocese of Orléans, on child abuse charges; and Archbishop André Fort, 83, former bishop of the same Diocese from 2002 to 2010, for not reporting the facts. The accusations against Father de Castelet date from 1993 and the facts allegedly took place at a summer camp of the Eucharistic Youth Movement (EYM) in Arthez-d’Asson (Pyrénées-Atlantiques). The priest, who was the director and the chaplain of the camp, pretended to be a doctor in order to touch children on the pretext they had to undergo medical checks. Caught in the act, the priest was quickly kicked out of the summer camp. The case, however, resurfaced in 2010, when one of the victims realized that the priest was still serving the Diocese of Orléans as a chaplain for the European Scouts movement and was therefore in contact with young people. The victim raised the alarm in a letter to the bishop, Mgr. Fort. But the bishop did nothing upon receiving the letter. It was only in December 2011 that the case was reported to the prosecutor, when the current Bishop of Orléans, Mgr. Jacques Blaquart, was assigned to the Diocese.
This reminds me of a case from the 70s of which I was caught in the middle. A religious brother was brought into the high school in which I taught in the Midwest. He was sent in by the Archdiocese to reform the school.---He began to counsel the boys at the all boys school. He would go one on one in counseling sessions. It came out later that he would hypnotize the counselees and molest them while they were under. He may even have drugged them. A subsequent investigation had him charged with 40 counts of sodomy in three different states (Missouri, Colorado, Texas).---He never went to trial and he was allowed to quietly disappear in his home state of Texas.
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