PERVERT PRIESTS: NOT JUST A CATHOLIC THING; ...

... it seems clerical perverts crop up everywhere one looks today.

Free Republic is reporting on a NY Daily News item entitled "Hope they nab my perv dad (former Episcopal Priest), son says"

Manhattan prep school officials and parents aren't the only ones who hope the NYPD tracks down and arrests a defrocked priest accused of molesting a student. His son wants him behind bars, too.

"I'd love to see him get caught," Aaron Jacques, 25, the youngest child of school fund-raiser Bruce Jacques, told the Daily News yesterday. "If he really did what they say he did, that would make my day."

Bruce Jacques, 57, is on the run after a male student at the Robert Louis Stevenson School on W. 74th St. claimed the ex-priest sexually assaulted by him in Central Park on Oct. 20.

As is often the case the school failed to adequately check Jacques' past; or, as is also frequently the case, they ignored the evidence in front of them. To the harm of their wards.

After the allegation was lodged, school officials discovered Jacques had a sordid past: the Episcopal Church had booted him from the priesthood for allegedly propositioning a 13-year-old boy in 1995.

At the time, Jacques was rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in New Milford, Conn., a married father of two boys.

What frosts me are comments such as this from an official who should have informed the school of her knowledge for the sake of the kids ...

Gail Kenney-Mulligan, the current rector, wasn't surprised.

"I saw that coming because there had been accusations even before he was here - and you don't get cured of that," she said.

The Bible warns us all, "for the man who knows the right thing to do and does it not, it is sin." [James 4:17] Apparently some in this Episcopal parish don't know the right thing to do.

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