While Father Davila’s actions with an adult parishioner five years ago occurred in the presence of others at his office in California, he understands that those actions were perceived as inappropriate. He accepted the consequences of his lapse in judgment.
Skeels told Commissioner Corinne Miesfeld that the defendant is accused of touching the victim in three areas against her will on Dec. 30. He touched her buttocks, put his finger in her vagina and touched her left breast, the prosecutor alleged.
Police said the alleged assault happened at Davila’s home in Southcrest while the two were alone. The defendant turned himself in two days later.
What exactly does it take to get a priest removed?
What does it take to get OKC Archbishop Paul Coakley to warn parishioners about a priest’s past?
What does it take to get a religious community to stop minimizing a guilty plea to a sex crime?
Fr. Jose Alexis Davila has now been exposed across San Diego and the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City as the man who plead guilty to unlawful sexual touching and battery in 2012. He sexually assaulted a woman in his home.
Last week, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee advanced a bill to reauthorize the Adam Walsh Act, a federal program enacted in 2006 that required states to classify sex offenders according to their crimes. The act also required states to implement a registration mechanism to monitor and control offenders’ whereabouts after (or in lieu of) jail time.
The provision would allow victims of these crimes to use the federal courts to sue their abusers until the victim is age 28. Right now victims only have until age 21.
It is unclear whether or not third party entities will be included in the bill.
or … The proof is in the paper, but only if you can find it.
And the monks at St. John’s want to make sure you never find it.
St. John’s: a predators’ paradise
Today, Minnesota Public Radio announced that St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville (MN) is releasing the secret sex abuse files of 18 predatory monks in a large document dump. The monks were forced to release the files to victims as a result of a 2015 lawsuit brought by a victim from the St. John’s Prep School. In theory, it was supposed to be up to the victim when the documents were made public.
Some of the 18 predators whose files are slated to be released live in the St. John’s Monastic Residence (location C above – right smack between the Prep School dorm and cafeteria, in case you were wondering if the offending monks had access to students on campus.). The prep school has students from the 6th to 12th grades. High schoolers can live on campus.
The victim and his attorneys in this case have been releasing the files one or two at a time. The right way …
They carefully examined the files, first making sure that victims and witnesses’ names were redacted.
The slow release also ensures that documents receive the attention they deserve (as in my own case.)
Anyone familiar with politics knows that this kind of careful, thoughtful, and victim-centered document release is a disaster for organizations like St. John’s, who has a decades-long history of covering up abuse. It’s called the “drip, drip, drip …” and can be devastating to politicians and political causes, as well as organizations that enable and abet child sex abuse.
Hence today’s announcement of the document dump. It works in politics, so it’s no surprise that the monks are giving it a shot.
There is nothing “transparent” or victim-friendly about the large-scale dumping of these kinds of documents. The monks want everyone in a panic—victims, advocates, journalists—so that information is missed, cover-up remains undetected, and wrongdoers are “forgotten” so that they can continue to live happily on the St. John’s campus.
Which only makes one wonder: what else do the monks have to hide?
