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May 21, 2011 – UK Daily Mail — Dutch Catholic Priest Pedophilia Endorsement Shocks Church. [Click “READ MORE”]
Dutch Catholic Church launches investigation after revelation priest, 73, worked for group that promotes paedophilia
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 4:38 PM on 21st May 2011
The Salesian order’s top official in the Netherlands, Delegate Herman Spronck, confirmed in a statement that the priest – identified as 73-year-old ‘Father Van B.’ – served on the board of a group that campaigns to end the Dutch ban on adult-child sex.
The Dutch Catholic Church and the Salesian order are investigating revelations that a Salesian priest served on the board of a group that promotes paedophilia with the full knowledge of his boss.
The order’s top official in the Netherlands, Delegate Herman Spronck, confirmed in a statement that the priest – identified by RTL Nieuws as 73-year-old ‘Father Van B.’ – served on the board of a group that campaigns to end the Dutch ban on adult-child sex.
The group is widely reviled but not outlawed.
‘Of course we reject this and distance ourselves from this personal initiative’ on the part of the priest, Spronck said in a statement.
‘Membership in such organizations does not fit with the ethos of the Salesian order.’
However, Spronck’s own superior in Belgium said he will investigate both Spronck and Van B., after both men were quoted by RTL Nieuws as saying such relationships aren’t always harmful.
Superior Jos Claes told Belgian television on Saturday he ‘couldn’t imagine’ that both men would not be disciplined, but said he must make sure of the facts first.
‘Society thinks these relationships are harmful. I disagree,’ RTL quoted Van B. as saying. He served on the organisation’s board from 2008 until 2010, when its founder was arrested for alleged possession of child pornography, a case that is ongoing.
Van B. told RTL he remains a member of the group and now lives in a retirement home in eastern Netherlands.
In a second interview, RTL quoted Spronck as saying he was aware of Van B.’s paedophilia and membership, and even of two instances where the priest had been fined by police for exposing himself in public. But he said he didn’t think that was sufficient reason to ban him from the order. . . Read the entire article at the Daily Mail.
