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"The Salesians fight every victim tooth and nail, an utter disgrace to all Catholics."
(Editor's Note: Civil cases involving the Salesians Religious Order were not part of the $660 million settlement in LA last July. Jury trials on calendar so far regarding Salesians: Nov. 5 cases involving Father Titian Miani; January 28th cases involving former priest, Jesus Dominguez. Attorneys meet this morning for a status conference on cases involving Brother Ernie Martinez.)
By Joey Piscitelli
There is no Catholic Order’s abuse record that I know of that comes close to the Salesians of California. The record number of accused and convicted sex abusers from Salesians of California is by far the largest, and the longest list in the state. In addition, there is no Catholic Order that I know of that fights victims so vehemently and apparently as hatefully as the Salesians based in California.
I attended Salesians School in Richmond California and was molested by the Vice Principal of the school, Fr. Steve Whelan. About the same time period, Fr. Bernard Dabbenne was made principal of the school, even after a complaint was made that Dabbenne was an abuser. Dabbenne was later convicted of child molestation in San Francisco. An administrator of the same school, Fr. Richard Presenti, an accused serial molester, and an admitted molester, was later made principal of a Salesian School, even after the Salesians knew Presenti was a molester. Bro. Sal Billante, head of the Boys club at the school, was also a serial molester, and was later convicted, and was later to spend several years in San Quentin.
Accused multiple serial molester, Fr. Jim Miani, also present at the same Salesian school, has an ongoing lawsuit in Los Angeles. Fr. Larry Lorenzoni, yet another accused Salesian serial molester, was accused by a student of the school as far back as the early 1960s. Lorenzoni has several accusers dating back decades. Bro. Ernie Martinez, another administrator of the school, was also accused and named in a suit. Another local Salesian, Fr. Harold Danielson, was additionally named in a lawsuit as an abuser. Sam Vitone, a history teacher at the school, was also accused of molestation, and named in a civil lawsuit, that went to court last year. Fr. Al Mengon, of the same school, was named as a sex abuser in 2 depositions filed last year.
As remarkable as this seems, many of these accused and convicted Salesian priests roomed with each other at the Salesian residence at the school grounds, and none of them admit to knowing anything about each others’ molestation histories. Of course, this is no surprise.
A NEST OF PEDOPHILES
Many victims and lawyers refer to the Salesians of this group as a "nest of pedophiles" and understandably so. The "ring leader" of most of this "nest" or group, Fr. David Purdy, was accused in court papers last year of trying to talk me into suicide when I was a minor at the school. Imagine the horror of being molested at Salesians as a child, and having to face Fr. Purdy!
Fr. Purdy is currently the Salesian "Provincial", (ringleader), and had the audacity to list not too long ago, on the Salesian Provincial website, several accused Predators from the "nest," including admitted and convicted molesters!
Fr. Purdy also stated in a press conference that the Salesians do all they can to help and provide for victims of Salesian priests. I know of no victims of Salesian priests that Fr,. Purdy is helping, or providing for, and letters to Purdy to address this issue have never been answered.
The Salesians fight every victim that I know of tooth and nail, and show no reservation about how much money they will spend. I believe their strategy is to show all victims and their lawyers that they cannot be beaten, irrespective of whether or not they have so many known serial pedophiles on their rosters.
This tactic is most probably meant to keep all victims silent, and shows no remorse, or care for the uncounted children whom the Salesians have violated.
It is inconceivable that "God" would approve of the Salesians despicable molestation record, and the horrible way they continue to abuse their victims in the legal arena, but I seriously doubt the Salesians have given any consideration to this reasoning, and their actions in court prove this point.
This is very evident at present in the ongoing Salesian battles with their victims in Southern California. This shameful, and hateful fight that the Salesians continue to spew at their victims is an utter disgrace to all Catholics, and especially to the victims of their predators. I have met many Salesian victims whose lives have been destroyed, and the Salesians have shown them no remorse whatsoever. On the contrary, they have repeatedly thrashed the victims of their abuse, and the victims’ families, knowing full well the vulgar records of their nest of pedophiles.
No other Catholic Order I have known is as relentless and unremorseful, with such callous disregard for the damage they have caused.
One would imagine that God himself would intervene, but perhaps the Salesians have been successful in keeping him quiet too.
(Joey Piscitelli, veteran advocate for priest sex crime victims, won his civil case against the Salesians in 2006, in San Francisco. The Salesians appealed and then got an extension on the appeal. Piscitelli’s case is still not resolved.)
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According to some every member of the Catholic Clergy is a sex abuser. that is not true. i pray that those people will change their approach and recognize the truth.
No, that is not at all what we are saying. But anyone who stays in the church with their eyes closed is a major part of the problem.
The Salesians of Don Bosco on the East Coast have the same track record and reputation of Salesians on the West Coast.
These guys don't join the order and become pedophiles; they are pedophiles who join the order. Where do these people "network"? NAMBLA classifieds?
I'm John, and I went to the same Salesian High School in Richmond, Ca. I was a few years behind Joey Piscitelli and I was in the first trial to go against the despicable Salesian order last year in May-June 2006. I can say that in my experience everything that Joey says is absolutely true. These people are beyond salvation and are only interested in protecting themselves. The Salesians have done absolutely nothing except to pay lip service to “do all they can to help and provide for victims of Salesian priests.” In fact they have done the contrary: These people have destroyed my life, harassed my family and they don’t care. In fact they revel in it!
All I can say is all you poor Salesian victims waiting to go to trial is to brace yourselves, but you probably already know due to the horrible, debasing, inhuman and reprehensible pretrial process consisting of numerous depositions at the hands of reptilian Salesian lawyers. They will accuse your mothers your sisters your brothers and all of your family; they will hound you to the ends of the earth; they will perjure themselves; they will try to make you feel responsible for what happened to you as a minor; you will watch your mother cry on the stand and god help you (if there is a god) if you get a judge that has been seduced by the dark side….
This is just about the first time that I have spoken out on this subject. It is extremely difficult for me. It is now about 16 months since my trial and even now I am not over it, and, in fact, I may never be. The whole experience for me was the worst in my life and had I known what it was going to be like, I never, ever, ever would have come forward.
I had hoped that my trial and that of Joey’s would have helped all of you in Los Angeles, that the Salesians would realize they can never win in court. I assumed—naively, obviously—that all of the pending Salesian case had been included in the Los Angeles settlement and that the Salesians would actually do something to help the victims of their rotten order recover and go forward with their lives….but no. I am so very, very sorry. I imagined that all of my pain and suffering, and that of my family would have counted for something….
My message to all Salesian victims: You will prevail, but it will be at a tremendous cost to you and yours…you will win, but the vindictive Salesians will torture your psyche within an inch of its life first. That is the way it is, and that is the way they are.
If there is a hell, the Salesian perpetrators and enablers will occupy a special corner of it.
John
Reptilian is a good word to describe Salesian lawyers I've seen so far. Thank you John and please keep writing.
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