Walter Mixa, German Bishop, Accused Of Brutally Beating Orphaned Girls

Times London:

One of the Pope's closest conservative allies in Germany, Bishop Walter Mixa, has been accused of brutally beating and flogging children in his care.

Read the whole story: Times London

Comments

[ThinkCreeps]

11:32 PM on 04/02/2010

To court and to prison.

Find his enablers and concealers and send them too.

[blwpyrtv]

11:17 PM on 04/01/2010

This story reminded me of another involving a priest:

Attorney says therapist violated client's privacy
By Kit Kelly, Sun Newspapers ,
April 11, 2002

For now, the Rev. Raymond Bartnikowski sits and waits, his future hanging in the balance.

"He is just devastated. He is taking this very hard. His whole life is being a priest," his lawyer James Hinton said.

Bartnikowski, the pastor at St. Victor's Roman Catholic Church in Richfield, was put on administrative leave Easter week because of an allegation he abused a girl in 1967.

Since then, two more women have come forward to say Bartnikowski spanked them as punishment during the '60s.

"During that time, spanking was not illegal and it was considered proper discipline," Hinton said.

And even though one of the woman said Bartnikowski pulled down her underpants during the spanking, that doesn't constitute sexual behavior, Hinton said.

"This is not a sexual issue," Hinton said. . .

[kareemachan]

11:22 AM on 04/01/2010

If you click on the link to the Times London, doesn't the photo of Mixa look a whole lot like Cheney? Wouldn't surprise me if they were separated at birth - they seem to have the same kind of personality....

[offred]

10:34 AM on 04/01/2010

I sense that Mixa got off on inflicting corporal punishment on defenseless young girls.

Some one needs to confiscate his computer and search it for child porn.

Or else search his residence for it.

[realitytrumpsbull]

04:14 AM on 04/01/2010

Well, with these guys, when they have their 'come to Jesus' meeting with the boss, it's a short trip, right?

[shthar]

01:17 AM on 04/01/2010

This is good news!

A NON-GAY sex scandal!

This is almost as positive as the republicans at a strip club!

[BlueZoo]

08:47 AM on 04/01/2010

There is an enormous difference between homosexuality and pedophilia! The Church's problems lie with pedophile priests. Homosexuals normally have no interest whatsoever in children!

[AnotherAndy]

11:28 PM on 04/02/2010

You're forgetting Tiger Woods, Sandra Bullock's hubby, Republican Senator what's his name who was doing his staffers wife. The Senators parents paid staffer hubby a bunch of money for her services. There's one blind Democrat Afro American Governor's sex scandal, the Republican Governor Mr-drop-everything-to-fly-to-South America-to-be-with-hot-model-mistress scandal. Last week we had a Republican Party State Chairman resign because of naked jacuzzi video with a 15 year old girl. Where have you been? Or do you have an agenda?

[LMPE]

11:23 PM on 03/31/2010

This is the 21st century, not the 14th. It's high time that the human race abandoned religion entirely.

[Javaline]

12:06 AM on 04/01/2010

I am so with you on that. If you look at history the most intense periods of progressive evolution occur when secular thinking reigned supreme. That really should tell people a lot about the usefulness of religion in every day life.

I realize many people use religion as an anchor, or a crutch, to get them through each day but for the most part religion requires acquiescing to an authoritarian power and the abandonment of individual free thought. Not what one would call enlightenment.

[DC]

07:00 PM on 03/31/2010

Considering the current media feeding frenzy l against the CC, it might be wise to at least make sure the accusations are real before the ranting.

Not defending an institution here, but instead point out the mob mentality.

It is a big institution with a lot of money and lots of adversaries, so it is a great an easy target. Especially considering its boneheaded handling of some priest, etc. that should never be priest and instead in jail.

The shakedown is now an easy industry.

[cavegal]

07:22 PM on 03/31/2010

In the case involving the 200 deaf children, even the priest involved admitted his guilt. The Church, instead of turning him over to his accusers for a trial by jury, chose to protect him and provide sanctuary. I do not think that it is a coincidence that so many instances of these crimes are making into the public eye around the world. In many of the cases, the documentation is more than evident that parishioners expressed their concern in the diocese and were doing their best to press charges. Compounding the crime is the bigger issue of covering it up and in doing so exposing other parishes to the same abuse. Playing shuffle the priest to cover up the crimes further exacerbated the problem.

[AnotherAndy]

10:08 PM on 03/31/2010

Well, I went to two Catholic grade schools, Saint Patrick School and Saint Paul's School, both in Philadelphia. In every grade in both schools, corporal punishment was an every day occurrence. Fifth grade was particularly bad. Our Nun died over Christmas break, and they brought a Nun out of retirement to fill out the year. This Nun, Sister Thomas Aquinas, had taught in high school before she retired, and she beat us like we were high school students. She punched us in the upper arm just like the Bishop for getting answers wrong! For recitations, she's line up the whole class against the side and back walls of he classroom, then go down the line with her questions. If you got the answer wrong, she'd punch you on the upper arm hard enough to throw you against the wall. For disciplinary problems like whispering to each other in class, she'd drag the victims up to the front of the class, usually by yanking on one of their ears, then beat them on the rear end with a wooden handled dust brush. I know because I saw it happen dozens of times, I was the victim a few times too.

Sister Thomas Aquinas was the worse, but I never had a Nun teacher who didn't hit us kids. The 8th grade Nun whacked our open palms with a 12 inch piece of industrial fan belt. That really hurts.

I have no doubt the orphans were beaten too.

[AnotherAndy]

10:58 PM on 03/31/2010

By the way, I was an Altar-boy too, until I got fired for missing a 6am Mass one freezing winter morning. While the Nuns beat us regularly, no priest ever payed a hand (or any other part of their anatomy ) on us.

[AnotherAndy]

11:01 PM on 03/31/2010

oops, that should read ...no priest ever laid a hand (or any other part of their anatomy) on us...

[duncansdad]

06:25 PM on 03/31/2010

They'll start blaming the gays in five, four, three, two...

[paliuli]

04:57 PM on 03/31/2010

Any adult who pulls a child's pants down and spanks their buttocks is a pervert.

It is bad enough to beat a little child, but to expose them like that in order to inflict even more pain and suffering....truly debased.

[msbeal]

04:06 PM on 03/31/2010

Last night I believe at some cellular level I decided to give up whatever shred of positive feelings left over from my childhood indoctrination regarding the Church.

It happened after watching the older movie, The Magdalene Sisters, the best picture winner of the Venice Film Festival. The story 'based on true events' is of a convent in Ireland for wayward girls.

I was appalled at the treatment of those innocent girls by the nuns, the priest and town folks. The psychological torture would rival any concentration camp.

And, today, I wake up to this story.

The world needs to get a restraining order against the Church to stay 500 feet away from any child.

[duncansdad]

06:24 PM on 03/31/2010

Before the movie was made Joni Mitchell wrote and sang about the horrors of the Magdalene Laundries.

[Aquilina]

12:28 AM on 04/01/2010

After the film won at the Venice Film Festival, the Vatican officially condemned it.

Btw, the last of the Magdalene asylums closed in 1996. I would not be surprised to hear that the abuses continued until then.

[Hysterian68]

03:30 PM on 03/31/2010

Why should we expect Germany to do much to intervene and prosecute the bishop of Augsburg, or Monsignor Ratzinger, or any other priest or bishop for that matter? This is a country with a recent history of sending millions to death camps, so why expect any punishment for beating and abusing a few hundred children?

Pope Benny and the cardinals defending him all need to step down. So that the decks can be cleared and the purification to start afresh. No sense in having a pope sprinkling holy water and exorcizing the Church of it's demons when the old boy appears to have a few demons of his own.

As for the Catholic League, it is a throwback to the primitive Irish-dominated immigrant US Catholic church of 50 and more years ago. It is as benighted and reactionary as the Church hierarchy it so ardently defends. The primitive American Church, dependent upon the corrupt old boy's network of bishops, is rapidly dying on the vine and a new more enlightened Church of the People is quickly taking it's place. The time for Reformation, Scene Two has arrived!!!

[Blackorpheus]

02:47 PM on 03/31/2010

Is there a single favorable point to make about the current papacy with its seemingly inordinate number of Germans in positions of power?

[MizLiz]

03:12 PM on 03/31/2010

Yes, exactly. And how many of them were members of Hitler Youth?

[msbeal]

03:49 PM on 03/31/2010

Wow, good one. It's not often you can ride two stereotypes on one nickle.

[Blackorpheus]

04:18 PM on 03/31/2010

Yeah. And what if a "stereotype" is true?

[SAGMUN]

02:39 PM on 03/31/2010

It doesn't matter what you call the crisis. The crisis lies not with the media nor victims, but the church that tacitly said come join us for your criminal deeds be kept secret. For the church is more important than the victims.

[From the Raft]

02:44 PM on 03/31/2010

Agree. Makes one wonder what non-sexual criminal secrets they harbor!

[msbeal]

04:39 PM on 03/31/2010

The Church is an old and decrepit organization that was simply incapable of handling in any modern way this kind of internal disgrace.

That said, I don't think we can make the leap to "[the Church] said come join us for your criminal deeds be kept secret."

Name me one social institution that hasn't been slammed to its knees with scandal these days. If the Church can make restitution, punish the guilty and come into the 21st century so be it. If not burn it down.

[ebanks84]

02:24 PM on 03/31/2010

Of course there will be no accusations of se.xual abuse with the girls. These priests are known to prefer boys instead. Even according to your book of lies (the bible), God put enmity (hate) between the serpent and the female. So it only comes to pass that the serpent priests hate women. Why not? It makes as much sense as reading that hate from the scriptures in the first place because The Creator DOES NOT hate and WOULD NOT cause hate between any of its creatures.

Hate was taught to the people through the book of lies just like every other human trait we have had to master in the name of religion.

[AnotherAndy]

11:16 PM on 03/31/2010

You're off the mark. I remember twenty-some years ago, reading about a woman, an orphaned child who was a ward of the church somehow, being shipped off to the Philippines after she'd been impregnated by her priest. I also remember that in the early 80's The Diocese of New York lost their pedophile insurance because the up until then secret payouts were becoming too expensive for their insurance company.

[ebanks84]

07:55 AM on 04/01/2010

Of course there are always different strokes for different folks. I was generalizing the majority. I know of a priest myself that impregnated a married woman and was the father of her children without her husband's knowledge. So there are stories on both sides, but the majority are with little boys.