Silver Spring, Maryland is the home of the St. Luke Institute.
Below are some news articles mentioning the programs run at the St. Luke Institute in Silver Spring, Maryland.
...Soon after he was sent to Maryland in the United States for counselling at the St Luke Institute for paedophile Catholic clergy...
...But much of the damage that Pennsylvania's abusive priests inflicted didn't leave bruises. And when those priests were discovered, bishops and other priests who were called on to investigate the allegations didn't treat them as crimes and rarely told law enforcement.
Instead, St. Luke Institute in the Washington suburb of Adelphi, Maryland, keeps appearing in the 900-page grand jury report released Tuesday. In total, at least 30 priests were sent there...
The red brick building in Silver Spring is set amid acres of wooded land. A sign near the front door with its name -- St. Luke Institute -- is inconspicuous to passersby on the street. Keeping a low profile is important, because most of the 70 residents are troubled Roman Catholic priests, a quarter of them accused of molesting children...
...Rossetti makes a distinction between pedophiles, who molest prepubescent children, and ephebophiles, who are sexually attracted to teenagers. In general, he said, ephebophiles are more likely to be treated successfully and less likely to re-offend. Sipe, the California psychologist, said he also has found that to be true...
...Rossetti, who is a consultant to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on the issue of child sex abuse, contends that a "one strike and you're out" rule would unfairly punish priests who successfully change their behavior through treatment and who accept supervision while working in jobs that do not involve children.
As many as 10 Catholic priests are being treated for pedophilia at a church-run psychiatric facility in Prince George's County.
The priests sent to St. Luke Institute are admitted or known sex offenders. The majority of the priests do not have to report their names and addresses to Maryland's new online sex offender registry because they have not been prosecuted. Sex offenders with even one conviction are required to report to the state's registry.
The institute treats troubled priests and nuns from across the nation. John Geoghan, a defrocked priest convicted of molesting a 10-year-old boy and accused of assaulting more than 130 other children in Massachusetts, was a patient of St. Luke at one time...
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2002/apr/29/20020429-042331-6321r/
Dear reverend and pious
ReplyDeleteIt' s really a bloody shame
That the organized religion
Is engaging in a shell game.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/child-sex-abuse-laws-pennsylvania-supreme-court-20210811.html
ReplyDelete"And unless 'State Name' legislators act soon, years from now, we’ll learn more children will have needlessly suffered while powerful politicians make excuses and offer apologies instead of enacting simple solutions."