Since I have been reporting a lot about the Catholic
priestly abuse scandal and decrying the fact that I am not seeing any
punishments being handed out, only more and more cover-ups and lame excuses; I
am glad to report about a case where justice was done and a priest did not get
away with it.
The Associated Press has reported that a jury in Texas has sentenced a
former Catholic priest to 60 years in prison for plotting the death of a man
who accused him of sexual abuse.
Now this is not the justice that I have been talking about
but is justice just the same and I will relish it anyway.
Fr. John M. Fiala (53) hired a hit man for $5,000 to kill a
man accusing him of sexual abuse when he was growing up in West
Texas . At the time, Father Fiala told the boy that he would hurt
his family if he ever told about the abuse.
It is fortunate for the young man and his family that the
assassin the priest hired was also an undercover cop.
I am sure that if Father Fiala had just kept quiet, he would
have been taken under the protective wing of the Catholic Church and its
leaders and just moved to another parish with new, unsuspecting children to
abuse…sometimes things go in the right direction…
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