The Los Angeles Archdiocese of the organized pedophile ring known as the Catholic Church agreed to a record $880 million settlement in sex abuse cases. This is in addition to $740 million paid to Southern California victims of sex abuse.
That’s a lot of money, but there were a lot of survivors. And a lot of enabling. Also, it doesn’t put much of a dent in the net worth of this institution. Recall that in the rare instance where criminal charges are brought, it is often decades later and prosecutors and judges tend to fall for the “he’s an old man now, how about a year in the Big House?”
Read about men in the “thumb” region of Michigan and Rogers City who have been charged recently in CSAM cases. (Child Sexual Abusive Material)
If you are a Detroit Free Press subscriber, you can read about a 58-year-old retired Clarkston pathologist, Charles Yee, who plead guilty two days ago in a Troy courtroom to two misdemeanor counts of indecent exposure at lovely Somerset Mall in the summer of 2023. Other incidents apparently flew under the radar and he was “unchecked” for years. This plea is no doubt the tip of the iceberg. Unchecked misdemeanors of this type tend to escalate to felonies. He’ll be back.