Vienna Boys' Choir caught up in sex abuse scandals

Jumpy

Dear God...


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7065824.ece

Tallon

You can't make this **** up.... seriously..... look at who wrote the ****ing article!

Roger Boyes wrote:

The most famous choir in the world has been caught up in the wave of paedophile scandals sweeping Germany and Austria, with eight former choristers denouncing their teachers in the past few days.

An open letter from the management of the Vienna Boys’ Choir to parents expressed regret at the incidents, which were recounted by former singers now aged between 40 and 70.

Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, called yesterday for truth and clarity in investigating paedophile abuse not only in church institutions but everywhere within the educational system. “We all agree that sexual abuse against children is a despicable crime,” she told parliament.

So far about 300 claims of sexual abuse have been made by former pupils of German church schools and of non-denominational boarding schools.
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The Government is considering extending the statute of limitations on sexual abuse. At present an alleged offender cannot be prosecuted ten years after his victim reaches the age of 18. Many of the cases being made now were for abuse committed in the 1950s and early 1960s and the priests involved are dead or in old people’s homes.

Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, the Justice Minister, offended church leaders by accusing the Vatican of covering up scandals and urged German bishops to co-operate with state prosecutors — something that the Church feels could erode its independence. The Vienna Boys’ Choir has no formal relationship with the Church and is, therefore, less politically sensitive.

It is, however, the best-known choir in the world, performing 300 concerts a year and making millions out of Christmas records. “No one can undo injustice,” a spokeswoman for the choir said. “At the moment listening is the most important thing we can do.”

Claims of sexual abuse have also been made against the Regensburger Domspatzen boys’ choir, which was run until 1994 by Georg Ratzinger, the Pope’s brother. Mgr Ratzinger has denied all knowledge of paedophile sex. A priest who worked at the choir between 1970 and 1972 was suspended yesterday amid allegations of sexual abuse dating back to that period.

The abuse has prompted questions about why priests who had offended or who were suspected of offending were simply transferred and allowed to resume duties involving children.

“We need to clarify the boundary between the solidarity and forgiveness that we offer to sinning but repentant fellow priests, and the overriding need not to betray our responsibility towards the children in our charge,” a senior cleric said.

Ms Merkel’s speech indicated that the Government would step in to protect children if the Church failed to do so. “We will have to talk about changing the statute of limitations and . . . about compensation,” she said.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7065824.ece


At the moment "an alleged offender cannot be prosecuted ten years after his victim reaches the age of 18" which is fecking crazy

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piby

I bet the editor deliberatley chose him to cover that story!!

orourkeda

Quite superb

Jumpy

I beat you by a minute

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055865964

Black Swan

Jay Leno has "Headlines" every Monday night that offers many of these.

nicebutdim

Jumpy wrote: »

Dear God...


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7065824.ece

So who are you on TLW ?

neilthefunkeone

oh.. ha ha ha took me a few seconds to cop that!!!

I love today Fm's news reader.. Tina Gash

Cheap Thrills!

Oh God of funny Heaven thank you for these lulz

Kiera

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055865751

Fago!

neilthefunkeone wrote: »

oh.. ha ha ha took me a few seconds to cop that!!!

I love today Fm's news reader.. Tina Gash

I giggle every time she comes on air.

Degsy

I remember years ago journalist BP fallon got beaten up outside a pub in down the country somewhere.
A paper covered it with "BP BOPPED BY LOOLA!"

Fago!

BP Fall-on the ground after yob attack.

Jumpy

Kiera wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055865751

Ooh, it made the morning edition

sbsquarepants

Degsy wrote: »

I remember years ago journalist BP fallon got beaten up outside a pub in down the country somewhere.
A paper covered it with "BP BOPPED BY LOOLA!"

Classic.

Seen a headline once, after Mickey Joe Harte was in the eurovision, he was playing a gig in galway somehere and the headline said "Galway Girls Mad For Mickey":)

Theta

I know someone who used to work for a large newspaper and people would always send in letters to the editor without names on them so he would just make them up.

Mr Freeze

Dammit....Beat me too, was just about to start my 1st ever after hours thread.:mad:

petes

CKWPORT wrote: »

Dammit....Beat me too, was just about to start my 1st ever after hours thread.:mad:

Start anther one with something funny in it.

Mr Freeze

Ye've used nearly up every funny scenario already.

ibarelycare

Jumpy wrote: »

I beat you by a minute

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055865964

General Zod beat you both by 11 hours!

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=65092347&postcount=1

Biggins

Actually ye were both beaten by General Zod.
See: http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055865751

Darn!!!
ibarelycare bet me!

Biggins

LOL - in before ibarelycare this time!

General Zod bet you OP by hours: http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055865751

Degsy

Or the reports of a foiled attempt on Paul McCartney's life

"Top Pop Mop Top Pot Shot Plot Flops"











i may have imagined it however

Kiera

Biggins wrote: »

LOL - in before ibarelycare this time!

General Zod bet you OP by hours: http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055865751

Kiera wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055865751

And i bet you :P

Biggins

Kiera wrote: »

And i bet you :P

Dang again! :pac:

recylingbin

neilthefunkeone wrote: »

oh.. ha ha ha took me a few seconds to cop that!!!

I love today Fm's news reader.. Tina Gash

She must be a cousant of the newstalk newsreader - Julie ate gash.

bonerm

That's only his eyecatching journalistic nom de plume tho. His real name is actually Philip Boyes.

Elenxor

Vienna boys Favourite Music?

'Tales' of the Vienna Woods?;)

Gingervitis

Don't forget, it's not the first time he's done this:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4812776.ece

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

bonerm wrote: »

That's only his eyecatching journalistic nom de plume tho. His real name is actually Philip Boyes.

I thought he was the Korean jounralist Fuk Sum Boyes?

bonerm

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

I thought he was the Korean jounralist Fuk Sum Boyes?

I think you may be mixing him up with the S.Korean novelist Bum Yung Boyes.

old hippy

bonerm wrote: »

I think you may be mixing him up with the S.Korean novelist Bum Yung Boyes.

Bum is a Thai name :mad:

ibarelycare

Biggins wrote: »

LOL - in before ibarelycare this time!

General Zod bet you OP by hours: http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055865751

Now that the threads are merged, you look stoopid!

bonerm

old hippy wrote: »

Bum is a Thai name :mad:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cha_Bum-Kun

MayoForSam

Speaking of headlines if you're a Celtic fan:

Celtic beaten by Caledonian Thistle:

SUPER CALEY GO BALLISTIC CELTIC ARE ATROCIOUS

Or beaten by St. Mirren the other night:

HELL IN MIRREN

But seriously, what sort of parents would have given Roger a name like that?

Biggins

MayoForSam wrote: »

...But seriously, what sort of parents would have given Roger a name like that?

I used to go to school with a "Jarlet Jolley" - honestly.
I've no idea what the fcuk his parents were thinking when they were coming up with names for him. :pac:

ibarelycare wrote: »

Now that the threads are merged, you look stoopid!

LOL Nothing new there. First wife said I looked that way all the time.
I proved her wrong - I was clever enough to kick her slapper ass out the door! :cool:

Prof.Badass

wow :rolleyes:. Some sex abuse happened in austria?


Don't see why everyone is making a song and dance over it.

Jumpy

vinylmesh wrote: »

wow :rolleyes:. Some sex abuse happened in austria?


Don't see why everyone is making a song and dance over it.

Do you mean the Fritzl Song?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJWzOfi0dvg

Big Nasty

Biggins wrote: »

I used to go to school with a "Jarlet Jolley" - honestly.
I've no idea what the fcuk his parents were thinking when they were coming up with names for him. :pac:

Think I know this man - there can hardly be two of them! Works in the Motor Trade?

Back on topic there's another one of these closer to home - check out para 2! http://www.rte.ie/tv/worship/

Skerries

great name for a Paedo

http://www.cbsatlanta.com/news/22912287/detail.html

Skerries

old hippy wrote: »

Bum is a Thai name :mad:

no, the bum is at the top of the thigh

Diabhal Beag

That can't be coincidence

Pittens

There is something up at the Times.

This (http://twitpic.com/1b0z8j)

Jumbo156

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7065824.ece

OutlawPete

Afraid someone beat you to it OP

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055865966

Pighead

Good man Outlaw Pete.

Pighead feared the worst for the OP when he seen that he'd posted a link to a topic already discussed in AH last week.

They're gonna tear the poor fcuker apart. They're gonna rip him up limb by limb until there's nothing left but a quivering, piss stained, shell of a man. He'll never post in here again thanks to the vultures who circulate After Hours sniffing out noob mistakes as they prepare to pounce upon their feeble prey.

Thanks to your lovely yellow smileyed post all of this was avoided. Jumbo156 will rise again.

Jumbo156

I shall go and bury my head.....Always a week behind, that's me

Pighead

Jumbo156 wrote: »

I shall go and bury my head.....Always a week behind, that's me

Good man Jumbo. It'll all be forgotten about tomorrow.

Don't forgot to put your clocks forward this weekend buddy.