Nun charged with sexually abusing boys

[deadparrot]

A Sister of Mercy who taught in Chicago-area Catholic schools for more than three decades has been indicted in Wisconsin over allegations that she abused pupils at a Milwaukee school nearly 40 years ago.

Sister Norma Giannini is accused of having sexual intercourse with two boys—ages 12 and 13—when they were students at St. Patrick Elementary School in the 1960s. According to a criminal complaint, more than 100 sexual encounters took place in the church's convent, school office and one victim's home.

Charges are allowable against Giannini, 78, because in Wisconsin the statute of limitations halts if the alleged offender leaves the state. Giannini, who was serving as an 8th-grade teacher and principal at St. Patrick's at the time of the alleged assaults, moved to Illinois in 1969.

The Sisters of Mercy removed Giannini from service in December 1992 when the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee notified them of allegations against her, according to Sister Betty Smith, president of the order's Chicago region.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-061205nun,1,1988895.story?coll=chi-news-hed

[MichiganVote]

1. So now comes some allegations against the penguins....about time

[Ian David]

2. Nun: Church leaders were warned

Nun: Church leaders were warned
Sister who taught at 4 area schools accused of abusing boys

December 6, 2006
BY KIM JANSSEN Daily Southtown
Catholic Church leaders were warned more than a decade ago about a former Chicago nun who was charged Monday with sexually abusing two Milwaukee boys, the president of Chicago's Sisters of Mercy community said Tuesday.

But Sister Betty Smith said a confidentiality agreement with the man who made the allegations against Sister Norma Giannini in 1992 meant that the order of nuns couldn't contact police at the time.

Giannini, who taught at four Sisters of Mercy schools in the Chicago area and was principal of two, faces two counts of indecent behavior with a child dating to her time as principal of a Milwaukee Catholic school in the late 1960s.

She abused the boys, who were both 13 when the abuse began, more than 160 times over four years, according to the charges. They allege Giannini urged one of the boys to remove her habit and feel her breasts, with the abuse progressing to having sexual intercourse with both boys.

More:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/161618,CST-NWS-nun06.article


Also:

Nun Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Children
Posted yesterday by Iamseven in Crime and viewed 364 times

Sister Norma Giannini, the nun accused.

A Catholic nun who served as a principal at a Milwaukee school has been charged with sexually assaulting children as many as 200 times.

Investigators said Sister Norma Giannini, now 78 years old, assaulted two of her students in the 1960s when the boys attended St. Patrick's Elementary School at 7th and Washington in Milwaukee, often in the church's convent and school office.

Giannini was principal of that school at that time.

The Archdiocese of Milwaukee asks that anyone who has been victimized to come forward with the confidence that they will be heard and helped.

Giannini taught at an all-girls Catholic high school in the Chicago after leaving Milwaukee during the 1970s. She now lives in a suburban Chicago retirement home.

More:
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/67456/Nun_Accused_Of_Sexually_Assaulting_Children

[malaise]

7. And to think that I one believed that

two nuns always walked together so 'none could get none'.:rofl: My very catholic mother is rolling in her grave.

This 'so called celibacy business is total madness.

[KingFlorez]

3. People are just sick

People like this pretend to be upstanding, when they really are common scum.

[stillcool]

4. I always knew...

there was something not right about these people. They scared the living shit out of me way back when, and they scare the shit out of me now...but for two very different reasons. There's religion for ya.

[Botany]

5. Once again the Church covered "it" up.

Move 'em and don't talk about.

[Disturbed]

6. After years and years the ugly secret is finally revealed.

The Catholic Church is a Cult and has thousands of perverts, male and female.

[Clark2008]

9. Hey now - I'm Catholic and I'm not sexually perverted!

And it's not a cult.

That said, throw the book at the "good" Sister.

[Botany]

10. Curch acts in 1992 for acts in the 1960s & 1970s

and comes clean to the law in 2002

[undeterred]

8. Sexual abuse is an equal opportunity crime.

[Disturbed]

11. Definitions of cult on the Web:

Definitions of cult on the Web:

* adherents of an exclusive system of religious beliefs and practices
* fad: an interest followed with exaggerated zeal; "he always follows the latest fads"; "it was all the rage that season"
* a system of religious beliefs and rituals; "devoted to the cultus of the Blessed Virgin"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

The Catholic Church is business scam, as well.

[baby_mouse]

12. Good GOD.

Is there no end to this revolting nonsense? How much more of this crap is going to get piled on before people figure it out...?

[951-Riverside]

13. Niiice

...Quoting south park.

[AIJ Alom]

14. What the heck is it with sexuality in Wisconsin tonight ??!!??

This is the second story, the first one was about the blind woman who was raped and not believed by the authorities.