It hasn't been a good couple of months for Larry Stukenholtz, a former Mater Dei High choir director whom the school canned in the late 1990s for carrying on a relationship with a student. In October, his victim was part of a $6.685 million settlement that the Catholic Diocese of Orange reached with four girls molested by diocesan employees. Stukeholtz also lost his job as a music teacher at St. Louis Community College after its Board of Trustees unanimously voted to boot the bum out.
Now comes word that Stukeholtz failed in his attempt to have his victim pay for the legal costs associated with the October settlement. In a two-page ruling, Orange County Superior Court Judge Gail Andler wrote Stukenholtz filed his case too late for her consideration. No pithy joke here: we're just too disgusted at a creep who dares make a young woman pay for his lawyer bills after getting fired twice for his pawing.
February 7, 2008 19:45
How do you say in America? If it's BROWN, flush it down?
Laity, nothing will be resolved, or corrected, until you stop donating any monies to the Church, to force the removal of all the miter and red hat enablers!
The "Long Lent" Continues...and at least, I, your current Pontiff, wonder if anyone will be raised from the dead?
Benedict XVI th
Pope, Sinner, & Championship Ballroom Dancing Fan
February 7, 2008 21:33
Bishop Brown just doesn't get it.... maybe his legal advisors will continue to negligently advise him just long enough to drive the Diocese into bankruptcy or financial ruin... then a whole new set of attorneys will step in. Why didn't the Diocese pay Stukenholtz' legal fees? This is disgraceful to think that Stukenholtz thought the girl he sexually abused somehow owes him attorneys fees too! Only in the Diocese of Orange where politics and wealth ENABLE sex crimes against innocent children do sexual predators seek attorneys' fees from their victims!
No matter how you look at the management of the Diocese of Orange, nothing has changed since the sex abuse crisis erupted publicly in 2002. Children are NOT safe from sexual predators employed by the Diocese because the same school administrators and Diocesan attorneys who ENABLED sex crimes, failed to report as mandated by law and still covering up dirty secrets, are still GAINFULLY employed for life with the Diocese--no questions asked.
Diocesan employees live in fear of retaliation and employees are fired for protecting children and exercising freedoms of speech, press and opinion. Bishop Brown continues paying his corrupt attorneys that possess multiple legal conflicts of interest, without accountability and Catholic children and families defend their faith through thick and thin because if they don't, they will be isolated and banned from Catholic communities, labeled traitors to God and the teachings of the Church.
Bishop Brown ... at one time, we could see hope for healing and renewals of faith in the OC. But, the longer you play the game of legal corruption and politics, the more distant Catholics in OC will become. How long will OC Catholics fund Bishop Brown's mismanagement of Diocesan business, employment and legal affairs? And, when Bishop Brown will you place the mission of the Church before corrupt employees you continue to believe are protecting Diocesan assets before precious children?
February 8, 2008 08:52
Dear Editor, As with all U.S. archdiocese's the cardinals and bishops rely on the advice of their legal council. Since the law firms that they use bill them by the hour, it is in the best interest of the law firm to fight rather than settle.When I came forward with sex abuse allegations against a long deceased Christian brother in June 2002,I was told by Calvert Hall College president Mr. Louis E. Heidrick: "False claims of this type are made all the time against Christian Brothers and your claim can not be verified since the brother in question died in 1984.Well,Mr. Heidrick probably didn't remember walking into a locked business office and witnessing my sexual abuse by my sexual predator, Brother Xavier Langan. {The office could only be opened by a key and locked automatically when the door was shut.} Had cardinal Keeler taken my advice six years ago when I told him to settle with the victims ASAP because the longer he waited to do so the more costly it was going to be. At the time I did not know God had given me the gift of prophecy. Instead the Christian brothers president, Brother Robert Schieler, offered me fourty thousand dollars for: "past counciling expenses." I said: "thanks but no thanks" and started the Greater Baltimore Survivors Network of Those Abused By Priests and have almost two hundred sex abuse victims from Calvert Hall alone!
February 8, 2008 10:57
For daily global coverage of the ongoing multi billion dollar (all laity monies) crime spree, and pedophile ring enabling, and cover-up, by the less than 3,500 miters and red hats (there are 1.1 billion laity in Our Savior's Church), I, your Pontiff, recommend:
www.bishop-accountability.org/abusetracker
Go With God! And Keep Your Wallets Zipped!
Benedict XVI th
Pontiff, Sinner, Surrounded By Curial Crooks
February 8, 2008 11:57
Doesn't surprise me a bit.
February 8, 2008 12:44
Calvert Hall College High School should be closed.
Mater Dei High School too.
It's reaching a point where parents who send their children to these schools are themselves negligent.
February 9, 2008 09:30
Parents are unsuspecting when it comes to the Catholic Church and other religious institutions. Parents believe that paying money to send children to Catholic schools is somehow an automatice safety precaution... nothing is further from the truth! My four children attended Catholic schools and churches in Orange County, supervised by the Diocese of Orange, since pre-school, K-12 and then had opportunities to attend Catholic colleges. We sent them to Catholic schools for the social justice teachings and our belief that all persons need to become responsible Americans, with intent of contributing back to our society, with responsibility and compassion.
The Diocese of Orange FAILED our children in providing them role models and acts of good faith in accordance with the teachings of the Catholic Church for many reasons. We have learned that Catholic colleges are teaching the TRUE social justice teachings of the Church and our society, encouraging the exercise of guaranteed freedoms, with respect and accountability. The Diocese of Orange schools DISCOURAGE freedoms of speech, press and opinion... and will punish any student, parent or employee who dares to speak out with a report of sex abuse crimes, violations of the Gun Free Schools Act or employment discrimination. Anyone needing documentation to prove this fact, please contact me at bodkind@hotmail.com.
The Diocese of Orange ENABLED Larry Stukenholtz, Jeffrey Andrade, Michael Harris and many other former Catholic school teachers to roam society, placing other children at serious risk of sex abuse crimes, while destroying the careers of employees who do the right thing in accordance with the laws of the U.S. Constitution. The Diocese of Orange could care less about your children.... actions speak louder than words... Catholics need to do their homework! WAKE UP before it is too late!