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By Gustavo Arellano, Friday, Oct. 12 2007 @ 3:21PM
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The "Friends of Monsignor John," a support group for embattled Diocese of Orange Monsignor John Urell that counts as members OC Blog founder Matt "Jubal" Cunningham and Rancho Santiago Community College District board president John Hanna, claim they care about sex-abuse victims. Indeed, a page on their website asks readers to "Please pray for these young women [who recently settled civil suits against the Orange diocese], for their healing, their serenity and that their hearts will always remain open to Christ."

As we wrote before, we didn't see much concern for those women when Urell supporters showed up in court last Monday. And now it can be told that any concern for sex-abuse victims these friends of Urell purport to keep in their hearts is just chasing after wind.

The Weekly has learned that for the past two days, the Friends of Monsignor John website made available an unredacted version of Urell's deposition, the deposition that made the monsignor go loco. In the course of the deposition, the names of six sex-abuse victims were revealed. None of them consented to having their names revealed to the public, and so the depositions made available to the press and posted online by the Orange County Register had the names redacted. Besides, it's common sense: don't publish the name of a sex-abuse victim without their permission. Try telling that to Friends of Monsignor John.

If you go to their website, there is now a redacted deposition. But the Weekly was able to download the unredacted Urell deposition before the Friends of Monsignor John site administrator took them down to verify their case of foot-in-mouth. Yep: None of the victims' names were redacted in the deposition first offered by Friends of Monsignor John, and also attached was a index which listed the names of the victims again.

Needless to say, the sex-abuse victims whose names were revealed are livid. Even more cruelly, one of them (let's call him John Doe) has a connection to Cunningham. In a letter that Doe's attorney John Manly sent to Cunningham this afternoon demanding the unredacted Urell deposition be taken down immediately, Manly wrote, "We have been contacted by one of our clients whose brother's child is in your car pool. To say [John Doe] is irate and wants to sue you for everything you own is understating his fury. He is a police officer, and to compromise his identity places him in immediate damage and has subjected him to excruciating emotional distress."

**UPDATE: The Friends now post an apology. "There was no intention to harm anyone," the mea culpa states. "It simply didn't occur to redact the names." Of course it didn't occur: all the Friends care about is spinning for their dear Monsignor. They could care less about the victims. Proof? It's in the pudding.

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Comments (8)

Donkey Man says:

I'm sick reading this move by you Matt. You are sicker than I thought. Jubil? Your sick and !!!!!!and a man of the shadows with this move.
I new when you edited your web site that something was wrong with you.
Do you have any idea what kind of damage you have done? Your no man! Your a creep for a move like this! Fuck You Man!

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 12 2007 @ 4:56PM
SNAP Canada says:

It's my turn to turn up the heat at Southdown! I see Matt is outing victims in California. I'll be having a press event at Southdown in the morning.
London, Canada

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 12 2007 @ 5:05PM
the serrach wonders says:

how many times will jubal deny association with the friends before his cock crows?

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 12 2007 @ 5:37PM
Art Pedroza says:

Did you guys notice that the "Friends of Urell" website proudly includes a link to Matt Cunningham's blog right on their home page?

Stick a fork in Red County/OC Blog! Surely this sort of publicity won't help that pathetic bunch of slimy OC GOP hacks.

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 12 2007 @ 11:22PM
urell is bad says:

The apologies by Urell's hacks are LIES. If they wanted to, they could've kept the naems of victims secret, but NO.

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 12 2007 @ 11:30PM
M Gauer says:

Cunningham is a complete idiot! He is like many catholics who act holier than thou but treat people like shit than go to confession to clear their conscious. I'm sure he wants Urell back because Urell is probably the one who has to listen to his pathetic confessions weekly. It's OK Cunningham, just say ten Hail Mary's and ten Our Father's and drop your money in the basket! You probably add to Urell's so-called acute anxiety!

Posted On: Saturday, Oct. 13 2007 @ 7:03AM
Donkey Show Five Pesco's says:

I've read all of Urell's answers in the deposition. I was thinking his attorney got into the wrong line of work. He should have been a coach. Even with the coaching Urell seams to have been digging a deep hole. It's no wonder they had to settle with the four women who wear raped. Urell knows a whole lot and Catholic people should be upset. The deposition also paints a pitcher of gayness in the church.

Posted On: Saturday, Oct. 13 2007 @ 11:41AM
Russ Bianchi says:

"And ye shall know them by their fruits"...

It would appear, from what I'm reading here, Matt Cunningham (aka Jubal) has outed HIMSELF as an aider, enabler, and abetter of serial sexual assualters of thousands of children, like Brown, Mahony, Curry, Brom, Barnes, Rivera, Steinbock, Weigland, Walsh, Egan, McCarrick, George, Law, O'Malley, MacCormack, Pell, to name only a few.

Is Matt is also a member of the Republican Log Cabin Club?

Posted On: Sunday, Oct. 14 2007 @ 7:46PM

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