Comments on: Fordham Prep Copes with Student Deaths

By: whyadamlanzadidit

whyadamlanzadidit — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 18:40:56 +0000

Fordham Prep is a known safe haven for pedophile priests.

If you Google Father Roy Drake and Neal Gumpel, you can see at least one story of one pedophile priest that was at Fordham prep at one time, and was allegedly their recently, after spending 2 years at the St. John Vainney Center in Missouri. Coincidently, the St. John Vainny center was also the residence of father Robert Larson, who raped 17 children, 5 of whom committed suicide.

By: George Ashur

George Ashur — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 21:04:24 +0000

“There was a similar series of suicides” — Why similar? How similar? I find your comments highly inappropriate, full of inference and conjecture, and potentially very hurtful.

The larger issue of this story is that, from these tragic deaths, the Fordham Prep community is coming together with love and support, demonstrating the best of Jesuit values.

By: Neil Allen

Neil Allen — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 19:01:46 +0000

Please point out exactly where I said that it automatically means that the deceased were victims of abuse. Please cite it by line number.

It’s not a stretch at all. There were 40 victims at one school in Australia , and they all committed suicide after being abused by 2 Catholic priests. The biggest problem is that the public did not know that the kids were abused. The Catholic school absolutely knew, and hid the information, as they did all over the world. That is their policy, as everyone now knows. As a result, 40 victims died.

Had the Catholic Church told the truth, and punished the abusers, and got help for every victim, as Jesus demanded in Matthew 18:6-14, those children would probably be alive today.

The movie “Spotlight” showed that in Boston, the Catholic Church hid 271 abusers, which was 18% of the 1500 priests in Boston. No one knows how many there are at your school except for the other priests.

The key issue in the Catholic Church is that 100% of the priests that know about the child abusers hide it, and most of the victims never come forward, because they know that Catholics will not believe them, and that Catholics will defend the church instead of the children.

How many more suicides should happen before you think that should be investigated?

By: Reasonable

Reasonable — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 18:43:31 +0000

So, because the school has a religious affiliation, that automatically means that the deceased were victims of sexual abuse? A bit of a stretch even for the most creative mind. Of course all avenues should be investigated, but I think it’s a bit presumptuous to assume that these tragedies must have a connection to some abuse simply because the institution is a religious one, especially when there are so many other pressures exerted on high school students (schoolwork, friends, extracurriculars, etc.)

By: Neil Allen

Neil Allen — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 12:04:22 +0000

There was a similar series of suicides in Victoria, Australia at a Catholic school named Ballarat, where over 40 victims of two child abusing priests committed suicide, and no one put the pieces together until 40 victims had died. There is a massive Royal commission investigating it, since the church knew.

For more details, and the police reports, Google

theage Victoria churches suicide victims

Someone should investigate. If those two were victims, there are probably others.