Posts Tagged ‘False abuse accusations’

False child sex abuse charges against priest dropped

Thursday, May 30th, 2024
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A Queensland Catholic priest accused of child sex abuse has had all charges against him dropped. Father David Lancini’s lawyer, Justin Greggery, told the court that claims Lancini abused a boy in the 1970s were either fabricated or mistaken. Lying collusion Detectives and witnesses colluded in Lancini’s arrest last December. Greggery told the court witnesses Read more

When a priest is falsely accused of sexual abuse

Thursday, May 9th, 2019
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Until last year, online search results for the Rev. Gary Graf would include stories about his liver donation to a parishioner, his scaling a border wall so he could understand more intimately the experiences of his immigrant parishioners and a hunger strike he staged to draw attention to the plight of Dreamers. Today, however, the Read more

Couple sentenced, fined for falsely accusing priest

Monday, March 4th, 2019

A French couple were given three month suspended sentences and 500 euro fines for falsely accusing a priest of sexual abuse. In addition, they have to post the court’s verdict on the public noticeboard at the town hall of Baye, the small village in the Marne region where the priest they accused had lived until Read more