Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Vatican not liable for kiddie diddler priests
Because the priests were not employees of the Vatican but independent contractors signed on as needed to fulfill church service needs. Not really, but the Vatican does have a trio of other reasons why they have no liability.
Dragged deeper than ever into the clerical sex abuse scandal, the Vatican is launching a legal defense that it hopes will shield the pope from a lawsuit in Kentucky seeking to have him answer attorneys' questions under oath.Regardless of the degree of liability, this continuing scandal does show the hazard of letting Conservatives run the business.
Court documents obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press show that Vatican lawyers plan to argue that the pope has immunity as head of state, that American bishops who oversaw abusive priests weren't employees of the Vatican, and that a 1962 document is not the "smoking gun" that provides proof of a cover-up.
The Holy See is trying to fend off the first U.S. case to reach the stage of determining whether victims actually have a claim against the Vatican itself for negligence for allegedly failing to alert police or the public about Roman Catholic priests who molested children.
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