Another Catholic disgrace in Pa.: “Fayette County priest pleads no contest to abusing 11-year-old altar boy”

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Another despicable priest

… will it never end?


The Pennsylvania attorney general’s shocking report of the amount of clerical sexual abuse that took place in the Catholic Church over more than half a century seems to be now forgotten. 


However, the plea deal worked out by prosecutors this week demonstrate that the abuse was taking place just about 15 years ago. 


On Monday, a priest from the Diocese of Greensburg who has served there for 40 years pleaded no contest to charges of sexual abuse — but again, like most priests protected by the American Catholic hierarchy, he will do no jail time. 


AP story: Abuse took place in 2004


The sad part of this is that this deviate will have to register as a sex offender for only ten years. That was his only penalty,


 western Pennsylvania Roman Catholic priest pleaded no contest Monday to indecent assault that began when the victim was an 11-year-old altar boy.


Prosecutors said the Rev. Andrew Mark Kawecki, 66, of Greensburg will have to register as a sex offender for 10 years after entering the no contest plea before a Fayette County judge.


A message seeking comment was left for the defense attorney listed in the online docket as representing Kawecki.


Prosecutors said the sexual abuse began in 2004, occurring in a back room of the Saints Cyril and Methodius Church in Fairchance, Pennsylvania, among the 15 parishes within the Diocese of Greensburg where Kawecki has served since 1980.


He was removed from ministry and parishioners were notified after investigators received a tip about Kawecki in May 2019.


“Fayette County priest pleads no contest to abusing 11-year-old 

altar boy,” The Associated Press, October 25, 2021


Protected by Charles Chaput et. al. and the statute of limitations


And, like others in the Catholic Church, this priest is being protected by deviate-enablers like retired archbishop of Philadelphia Charles Chaput, who led the effort in Pennsylvania to keep the church from being sued by victims by changing the statute of limitations,


The attorney general’s office said after Kawecki was charged another victim made allegations of similar abuse but those claims were too old to be prosecuted under the criminal statute of limitations.


Fayette County priest pleads no contest to abusing 11-year-old 

altar boy,” The Associated Press, October 25, 2021


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