Subject: Sexual Offenses

• Another Sex-Abuse Accusation Against Diocese of Orange

  It's now been over a month since the Weekly revealed that Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown had a molestation allegation lodged against him in the past. We knew Brown wouldn't comment on the matter (we thought about confronting him yesterday, when he presided over the Confirmation of my brother and others at St. Boniface in Anaheim, but thought better of it), but what has shocked us is that neither the bleeding Los Angeles Times or Orange County Register ever hopped on the story. We understa

  May 26, 2007

• Hypocrites Unite!

  As everyone surely now knows, The Drudge Report has solved the Mark Foley mystery. As you know, Republicans are all about taking responsibility for one's actions. As they demonstrate here, they are indeed taking responsibility--for having an innocent "prank" about pedophilia (nice sense of humor, guys) fall into the hands of evil Democrats (oxymoron?). We just just picture Bill and Hill and Monica, hunched over the computer, copying, pasting and sending Foley's prank out to the masses. XXXXX DRU

  October 5, 2006

• The Annotated Bishop Brown Deposition

  Today, Orange County Superior Court Judge Gail Andler ruled that a Sept. 10 deposition of Catholic Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown for the Jeff Andrade case be released to the public. As a public service announcement, the Weekly presents an annotated version after the jump with beaucoup hotlinks. Warning: the spin of Brown and diocesan attorney Peter Callahan will cause nausea worthy of Magic Mountain. And for much more background, read our Ex Cathedra and Andrade archives. Pg. 13: Brown

  September 13, 2007

• OC Blog Spins for Urell (And Spins and Spins...)

  Bear with us, gentle readers--this is a long post... Though the Weekly anointed Orange Juice as the county's best blog, even the Juicers would admit that the king of the county blogosphere is OC Blog, started and administrated by Jubal, the nom de plume of political consultant and longtime local Republican activist Matt Cunningham. Its politics are unapologetically center-right--it says so on the banner. But we had no idea that OC Blog would also evolve into a mouthpiece for the pedo-priest pro

  October 1, 2007

• Goodbye, Bishop Soto, and Good Riddance

  We've always tried really hard to like Jaime Soto, the auxiliary bishop in the Catholic Diocese of Orange who's leaving this weekend to become coadjutor bishop in the Diocese of Sacramento. He's a virtual Aztlanista on immigration, urges compassion for AIDS victims, and always sports a smile. But our admiration for Soto goes the way of church attendance every time we remember Soto's involvement in the Orange diocese sex-abuse scandal.

  November 2, 2007

• KOCE Docu on OC Catholics Funded (Mostly) by Pedo-Spinners

  It's still to be seen what exactly will KOCE-TV Channel 50's much-hyped documentary about Orange County Catholic life will contain (how much you wanna bet not a peep about the pedophile priests that terrorized county parishes for a quarter century?), but the Weekly can report that most of its principal funders helped the Diocese of Orange spin its sex-abuse scandal in one way or another. The four sponsors listed for Matters of Faith (airing April 28th at 7 p.m.) are the law offices of Aitken, A

  April 16, 2008

• Former OC Bishop Jaime Soto Not Just a Pedophile Apologist but a Homo-Hater

  We and supporters of sex-abuse victims celebrated loudly when Bishop Jaime Soto left the Diocese of Orange to become the eventual head bishop of the Diocese of Sacramento. Soto, while a staunch defender of immigrant rights, was an active member of the Orange diocese sex-abuse scandal cover-up. To quote just a small part of a previous Ex Cathedra post: Soto's role, compared to other heavyweights in Orange, seems small. In 1986, he wrote a letter in support of Andrew Christian Anderson, one of on

  September 26, 2008

• Carona Ordered "Back Door" Treatment for Gang Rapist's Father

  "They took me in the back door. They were good guys." --Millionaire Don Haidl explaining today in Sheriff Mike Carona's federal corruption trial that Carona had ordered the Dignitary Protection Unit of the Orange County Sheriff's Department to give him special, taxpayer-funded courthouse escorts during the early stages of the gang rape case against his son. Gregory Haidl and two other young men were eventually convicted of raping an unconscious 16-year-old girl during a Newport Beach high schoo

  November 12, 2008

• Jessica's Law Was Unraveling Before Santa Ana Court Ruling

  A ruling by the state Fourth District Court of Appeal in Santa Ana on Wednesday may represent the largest crack to date in Jessica's Law, the voter initiative Prop. 83 of 2006 that forbade sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school or a park. Stress fractures had been evident several months before justices even heard the case, however. The court determined that residency restrictions imposed by Prop. 83 amount to additional punishment for sex offenders’ original crimes, overturni

  November 21, 2008

• Board of Supes Invite Pedo-Priest Apologist To Give Invocation This Monday**

  What is it with the Orange County Board of Supervisors and their love of pedophile apologists? In 2006, Third District Supe Bill Campbell tried placing Monsignor John Urell, the right-hand man of Diocese of Orange bishops for a good decade of their sex-abuse scandal, on the county's human relations commission until molestation victims raised rightful holy hell. Now, an addendum to this Monday's BoS agenda currently lists Monsignor Lawrence Baird as giving the invocation at 9:30 in the morn.Baird

  January 10, 2009

• The Evilest Man in Southern California: Tod Tamberg, LA Archdiocese Spokeshole

  I've rarely covered the sex abuse scandal up the 5 Freeway at the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, because--hello!--LA is LA and Orange County is it. But a scummy incident that happened last Wednesday warrants the attention of all naranjeros and good Catholics.Then, sex-abuse survivors held a press conference outside the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, otherwise known as the Rog Mahal after Cardinal Roger Mahony. The survivors were there to talk about the news that the United States Dis

  February 4, 2009

• 600 Years for the Long Beach Freeway Rapist

  Eight years after Daniel Sanchez became known as the "Long Beach Freeway Rapist" for his calculated, brutal rapes against mostly teen-aged women along the 710 freeway, he was sentenced to 615 years and nine life sentences in prison. Sanchez refused to go into court yesterday morning to face his victims and to hear his sentencing, according to the LA DA's office. Why this kind of sentencing is never handed down to the sexual predators who crawl through the ranks of the Catholic Church unscathed,

  April 2, 2009

• Former O.C. Bishop Lies Like a Devil in Fresno Pedophile Case

  Yesterday, a Fresno jury acquitted the Catholic Diocese of Fresno of culpability in the priestly rapes of innocents, and does this news really surprise you given Fresno is Fresno? We really can't expect much intellectually and morally of this town, given its head padre is Bishop John Steinbock, former auxiliary bishop of the Orange diocese. On the witness stand, news accounts quote Steinbock as saying, "I never have returned anyone to ministry that I believe was guilty of sex abuse."HAHAHAHAHA!

  April 4, 2009

• School Janitor Accused of Romancing and Sexually Assaulting Special Ed Student

  Luis MejiaHere's a question for teachers and school administrators at El Modena High School in Orange: How do you lose track of a special ed student long enough to not notice that the school janitor is regularly luring her into his office and sexually assaulting her? Those questions may come up when prosecutors begin their case against 49-year-old Luis Antonio Mejia, a longtime janitor at the high school who is accused of abusing a special ed student there for almost five months. Mejia allegedly

  June 2, 2009

• [¡Ask a Mexican!] Pinche Chesters

  February 19, 2009

• Cirilo Flores Rarely Pursued Discipline of Molesting Priests While Serving on Important Church Board

  January 15, 2009

• [Moxley Confidential] The DA's Office Reacts to a Naughty Episode of Prosecutorial Misconduct

  October 30, 2008

• Joelle Casteix Fights for Catholic Church Sex-Abuse Victims While Pursuing Her Own Abuser

  July 10, 2008

• Jared Petrovich Admits His Role In the Killing of John Chamberlain. But Why Did He Target the Guy?

  April 3, 2008

• The Mind of a Pedophile

  Two convicted child molesters get another stiff sentence for a crime they thought about committing

  October 18, 2007

• Bad Moves

  September 27, 2007

• !Ask a Mexican!

  'Theyre always little bit more rambunctious'

  June 14, 2007

• Nailed?

  April 26, 2007

• Blind Spot

  For OC jail inmate John Chamberlain, jailhouse justice served as judge, juryand executioner

  March 29, 2007

• Accused GOP Pedophile Ties DA to Blackmail Plot

  Jeff Nielsen says mentored seventh-grade boy sought apology, $100,000

  October 5, 2006

• Hey, You!

  June 15, 2006

• Haidl Gang Rape Archive

  January 26, 2006

• Hot for Teacher

  The conviction of Sarah Bench-Salorio raises questions wed rather not think about. And so we havent. Not much, anyhow. Maybe just a little

  January 12, 2006

• King of the County Pedophiles

  December 15, 2005

• Porn-secution

  November 24, 2005

• Lights! Camera! Silence!

  June 9, 2005

• A Street Cur

  March 24, 2005

• A Street Cur Named Cavallo

  March 17, 2005

• The Bombshell That Wasnt

  March 10, 2005

• Goodwill Shunting

  January 20, 2005

• Haidl Wept

  January 13, 2005

• The "All-Spin" Zone

  January 13, 2005

• Man Of The Year

  December 30, 2004

• Sexual Reeling

  How the Register blew the Orange Diocese sex-abuse story

  December 9, 2004

• Playing Doctor

  December 2, 2004

• How to Ruin a Woman

  November 11, 2004

• Memory & Manipulation

  The trials of Elizabeth Loftus, defender of the wrongly accused

  September 9, 2004

• The Army of God

  August 12, 2004

• All Aboard the Pedo-Train!

  July 22, 2004

• Dirty Money

  He may agree to pay millions to settle sex-abuse cases, but OC Bishop Brown will still win

  June 17, 2004

• Let Us Prey

  April 8, 2004

• Witness for the Scumbag

  October 7, 1999

• King of the County Pedophiles

  December 15, 2005

• Serial Pedophile Who Bought 5-Year-Old Vietnamese Sex Slave is Up For Parole

  England wants freedom but hasn't admitted his sick sex crimes​A convicted California serial pedophile who despises Jews, cops and African Americans and who forced a kindergarten-age girl he purchased in Vietnam to become a sex slave to not only himself but also his German shepherd and basset hound, both males, becomes eligible for parole in December. George Joseph England--a self-proclaimed Christian who remains unrepentant, according to law enforcement sources--is scheduled to make his pitch

  September 18, 2009

• Orange County DA's Office Seethes Over Sex Offender Being Freed

  Courtesy of Orange County District Attorney's OfficeFrederick Davison​The Orange County District Attorney's Office is so upset over the dismissal of a civil suit aimed at keeping a convicted rapist and child molester locked up that it is alerting the community about the 40-year-old's man's release from custody today.The DA argued during a two-week trial that Frederick Davison should be kept in a state mental hospital as a sexually violent predator, but Orange County Superior Court Judge David

  November 11, 2009