September 14, 2012 3 Comments
Adelaide Now has the news.
In September last year, Archbishop Hepworth pub-licly revealed that he had allegedly been raped by Father Dempsey and two other priests one of whom is now dead over a period of 12 years from 1960, when he was in the seminary in Adelaide…
Archbishop Hepworth yesterday said he had spent ” a substantial amount of time” working with police earlier this year to finalise his statement…
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looking at the photo says everything for me.
I sincerely hope that a sensible prosecutor or a wise Judge will rule that at this distance of time from the alleged events, a fair trial cannot take place. There is a world of difference between:-
(i) the situation where an allegation is old but evidence has been collected at the time and preserved until the alleged offender can be taken into custody and brought before a court; and
(ii) the situation where the allegation is newly made about matters alleged to have taken place many years ago where there can be no contemporaneous evidence and the verdict will necessarily have to be founded merely on the relative credibility of witnesses.
In “stale” cases such as this, all too often the only safe verdict will be that of the Almighty and that fallible human justice should recognise that.
On the blog Foolishness to the World there is a new thread (posted 16/9/12) titled ‘Archbishop Hepworth responds to news concerning police investigation’.