BoysCherries - Orsi on 16 yr. olds
Wed, Jul25, 2007 - Category: School of
Law
A recent statement
by Ave Maria School of Law's Dean Bernard
Dobranski confirmed earlier
AveWatch reports that AMSL Chaplain Fr. Michael
Orsi offered School IT services to a local
priest (Fr. Bill Thomas) who was investigated
for child pornography. Criminal charges were not
brought against Fr. Thomas, in part, because
suspected child pornographic images were found
in an area of hard drive that is not
prosecutable.
AveWatch has questioned the prudence of AMSL's decision to not report its direct involvement with Fr. Thomas to the police. AW has questioned Chaplain Orsi's decision to allow months to pass without Dean Dobranski's awareness of the help Orsi offered... and all with no apparent sanction or reprimand against Orsi for inviting difficulty upon the School. AW is interested in understanding the factors that might contribute to the persistent, but now seemingly untenable, belief that Fr. Thomas genuinely sought to preserve the contents of his computer hard drive... contents that Ave Maria School of Law should have discovered as a bevy of vile adult gay pornography and simulated child pornography during its internal investigation of the matter.
AveWatch is a long-time follower of "The Advocate", a weekly call-in radio broadcast featuring Chaplain Fr. Michael Orsi and Dean Bernard Dobranski. The broadcasts are heard in the Ann Arbor local market, but are available for free, in their entirety, as both a download and as a stream from the Law School's website. Given these outlets, one assumes that the show is a point-of-pride for the School.
AveWatch already reported that Chaplain Orsi is an outspoken public advocate that ordained gay priests not be put under "one strike, you're out policies". But what of victims? Some of Orsi's comments from the radio show are disturbing, in our opinion. The attached podcasts are short fair-use excerpts from the show on October 7, 2006. They discuss the culpability of the 16 year old boys in the Rep. Mark Foley 2006 sex scandal [1,2]. ABC News also reported that Foley asked for oral sex and explicit photos from a 17 year old page in 2002. The first voice that you hear in each clip is Chaplain Orsi, AMSL's "Research Fellow in Law & Religion", who is a Catholic priest with a Doctorate in Education.
Listen to the clips in order:
AveWatch has questioned the prudence of AMSL's decision to not report its direct involvement with Fr. Thomas to the police. AW has questioned Chaplain Orsi's decision to allow months to pass without Dean Dobranski's awareness of the help Orsi offered... and all with no apparent sanction or reprimand against Orsi for inviting difficulty upon the School. AW is interested in understanding the factors that might contribute to the persistent, but now seemingly untenable, belief that Fr. Thomas genuinely sought to preserve the contents of his computer hard drive... contents that Ave Maria School of Law should have discovered as a bevy of vile adult gay pornography and simulated child pornography during its internal investigation of the matter.
AveWatch is a long-time follower of "The Advocate", a weekly call-in radio broadcast featuring Chaplain Fr. Michael Orsi and Dean Bernard Dobranski. The broadcasts are heard in the Ann Arbor local market, but are available for free, in their entirety, as both a download and as a stream from the Law School's website. Given these outlets, one assumes that the show is a point-of-pride for the School.
AveWatch already reported that Chaplain Orsi is an outspoken public advocate that ordained gay priests not be put under "one strike, you're out policies". But what of victims? Some of Orsi's comments from the radio show are disturbing, in our opinion. The attached podcasts are short fair-use excerpts from the show on October 7, 2006. They discuss the culpability of the 16 year old boys in the Rep. Mark Foley 2006 sex scandal [1,2]. ABC News also reported that Foley asked for oral sex and explicit photos from a 17 year old page in 2002. The first voice that you hear in each clip is Chaplain Orsi, AMSL's "Research Fellow in Law & Religion", who is a Catholic priest with a Doctorate in Education.
Listen to the clips in order: