A CATHOLIC high school chaplain in Reading, Pennsylvania, is being sued by a local couple for impregnating their 18-year-old daughter, who had mental health problems. Rev Luis A Bonilla Margarito was secretly videotaped having sex with the couple’s daughter in the basement of their home. The lawsuit, filed this week in Berks County Court, alleges [...]
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DOMINATING the news in the last couple of days has been the Northern Ireland police ombudsman’s report which confirmed long-rumoured suspicions that a Catholic priest – Father Jim Chesney – had masterminded a terrorist atrocity: the 1972 Claudy bombing in County Derry which killed nine people, including an eight-year-old girl. I shan’t go too deeply [...]
A LEADING Baptist minister has been charged with molesting young boys during trips to America. According to this report, Robert Dando, 46, was arrested this week during a visit to Fairfax County, Virginia. He is said to have sexually abused two boys, starting when they were aged seven and eight, over a period of up [...]
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PASTOR George Randall “Randy” Scott, of the Bethel Temple Assembly Of God Church in Bryan, Texas, has been granted bail of $5,000 after recently being arrested for allegedly pretending to be a teenager online to meet men, then blackmailing them into having oral sex. But Scott, 51, told police that he was merely monitoring “men [...]
FOLLOWING the conviction late last month of an East Sussex vicar – The Rev Alex Brown, 61 – who conducted 360 fake marriage ceremonies at the church of St Peter and St Paul in St Leonards-on-Sea comes news that two clergymen have been arrested as part of an inquiry into sham marriages in London. The [...]
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THE bishop of Hamburg – the world’s first female Lutheran bishop – has resigned amid criticism of her handling of a sex abuse case. Maria Jepsen denies having known before May this year about a priest in the town of Ahrensburg who reportedly sexually abused boys and girls in the 1980s. Said Jepsen: My credibility [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
