Catholic school safe environment coordinator fired after arrest for possessing child porn

[Michie]

A Catholic parish and school in the Diocese of Columbus, Ohio, has fired an employee who was in charge of background checks and sexual abuse awareness training after he was arrested for possessing materials depicting child pornography and abuse.

The employee, John Denzel, 60, worked as the safe environment coordinator for St. Brigid of Kildare, a parish and pre-K through eighth grade school in Dublin, Ohio.

He was arrested by the Union County Sheriff’s Office on Aug. 5, according to a report by the sheriff’s office.

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Catholic school safe environment coordinator fired after arrest

John Denzel, 60, conducted background checks and coordinated the parish and school’s “Protecting God’s Children” sexual abuse awareness course.

www.catholicnewsagency.com

 

[Michie]

Ugh! It’s a scourge!

 

[RileyG]

Lord have mercy!

 

[WarriorAngel]

Oy!

Well, someone learned it right.

But bold to be the coordinator .... ugh!

 

[Ave Maria]

This and the other thread about a priest who was arrested for possessing child pornography are making me very sad. I honestly thought that the reforms taken by the Church to address the child sexual abuse scandal were effective, but now I am beginning to have doubts. I hope that my doubts are unfounded.

 

[AlexB23]

A Catholic parish and school in the Diocese of Columbus, Ohio, has fired an employee who was in charge of background checks and sexual abuse awareness training after he was arrested for possessing materials depicting child pornography and abuse.

The employee, John Denzel, 60, worked as the safe environment coordinator for St. Brigid of Kildare, a parish and pre-K through eighth grade school in Dublin, Ohio.

He was arrested by the Union County Sheriff’s Office on Aug. 5, according to a report by the sheriff’s office.

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Catholic school safe environment coordinator fired after arrest

John Denzel, 60, conducted background checks and coordinated the parish and school’s “Protecting God’s Children” sexual abuse awareness course.

www.catholicnewsagency.com

Eww, gross. Hopefully, this man spends years in a jail cell, and repents for his actions.

Matthew 18:6-7 (NIV): "If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come!"

1 Corinthians 5:1 (NIV): "It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate."

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This is the creep.