Missouri priest charged in federal child pornography indictment
ReutersBy James B. Kelleher | Reuters – 4 hrs ago

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - A federal grand jury in Missouri indicted a jailed Catholic priest on Tuesday on fresh child pornography charges including that he took sexually explicit photos of girls as young as two years old.

The Reverend Shawn Ratigan, 45, was charged with 13 counts in all, including 11 counts of producing or attempting to produce child pornography and two counts of possessing it.

According to the federal indictment, Ratigan took or attempted to take sexually explicit photos of at least five young girls beginning in 2005, shortly after he was ordained, through the spring of 2011, before he was arrested.

The victims ranged in age from two to 12 years old.

The indictment alleges that some of the photographs, including those involving the 2-year-old child, were taken inside the choir loft of the church in Easton, Missouri where he worked.

The sexually explicit images were found on Ratigan's laptop by church officials and turned over to authorities.

Ratigan, who is already in custody on related state child pornography possession charges filed in May, faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison without parole if he is found guilty on all the federal charges.

The charges against him are the latest to rock the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, which agreed to pay $10 million three years ago to settle clergy sexual abuse charges.

In June, Bishop Robert Finn enlisted the help of Todd Graves, a former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, to help the diocese look into allegations against Ratigan.

(Reporting by James B. Kelleher; Editing by Cynthia Johnston)

Mikey G, Why doesn't everyone have blind patriotism? It is because of comments from idiots like Ruaking below saying that the US should just drop "the bomb". What makes Americans think that American lives are worth more than people from other countries? What makes Americans think that what they always do is unquestionably right? Was Iraq the right thing to do? By all accounts, numerous lies were told by the government to justify entering that war. I have lived outside the US for a number of years and do not have the insular view that most Americans who have never traveled internationally have. I can tell you that contrary to what most Americans may believe, there si a strong negative attitude towards the US and not just in Muslim countries.

Remember Pat Tillman, the Pro Football star who forsook a megabuck contract and volunteered to go fight in Afghanistan in the heat of the post-9/11 patriotic frenzy? The official story is that Tillman was killed in a friendly-fire incident. According to reports from several US military personnel (a few of whom I know), Pat Tillman was assassinated by his own government. Reportedly, Tillman, the quintessential poster-boy for military recruitment, was waking up to the 9/11 lie, and was beginning to get a little too loose-lipped for his own good. Word traveled up the chain fast. Three bullets to the head fired at close range killed him. Friendly-fire indeed.]

"We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves." - Goethe

Israel was reestablished based on its existence from Bible days. The USA was not given back to us since it never belonged to us in the first place. We have no excuse. Chrstians came to this country and killed native people and took the land for nothing. Perhaps if the Jews were in fact in charge, we'd all be better off. Christians crave and have the power and the money. Study history and get your facts straight. A long time ago, Christians wouldn't allow Jews to do anything but lend money, and typically would cheat the Jews out of the money by not paying it back, and that's all they had. We need to face the truth. If not now, when we face God. Your Christianity is showing, and it is very hostile and dishonest.

just stop supporting israel and see how much friend you will have. ts ts ts ts
So, they get 10 Billions a year, that is 10B/ ( 5 million idiots in Israel), then each stupid Jew gets 2000/year, each stupid family gets 8000/year, free housing ( stolen from the palestenians), free water ( stolen from Lebanon),so what are those idiots doing with the money
Unfortunately that money goes to pay the salaries of govt. bureaucrats and rabbis who got a 85% increase in pay, while doctors and specialist have been striking for almost a month for a meager 15% increase which the Treasury said they cannot afford. Soon Israelis will have to consult rabbis for medical advice.
Call our puppets in the House and Senate and demand allegiance to us, the tax payers, first. Not AIPAC.
NO MORE foreign aid to Israel. Cut those bastards off and start helping the citizens in our country. The wasteful spending in Washington has got to STOP NOW!!!! Vote out every incumbent in 2012 especially all the Republicans. Their the doing nothing party. All they car about is the rich and big corporations.

The United States pays for more than 60% of of their budget each year, what more do they want? They need to keep their mouths shut before they have to start stuffing them with dates.

1 ReplyTo ChuckG Boycott Delta Air: Delta Airlines does not need you, Mr. non grateful. Delta'sTel Aviv's route is the most hated by Delta's crew members.
To ChuckG Boycott Delta Air: And, Delta proudly pays for its jets, unlike one airline that is subsidized by our own tax $$$$$$$$$$$$$. Just non grateful. Move to a Kibbutz.

1 ReplyWhile the U.S. banks are foreclosing on millions of homes in America and our unemployment almost twice that of Israel, While the Republicans and The Tea Party are trying to desstoy the filmsy Universal Health care we just got, as well as rape Social Security which Seniors have paid into allheir lives, just how many billions are we sending Israel in foreign aid to make life better for their citizens???

I guess they're now seeing the hardships they've put the Palestinians through all the years? But from the article, it seem's like they'll be giving the natives more stolen land to live on. Build on it with the "billions" this country gives them every year. Funny how things have started heating up since they uncovered the Mubarak Family scheme. Selling Egypt's natural gas to Israel at "below" market price, while taking kickbacks and robbing his own people. Guess the U.S./ Mubarak "Gravy Train" has left the station. Now if the region would apply the same tools they did against South Africa in the 80's, things might just start to happen? Unlike then, that region doesn't have to deal with a Reagan to thwart things...

ReplyThis is going to be the scene is America very, very soon. Rising gas prices, falling home values, joblessness. The politicians, corporations, unions, and the rich enjoy it all. I am not looking for a handout - in fact, welfare should be pared down to 20% of its current status - just a little equity.
America is Shabbos goy for Israel .... keep up the good work and don't forget to invade Iran like we also told you to do !
Meanwhile our Wall Street Banker Cousins steal your money !!!

Common internet propaganda techniques by the Zionist Jew shills: Insults..False premises, Disinformation, Misinformation, Misdirection
Innuendo..Insinuation..Labeling critics as "anti-semites".."nazis" or "Muzzies"..
Did you know Israel receive $3 billion each year from USA officially last 60 years? And they receive another $4 billion unofficially
Did you know there are 65 senators and congressman has dual citizenship with other countries including fed chair Bernanke?
Did you know %85 American Media controlled by Zionist such as FOX TV , CNN and Etc! And Rupert Murdoch biggest puppet?
Did you know almost 15000 US serving man lost their life for Israel?
Did you know almost %90 GOP corrupted by AIPAC and you can’t pass anything in senate and house without AIPAC confirmation ?
Did you know Tea baggers created BY AIPAC ?
Just thought America should know

TALK 1ST AND HAVE NO ANSWER FOR THE TRUTH FOREVER AFTER, DMB AZZ.. THE FEDS GENOCIDE IN WACO , THE FEDS MASS MURDER IN OKLA CITY, THE FEDS EXPLOSIVES BUST SEAWALL IN N.O. AND THE FEDS BLOWING UP OF TWIN TOWERS. WHY?> YOU DOLT, TO GET YOU TO COMMIT GENOCIDE IN YUGO AQFGHAN AND IRAQ AND LOOKING FOR MORE. YOU SUCKERS MAKE HITLER AND THE GESTAPO HOMELAND LOOK LIKE A SUNDAY GO TO MEETING CHOIR WITH BETTER MJUSIC

Just wait, they are going to stage another terrorist attack, blame on people who are anti- one world government, people who are anti federal reserve and are 9/11 truthers. They will use it to make EVERYONE into a terrorist unless you submit to what is coming. This was scripted. It is meant to make terrorists out of good Americans that believe in gun rights, are Christians, have gardens and hates Islam.

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Homosexuals are just as sick as pedophiles. So if states like New York and others want to give them a right to be married, then why not give pedophiles a right to have sex with children? One isn't worse that the other. The sickness is on the same level.

Smoke & mirrors........throw a few more BILLION dollars at israel , capitulating to massive pressure from pacs like AIPAC, another 300 + ILLEGAL squatter encampments were just newly approved last week to add to the figure of 500,000 illegal squatters already in place, & which American politicos have harshly critisized .....there is no peace in this piece of crap maneuvering.Bypass this junk & go straight to the U.N. .

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Palestinia­n land stolen from them in 1967 and "expropria­ted" as part of the rezoning of Jerusalem that was designed to steal as much land as possible from the Palestinia­ns. The evil war criminal Sharon, who even the Israelis barred from public office before electing him P.M.- just another Israel lie to the world-was one of the first to approve the project.A project the Israeli lap dog wags at.
The U.S. vetoed two different UN Security Council resolution­s that called on Israel to stop constructi­on at Har Homa. The U.S. was the only country of the 15 members on the council to vote against the resolution
Smoke & mirrors........throw a few more BILLION dollars at israel , capitulating to massive pressure from pacs like AIPAC, another 300 + ILLEGAL squatter encampments were just newly approved last week to add to the figure of 500,000 illegal squatters already in place, & which American politicos have harshly critisized .....there is no peace in this piece of crap maneuvering.Bypass this junk & go straight to the U.N. .

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Between the years 250 CE and 1948 CE - a period of 1,700 years - Jews have experienced more than eighty expulsions from various Christian countries in Europe - an average of nearly one expulsion every twenty-one years. Jews were expelled from England, France, Austria, Germany, Lithuania, Spain, Portugal, Bohemia, Moravia and seventy-one other countries.

Reply Christians have hated Jews with ferocious intensity for the belief that Jews killed Jesus Christ. Deicide became justification for some Christians' views of Jews as an inferior people with an inferior religion since they did not accept Jesus as their savior.
The Bible notes that Jews turned Jesus over to the Romans for execution but did not kill Jesus themselves. There is no Roman hatred, however, but there is widespread Jewish hatred.

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Hitler’s anti-Semitism grew out of his Christian education. Austria and Germany were majorly Christian during his time and they held the belief that Jews were an inferior status to Aryan Christians. The Christians blamed the Jews for the killing of Jesus. Jewish hatred did not actually spring from Hitler, it came from the preaching of Catholic priests and Protestant ministers throughout Germany for hundreds of years. The Protestant leader, Martin Luther, himself, held a livid hatred for Jews and their Jewish religion. In his book, “On the Jews and their Lies,” Luther set the standard for Jewish hatred in Protestant Germany up until World War 2. Hitler expressed a great admiration for Martin Luther constantly quoting his works and beliefs.
History is currently being distorted by the millions of Christians who lie to have us believe that the Holocaust was not a Christian deed. Through subterfuge and concealment, many of today’s Church leaders and faithful Christians have camouflaged the Christianity of Adolf Hitler and have attempted to mark him an atheist, a pagan cult worshipper, or a false Christian in order to place his misdeeds on those without Jesus. However, from the earliest formation of the Nazi party and throughout the period of conquest and growth, Hitler expressed his Christian support to the German citizenry and soldiers. Those who would make Hitler an atheist should turn their eyes to history books before they address their pews and chat rooms.

Can we recruit him to be U.S. President???
I would like him to run & smash the entire Congress offices and NUKE the entire Wall Street blocks! Specially that phuking Dated Brent Spot!!!

THIS IS IN THE BIBLE. TO STU 10 HOURS AGO:IN JOHN 8;44 JESUS TELLS THE JEWS THEY ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL.THEY ARE DOING WORK OF THEIR FATHER TO THIS DAY
Jews are tough right! Killing a man in front of a kindergarten and shooting his wife. Yeah, real tough. They do this in Palestine everyday. When Palestinians respond and fight back, jews act like victims and call Palestinians terrorists. They are good at this. LOSERS.

Israel has fooled all of us naive and good Christians in this country. Jews do not give a #$%$ about us folks. they use our tax dollars to advance their agenda in every way to the point that they run our congress, senate and white house and laugh at us. They have fooled everyone like never before. They come to big daddy when in trouble but stab us in the back stealing our technology and selling it to china.They think they have the rights for everything in this world and no one else. I am not approving of Iran trying to get nuke but if they need it for energy, then let them have it. It is their right to use technology to generate much needed energy the best way possible. Why can China, Russia or Pakistan who are more rouge than Iran can have but not Iran. Iran has never attacked anyone in their history unless they had to defend themselves. Heck, they even freed Jewish slaves from Assyrians empire going back 2000 years ago. look what they did to our economy. FYI, they even control federal reserve bank. Go figure that out. A chained lion is like lamb and that is what we are. Lambs to them

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There is no food in ripoli because NATO planes are bombing cultivated, fields, food storage facilities, water supply, and water pipes factories to starve the western Libyan populatioon to death. This is a WAR CRIME, A CRIME AGFAINST HUMANITY AND A BLATANT BREACH OF THE GENEVA CONVENTION. WE NEED ANOTHER NUREMBERG TRIAL FOR THE NATO WAR CRIMINALS OBAMA, SARKOZY, CAMERON AND CO..

I also wonder how many Palestinian art galleries israel has already bulldozed for the benefit of Russian jews imported to squat in the West Bank...550,000 illegal "settlers" are already there burning down olive orchards and diverting West Bank water sources...

ReplyI hope they arrest Breivik's zionist friends who fled back to Israel.I'm sure these Israeli zionists helped him.The kids he killed were organizing a Boycott Israel campaign in Norway.The Labor Party supports the Palestinians.
Sentiments aside , This is WRONG VS RIGHT!. Muslims are being killed on daily basis in their hundreds by the West from Somalia to Yemen, Afghanistan to Libya ,yet some people don't see any wrong in that partly as a result of daily consumption of lies form media and politicians and partly due to ignorance. If terror by a Muslim is condemned, what makes terror by non-Muslims ( army and individuals) against Muslims justified?. By and large, Muslims have no problem with the West. But after the demise of the Soviet Union, the West insist on controlling every resources on earth particularly oil, and by any means necessary including invasions, occupations, assassination of uncooperative leaders, regime changes, smear campaigns, distortion of facts and misinformation. Almost all the so called terrorists come from countries with vast oil resources which are directly or indirectly control by western companies. Countries where the West has little or no control of their resources and which are considered enemies (Iran, Libya) have less terror suspects than say Saudi Arabia. This is simply a 21st century struggle for control of resources which has nothing to do with religion or culture...

Nuke Israel. Jews are behind multiculti and DIE-versity. Don't be stupid, don't let your daughter become the next Katie Piper whose face is burnt off by acid or worse the next Nicole Brown Chimpson. Resist Jews and cultural marxism today while there's still time left. Multicult= Jews genocide of whites. Search out Dr. William Pierce's articles and broadcasts and listen and learn.

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Both parties are a bunch of thieves and paid off stoolies! If you think EITHER PARTY has YOUR best interest in mind, Think AGAIN! They played another dog and pony show and all we ever get is the shaft!

In the beginning, Jews invaded the land of milk and honey, called Canaan which was filled with evil terrible people called the Canaanites as well as the even more evil Philistines. The Jews conquered that land, although they had no prior attachment to that land.

Time passes and the Jews control certain tracts of that land. They somehow get into trouble with the Romans who burn down Jerusalem, but do not exile the Jews from Palestine. If that had been the case, there would not have been any Jews to fight the Romans in the subsequent three wars, the last one ending in 135 AD. So they basically hung around.

Time passes. Somehow, now the Jews are in Eastern Europe. They no longer speak Aramaic, but a distinct type of Germanic/Central European language, which uses the Hebrew alphabet. A people never loses their language, ever. We are told to believe that their life was hard, that they were constantly persecuted due to their faith in God. Probably because they were black/brown. However, how they got White is very strange, as surely they had to mix with the natives in Eastern Europe, and thus had to have been accepted over generation after generation for that to happen. Paul Newman is pretty white; Jewish looking, but mighty white. What do we know what an original Jew looked like? Like the Palestinians.

Time passes. The Germans are somehow ticked off at the Yiddish for being too powerful and acting like a country within a country. Hitler accuses them of controlling the press, the banks, and politics. He also claims that they are not loyal to Germany, that they are Jewish first and German second. He goes on to do terrible things to them.

In the meantime, let's assume that these are indeed the offspring of the 'original' Hebrews of Palestine. So they decide to somehow influence the very same governments to which they had been accused of controlling through their money interests (UK, and USA) into giving them a home in Palestine, their ancestral homeland. The population of Israel in 1917 is 90/10% Arab/Jew. Through illegal immigration, the Jewish population rises. During WW2, many Jews in the region fight with the Nazis against the British.The Jews embark on a campaign of terror, pushing out the indigenous people that were living there and had houses and had cities. The Yiddish plant bombs and kill a lot of British. They even bombed the UK embassy in Rome and the King David Hotel- the worst death toll due to terrorism up until 9/11. The leaders of these terrorists, who became Israeli Prime Ministers (yes plural) then got 1/2 of the land from the British. They then drove out the native peasants with tanks they had gotten from the UK and USA and claimed that God had given them that land.

Now we see the Master Race (oops), umm, the Chosen People, create a system of apartheid and at the same time refuse to let back in the natives whose land they stole, for fear that if they were to allowed to vote, they would lose control in the same manner that the white south africans lost control.

In all of recorded history, there was only one civilization which the Jews could not destroy. Because of this, they have given it the silent treatment. Few American college graduates with a Ph.D. degree could tell you what the Byzantine Empire was. It was the Empire of East Rome, set up by Roman leaders after the Jews had destroyed Rome. This empire functioned in Constantinople for twelve hundred years, the longest duration of any empire in the history of the world. Throughout the history of Byzantium, as it was known, by imperial edict, no Jew was allowed to hold any post in the Empire, nor was he allowed to educate the young. The Byzantine Empire finally fell to the Turks after twelve centuries of prosperity, and the Jews have attempted to wipe out all traces of its history.
Yet its edicts against the Jews were not cruel; in fact, the Jews lived unmolested and prosperously in the empire throughout its history, but here alone the vicious cycle of host and parasite did not take place. It was a Christian civilization, and the Jews were not able to exercise any influence. Nor did the Orthodox priests bewilder their congregations with any vicious lies about Christ being a Jew. No wonder the Jews want to eradicate the memory of such a culture. It was Ezra Pound who launched upon a study of Byzantine civilization, and who reminded the world of this happily non-Jewish land. From the Byzantines, Pound derived his no-violent formula for controlling the Jews. "The answer to the Jewish problem is simple," he said. "Keep them out of banking, out of education, out of government."

And this is how simple it is. There is no need to kill the Jews. In fact, every pogrom in history has played into their hands, and has in many instances been cleverly instigated by them. Get the Jews out of banking and they cannot control the economic life of the community. Get the Jews out of education and they can not pervert the minds of the young to their subversive doctrines. Get the Jews out of government and they cannot betray the nation.