“Defendant would then take Victim out places like Taco Bell which made Victim feel good as he did not have a dad.”

Re cooperation of the Franciscans: “It should be noted that the Catholic Church has done nothing to assist this department in this investigation,” writes the arresting officer.

(Remember these acts we write about here are those of just 1 of 6000 pedophile priests counted so far in the U.S. City of Angels continues to read through the Probation Report of Father Robert Van Handel from 1994 and as we read, we share what we find with the world by blogging here.)

Victim: “The molestations happened so often it was like taking a shower or putting on my shoes. It actually got to the point where it seemed like the normal type of thing to do.”

Victim “Didn’t feel anything wrong was going on in that he completely trusted the defendant,” considering on other occasions Defendant gave victim Communion at Mass, and when they were camping or during small gatherings.

Page 12 of the Probation Report continues: “The defendant kept a sleeping bag for Victim and the defendant would always sleep in his own room apart from him.” (Likely because the priest would then go off to masturbate, considering the rest of the testimony-ke)

Regarding the victim in the case that goes RVH locked up in 1994:

“Defendant could not recall when he actually met the victim,” Father never present, mother working two jobs.

“The victim appeared to him to be a very needy boy, which he admits made him ‘particularly attractive.’”

RVH Denied molesting this particular boy.

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“It should be noted that the Catholic Church has done nothing to assist this department in this investigation, and I feel several of Van Handel’s supporters are in denial or don’t understand how many lives Van Handel destroyed.” Arresting officer
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After hearing of another choir director being charged with child molestation, his MO challenged to back rubs, “But the backrubs were stimulating to defendant,” reads Probation Report of Robert Van Handel, Franciscan ex-con friar from Santa Barbara, now living in Santa Cruz. ”After the massages, he would leave the victim, go to his room, and masturbate to memories of what he had just done.”

After his arrest he said to police: “I felt at the time that if I were not touching his genitals, I wasn’t abusing him.” Van Handel also told police “he never considered what he was doing to all of his victims as harming.”

Addendum to the Probation Report:

RE: Defendant Employment

Occupation/Job Skills: Catholic priest

Present employer: Franciscans

Date: 1975 to present.

Monthly Income: $75/mo.

Monthly Expenses: -0-

“It appears that all therapy costs are being paid by the Catholic Church.”’

Fr. Antonio Cortes was was at his desk at the Church when police arrested him April 16, 2009. As Officer Villegas moved to get his handcuffs, Cortes reached for a cell phone on his desk. Villegas grabbed the cell phone before Cortes could take it. Cortes affirmed the cell phone and laptop belonged to him. Villegas took Cortes outside to an unmarked police vehicle near the Church in Salinas, California. (From news reports Jan. 8, 2010.)

The defense says police served a search warrant for Cortes’ home and then took evidence from Cortes’ office.  Actually the search warrant was written for “rectory at 1747 Second Ave.”  or St. Mary of the Nativity Church, the Monterey Herald reported. Again the Church uses its own internal structure as a way to obstruct justice.

It is not clear if a rectory is an office or a home, the Defense argues, so the Court has to throw out all evidence seized that night at the Church. On January 7, 2010, Cortes’ attorney, “began an effort to suppress child-pornography evidence in the case,” is the way the Monterey Herald put it January 8th, and the hearing on Motion to Suppress by the Defense will continue Thursday Feb. 4 in Monterey Superior Court in Salinas, Courtroom 3, 1:30 PM.

Is it a Rectory, or a Home, or an Office?

Does it Matter?

When this is the “alleged” crime: The pastor of St. Mary of the Nativity Church in Salinas is accused of sodomy with a 16-year-old boy in the rectory of the church April 14, then providing him alcohol. The boy told police that Cortes was giving him “spiritual massages” and alcohol for a few years, beginning at Holy Trinity Church in Greenfield, where Cortes was previously assigned Lawyer Eugene Martinez maintains Salinas police illegally seized an external hard drive from the Rev. Antonio Cortes’ church office when their search warrant was written for his home.

Further Testimony on the Defense Motion to Suppress Evidence tomorrow, Thursday February 4th: Read more at City of Angels: Salinas priest asks court to suppress evidence

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Read ongoing coverage of the Epidemic of Pedophile Priests in the Catholic Church at City of Angels Network

One woman pulled two behind her, head down, beelining up the sidewalk. A mom and daughter did not make eye contact with anyone as each pulled a suitcase behind them. A man stood outside the Hollywood Dive Motel from which he had just been evicted, fresh showered, half dressed, the handle of his suitcase on wheels in his fist.  He looked up and down the boulevard, the look on his face said where do I go from here, then he took off walking, wandering aimlessly pulling his suitcase on wheels behind him.

Suitcases on wheels! 

Homeless people are pulling suitcases on wheels today, not the tacky grocery carts of last year. Today’s savvy L.A. homeless gal is pulling a faux Samsonite as she walks up and down Sunset Boulevard, looking for a place to wait out the night. No doubt it’s a sign that a better class of people is taking to the streets now than the grocery cart pushing tramps of the last couple decades.

Today homeless people have style. I lingered last night outside after the dark came, a time when usually I’m hunkered in my apartment in East Hollywood with booby traps set at the door and underneath the windows. If anyone tries to break in my home, they’ll make so much racket, they’ll have to run off, that’s my home security system.

Last night I decided to observe this new phenomenon of homeless people pulling suitcases with all their belongings in them instead of those shabby grocery carts we all have gotten so tired of seeing.

A woman stopped in front of the 99 Cent Store, dropped her pink flowered suitcase, stepped off the curb into the street, pulled her skirt up to below her knees, bent her legs, and urinated. I thought how considerate of her to step over to a place where the pee would go down a gutter and drain out to the ocean, instead of leaving it just in a puddle on the sidewalk like those guys who push the grocery carts do.

An approaching car on Sunset Boulevard honked at her to get out of the parking lane, it says no stopping 4 to 7 PM, but she couldn’t move because the stream of liquid had not finished pouring out from between her legs onto the asphalt. Other than that no one reacted.

Homeless people stopping to pee and poop wherever they are is an ordinary thing to see on L.A. streets.

Pulling suitcases on wheels, now that is a new trend!  No doubt the suitcase on wheels will be a de rigeur fashion accessory next year.

The elegant peeing lady wore a bright pink ensemble from head to toe, including the pink flowered suitcase on wheels she pulled and the pink scarf wrapped tight around her head, doubtless to keep the lice from jumping out onto the heads of passers by.

Again, what a considerate homeless woman.

Her entire color coordinated ensemble worked so well, and she retained an air of dignity as she returned to her suitcase, pulled out tissue, reached up and wiped herself, then deposited the wad in a nearby trash bin.

It’s nice to see the homeless starting to take better care of themselves, and I’m glad they are finally giving up the rattling shopping carts for these much more civilized rolling suitcases. It makes them look less. . . Homeless. Much more acceptable to the rest of us here on Sunset Boulevard in the 5600 block.

Leaning on a parking meter, I watched another glorious sunset last night, then when I noticed there were more a lot more people out walking than usual, I was glad to see it at first, my tunnel vision can be so bad. My first thought was, wow, a promenade. L.A. people are finally getting out of their cars and walking, becoming ambulatory…

It’s just a better class of people are becoming homeless today. Their last grasp of dignity is the suitcase versus the grocery cart. The suitcase means you still have a hairline connection with civilized life. You still sleep at least a few nights a week in a motel, your belongings are still folded and clean as you carry them with you everywhere you go. You’re not down to the plastic bags of mildew covered treasures the hard core homeless guys carry around in their grocery carts. The new homeless would never even think of stealing a grocery cart, they can still purchase a suitcase, albeit flimsy and cheap, but it’s still a suitcase.

The mom and daughter were heading towards a shelter I know of for women and children, my own daughter and I stayed there 11 months in 2004.  They looked like any working mom rushing somewhere like between child care centers, except for the suitcases.  Hope they could still get in The Lighthouse that late.  The mom gestured to walk faster, the girl’s ponytail flew back and forth, she kept looking back.  They were trying to get away from the lady in pink, who at first seemed oddly to be with them. 

All around me, everywhere I looked last night, I saw clean working class people pulling suitcases after them on the sidewalks, the new homeless.  At least in L.A. you finally see other people when you take a walk.  Used to be everybody in this town had a car, now. . . .

By Kay Ebeling
Producer, City of Angels Network

This story is part of a work in progress at City of Angels 2

Pictures at City of Angels today show Fr. Mario Pezzotti surrounded by children, naked children.  Pezzotti is one of 81 priests listed in the Sipe-Murray Report: “International Traffic in Catholic Priests Who Abuse.”  Fr. Mario Pezzotti is in Bishop Accountability as having four accusations, one that led to a financial settlement.  According to a City of Angels source, Fr. Mario Pezzotti is today a “Provincial for a Xaverian province in Brazil.” The Kayapo Indians often decorate their bodies with natural paints instead of wearing clothing.

Pics at City of Angels show Pezzotti surrounded by and holding in his arms, naked Kayapo Indian childred.  (We are unable to upload the pics here at Alternet…)

Three pictures are at City of Angels 2010: http://cityofangels8.blogspot.com  At City of Angels you can view the three photos and more of the story.

By Kay Ebeling, from City of Angels headquarters in Hollywood California, the City of Angels is everywhere