The tribunal was the result of the SSPX convincing the distraught parents of the victim not to go to media, promising they would "handle" the matter. Your browser does not support the video tag.Īn SSPX tribunal in Switzerland had tried Abbet in ecclesiastical court in 2006 for abuse allegations arising from a boys camp he ran in Valais some years earlier, as well as abuse charges from Abbet's time in Argentina.
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I have temptations."Įlsewhere in the taped conversation, he made what appeared to be a confession about his abuse of three young boys at the Brussels academy: "Some things might have happened."Īccording to the mother of one of the boys abused by Abbet, who spoke directly with Church Militant, Wailliez actually placed Abbet in charge of the boys' dorms - not only giving him full and complete access to the students, but also giving him authority over them, a role he would use to take sexual advantage of victims as young as six.Įven worse, Abbet came to Brussels with a known history of abuse allegations and a 10-year ban on being around children - a ban that was almost immediately violated by then-Superior General Bp. Ever since that 2006 affair, it's as if it had triggered in me. The audio recordings include incriminating statements made by Abbet, in which he told Wailliez, in discussing the 2005/06 allegations, "I went to see Bishop Fellay. Wailliez was excoriated for withholding the audio evidence, which would have supported the victims' claims, in his attempt to hide his own complicity. Taped audio recordings from six years prior were produced in court, with Wailliez called as witness, revealing that Wailliez had been made aware of Abbet's predilection for boys at the time, but failed to take any steps to keep him away from children. Benoît Wailliez, then-prior of the SSPX chapel where Abbet lived - under the same roof as the SSPX school. The most damning indictment came against SSPX priest Fr. Their responsibility is frighteningly significant.'Īccording to a 2017 Brussels report, "The entire file has shown heavy dysfunction within the Society of St. "We can't always be covering up matters and allowing a predator around children." "Their responsibility is frighteningly significant," he said.
Frédéric Abbet, SSPX in 2017, sentenced to prison for abusing boys at the Society's L'École de Notre Dame academy in Brussels in 2010–2011.
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Pius X should have been in the dock ," argued Prosecutor Stéphane Lempereur on the final day of trial of now-convicted pederast Fr. The Society should take note that Church Militant is in direct contact with victims and witnesses in Europe, as well as other parts of the world, and thus our reliance is directly from the sources, rather than from accounts derived merely "from newspapers or blogs."Ĭontrary to the SSPX's attempt to paint this and other European cases of SSPX abuse and cover-up as no more than a "media trial" by Church Militant, there was an actual trial in Belgium where the prosecutor in court not only publicly accused the SSPX of complicity in endangering and harming children, he insisted the Society itself should've been put on trial. While there is a great deal to be criticized in the statement, we note in particular the SSPX's claim that our exposé reports on several abuse cases in Europe "mostly using truncated accounts taken from newspapers or blogs."
Frédéric Abbet, SSPX, convicted in 2017 for child sex abuse Pius X (SSPX) - the third so far since Church Militant released a first-of-its-kind exposé detailing the decades of abuse and cover-up in its ranks - again fails to offer a detailed refutation of any abuse case our investigation revealed. The latest statement by the Society of St.
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