Read more: Irish Church relocated a known pedophile to California
Read more: US survivors plan to sue Archdiocese of Dublin and pedophile treatment center over clerical abuse
Diagnosed pedophile, former priest, Patrick Joseph McCabe, who is being extradited to Ireland for abusing six boys, is being subjected to cruel conditions in his US prison according to his attorney.
Robert Beles, McCabe's attorney yesterday condemned the prison where McCabe is being housed. Beles said that McCabe (74) is being held in "freezing" isolated conditions in Alameda, California. He has been awaiting extradition since July 2010.
Beles said "He is in isolation and he’s freezing and his health is very bad. The jail is cold and when you’re 70 years old, it makes it all the more difficult. I have had complaints from young men housed at the jail that it’s too cold, so for someone like him, who is in ill-health and has poor circulation, it’s extremely difficult.
“He is suffering and I think people in Ireland would not approve of how he is being treated in the US. It is cruel,” the Irish Times reports.
The former priest suffers from diabetes and other medical conditions. Beles questions whether he can get suitable medical care in prison. Although McCabe has been on suicide watch for several months Beles claims his client is not suicidal.
McCabe was a notorious figure and survivors of his abuse continue to surface in California.
On Wednesday the court in Alameda rejected an appeal against an earlier court ruling that he should be sent to Ireland to face trial.
Beles has now vowed to continue to fight against the extradition order and will bring the case to the Ninth Circuit Court, the final appeal court. If this fails Secretary of State Hillary Clinton could be asked to rubber stamp the extradition. However, this could take months.
McCabe is objecting to the extradition because if he was accused of similar crimes in the United States the statute of limitations would run out. Four men in California have already come forward accusing
McCabe of abuse in California. However, after the age of 26, charges of child abuse will not stand in court.
These four men now plan to sue the Dublin Archdiocese and the Catholic Church-run clinic where
McCabe was diagnosed as a pedophile before being placed back into the community.
Currently McCabe is wanted on charges of sexually abusing six boys while working in Dublin in the 1970s and 1980s.
Read more: Irish Church relocated a known pedophile to California
Read more: US survivors plan to sue Archdiocese of Dublin and pedophile treatment center over clerical abuse
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.Nanaof5 | Apr 11, 2011, 08:54 AM EDT
Sorry for him-I think not!
KMcSinger | Apr 10, 2011, 11:49 PM EDT
This man destroyed the lives of countless innocent children and he's complaining about a bit of cold. Really?
billyjustin | Apr 10, 2011, 07:11 AM EDT
hi oldboreen, A brother cassidy kept us under pressure and Br Joseph was in charge when i was in the Artane Boys Band,I was there from 1960-1966. hope this helps, feel free to ask any queries.. billy
LilPaddy | Apr 09, 2011, 07:03 PM EDT
Hi Billy, got your message below.... When you email include a Ph# and a "best time to call", keeping in mind that I'm 8hrs behind you..... Paddy.
noeldoyle | Apr 09, 2011, 04:57 PM EDT
The former priest Mc Cabe was a curate in the parish of Artane for a number of years where he abused altar boys. I know two of them and they are completely messed up because of this abuse. Even though I was quite young and unaware of the abuse at that time, I remember being distincly suspicious, when the then parish priest Fr. Carberry stood up on the altar and declared that Mc Cabe would not be returing to the parish because of throat problems. He was transferred to Dunlaoighre. I don't he get any sympathy from any fairminded person. It is time that he stopped fighting his extradition and faced up to crimes and showed some remorse.
ladub123 | Apr 09, 2011, 12:09 PM EDT
Send him to god put him down like the dog he is
Irishphotograph | Apr 09, 2011, 11:12 AM EDT
@ Gearoid The Irish Christian monks that were here had their own Christian church set apart from Roman Catholicism..the Roman church in Ireland has put a veil over the nation promoting dead religion...No to you, No to Rome, No to London and No to Brussels
oldboreen | Apr 09, 2011, 10:20 AM EDT
A query to 'billyjustin', don't wish to cause you pain, but who was the head of Artane when you were suffering so much abuse. I need to know.
oldboreen | Apr 09, 2011, 10:16 AM EDT
Why not let him take his chances in the general prison population. The general prison population can assist this accused pedophile in finding a warmer place in the prison - perhaps the prison laundry. Accidents can happen in a prison laundry.
billyjustin | Apr 09, 2011, 05:18 AM EDT
Hi Paddy, just got back from the dirty ol town,im from ballyfermot and inchicore,received your message and would be more than willing to help with your project.We live in Limerick and just got back from New Jersey a few weeks ago, had a fantastic time in Manhatten. will e-mail you soon and talk further.. Billy
JimMcGarity | Apr 08, 2011, 11:55 PM EDT
He will get what GOD wants him to have haha
badolan | Apr 08, 2011, 10:59 PM EDT
Lawyers/liars what's the difference? How unfortunate that he is somewhat cold. However, it'll be a lot hotter where he's headed. It is true that child molesters aren't popular in US prisons. Oh well. I doubt that he'll be voted the most popular in an Irish prison either.
beloverelf | Apr 08, 2011, 08:41 PM EDT
I don't see the problem.
mamaginnty | Apr 08, 2011, 08:10 PM EDT
Mr Beles thinks the people of Ireland would not approve.... Come on over Mr Beles, your in for a big surprise.
dublinguy | Apr 08, 2011, 07:15 PM EDT
hi everyone, im making a collection so this priest will have a personal guard while he does his time behind bars please send your donations to ( KARMAISABITCHYOUMORON )
teddybear | Apr 08, 2011, 06:24 PM EDT
Ahhh,,Poor baby.
eibhleann7 | Apr 08, 2011, 03:12 PM EDT
It's called purgatory....it's in the Bible. You should've spent more time reading it, instead of molesting innocent children! You make your bed, now lay in it.
mrkennedy | Apr 08, 2011, 02:57 PM EDT
Interesting that the Irish Time says that the Irish people would not approve of how he is being treated. What about the six boys that he abused while "ACTING" AS A PRIEST!!!!!!!!!
Gearoid4 | Apr 08, 2011, 02:46 PM EDT
@Irishphotograph, It seems that you have blinded by celtic mist in stating that there was an 'Irish' Christian church before Rome extended her jurisdiction. The early Irish christians were never out of communion with Rome from the start. Pope Celestine in 431 sent the deacon Paladius who established a mission in Leinster. Some think that he was the original Patrick or got mixed up with the man who was to be Our National Patron who arrived some 20-30 years later. There was no major schisms in the global church prior to the divisions of Christianity into Latin and Orthodox christianity in 1050 A.D.
LilPaddy | Apr 08, 2011, 02:36 PM EDT
Hi, Me again, I was just reading the posting below and I noticed that I left out the .net at the end of my email.... So, Billy Boy the email is pat.doran@sbcglobal.net Sorry about that.... Paddy
Tilliewillow | Apr 08, 2011, 02:25 PM EDT
I'm all for it.
LilPaddy | Apr 08, 2011, 02:24 PM EDT
HI, I'm responding to the first "comment/posting" regarding this story (by billyjustin). Hey Billy, I'm a Kimmage Dub, now in Ca, and I may need a little help with a project I'm doing in Ir. regarding a memorial site for the institutions "residents"....(USING MY OWN SHILLING!!) And I am also in the process of making a (video) documentary regarding Daingean (my "home" from 58to60,#520) with a title "What the Oblates Knew.. And When They Knew it".... I got inside Daingean on Aug.31,2010 and got video proof of charges I had made in my 08 app.to the R.Bd. (of accounts which was NOT in The Ryan Report). I'm at pat.doran@sbcglobal or 951-264-7103
CitizenWhy | Apr 08, 2011, 02:00 PM EDT
In general US prisons are cruel, usually far too cruel, but possibly not cruel enough for this creep.
shenanigans.tri | Apr 08, 2011, 01:57 PM EDT
www.stjosephschurch.net/leoxiii.htm. This site mentions how Pope Leo XIII in 1884 had a vision and the demise of the RCC today.
shenanigans.tri | Apr 08, 2011, 01:52 PM EDT
The origional Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel. www.stjosephschurch.net/leoxiii.htm. This site also mentions about the Vision of Pope Leo XIII and how he forsaw the demise of the RCC in this present day. This is an important read for Catholics.
hybernia | Apr 08, 2011, 01:29 PM EDT
GOOD.
mountainyetti | Apr 08, 2011, 12:59 PM EDT
Can't but echo the 'boo-hoos'. Cold in California? Wonder if this will seem great compared to the fire of the lake that awaits him. Maybe this will keep him awake to relive the horrors of his past and bring him to repentance. Praying that his victims can find healing in forgiveness and freedom for themselves.
Irishphotograph | Apr 08, 2011, 12:54 PM EDT
If you think thats bad Mr. wait to get a load of hell! Truly Repent and be Saved..... NO TO ROMAN CATHOLICISM AND THEIR FALSE RELIGION IN MY COUNTRY..BRING BACK THE IRISH CHRISTIAN CHURCH BEFORE ROME CAME TO THESE SHORES....LONDON, ROME AND NOW BRUSSELS! NO TO EXTERNAL INFLUENCE IN IRELAND!
Irishphotograph | Apr 08, 2011, 12:27 PM EDT
Oh, boo hoo, the poor defrocked piece o' crap is cold? Maybe they should cut him loose from PC and let him bunk with a roomie in general pop. I know a guy named Brutus who would just love to have a chat with this chester who has brought shame to other priests and disgrace to our church. Hopefully, the cold will take its toll on his frail body like he took his toll on those innocent lives. In the end, God will judge.
manhattan | Apr 08, 2011, 12:23 PM EDT
He is in isolation because the prisoners who despise pedophiles would tear him apart. Don't the church tell us to suffer for our sins? Let him freeze because it still doesn't compare to the hurt he caused those children.
LoyolaAlum | Apr 08, 2011, 12:01 PM EDT
In regard to sex abuse and suicide, Jesuit Fr. James Chevedden reported that he was a victim of sex abuse to Fr. Thomas Smolich, now the top Jesuit official in the United States with an office in Washington, DC. Two years later the Jesuit Order announced the suspicious death of Fr. Chevedden as a suicide by highlighting that Fr. Chevedden was allegedly mentally ill in the opening lines of Fr. Chevedden’s obituary. It is unusual to include alleged mental illness in the opening lines of an obituary for a priest. The last Jesuit to see Fr. Chevedden alive was Fr. Jerold Lindner, who is now in the U.S. national news because a man, who Fr. Lindner allegedly abused, allegedly struck Lindner. The police never questioned Fr. Lindner in regard to the suspicious death of Fr. Chevedden. And now the police are protecting Fr. Lindner by prosecuting Lindner’s sex abuse victim (alleged).
Derrylass627 | Apr 08, 2011, 11:06 AM EDT
Oh, boo-hoo for the poor pedophile. So what if he's cool and sick. When I think of the children he abused and what they have had to go through I can't feel any pity for this creep! Those children's lives were changed forever because of McCabe's abuse. Let him freeze!
sidhemajik | Apr 08, 2011, 10:58 AM EDT
No amount of suffering in prison will ever match the suffering of those he abused. I think it's all rather karmic.
Searlit | Apr 08, 2011, 10:38 AM EDT
I don't blame you for not wanting him back in Ireland. Keep him in prison, no matter which country he's in.
dmdowner | Apr 08, 2011, 10:28 AM EDT
According to Dante, the lowest level of hell is icey cold. McCabe is right where he belongs!
billyjustin | Apr 08, 2011, 09:50 AM EDT
i was abused by the priests and brothers in artane dublin, i got compensation but to think these animals are still around puts the shivers in me, if you lads in america want any help in ireland let me know... billy.