Former Catholic priest accused of sexual abuse hired to pat down customers by TSA

They hired 50,000 workers to tell us to take our shoes off?

I don't even know how to respond to this situation. The man should NOT have access to children at all. Period. Whether found guilty or not, the allegations are on the table and should be taken seriously. He is being paid for doing what he enjoys most. As far as the background checks go, this situation leaves me with little faith in our "security" system. It's downright frightening. Who else is part of the "team"? Scary thought.

The thing that makes this worse is being an innocent traveler and having to be patted down would be horrendous and humiliating enough - knowing that these TSA agents didn't have proper background checks is terrifying, since these people are purportedly there for security reasons. Just what are they keeping safe, the manufacturers and investors in the x-ray, I mean, 'scanners'?

The 3rd last paragraph tstates, "an allegation does not warrant dismissal". The fact remains that this former priest has NOT been convicted of any crime. In any case,when it comes to security in air travel,the one-size-fits-all policy is most unfair to the 99% plus of air travelers who are respectable, trustworthy and law-abiding but are presumed to be potential terrorists as soon as they buy an airline ticked - a very erroneous presumtion indeed.

"$75,600 a year." It sounds like he's being rewarded for being an abuser. When half of Americans make less than $56,000 a year, it seems the country has turned upside down. Decent honest law-biding people are given a ticket to a lower standard of living, while criminals are given jobs that give them access to innocent children and a salary that allows them to live a better standard of living. Why? Because all the corporations involved in TSA care about is money.

Three comments: 1. he was "banned from attending church services"? By whom? How is this "enforced"? 2. accused and charged for actions 30 years ago. He was then 35 years old. Are these actions likely to influence or his actions 30 years later? 3. Is 'patting down' in a public space as an airort in the sight of hundreds of witnesses on the same level as 'groping' a teen (privately?) a generation ago? Sounds to me like the media making a mountain out of a molehill, probably to attract the prurient curiosity of the public.