donderdag, mei 31, 2012
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Onze lieve vrouwtje
geef de zon een dauwtje
geef de zon een harde schop
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1 Kor 6,1-11 Service Centrum Padua
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Edoch, het is buitengewoon onwaarschijnlijk dat er aan mij een computertechneut verloren is gegaan.
Het goede nieuws is echter: mijn nonnen hadden gelijk. ik ben gewoon eigenwijs.
Zelfs eigenwijzer dan dat oude bakbeest!
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dinsdag, mei 29, 2012
Tweede Kamer stemt in met verruiming spreekrecht
Namens mijn moeder, mijn vader én mijn grootmoeder:
J' accuse.
En uwes kunt op uw kop gaan staan.
Een wetsvoorstel van staatssecretaris Teeven van Veiligheid en Justitie om het spreekrecht voor slachtoffers en nabestaanden te verruimen is vandaag met algemene stemmen aanvaard door de Tweede Kamer. Het bestaande spreekrecht wordt uitgebreid om beter tegemoet te komen aan de noden die in de praktijk zijn gebleken.
Het wetsvoorstel maakt deel uit van het kabinetsbeleid om slachtoffers beter te ondersteunen. Spreekrecht kan het slachtoffer helpen bij de verwerking van het misdrijf en de dader confronteren met de gevolgen.
Nu nog mag één nabestaande zijn verhaal op de terechtzitting doen. Straks krijgen naast de (voormalige) levensgezel van het overleden slachtoffer maximaal drie nabestaanden het recht om op zitting te spreken. Dat kunnen een kind of ouder van het slachtoffer, maar ook andere familieleden zijn zoals grootouders, kleinkinderen, nichten, neven, tantes en ooms met wie het slachtoffer een hechte band had. Verder krijgen ouders of voogden spreekrecht bij minderjarige slachtoffers die vanwege hun jeugdige leeftijd niet in staat zijn op zitting te vertellen over de gevolgen van het misdrijf. Minderjarige slachtoffers die zelf op zitting kunnen spreken, mogen dat blijven doen.
Het spreekrecht kan ook worden uitgeoefend namens slachtoffers, als die als gevolg van het misdrijf lichamelijk of geestelijk niet in staat zijn om zelf het woord te voeren tijdens de zitting. De kring van sprekers is dezelfde als die van de nabestaanden. Slachtoffers of nabestaanden die zelf geen gebruik van hun spreekrecht durven of willen maken, mogen dat straks ook hun raadsman of medewerkers van Slachtofferhulp Nederland laten doen.
[21] Bent u als slaaf geroepen, laat het u niet verdrieten; en zelfs als u vrij kunt worden, blijf dan toch liever slaaf. [22]
Want de slaaf die door de Heer geroepen wordt, is een vrijgelatene van
de Heer; en omgekeerd is hij die als vrij man geroepen werd, een slaaf
van Christus. [23] U bent gekocht en de prijs is betaald. Word geen slaven van mensen.
[21] Wanneer u als slaaf geroepen bent, moet u dat niets kunnen schelen (hoewel u de kans om vrij te worden zeker moet benutten). [22] Want een slaaf die door de Heer geroepen is, is een vrijgelatene van de Heer, zoals degene die als vrij man geroepen is een slaaf van Christus is. [23] U bent gekocht en betaald, dus wees geen slaven van mensen.
[21] Wanneer u als slaaf geroepen bent, moet u dat niets kunnen schelen (hoewel u de kans om vrij te worden zeker moet benutten). [22] Want een slaaf die door de Heer geroepen is, is een vrijgelatene van de Heer, zoals degene die als vrij man geroepen is een slaaf van Christus is. [23] U bent gekocht en betaald, dus wees geen slaven van mensen.
maandag, mei 28, 2012
State involvement in the Magdalene Laundries; Justice for Magdalenes One year after UN Recommendation Magdalene women are no closer to an apology or redress
24/5-2012 klik
(1) The State was involved in sending women and girls to the Magdalene Laundries and ensuring that they remained there. The State regarded the Magdalene Laundries as an opportunity to deal with various social problems (e.g. illegitimacy, poverty, disability, so-called licentious behaviour, domestic and sexual abuse, youth crime, infanticide). It repeatedly sought to funnel diverse populations of women and girls to the Magdalene Laundries
and in return the Religious Orders obtained an entirely unpaid and literally
captive workforce for their commercial laundry enterprises.
(2) The State also provided the Religious Orders with direct and indirect financial support – direct financial support from “capitation” (per head) grants for certain of the women and girls incarcerated in the Magdalene Laundries and indirect financial support in terms of valuable State contracts for cleaning laundry, as well as one-off non-contract commercial laundry work for various Irish Government departments and agencies and also State capitation grants for other aspects of the relevant convents’ operations (e.g.Industrial Schools).
(3) The State entirely failed to supervise the Religious Orders’ operation of the Magdalene Laundries. It allowed women and girls to be incarcerated without any lawful authority and allowed them to be forced to work in servitude for no pay. It failed to enforce its own health and safety legislation, thereby allowing women and girls to work in dangerous working conditions. It failed to require girls of school-going age to be educated. It failed to ensure that social security contributions were paid in respect of women and girls in the Laundries and it failed to ensure that any woman or girl who died was issued with a death certificate.
(27/07/11 Sisters of Mercy will not meet Quinn)
22/07/11 Statement of the Sisters of Mercy)
Press Release 28th May 2012
One year after UN Recommendation Magdalene women are no closer to an apology or redress
Justice for Magdalenes (JFM), the survivor advocacy group, is today
submitting its NGO Follow Up Report to the United Nations Committee
Against Torture (UNCAT) in Geneva, Switzerland. This one-year follow up
process requires the Irish State to report back on measures taken to
put last June’s recommendation on the Magdalene Laundries into effect
(see copy of Recommendation below[Note 6]). JFM finds it unacceptable
that 12 months later Magdalene survivors are still waiting for an
apology, redress and reparation.
JFM will also present a courtesy copy of its Follow Up Report to Ms.
Felice Gaer, Director of the Jacob Blaustein Institute for the
Advancement of Human Rights and Vice-Chair of UNCAT at an event
co-sponsored with the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) in Dublin
on Monday afternoon (See events details below[Note 1] and please note
advisory regarding Ms. Gaer’s attendance at the event in a private
capacity [Note 3]).
JFM is delighted to help welcome Felice Gaer to Dublin and to thank
her personally for her efforts last year in challenging the ”voluntary”
nature of the Magdalene Laundries system, as asserted by the head of the
Irish delegation in Geneva last May. (See link to YouTube clip below,
Note 5.)
JFM’s Report welcomes the establishment of the Inter-departmental
Committee to “clarify state interaction with the Magdalene Laundries.”
Nevertheless, the Report points out the ways in which the
Inter-departmental Committee does not satisfy the “prompt, thorough and
independent” investigation called for by UNCAT. JFM has submitted over
1,500 pages of evidence of State interaction to the Committee. We look
forward to the publication of Committee’s report, due by mid-2012.
Maeve O’Rourke, JFM Advisory Committee member, who represented JFM at
UNCAT in Geneva and is speaking at today’s event said: “Our report
states clearly that the government has failed to implement the UNCAT
Recommendation, which called on the state to ensure that Magdalene
survivors obtain redress and to establish an independent investigation
into the full extent of the abuse. We acknowledge the important work of
Senator McAleese’s Committee, however, it should not impede the women’s
access to an apology and redress, and we also reserve the right to call
for a fully independent inquiry with statutory powers to compel
evidence.”
James M. Smith (Boston College and JFM Advisory Committee) said:
“While JFM will continue to cooperate with the Interdepartmental
Committee, we assert that there is ample evidence of state involvement
with the Magdalene Laundries to warrant an apology, pensions and
restoring lost wages to this group of aging and elderly women. They need
help now while still alive to benefit from it.”
This week JFM will submit the first tranche of newly gathered
survivor testimony to Senator McAleese, totalling 519 pages. Claire
McGettrick (JFM Advisory Committee member) said: “In the testimonies
already gathered, all survivors told us that they could not leave the
laundries, that the doors were locked and the windows inaccessible. If
they did try to leave they were returned by the Gardaí, while others
decided not to try to escape because they knew the same fate awaited
them. They all told us they could not complain, in most cases they
remarked that there was nobody to complain to; while others begged to
leave, often on a daily basis, but all were refused. Every single
survivor confirmed that they were never paid, that no inspections were
ever carried out and that no government official ever came to check on
them.”
JFM is delighted to participate in this event with ICCL and to share
our experience at UNCAT with other organisations. Central to JFM’s
UNCAT experience was the use of YouTube clips which were made possible
by the webcast hosted by the ICCL and the Irish Penal Reform Trust
(IRPT) who will also speak at today’s event
A radical look at today and tomorrow, Thomas P. Doyle, J.C.D., C.A.D.C., mei 2012
A Decade of Crisis, 2002-2012
Santa Clara University
May 11, 2012
I want to begin by sharing the nature of my involvement in the phenomenon
of sexual abuse by Catholic Clergy. I chose the word "phenomenon" intentionally
because I do not believe any of the commonly used descriptors -- "crisis,"
"scandal," "problem," come even close to naming what this has been and what it is
today.
My name is Tom Doyle. I was ordained a Dominican priest in 1970, forty
two years ago. I received my doctorate in Canon Law in 1978. I first became
involved in the issue of sexual abuse of minors when I had a position at the
Vatican embassy in Washington. My initial experiences involved not former
Father Gilbert Gauthe from Louisiana, but two bishops, both of whom are now
deceased. The year was 1982 but my most intense involvement, shared with Fr.
Dr. Michael Peterson and attorney Ray Mouton, began in 1984 and has not ended.
I would like to begin by stating my conclusion. Since 2002 the revelations
of widespread sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy and religious men and
women have spread to Europe, Latin America and to some Asian countries. In the
US the Catholic bishops have created a number of programs and policies and have
aggressively implemented their "Zero Tolerance" policy. In spite of these policies
and the expensive public relations efforts they have implemented, the attitude of
the bishops as a collective group has not only not changed but it has gotten worse.
Their disdain for the victims has become more and more obvious. The true
measure of their understanding of the horrific nature of the issue and their
commitment to change is not the programs, policies, documents or speeches they
generate but their unqualified attitude of compassion toward the victims and this is
scandalously lacking. The bishops simply don't get it or if they do get it, they don't
care.
I have been directly and intimately involved in most dimensions of this
travesty. I have been asked by accused priests to help with canonical and fraternal
support. I have given workshops and seminars to groups of diocesan and religious
priests. I have been an expert witness and a consultant in over a thousand civil and
criminal cases throughout the United States, in Canada, Ireland, England, Belgium,
Australia and New Zealand. I have been a consultant to or expert witness for
several of the grand jury investigations in the U.S. including the Philadelphia grand
juries of 2005 and 2011 and most recently I testified at the criminal trial in
Philadelphia. I have served as a consultant or expert witness for the government
commissions in Ireland beginning with the Ferns Commission and for the Cornwall
Inquiry in Canada.
The real truth about what has happened and what continues to happen is not
found in any reports or so-called audits provided by church sources but in the
documents obtained from dioceses and religious orders by victims' attorneys or
surrendered in the course of grand jury or similar official investigations. In 2010 I
was asked to address the special commission of the Belgian parliament. Over
these 30 years I have met and spoken with thousands of persons involved in one
way or another.
I am sharing all of this for no other reason than to illustrate the extent of my
experience and the context from which I make the remarks that follow.
The most important experiences I have ever had as a Christian and as a
priest have been the times spent with victims of sexual violation and spiritual
betrayal by Catholic priests and bishops. With nearly every victim I have had the
privilege of knowing, by far the most painful moment for me has been when I have
apologized for what we, the clergy, have done to them. Without exception, every
man and woman has told me that it was the first time anyone from the clergy has
done so. It is not a matter of parroting meaningless phrases such as "I'm sorry for
your suffering" or "I apologize for the pain you have endured," or "I regret if
mistakes were made" as the pope and some bishops have phrased it. For me the
only honest way to express this important sentiment has been to say, "I am deeply
sorry for what we have done to you and deeply ashamed that we, the clergy, have
hurt you in such a profoundly shameful manner."
The most heart-breaking moments have been the many times I have been
with parents who have shared with me the indescribable pain they experienced
when they learned that their little boy or little girl had been sexually violated by a
Catholic cleric.
These experiences that have changed my life and have reached to the core of
my being. These are the experiences that should have been the norm for the
bishops but sadly, they have been the very rare exception.
In spite of the assurances from Church officials that the worst is behind us,
this is clearly delusion and not reality. Until the primary focus shifts from the
hierarchy, to the victims, there will be no fundamental honesty in the Church's
response and nothing will change. Until the security of creating policies and
programs aimed at protecting the children of the future is superseded by the risk of
reaching out with honest, unqualified compassion to the victims of today, there
will be no true healing and no authentic movement forward. Until the efforts to
blame the secular culture, the media, the sexual revolution, anti-Catholicism,
victims' lawyers, Woodstock or Janis Joplin are abandoned and replaced with a
fearless, probing examination of the clerical culture and the hierarchical exercise
of power, the collective hope that this terrible nightmare will someday be "the
worry of a distant past" will never happen.
With respect to Tom Plante and Kathleen McChesney, I do not agree with
their statement at the beginning of chapter One that the "crisis" began on January
6, 2002 in Boston. It was and is not a crisis and it did not began in Boston.
The sexual violation of minors and adults by clerics of every rank has been a
tragic part of the Catholic Church from the first century. The scandalous evidence
of this is found in the Church's own official documentation. The tragic chapter of
this saga written in our own era did not begin in 2002 or in 1984. Those were
moments of revelation and exposure of a culture that had been hidden not too far
beneath the Church's surface. The difference between the present and the past is
this: whereas in prior centuries the institutional Church maintained control over
the response to waves of revelation, in our era it is not the pope and bishops who
are shaping the continuing history of clergy sexual abuse and hierarchical coverup,
but the victims.
What we have seen publicly exposed since the fall of 1984 has not been a
"crisis" of sexual abuse by clergy. A crisis is a happening with a beginning and an
end that is responded to either effectively or clumsily by the relevant powers. This
has been the revelation of the dark and toxic dimension of the institutional Catholic
Church. The focus has been on the sexual violation by Catholic deacons, priests,
bishops and cardinals as well as men and women religious.
But this tragedy is not fundamentally about sex.
It is about the abysmal and treacherous abuse of power ---
ecclesiastical power, church power, power that has
been given by the Creator only to do good but power that has been selfishly
perverted by those to whom it has been entrusted and which has brought some of
the most despicable harm imaginable to the most innocent and vulnerable members
of Christ's Church. The harm has been sexual, emotional and physical but I
believe that in the end, the most devastating harm has been the assault on the spirit.
A fundamental flaw inherent in every dimension of response has been the
concept of the Church reflected in the response. The image that consistently
comes through from the papal speeches to the scripted apologies of bishops to the
various protection programs, is the traditional though seriously flawed image of the
Church as institution, governed by the hierarchy, all celibate male clerics, none of
whom have ever experienced parenthood. The persistent struggle of the pope and
the bishops to maintain control over this nightmare that never ends is painfully
obvious: a struggle to exonerate themselves, a struggle to direct and determine
every aspect of the response and above all, a struggle to maintain some semblance
of superiority over the victims. We are constantly reminded of the grave harm
done to the Church and of the hope that someday the image and integrity of the
Church will be restored. We are constantly reminded that the bishops acted as
they did out of a misguided belief that they were acting for the good of the Church.
But the good of the Church has been their good and not the good of the victims or
even the Christian community.
The fundamental fault from the earliest centuries to the present has been the
failure to respond not as a papal monarchy, but as what the church really is, The
People of God.
We are constantly reminded of the many ways that dioceses and religious
orders have worked to protect the children of today and tomorrow. The National
Review Board, the diocesan review boards, the child protection offices, the
background screening protocols, the mandatory awareness programs -- are more
than simply commendable but are a remarkable movement to change the meaning
and reality of child safety in our society. But none of these endeavors would have
happened had they not been forced upon the institutional Church by the victims,
the media, the courts and the angry public.
There is however a dark side to the self-congratulatory picture painted by
today's hierarchy. Efforts to change state laws to ensure justice and healing to all
victims and to put more perpetrators out of commission are vigorously and
sometimes viciously opposed by the bishops in every State where such legislation
has been introduced, and this opposition comes at the cost of millions of dollars
donated by the remaining faithful. The excuses given for this organized sabotage
are so self-serving they are not worth mentioning. The true reason is the fear of
even more exposure and the appearance of more victims.
In spite of messages of compassion directed at victims and in spite of Pope
Benedict's direct orders to the bishops to do all in their power to heal, victims who
have the courage to go to court are most often subjected to embarrassing,
humiliating, brutalizing and revictimizing treatment not only by the lawyers hired
by the bishops but often by their public relations firms and by clerics themselves.
The victims will not be told by the institution that enabled their abusers what
efforts they may use in their attempts to heal. They go to court, contrary to the
libelous remarks of some, especially the apparent unofficial mouthpiece of at least
the archbishop of New York, Bill Donohue, not because they and their lawyers
want to bleed the Church of its money but because the civil courts have been the
only venue that has consistently provided justice and validation of the terror
suffered by these men and women. In reality a massive drain is the hundreds of
millions of dollars spent on defense lawyers to fight victims and the equally
exorbitant amounts spent on public relations firms hired to create the illusion that
the Church is doing what it was founded to do.
The most recent egregious example of this hypocrisy has been directed at the
main source of hope and recovery for countless victims; the concerted attempts to
destroy SNAP and defame its leaders for no other reason than the fact that they
have had the courage to stand up to and challenge the integrity of the institutional
Church.
The recent John Jay study on causes and contexts provided important data
that placed the sexual abuse from one chronological period into a broader sociocultural
context but this study didn't come close to examining the true causes.
These causes are in the sacrosanct domain the institutional Church goes to every
length to protect but it is the domain where we will begin to find the answers: the
clerical sub-culture and the narcissistic hierarchical elite that has allowed this
nightmare to happen and has failed to comprehend the profound depth of the
damage done, not to the Church as institution, but to the most important persons
among God's people, the victims.
This dark and toxic side of the Church will only began to fade when popes,
bishops, priests, religious and laity understand that when we say "Church" we
refer not to the hierarchy, the government or the power structure, but those harmed,
abused, marginalized and rejected by a Church that forgot that before all else it
is the People of God.
zondag, mei 27, 2012
royalties en vaticanale paddo's op vlaggetjesdag
zaterdag, mei 26, 2012
Ga daar maar eens niet plat van. Ding Dong; gezwam en andere witte truffels
Na informatie over de over de tafel rollende nullen voor een postzegel:
Citaat:
"Naschrift:
Uit de bijlagen in het boek blijkt dat de paus deze brief heeft ontvangen voordat hij Eijk tot kardinaal bombardeerde. Bertone deed hetzelfde met mijn brieven. De trein negeerde alle rode signalen met alle gevolgen van dien."
Bron: tja, 't kan van de behanger zijn, of van een franse zanger zijn of iemand uit den Haag.
Vooralsnog komt deze psychoporno van die Koepel Landelijk Overleg Kerkelijk Kindermisbruik
Een wederdienstje aan die borstroffelende econoom uit Rotterdam met zijn kinderen op de bank die de Kamercommissie opbiechtte van ze te hebben geleerd dat je naar slachtoffers moet luisteren , wellicht?
(die cursievering is van mij)
En voor wie de NRC wél mag lezen: zij/hij klikke
dinsdag, mei 22, 2012
zondag, mei 20, 2012
de "pedagogische tik" in tijden van mantelzorg. wash away your sins
Vat II afschaffing Latijn: en wat doe je met sleutels?
sleutel
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Waarmee dus, zonder theologische commissie, ook mijn vraag naar het waarom van het celibaat van de wasbaas van Groenestein is opgelost: as fraldinhas do menino Jesus.En de havermout
Wat heerlijk me te (kunnen) realiseren dat het huishoudonderwijs dat Bonestaak in Driehuis gaf in ieder geval ook thuis hoorde bij het vak geschiedenis, omdat de wasbaas thuis in de straat de man was geweest die de wasmachines en de centriguges thuis bracht en weer ophaalde waarbij wél de rekening maar niet zijn celibaat aan de orde zal zijn geweest en er al voor Starrenburg het nodige was gebeurd aan de zondenindex.
En een rolling te kunnen krijgen over wijsneuzerij over mijn vele tekeningen doe de was de deur uit; wisten die nonnen veel over de prachtigst denkbare tuin die er hoorde bij die waarschijnlijk knap grote wasserij binnen de familie. .Zij waren, hoe moet je anders de valsheid van offers, lijden en afstand verkopen, immers de enigen met een verleden waartoe ons in valse ruil voor dankbaarheid werd ontnomen ?
Slachtoffers van het kerkelijk misbruik?
Ja zeker, generaties lang. En ze schreven (en kochten) hun eigen hagiografiën. Over de god-souteneur.
De overeenkomst tussen OM en zorgafhankelijke kinderen: zie maar dat je de files vindt
Die ontbreken - m.b.t. De Goede Herder en de Voorzienigheid - in ieder geval bij de plaatsende en betalende Rijksoverheid regelmatig omdat ze niet werden ingeleverd zoals is gebleken uit (niet gepubliceerd?) waarschijnlijk uitgevoerd rond 2005 zuiver wetenschappelijk onderzoek , , zo iemand die de toestemming krijgt tot toegang tot die archieven,
En er geen haan kraaide.
Voor de prijs van de haan zie
1971, 1972, 1978, 1979, 1980, 2011, 2012 wir haben es nicht gewusst?
16-12-1978
Abuse in Dutch Catholic care: more evidence
Published on : 24 September 2011 -
| By Robert Chesal
Radio Nederland Wereldwijd
Serious abuses went on unreported for years in Dutch Roman
Catholic homes for the mentally disabled. They included sex offences,
castration, secret medical experiments and possibly murder. One Catholic
brother was banished to Africa for doing unethical brain research.
Radio Netherlands Worldwide tracked him down. 
Until recent years, most abuses in Dutch institutional care were kept
out of the public eye. One exception was a scandal in 1978 involving
medical experiments at 'HuizeBrain x-rays
The home's medical doctor and a Catholic nurse known as Brother Dionysius performed spinal taps on approximately 180 patients, including minors. They injected fluid and air into the patients' brains in order to take x-rays of the cerebral cortex. These were used for brain research which was quietly being carried out. After the injections, the patients suffered nausea and headaches for days. Their parents were neither asked for permission nor notified of the procedures.
Sent to AfricaWhen former employees blew the whistle, the doctor was sacked and ordered to pay a fine. Brother Dionysius was sent to Tanzania by his congregation. The case was discussed in the Dutch parliament, where MPs complained that the health inspector had given private institutions such as Huize Assisië a free hand.
"Nothing untoward"
Radio Netherlands Worldwide has discovered that Brother Dionysius is still working as a hospital nurse in the Tanzanian village of Sengerema, near Lake Victoria. Speaking to RNW by telephone, the 76-year-old brother said he had done "nothing untoward".
1-11-1980
"What we did was happening at other institutions too," he said. "As the x-ray technician, I was carrying out the doctor's orders. It was none of my business whether the parents knew. I was fired after the story got out, but that was just to put a stop to all the fuss."
Lurid secrets
It was a rare example of institutional abuse becoming public knowledge. More often than not, such cases are swept under the rug where they remain for decades. But lately, some lurid secrets have come out in the open.
....
complete artikel
Ik word er bijna emotioneel van, mijnheer de voorzitter
art 1 over goden en godjes, in gesprek met ... Primo Levi en Norman Cohn
26-2-1975
't is maar net waar je in gelooft.
toegevoegd 18.00 uur
Met mijn respect voor alle achtergebleven gezinnen en families en andere relaties met een oprecht gemis wat niets met de befaamde tandarts te maken heeft:
Moge De Ene die de grenzen bepaalt ons beschermen en behoeden voor het kwadeThe death of Mr. Megrahi, who always insisted he was innocent, foreclosed a fuller accounting of his role, and perhaps that of the Libyan government under the late dictator Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, in the midair explosion of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 270 people, including 189 Americans.
A former Libyan intelligence officer who worked undercover at Libya’s national airline, Mr. Megrahi was found guilty in 2001 of orchestrating the bombing and sentenced to life in prison, with a 27-year minimum. But eight years later, after doctors said he was likely to die within three months, he was freed in 2009 under a Scottish law providing for compassionate release of prisoners with terminal illnesses.
NYT
20-5-2012.
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