Priest Who Tried To Hire Hit Man To Kill Sex Assault Victim Sentenced To 60 Years
Four years ago in western Texas, Catholic priest John Fiala initiated a non-consensual sexual relationship with a 16-year-old boy. Fiala would drive the boy to his girlfriend's house and the pair would stop at a motel along the route, where the priest force himself upon his passenger. On other occasions, Fiala assaulted the boy in his car and in the rectory of his church. At one point, he made the boy perform sex acts at gunpoint.
From the Dallas News:
[The boy] never told his family about the attacks because he was so scared.“I felt like I was saving their lives,” the accuser, now 20, testified this morning in a Dallas County courtroom.
After numerous rapes and assaults, Fiala attempted to hire a Dallas hit man to kill his victim. The attempt failed, and the boy lived to testify against the ex-priest, who's now 53.
On Thursday, Fiala was convicted in a Dallas County courtroom of trying to hire the hit man. (Fiala still faces sex assault charges in Edwards County.) On Friday, Fiala was sentenced to 60 years in prison. He'll be eligible for parole in 2027.
From the Dallas News:
In closing arguments, prosecutors asked for a life sentence for ex-priest John Fiala. Defense attorney Rex Gunter said anything more than 15 years would be a "travesty."
1) Many people say 'God hates gays' and keep using the word 'God' not 'Jesus'. The fact is Jesus Christ NEVER CONDEMNED HOMOSEXUALITY and Christ is the God for Christians. Some may then say God is the Father, but there's no such religion of 'Godian' , 'Fatherian' or whatever. So for people to still believe 'God hates gays', either those people are taking GOP as 'GOD', (GOP are indeed one of the biggest bigots and of course the false 'God'), or those religious nuts are worshiping a different 'God' other than Jesus. Either way homophobes bigots are not followers of Christ but ANTICHRIST rather as they share a different view of belief from Christ!
2)In the religion Christianity, the believers are followers of Christ and it's clearly stated by Jesus that His top 2 commandments are above all other biblical laws and they should follow those. The top 2 commandments are to love God and to love your neighbor as yourself. So again, religious nuts just like pharisees, are ANTICHRIST who are obsessed with all others nonsense religious laws which they put as higher importance to those of Jesus top commandments! Jesus condemned such religious nuts just as those pharisees.
Posted by: Simon | May 21, 2012 3:33:18 AM
@Brokebackbob
Suggestions to deal with the problem must take into account the 8th amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
Posted by: vanndean | May 21, 2012 5:25:08 AM
I feel really bad for his victim(s). This one might have been the only survivor of this monster.
Posted by: billmiller | May 21, 2012 8:42:17 AM
Really now this is pure evil. Rape and then set up a hit on the victim. Who needs horror movies?
Posted by: hotbeef801 | May 21, 2012 9:53:44 AM
This is really bad, makes being a Nazi serving under Hitler seem quite tame by comparison.
Posted by: PBK | May 21, 2012 10:00:12 PM
MALE HOMOSEXUALS ON THIS SITE SHOULD BE VERY CAREFUL WITH THAT,"pedophile" WORD. THE YOUNG MALE IN THIS ARTICLE IS SIXTEEN. I CAN ALMOST GUARANTEE THE MAJORITY OF THE MALES IN THIS FORUM WERE SEXUALLY ACTIVE AT SIXTEEN. SOME OF YOU - LIKE, ME - WERE ACTIVE IN THE "SINGLE DIGITS." [Let's be "real" guys, every homosexual boy at the onset of puberty WILL have sex with a man if the opportunity presents itself. PLEASE DON'T BE HYPOCRITES on this issue. I was seven when I started having sex with mature men; I am not ashamed, nor, should you]
CHRISTOPHER ALLEN HORTON
Posted by: CHRISTOPHER ALLEN HORTON | May 28, 2012 8:57:00 AM
When Clergy Are Asked To Leave Quietly, There Is No Justice
(CHICAGO) – Br. John Woulfe, an ex-Marianist brother, has been accused by numerous ex-students at Chaminade College Preparatory School in St. Louis, MO of sexually molesting them. Of course, he wasn’t the only member of this religious community accused of such acts. There were many more. Many, many more.
In 2002, Michael Powel filed a lawsuit against Chaminade College Preparatory School for a lifetime of suffering and damages (2002. Powel v Chaminade College Preparatory, Inc, Marianist Province of the United States, Archbishop Justin Rigali, William Christensen [aka Fr. William Christensen, S.M.] and John Woulfe [aka Br. John Woulfe, S.M.]). Powel would ultimately win the lawsuit for millions of dollars several years later.
Br. John Woulfe, after being accused of inappropriate sexual behavior with students in the 1970s left the Society of Mary (aka “Marianists”). Instead of notifying the local police department for prosecution Fr. Robert Osbourne, the school principal, allowed Woulfe to leave ‘quietly’. Unfortunately, this did not stop Woulfe’s desire to prey on the weak and vulnerable.
Eventually Woulfe would end up in the small town of Onarga, Illinois. In this area, Woulfe would once again continue his predatory sexual behavior on children until he was caught. “John Woulfe was a monster,” recalls Illinois-based author John Bernadyn in his newly released memoir Betrayed By The State: A Ward of the State Speaks Out in which he discusses the experiences he faced with this ex-clergyman. “He was demeaning, pushy, and manipulative.”
After suspicion took hold of this town, Woulfe moved to the small town of Watseka, Illinois. He landed a position as a guidance counselor in the Kankakee School District – an occupation he knew all too well while serving at Chaminade. In 2002, Woulfe was arrested for predatory sexual behavior with a student. Defiantly, he refused to appear at court hearings.
Woulfe would eventually find himself in a nursing home after suffering a stroke and ultimately dying in 2005 from the after-effects. “The real tragedy in this case is that all the people he victimized would never get to tell him directly how they felt or if they ever forgave him. I, too, felt robbed of this chance to say I forgave him but would never forget,” said Bernadyn.
All allegations of sexual abuse are now required to be reported to local justice authorities. “This is a little too late,” whispers Bernadyn.
Posted by: John Bernadyn | Nov 2, 2012 4:58:52 PM
Damn, maybe all the pending buttsex he's up for in the slammer will knock that inbred googly eye of his back into whack. I hope someone'll be spending lots of time in his Graybar Rectory with he's at the Church of Schlongschlurpen.
Posted by: Scotch | Nov 2, 2012 5:09:18 PM