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SSPX Sued for Fraud, Breaking up Family: Read the Lawsuit
« on: August 10, 2024, 09:38:32 PM »
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    • More scandals concerning the SSPX in Florida. 


    A new lawsuit is accusing the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) of engaging in "fraudulent concealment" and breaking up a family through an illicit relationship with a priest.
    Plaintiff Stephen Sanborn, Jr. filed the lawsuit on July 16 in Platte County Circuit Court in Missouri, specifically naming Fr. Pierre Duverger and Fr. Arnaud Rostand.
    According to the complaint, Sanborn's wife Jennifer "began marital counseling with Fr. Duverger" in 2011. Stephen began counseling with him in 2013.


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    Re: SSPX Sued for Fraud, Breaking up Family: Read the Lawsuit
    « Reply #1 on: August 10, 2024, 10:37:31 PM »
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    • I think if someone is going to do marital counselling, both spouses should be there. Cause the wife especially could be just complaining about how awful her husband is to the priest and he could be on her side. 

    Reading the lawsuit, wow, 6 children are being affected! It also says that one of the priests gave the wife a letter to give to the husband about him being abusive and "other misdeeds in the marriage". Shortly after, the husband was told to move out of his own home by the priests and a representative of the priests. The husband obeyed and then the priests initiated a formal separation. The wife sought the legal system to make sure her husband couldn't come back home or see the children. 

    One of the priests swooped in and the wife and him had an affair. The children were left alone in the home while this happened. 

    This makes me upset how these priests could paint the husband with false allegations and ruin his life. It's disgusting. And the ultimate betrayal by priests that you put your trust in. 
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    Re: SSPX Sued for Fraud, Breaking up Family: Read the Lawsuit
    « Reply #2 on: August 10, 2024, 10:52:27 PM »
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    • Quote from: FarmerWife on August 10, 2024, 10:37:31 PM
    I think if someone is going to do marital counselling, both spouses should be there. Cause the wife especially could be just complaining about how awful her husband is to the priest and he could be on her side.

    Reading the lawsuit, wow, 6 children are being affected! It also says that one of the priests gave the wife a letter to give to the husband about him being abusive and "other misdeeds in the marriage". Shortly after, the husband was told to move out of his own home by the priests and a representative of the priests. The husband obeyed and then the priests initiated a formal separation. The wife sought the legal system to make sure her husband couldn't come back home or see the children.

    One of the priests swooped in and the wife and him had an affair. The children were left alone in the home while this happened.

    This makes me upset how these priests could paint the husband with false allegations and ruin his life. It's disgusting. And the ultimate betrayal by priests that you put your trust in.

    I completely agree. Both spouses must be present in marital counseling to ensure fairness and transparency. It’s deeply troubling to hear about how the situation unfolded with the priests. The impact on the children and the betrayal involved are heart-wrenching. It's appalling that such trusted figures could act so unethically and cause so much harm. Everyone involved deserves support and justice, and it's a stark reminder of the importance of integrity and accountability in all roles, especially those of trust. 
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    Re: SSPX Sued for Fraud, Breaking up Family: Read the Lawsuit
    « Reply #3 on: August 10, 2024, 11:29:17 PM »
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    • A new lawsuit is accusing the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) of engaging in "fraudulent concealment" and breaking up a family through an illicit relationship with a priest.
    Plaintiff Stephen Sanborn, Jr. filed the lawsuit on July 16 in Platte County Circuit Court in Missouri, specifically naming Fr. Pierre Duverger and Fr. Arnaud Rostand.
    According to the complaint, Sanborn's wife Jennifer "began marital counseling with Fr. Duverger" in 2011. Stephen began counseling with him in 2013.

    At the time, Fr. Rostand was U.S. district superior.
    As Stella Maris Media has reported, Rostand was recently convicted in French criminal court after confessing to molesting at least seven boys.
    Duverger has also been accused of grooming and sɛҳuąƖ assault. In our Aug. 20, 2021 Spotlight, an alleged 12-year-old victim in France accused Duverger of counseling her and engaging in explicit sɛҳuąƖ conversations.
    Duverger's removal from Bordeaux was the result of another sex scandal in which he was allegedly embroiled, involving a young adult woman he was counseling before marriage.



    The scandal led to Duverger's transfer to Our Lady of Guadalupe Monastery in Silver City, New Mexico for a year of "prayer" and "penance," before being installed in the U.S. District Superior's communications office.
    While restrictions were reportedly placed on him from being around girls or women, witnesses say those restrictions were not enforced.
    Grooming and assault allegations continued to follow Duverger afterwards, as we reported in our April 22, 2020 Spotlight.
    As Sanborn's lawsuit notes, in spite of the restrictions on Duverger, "Fr. Duverger undertook counseling and spiritual direction of Plaintiff and his then wife, Jennifer."
    "In April 2014, at the behest of Fr. Duverger, Plaintiff's wife gave to him a letter admittedly dictated to her by Duverger falsely accusing Plaintiff of abuse and other misdeeds in the marriage."
    "Shortly thereafter, Plaintiff was told by the Priests and an individual acting on behalf of the priests that he needs to move out of his home."
    According to the complaint, "Duverger began a long-term relationship with Plaintiff's wife," who began seeing him "at all hours of the day and night."

    Sanborn accuses both Rostand and Duverger of spreading falsehoods about him, leading to being cut off from his wife and children.
    The SSPX eventually helped secure a decree of nullity for Jennifer.
    Sanborn is accusing Rostand as superior of knowingly allowing Duverger to violate the restrictions imposed on him by frequently meeting alone with his wife, in spite of Duverger's known track record of alleged grooming and abuse of other women he had counseled.
    After spending large sums defending himself in court, Sanborn was forced to file for bankruptcy.
    He is accusing the SSPX of breach of fiduciary duty and constructive fraud, among other things, and is demanding a jury trial and compensatory and punitive damages.
    "Highly insular and secretive," said Attorney Rebecca Randles, who is representing the plaintiff. "The SSPX has created an environment ripe for the use and abuse of power by its priests exercising influence over every aspect of the lives of its followers."
    "The SSPX and those appointed to handle its affairs have eschewed oversight, allowing some of its priests to run amok, causing grave harm to those left in their wake," she added. "This lawsuit has been filed to shine a light on some of the priests' behaviors."
    String of Lawsuits & Convictions
    Fr. Benedict Van Der Putten Lawsuit

    This lawsuit follows another one filed in California against the SSPX accusing the Society of covering up sex abuse.
    Going by the initials M.K., the plaintiff is accusing Fr. Benedict Van Der Putten of molesting her when she was 6–9 years old, while she attended camp at St. Aloysius in 1997–1999.
    According to the third amended complaint, filed in January 2024 (warning: graphic), “As part of the summer camp activities, Van Der Putten took Plaintiff on ATV rides. While on the all-terrain vehicle, Van Der Putten would sit behind Plaintiff and fondle her ___ under her clothing.”
    As we first reported in 2021 in Spotlight: SSPX Predator in Our Midst, Van Der Putten was accused of molesting several girls, both minors and young adults. Victims were told not to report him to police, and one whistleblower was ordered to remain silent.
    Fr. Jean-Luc Radier Arrested for Rape

    In May of this year, 64-year-old Fr. Jean-Luc Radier of the SSPX was arrested for raping a minor, and is currently under investigation.
    The charges stem from Radier's time teaching at Star of the Morning ("L'Etoile du Matin") Academy in Eguelshardt, Moselle, France, between 1993 and 1995.
    Authorities conducted a search of Radier's residence. The prosecutor, Edwige Roux-Morizot, noted, "Digital material has been collected and will be reviewed during the investigation."
    While only one victim has come forward to accuse Radier, it is suspected he has many more. Speaking to police, the victim reportedly said Radier would creep into the boys' dormitory on an almost-nightly basis in search of victims, "busloads of them," according to him.
    Fr. Arnaud Rostand's Admission

    As mentioned above, this comes less than two months after Fr. Rostand admitted in French court that he abused children, saying he has “always struggled against this attraction” to adolescents.
    Significantly, Rostand made his SSPX superiors aware of his struggles as early as 1998, writing a letter to his superiors admitting his attraction to children. He repeated his concerns to superiors in 2000, 2006 and 2016.
    Rostand himself confirmed in a 2010 interview, “In August of 2008, Bishop Fellay, the General Superior of the Society of Saint Pius X, appointed me as Superior of the District of the United States.”
    He served as district superior from 2008–2014, during which Sanborn accuses him of covering for Duverger.
    In spite of these warnings, the SSPX, primarily through Fellay, continued placing Rostand in positions of authority in Europe, Asia and the United States.

    Read more:
    Another SSPX Priest Arrested for Child Sex Crimes
    SSPX Priest on Trial for Abusing 7 Children
    SSPX Sued for Sex Abuse Cover-Up in California
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    Re: SSPX Sued for Fraud, Breaking up Family: Read the Lawsuit
    « Reply #4 on: August 10, 2024, 11:32:37 PM »
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    • What's the matter with these priests? Don't they believe in Hell anymore? They should know better. It's not like they were brought up in some man-made religion (like the post-Vatican II Conciliar religion) that no longer teaches the truth about God, His Justice, eternity, and Hell. It's not like Trads don't read REAL Catholic books by saints with sobering words about eternity, etc. At the very least, each one of these priests got PLENTY of this during their seminary days, in their spiritual/Scripture reading, retreats, spiritual conferences, and all their classes. For the span of SIX YEARS!

    How can these priests be so... stupid! Do they really want to go to Hell for eternity for a momentary pleasure?

    Did they stop praying? Stop reading Catholic spiritual reading? Stop praying their breviary? Or what?
    I really want to know, but this is quite shocking and sobering. I don't mean this in a pearl-clutching sort of way. I mean it in the best Catholic way. These kind of things shock me, and make me wonder how it happens, so I can prepare and defend myself against these apparently insane-level diabolical temptations.
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    Re: SSPX Sued for Fraud, Breaking up Family: Read the Lawsuit
    « Reply #5 on: August 11, 2024, 12:04:06 AM »
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    • Quote from: Matthew on August 10, 2024, 11:32:37 PM
    What's the matter with these priests? Don't they believe in Hell anymore? They should know better. It's not like they were brought up in some man-made religion (like the post-Vatican II Conciliar religion) that no longer teaches the truth about God, His Justice, eternity, and Hell. It's not like Trads don't read REAL Catholic books by saints with sobering words about eternity, etc. At the very least, each one of these priests got PLENTY of this during their seminary days, in their spiritual/Scripture reading, retreats, spiritual conferences, and all their classes. For the span of SIX YEARS!

    How can these priests be so... stupid! Do they really want to go to Hell for eternity for a momentary pleasure?

    Did they stop praying? Stop reading Catholic spiritual reading? Stop praying their breviary? Or what?
    I really want to know, but this is quite shocking and sobering. I don't mean this in a pearl-clutching sort of way. I mean it in the best Catholic way. These kind of things shock me, and make me wonder how it happens, so I can prepare and defend myself against these apparently insane-level diabolical temptations.
    "Watch and pray lest ye enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak".
    "Blessed is the man that endureth temptation, for when he hath been proved he will receive the crown of life".
    Who can tell what temptations another man has to endure? It can at times require heroic virtue to resist. Of course, one thing is certain, the grace of God is sufficient for us. The saints considered themselves the world's greatest sinners, because they could see how easily they could have been guilty of such great crimes were it not for the mercies of God. We ought to humble ourselves, seeing how souls far greater than us have fallen.
    I remember when I was in the seminary hearing a story, in the times of the Desert Fathers, how a certain young woman went out into the desert to seek their counsel. One of them fell into sin with her and then murdered her... and then spent the remainder of his life doing penance in the desert...
    Priests and bishops become heresiarchs, Freemasons, communists, satanists... nothing should surprise us when it comes to fallen human nature.
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    Re: SSPX Sued for Fraud, Breaking up Family: Read the Lawsuit
    « Reply #6 on: August 11, 2024, 12:43:07 AM »
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    • Quote from: Matthew on August 10, 2024, 11:32:37 PM
    What's the matter with these priests? Don't they believe in Hell anymore?

                Closing argument by German Attorney, Max Krah, when persuading the SSPX to accept the Jaidhoff bribes:

                                                       
                    "Ich bin zertifiziert, mit dem Teufel
                      zu verhandeln, und ich kann dich
                          vor der Hölle bewahren."

    Translation:

    "I'm certified to negotiate with the devil and I can keep you out of hell."
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    Re: SSPX Sued for Fraud, Breaking up Family: Read the Lawsuit
    « Reply #7 on: August 11, 2024, 05:35:59 AM »
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    • Stuff like this has been going on for years.  It breaks my heart to see families torn apart and men of the cloth abusing their power.

    St Philomena, pray for us.
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    Re: SSPX Sued for Fraud, Breaking up Family: Read the Lawsuit
    « Reply #8 on: August 11, 2024, 12:05:42 PM »
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    • Fr. Duverger was transferred this past week from the Sanford FL priory where he was stationed for many years. 
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    « Reply #10 on: August 11, 2024, 04:08:59 PM »
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    • Quote from: Jr1991 on August 10, 2024, 09:38:32 PM
    Stephen Sanborn, Jr.
    Is he related to Bishop Sanborn?
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    « Reply #11 on: August 11, 2024, 04:23:16 PM »
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    • Quote from: Matthew on August 10, 2024, 11:32:37 PM
    Stop praying their breviary?
    Yes, that's been an issue at the priory here; a handful don't come to Prime, and I only see only a few praying the breviary in the church or walking around outside.
    It reminds me of pt. 3, § 2 of "The Active Worker Who Has No Interior Life" of The Soul of the Apostolate: "THIRD STAGE, of which the symptom is neglect in the recitation of the BREVIARY."
    I've also noticed that zeal for Our Lady has been dying. We haven't had a Marian procession in 6 years; and we don't pray the rosary on Eucharistic processions anymore, which we used to do 6 years ago.
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    « Reply #12 on: August 11, 2024, 07:59:04 PM »
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    • Quote from: Geremia on August 11, 2024, 04:08:59 PM
    Is he related to Bishop Sanborn?

    I don't know;  I doubt it. 
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    Re: SSPX Sued for Fraud, Breaking up Family: Read the Lawsuit
    « Reply #13 on: August 11, 2024, 09:37:39 PM »
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    • Quote from: Gray2023 on August 11, 2024, 05:35:59 AM
    St Philomena, pray for us.
    And today's her feast day.
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    « Reply #14 on: August 11, 2024, 11:28:17 PM »
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    • Quote from: Geremia on August 11, 2024, 04:23:16 PM
    We haven't had a Marian procession in 6 years
    I mean one off-property.
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