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Traditional Catholic Faith => Fighting Errors in the Modern World => Topic started by: Simeon on June 15, 2023, 08:23:57 AM
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I just learned about this case yesterday, yet it's been ongoing since 2021. I don't recall reading about it here. What a terrible mess we are in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUkKw00SaSs
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I notice that her tone is completely different than when dealing with cases in SSPX, where they'd be foaming at the mouth about SSPX and even at times Archbishop Lefebvre.
Apart from that, this video is ALL ABOUT HER and justifying herself, etc. She talks more about herself than about the case.
As for her saying that it's all about the victims, that's been proven false before, and when I called it out, my post got deleted from their website.
She's also wrong about receipt vs. possession being the same thing. Someone can send me something, say, a link by e-mail, and I would be in receipt of it, but if I delete it, then I did not intend to keep possession of it. So much for her background in law. That said, he was certainly in possession of it and not just receipt ... just pleading guilty to receipt as part of the plea bargain.
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It's also garbage that you can't hack into a computer and "upload" content from it. Hackers absolutely can get full control of your system where they can both download and upload stuff. That's not to say this was the case with Fr. Jackson, but her claims that it's impossible are nonsense. I've seen corporate servers hacked where traffic was going outbound from it. That's in fact how they get secure information off the servers and send it back to their servers to use.
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She sounds a bit like the True Restoration guy. It’s too bad that the priest wasn’t stronger. If you have a problem like this, please stay off the internet.
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She sounds a bit like the True Restoration guy. It’s too bad that the priest wasn’t stronger. If you have a problem like this, please stay off the internet.
Yeah, it's sad. There's a saying corruptio optimi pessima, i.e. "the corruption of the best is the worst", similar to "the higher they go, the harder they fall".
At least it would appear that he didn't personally molest or assault children, but once someone starts getting into material of that variety, it probably would have just been a matter of time.
But the majority of the video was about Niles, making it about herself, and justifying herself.
MUCH different tone against FSSP than against SSPX, and in fact, she used this to attack SSPX (couldn't help herself). You could say that's because SSPX was more about the coverup, except that she called out that a couple of priests of FSSP appeared to be trying to protect Father Jackson. While she mentioned that, it was not accompanied with the inevitable 10-minute rant about the EEEE-vil of FSSP that she or Voris would have hurled against SSPX.
In fact, given Voris' past lifestyle, which went beyond mere porn (but actually living it out), why aren't they going after Voris and saying that he should not be stood up as some kind of public figure?
She was appalled that Father Jackson was not edited out of videos about the TLM. Well, then Voris should be edited out of Church Militant for his equally-unsavory past. Instead, he's the face of neo-quasi-Trad conservative Novus Ordism.
FSSP had a bad priest, but SSPX is ...
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Yeah, somewhat self righteous. Probably got a lot of hater’s on her previous commentary.
I haven’t heard her speak about the SSPX, but I think the FSSP was set up as an alternative to the SSPX. I know several people who go to both depending upon the circuмstances of the week.
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So Niles was attacking this site for "defending" Father Jackson. He doesn't look like it to me ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgK19oV_c1U
But I can see why they would attack them.
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I notice that her tone is completely different than when dealing with cases in SSPX, where they'd be foaming at the mouth about SSPX and even at times Archbishop Lefebvre.
Apart from that, this video is ALL ABOUT HER and justifying herself, etc. She talks more about herself than about the case.
As for her saying that it's all about the victims, that's been proven false before, and when I called it out, my post got deleted from their website.
She's also wrong about receipt vs. possession being the same thing. Someone can send me something, say, a link by e-mail, and I would be in receipt of it, but if I delete it, then I did not intend to keep possession of it. So much for her background in law. That said, he was certainly in possession of it and not just receipt ... just pleading guilty to receipt as part of the plea bargain.
Yes, I chose this video because by it I was alerted to the existence of the case. I had no idea this was going on. And secondly, though preachy and self-righteous in some sense, it gave a good overview of the facts.
Did you know about this one, Lad?
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Yeah, somewhat self righteous. Probably got a lot of hater’s on her previous commentary.
I haven’t heard her speak about the SSPX, but I think the FSSP was set up as an alternative to the SSPX. I know several people who go to both depending upon the circuмstances of the week.
This one hit much closer to home, as she is an FSSP attendee the last twenty years. Apparently she took mega heat from inside her own enclave. That would go far to explain the long self-justification spiel.
I give her credit for going after this one. He's an enormous fish. If she ever overstepped the line in her coverage of SSPX cases, she certainly "repaired" for it by a tremendous amount of suffering in her advocacy here. I can see that she has suffered - but she's very tough. And I find it interesting that she's tough without ever having actually practiced law. Then again, what Catholic who has navigated traddiedom is not made tough by it? ;)
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Did you know about this one, Lad?
No, I hadn't heard about this, but I don't follow too closely the goings on of the FSSP.
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So what ever came of this. Is he in prison now?
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So what ever came of this. Is he in prison now?
https://twitter.com/jdflynn/status/1666933456549580800
(https://twitter.com/jdflynn/status/1666933456549580800)
It seems he pleaded guilty and will likely be sentenced to 5-20 years in September.
https://fssp.com/statement-on-fr-jackson/ (https://fssp.com/statement-on-fr-jackson/)
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This story, I believe, was discussed here sometime last year. Most of the Catholic “media” tried to cover it up.
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Ladislas: I notice that her tone is completely different than when dealing with cases in SSPX, where they'd be foaming at the mouth about SSPX and even at times Archbishop Lefebvre.
Apart from that, this video is ALL ABOUT HER and justifying herself, etc. She talks more about herself than about the case.
This is not about Christine Niles. It is about the raging forces of Hell attempting to destroy the Church. Niles is merely a messenger trying go awaken faithful Catholics to the present realities. Pray much!
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This is not about Christine Niles.
Of course it's not. But Niles made this video all about her, and justifying herself.
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Of course it's not. But Niles made this video all about her, and justifying herself.
No, Niles made this video to explain in explicit detail what actually happened, and to inform the Trad public what actually occurred. She supplies dates and times, court proceedings, and other essential information about Fr. Jackson, information, by the way, that no other Catholic outlet is reporting. She wonders aloud why other news venues are not doing it.
Lad, are you inferring that Christine has no (moral) right to "justify herself.? Why not?
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Lad, are you inferring that Christine has no (moral) right to "justify herself.? Why not?
No, I'm saying that she's full of it when claiming that it's about the victims when she's making it all about herself. They also did a grave service to Father Stafki's nice in the interests of getting more ammunition against the SSPX, and then deleted my post when I called them out, very politely, asking them to think of how their porn story affects her. They're a bunch of dishonest liars, both Voris and Niles.
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This is about a evil pervert priest of the FSSP.
Normal response especially if you are a parent, is to be angry and disgusted by his evil actions. One too many priests who are perverts. Look at the huge pervert pope writing letters to sodomites priest and lesbo nun.
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This is about a evil pervert priest of the FSSP.
Normal response especially if you are a parent, is to be angry and disgusted by his evil actions. One too many priests who are perverts. Look at the huge pervert pope writing letters to sodomites priest and lesbo nun.
Agree. My hope is that Fr. Jackson is convicted, imprisoned and laicized.
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Fr. James Jackson apologizes, claims ‘addiction’ to child porn
The Pillar (https://substack.com/@thepillar)
December 11, 2023 . 6:07 PM
11 min read
In a plea for a sentence of five years on child pornography charges, Fr. James Jackson told a federal judge that he accepted responsibility for his crimes and was sorry, and that he had been sɛҳuąƖly abused himself as a minor.
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The priest also sent to the court an August letter to members of his religious community, in which he apologized for his “vile sin.”
“The vile sin into which I fell, and for which I am guilty, has caused immeasurable harm,” Jackson explained in a handwritten letter dated Aug. 6, and reportedly sent to his religious provincial superior and other members of his religious community.
“I have sinned against God, children, you, friends and family, former students and former parishioners and many others besides,” the priest wrote. “I cannot repair this damage, but I must try. I hope you will accept this apology.”
“I’m sorry at a level I’ve never experienced before. I’m ashamed beyond any shame I’ve known,” the priest wrote.
“I will be offering reparations, penances, and what good works I can for you, long after I am dismissed from the Fraternity, and praying for you, in a reformed life, until my dying day.”
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Jackson’s apology came attached to a sentencing memorandum filed in federal court Dec. 11, six months after he pled guilty to a felony count of receiving child sex abuse material.
In the memorandum, the priest asked that he be sentenced to five years incarceration, followed by supervised release.
Due to be sentenced Dec. 13, Jackson, 68, could receive the maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, but is likely to be sentenced to five years, in light of a concurring recommendation from federal prosecutors.
The priest told the court that he has been “involuntarily removed from the priesthood but has not abandoned his faith.”
“He rightfully confessed his sins associated with the crimes in this case, just as he pleaded guilty and accepted responsibility before this Court,” his sentencing memo read.
Jackson told the judge that his conduct was “hypocritical” and “completely unbecoming of a devout Catholic and more so, a clergyman.”
The sentencing memo also said that Jackson had been himself sɛҳuąƖly abused, and subsequently developed an “addiction” to child sex abuse material.
“While there is no excuse or justification for Mr. Jackson’s admitted misconduct, such is not without explanation. As a young boy, while participating in Boy Scouts, Mr. Jackson was molested,” the memo said.
“These events were not timely reported or disclosed to anyone, foreclosing the possibility of young James receiving proper care or treatment for his trauma. In any event, these experiences shaped and socialized him, at least partially, into the man he is today.”
“Mr. Jackson channeled that trauma and addressed it by pursuing and viewing child pornography. His doing so resulted in the development of an addiction to these obscene visual depictions, which explains how and why he comes before this Court.”
According to other court docuмents, Jackson told law enforcement that he was abused when he was 10 years old, and was allegedly perpetrated by the mother of a fellow child in his Boy Scout troop.
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For their part, federal prosecutors wrote in a Dec. 11 memo that Jackson should receive five years incarceration, along with 10 years of supervised release, and be ordered to pay restitution to victims of child pornography.
“The victims in this case are real children who were raped and molested in order to provide sɛҳuąƖ gratification for the defendant. By repeatedly downloading and viewing child sɛҳuąƖ abuse material for his own gratification, this defendant engaged in repeated acts of dehumanization which re-victimized the children,” prosecutors wrote.
“More than 12,000 images and videos depicting child sɛҳuąƖ abuse were located on the defendant’s computers. These materials included pre-pubescent minors, sadistic and masochistic conduct, and bestiality. Through his reprehensible conduct, the defendant fueled the market for child sɛҳuąƖ abuse material and further harmed the victims.”
According to federal prosecutors, 190 victims of child abuse sex could be identified in the cache of images and videos in Jackson’s possession.
In response to her abuse, one victim stated that: “I live everyday with the horrible knowledge that many people somewhere are watching the most terrifying moments of my life and taking grotesque pleasure in them. I am a victim of the worst kind of exploitation: child porn. Unlike other forms of exploitation, this one is never ending. Everyday, people are trading and sharing videos of me as a little girl being raped in the most sadistic ways. They don’t know me, but they have seen every part of me. They are being entertained by my pain and shame.”
Prosecutors noted that a “particularly disturbing fact in this case is the defendant’s position of authority as a Catholic priest and pastor. As such, the defendant was looked up to by many as paragon of moral authority.”
The sentencing memo argued that Jackson is likely to commit crimes in the future, given that he downloaded child sex abuse material even after he was arrested.
“This defendant clearly has some form of addictive personality. To engage in downloading child sɛҳuąƖ abuse material while under the supervision of a federal court, shortly after being arrested for the same conduct, demonstrates either a flagrant disregard for the Court’s authority or an inability to control one’s own behavior. Either explanation creates a high risk of recidivism.”
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Fr. Jackson was initially investigated and arrested on charges of possession and distribution of child pornography charges in 2021 in Rhode Island.
Jackson was arrested Oct. 30, 2021, after state police identified a device sharing child pornography with an IP address assigned to St. Mary’s Catholic Parish in Providence, RI, where Jackson served.
Law enforcement officers executed a search warrant and found an external hard drive containing child pornography, which they say belonged to Jackson, who initially pled not guilty to the federal charges.
While on conditional release in that case in July 2022, he was investigated on additional child pornography possession allegations.
Jackson was at that time living in Kansas with relatives, under supervised release.
According to a federal memo filed in court last year, law enforcement officers identified internet activity in Kansas which indicated that between May and June 2022, the priest accessed additional child sex abuse material.
The federal memo added that “Jackson appeared to have tried to [have] concealed/hidden the devices at the time of the search,” adding that the priest “was not cooperative with officers throughout the search process.”
The priest was taken into federal custody after probation officials were notified of the Kansas investigation, because he had unauthorized devices connected to the internet. He has been held in a Rhode Island federal detention facility since then, and will face Kansas state charges after he is sentenced in federal court.
The priest charged in court last year that the October 2021 search leading to his initial arrest was unconstitutional (https://www.pillarcatholic.com/charged-fssp-priest-says-child-porn-search-was-illegal/). He changed his pleading in June.
Jackson is a prominent member of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, a clerical association which offers the Extraordinary Form of the Mass, also called the Traditional Latin Mass.
The priest's initial arrest divided some traditionalist Catholics, with some claiming that Jackson was not computer savvy enough to have committed child porn crimes, and some suggesting the priest had been framed, or that child porn seized at his rectory belonged to someone else.
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In addition to Jackson’s plea for the minimum sentence, the priest included in his sentencing memo statements of support from numerous former parishioners, and from several priests.
Despite his guilty plea, Jackson included several letters whose texts included claims that the priest might be innocent — at least one of which was written after his guilty plea, but before the priest apologized to fellow priests for his guilt, in his August note to his religious community.
One priest, Fr. Justin Nolan, FSSP, wrote in an undated letter filed with the court Dec. 11 that in parish ministry, Jackson had been “the consummate gentleman in all his dealings with parishioners, seminarians, priests, and people.”
“I would be hard pressed to identify any faults in his character or behavior. He had no discernible vices,” Nolan added.
“It is incomprehensible to me that Fr. Jackson could be guilty of the crimes he has pled guilty to, and I can only believe that it was in the face of possible life imprisonment that compelled him to do so.”
Subsequent to the initial publication of this report, Nolan contacted The Pillar to say that while it had been filed with the court Dec. 11, he had actually written his letter in June.
“My letter was written on June 15, a few days after [Jackson’s] ‘guilty’ plea,” Nolan wrote by email.
“The letters were asked for by his attorney and written for the purposes of giving a character testimonial to be entered before his sentencing so as to give the judge a better idea of his character and conduct as people had known him,” the priest added.
While Nolan’s letter included his incredulity at Jackson’s guilty plea, it was “not written in defense of his innocence,” the priest told The Pillar.
He added that, “Fr. Jackson’s most recent statements of guilt, in particular his letter of apology to the priests in August, make it quite clear that he is guilty of crimes of which he has pled to,” Nolan added.
“I know of no one who continues to maintain his innocence.”
Jackson filed another undated letter with the court on Dec. 11, which argued that the priest could not be guilty.
The undated letter came from the priest’s former secretary.
“I have never believed for a minute that Fr. Jackson is guilty of the accusations at hand,” wrote Adrienne Coleman, who was Jackson’s secretary at a Colorado parish for 10 years.
Coleman told the court that she has spent 18 years as an officer in the federal Secret Service Uniformed Division.
“In my opinion, Father is on the front lines of the spiritual battle which is in full swing in our culture and society today. Father is a big target because of the books he has written, the movie ‘Mass of the Ages’ that he was in, and he had just been selected as one of the 5 priests to head the new Provincial Council for the North American Province for the Fraternity of St. Peter,” she wrote.
Arguing for Jackson’s innocence, Coleman asked rhetorically, “Why would a man guilty of the charges he is accused of hire a cop for a secretary?”
But while Jackson filed that letter with the court this week, Coleman told The Pillar that she had written it before Jackson pleaded guilty in June.
She said she has since changed her mind about the priest.
“Even after he pled guilty, for a little while we in the parish all thought it was a plea deal kind of thing. We were all seeing it through the lenses of our experience with him. We didn’t know the evidence then.”
In fact, she said, “until shortly after his guilty plea, many of us were thinking someone was uploading stuff on stuff onto his computer — but our pastor made sure that we knew the facts, and then we had to know the truth, so that our parish wouldn't be divided.”
She told The Pillar that she had actually composed a second letter, which acknowledged Jackson’s guilt, in early December. That letter was not included in Jackson’s sentencing memorandum.
Coleman said her second letter said that she believed the priest could be rehabilitated.
“I said of course he should never be put in a position of authority again, but that maybe he could be rehabilitated. Maybe he could go to a monastery that didn’t have technology of any kind — then he could avail himself of regular confession and Mass everyday.”
“But you know, in our parish, we had to look at this and all the evidence, because, you know, the truth will set you free.”
In another letter filed Dec. 11, Abbot Philip Anderson of Clear Creek Abbey in Oklahoma wrote July 31 that he had known Jackson since 1979.
“He always impressed me as a man, not only of integrity, but of exceptional virtue and talent, Anderson wrote.
“Never did I see even the slightest hint that he would be delving into the dark world of porn,” the abbot added.
“James has shown a great willingness to help others in any situation. I am told he is well-respected by most of the prisoners around him in his current place of incarceration. He was written to me in a letter that he started a campaign to get his fellow prisoners to stop blaspheming,” the priest wrote.
“I believe that James can still be of great help to society,” he added.
Jackson is due to be sentenced Dec. 13. The priest has not yet been formally laicized, though his laicization is likely to come subsequent to his sentencing.
Editor’s note: Subsequent to publication of this report, Fr. Justin Nolan told The Pillar that while his letter regarding Jackson was filed with a federal judge Dec. 11 and had not been dated, he had actually written the letter June 15, before Jackson had issued a letter of apology to priests of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter.
Additionally, Adrienne Coleman told The Pillar that while her letter had been filed with a federal judge Dec. 11 and had not been dated, she had actually written it before Jackson pleaded guilty. She told The Pillar she had written a subsequent letter in early December, which acknowledged the priest’s guilt. That letter was not included in Jackson’s sentencing memo.
This report has been updated accordingly.
https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/fr-james-jackson-apologizes-claims
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I don’t know why a layman would go out of the way when the priest had family and his religious order.
Extremely bad judgement on the layman. He should have let the priest’s family handle the legal expenses.
Most won’t come out when someone is dying and need sacraments etc but many clergy make time to view porn and or rape and molest.
Christine Niles did a great job exposing these perverts. Many CHILDREN are protected when the evil is exposed.
As Catholics, we should be disgusted by these sick evil perversion. It seems novus Ordo is full of perverted sodomites.
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This perversion is everywhere. There is Good and bad in everything.
The man who Pope and who is so loved by the world should be leading people from mortal sin to the true God but he doesn’t. He is leading people to eternal damnation.
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Father James Jackson sentenced to 6 years in prison for child pornography
Providence, R.I., Dec 13, 2023 / 16:15 pm
Traditional Latin Mass priest Father James Jackson was sentenced Wednesday to six years in prison and five years of probation after he pleaded guilty to a child pornography charge in June.
Judge William Smith, sitting in U.S. District Court in Providence, Rhode Island, gave Jackson a sentence a year longer than was recommended by both the prosecution and his defense attorney, citing his role of “authority” and “responsibility” as a Catholic priest.
Jackson, 68, a priest of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP), was originally arrested in October 2021 at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Providence, Rhode Island, where he was serving as pastor. The arrest came after an investigation into him by state law enforcement found child pornography on his laptop and external hard drive.
Smith also cited Jackson’s violation of his pre-rial release when he was living in Kansas with his sister and viewed more child sɛҳuąƖ abuse material.
“You are more than familiar with the concept of free will,” Smith said. “I think you had free will in making that decision about whether to reengage with this material.”
In addition to paying restitution to victims, Jackson will have to register as a sex offender when he is released from prison. Jackson requested — and the judge said he would recommend — that he serve his prison time in Kansas where his sister, Susan Whitfield, lives.
Whitfield and another supporter of Jackson’s were in the courtroom on Wednesday. A white-bearded Jackson, wearing a yellow and brown jumpsuit, looked down for most of the hearing.
In a statement before the court, Jackson said he was glad that the police caught him and stopped him from committing this “heinous crime and horrible sin.”
He apologized to all law enforcement who had to view the “filth” of child pornography while investigating the case. He also said he was sorry for all the people he has hurt including children, family, friends, colleagues, brother priests, former parishioners, former students, the Church, the country, and his “savior.”
“So, I ask for only one thing, it’s this: that anyone who is here today who hears this or others who hear of it on the outside, that they would pray for me, for this intention, that the repentance and penitence which I began some time ago before my incarceration, that that will continue and not just continue but grow deeper and be even perfected,” Jackson said.
He added that he is “utterly ashamed” and “bitterly” regrets viewing the material. “I hope that I will persevere in that repentance and penitence till the end of my days,” he said.
Jackson’s sentencing marks an end to more than two years of federal legal proceedings involving the priest who was held in high esteem as a spiritual leader, an expert on the traditional form of the Mass, and a friend to many of his former parishioners and brother priests in the traditionalist religious community.
Jackson signed (https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/254527/father-james-jackson-pleads-guilty-in-child-pornography-case) a plea agreement in June admitting to a single charge of receipt of child pornography, while prosecutors moved to dismiss a second count of possession of child pornography.
CNA reached out to Jackson’s lawyer, John Calcagni, for comment but did not hear back by time of publication. A spokesperson for the U.S. attorney’s office said a press release would be issued on Wednesday.
After Jackson’s arrests in Rhode Island in 2021, he was initially charged with both federal and state offenses, but the state charges were dropped (https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/250219/state-drops-charges-father-james-jackson) as a procedural move in January 2022.
News of his arrest in October 2021 shocked many of his friends, supporters, and former parishioners, with many who saw Jackson as a holy priest rushing to his defense.
Under the terms of his release from federal court in November 2021, Jackson was allowed to return to his home state of Kansas to live with his sister while waiting for the charges to be adjudicated.
While in Kansas, an additional child pornography investigation into Jackson (https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/252493/details-of-kansas-investigation-into-father-james-jackson-emerge) was conducted by a local police department. Jackson’s federal probation officer issued a petition to the U.S. District Court of Rhode Island alleging that the priest broke the conditions of his pretrial release while he was allowed to live in Leawood, Kansas, with his sister.
In the petition, Jackson’s probation officer, David A. Picozzi, said that the U.S. Probation Office in the District of Rhode Island was contacted by Overland Park Police Department Detective Christopher Moore on July 11, 2022.
Moore told the office that there was a search warrant issued for Jackson’s residence in Leawood “in response to a child pornography investigation in which Mr. Jackson was the primary target,” the petition says.
U.S. Marshals arrested him and brought him back to the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island, where he has remained in custody.
A spokesman for the Overland Park Police Department told CNA (https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/254407/trial-date-set-in-june-for-father-james-jackson-s-child-pornography-case) in May that Jackson will be charged with a crime once the charges in Rhode Island are adjudicated.
A spokeswoman for the Johnson County District Attorney’s office in Olathe, Kansas, told CNA Tuesday that charges have not yet been filed.
A court docuмent filed in December (https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/256246/court-docuмents-reveal-father-james-jackson-testified-he-was-sɛҳuąƖly-abused-as-a-child) revealed that Jackson told authorities in his pre-sentence investigation interview that he was sɛҳuąƖly abused as a child by the mother of another child in his Boy Scout Troop when he was 10 years old.
Included in court docuмents is Jackson’s Aug. 6 written apology to his community, the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter.
“The vile sin into which I fell, and for which I am guilty, has caused immeasurable harm,” Jackson, the former pastor of St. Mary’s Church in Providence, Rhode Island, wrote.
“I have sinned against God, children, you, friends, and family, former students and former parishioners, and many others besides,” he wrote.
“I cannot repair this damage, but I must try,” he wrote. “I hope you will accept this apology. I’m sorry at a level I’ve never experienced before. I’m ashamed beyond any shame I’ve known.”
“I will be offering reparations, penances, and what good works I can for you, long after I am dismissed from the fraternity, and praying for you, in a reformed life, until my dying day,” he wrote.
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I don’t know why a layman would go out of the way when the priest had family and his religious order.
Extremely bad judgement on the layman. He should have let the priest’s family handle the legal expenses.
Most won’t come out when someone is dying and need sacraments etc but many clergy make time to view porn and or rape and molest.
Christine Niles did a great job exposing these perverts. Many CHILDREN are protected when the evil is exposed.
As Catholics, we should be disgusted by these sick evil perversion. It seems novus Ordo is full of perverted sodomites.
Keep thumbing down….
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It seems the one thumbing down might be a pervert. Who knows?
Look at the filth in Rome. They neglected sex abuse victims while protecting these perverts.
They are pushing a false gospel that is wicked.