Fr. Vassal has quite a scandal on his hands at Immaculate Conception Academy (ICA), the SSPX chapel in Post Falls, ID.

This is not the only scandal happening in Post Falls with the SSPX.


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http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/oct/26/coeur-dalene-man-jailed-on-1-million-bond-suspecte/?print-friendly

Trucker held in rape of boys, abuse.  Held on $1 million dollar bond


A long-haul truck driver from Coeur d’Alene who also served as a church youth camp counselor is suspected of raping and abusing underage boys in Spokane and Kootenai counties over the past decade.

Kevin G. Sloniker, 30, faces felony charges of rape and lewd conduct involving two underage boys and is a suspect in the sɛҳuąƖ abuse of at least eight other boys, according to court docuмents. He’s being held in the Kootenai County Jail on $1 million bond.

Sloniker met and befriended some of the boys in his role as a youth camp counselor at Immaculate Conception Church in Post Falls, according to investigative reports filed with 1st District Court in Kootenai County.

Some of the alleged abuse occurred at Sloniker’s parents’ home in Latah, south of Spokane, and some happened when he took boys on the road with him around the Western U.S., according to court records. [Moderator note: this parents' home, as well as his truck, obviously was outside the knowledge/purview/scope/authority of the SSPX. Also note: these boys weren't necessarily SSPX parishioners, or even Catholic.]

He was arrested on a warrant Sept. 14 in Menomonie, Wisconsin, and extradited to Kootenai County, where he was booked into jail Oct. 9. Sloniker is charged with two counts of felony lewd conduct and one count of felony rape. Additional charges are possible, prosecutors in Kootenai and Spokane counties say.

Sloniker made his first court appearance Friday, when his bond was set by 1st District Magistrate Barry Watson. He does not yet have an attorney.

In an Oct. 9 interview with police, Sloniker admitted to fondling nine boys, having oral sex with a few of them and raping one over the past 10 years. He said he wanted help for an addiction to touching young boys.

Because Sloniker is accused of taking boys across state lines to abuse them, he also may face federal charges.

Sloniker allegedly raped and assaulted one Coeur d’Alene boy repeatedly over the past six years, starting when the victim was about 11 years old and living near Airway Heights, according to a criminal complaint. Sloniker was a family friend and later moved in with the boy’s mother, the victim told a police detective. He also said Sloniker pressured him to bring his two cousins to Sloniker’s apartment so he could molest them as well. [Moderator note: family friend? moved in with boy's mother? Sloniker's apartment? Doesn't sound like the SSPX had anything to do with this.]

Sloniker also is charged with lewd and lascivious conduct with a 9-year-old boy from Newport, Washington. That boy told detectives Sloniker fondled him during an overnight stay at the suspect’s residence last April.

Witnesses told investigators Sloniker liked to spend time with kids much younger than him and would buy them lavish gifts. He was involved in youth camps at Immaculate Conception Church, which is part of the Society of Saint Pius X, a traditionalist group with no canonical standing in the Roman Catholic Church.

One boy said he attended the church’s Immaculate Conception Academy, and that Sloniker was involved with a group of boys who attended the K-12 school in Post Falls [Involved with a group of boys? What does that mean?]. Sloniker also taught boys how to be altar boys through the Guild of St. Stephen, an international organization of altar servers, investigators learned. [Well, helping out in the St. Stephen's guild is hardly a red flag in and of itself.]

Some parents told police they knew of or strongly suspected the abuse and advised others [I bet you assumed this "others" included SSPX authorities the first time you read it. Well, it doesn't say that!] to keep their kids away from Sloniker. In some cases Sloniker lived for a time with the families of his alleged victims.

One alleged victim told a detective that Sloniker took him on a long trip in his truck through seven Western states when the boy was between 10 and 15 years old. Sloniker sɛҳuąƖly assaulted him repeatedly during the journey, the boy stated.

Another boy said he spent one summer at the Latah farm when he was about 12. Sloniker’s attention escalated to nightly sɛҳuąƖ abuse, and Sloniker also hit him with a whip, he told police.

Several of those interviewed said they reported their concerns to the priests at Immaculate Conception Church. [Note: It doesn't say that the SSPX ignored it or did nothing! That's what I assumed -- and was meant to assume -- the first time I read this.] The boy who said he was whipped by Sloniker said he shared that with Father Patrick Crane. He also told the priest that Sloniker made him strip naked.

Crane, who now is with another Society of Saint Pius X church – Our Lady of Sorrows in Phoenix – was interviewed by a detective Sept. 22. He said Sloniker worked with the church camp from 2003 to 2006 and that he did not have any issues with him.

When the detective shared that one of the alleged victims said he had told Crane about Sloniker whipping him, “Crane said he remembers part of it, but it was mostly because (the boy) did not want to attend the camp.”

Crane added that he remembers not asking Sloniker back after that, and also told the detective that if something had been brought forward, he would have said something “because this was during the time the church was being looked into for other abuse allegations across America,” the detective wrote.

Others said they warned Father James Haynos and Father Paul Vassal at the church about Sloniker.

Neither Vassal, the headmaster at the church, nor Crane returned calls for comment Monday.

The detective learned that Sloniker had attended St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary, also part of the Society of St. Pius X, in Winona, Minnesota. Vassal said in an Oct. 2 interview with police that the seminary in 2005 deemed Sloniker to be mentally unstable after he tried to circuмcise himself. He was removed from the seminary program. [Good on them! They expelled a nutcase from their seminary! But why bring up S.T.A.S. anyhow? They have nothing to do with this.]

There were no known incidents of sɛҳuąƖ abuse by Sloniker back then, Vassal told police.

Haynos, who now lives in Kansas, told Coeur d’Alene police Detective Nicholas Lowry he was unaware of the sex abuse allegations against Sloniker. “Haynos also told me due to Sloniker’s unstable mindset he would never be put in a position in which he would be in charge of kids,” the detective wrote.

4. Trads commit sin too. Not just silly, common, non-embarrassing sins, either.
5. Yes, that includes the big ones -- adultery, fornication, etc.

I am shocked by this revelation.

Seriously,  though,  often it's the other way around.  In my experience,  ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs are often attracted to the aesthetics of the Traditional Liturgy.  Queer Eye knows good style and taste when he sees it.  Unfortunately Traditional Catholics need to be vigilant also.

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4. Trads commit sin too. Not just silly, common, non-embarrassing sins, either.
5. Yes, that includes the big ones -- adultery, fornication, etc.

I am shocked by this revelation.

Seriously,  though,  often it's the other way around.  In my experience,  ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs are often attracted to the aesthetics of the Traditional Liturgy.  Queer Eye knows good style and taste when he sees it.

Same reason why the more smells-and-bells you get in the Anglican Church, the more ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ clergy there are. At the ones that have an ad-orientem facing liturgy with incense and professional choirs, nearly ALL of the clergy are ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs. It's EVERYWHERE.

Yes and it's highly unlikely they will every be able to have a normal relationship with a wife because of this abuse.  

I'm just not sure how much the SSPX priests actually knew.  Were they "warned" of concrete actions or just told to "watch out for this guy"?  I know one of the priests mentioned and there's no way he would tolerate anyone around boys when there was concrete positive suspicion.

Also, it's not clear to me that any of his activities took place under the auspices of SSPX involvement.  When he took a kid in his truck through several states, I highly doubt that this was an SSPX-sanctioned activity or if the kid was a Traditional Catholic at all.  So this article conflates a lot of stuff to paint a picture of pedophile coverup and pedophile shuffling, but I'm not sure that I see it there concretely.
 

This is a very important contribution, Ladislaus.

They randomly mention things, trying to paint a vague picture in our minds like some sinister character was above it all pulling puppet strings, moving a pedophile around like happened so many times in the Novus Ordo.

The SSPX doesn't have any freight trucks going over state lines, or truck drivers on their payroll. This trucker guy obviously did this on his own time. The SSPX priests aren't God or even an earthly king, let alone a tyrant who has 24/7 surveillance on each of their "subjects". After all, the SSPX priest doesn't live on a compound with all of their parishioners, and supervising the private lives of each of those parishioners. If that were true, you could certainly scream "cult"!

The SSPX doesn't have that kind of intel. Maybe they wish they did, but as a matter of fact they don't.

I pointed out some things in the story now.

It really does look like a hit piece on the SSPX. And no, not the neo-SSPX that we all oppose for changing their orientation towards Modernist Rome, Vatican II, etc. -- the SSPX that many of us supported for years.

If the SSPX were being attacked for modernism, compromising, etc. I'd join in. But that's not what they're being attacked for here.

This is a subtle hit piece, calculated to give you an erroneous impression about the SSPX and the priests mentioned in particular.

Maybe they got on someone's "crap list" for not going along with the program, and now their reputations are being sullied using a common tactic of the Freemasons? Nothing would surprise me.

I'm only guessing about that, but what I *do* know for sure is that we have to be careful what we give credence to, and we have to always USE OUR BRAINS. The truth never hurt anyone.

The detective learned that Sloniker had attended St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary, also part of the Society of St. Pius X, in Winona, Minnesota. Vassal said in an Oct. 2 interview with police that the seminary in 2005 deemed Sloniker to be mentally unstable after he tried to circuмcise himself. He was removed from the seminary program.

How it is that a man is expelled from the SSPX Seminary over mental instability and then he becomes a SSPX Youth Camp Counselor? Don't they run background checks of some sort to try to prevent this?

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The detective learned that Sloniker had attended St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary, also part of the Society of St. Pius X, in Winona, Minnesota. Vassal said in an Oct. 2 interview with police that the seminary in 2005 deemed Sloniker to be mentally unstable after he tried to circuмcise himself. He was removed from the seminary program.

How it is that a man is expelled from the SSPX Seminary over mental instability and then he becomes a SSPX Youth Camp Counselor? Don't they run background checks of some sort to try to prevent this?

I don't think that kind of thing would show up on a person's record. Background checks generally look for criminal records, and I doubt this guy was arrested for attempting self-mutilation. If he didn't have any arrests due to mental illness episodes, then his background check would come up clean. If someone is just seeing a psychiatrist or taking medication, that wouldn't show up.

However, word of mouth spreads pretty quickly in traddy circles. No doubt there were whispers, which may have been dismissed by those in charge as idle gossip.