http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/04/24/priest.arrested.ap/index.html
I grew up near there, and I at one time worked for the diocese and for the Sisters of St. Francis. So I looked for more information.
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040426/NEWS03/404260357
From that article...
Father Robinson last night was being held in the Lucas County jail pending arraignment today in Toledo Municipal Court. He is charged with murder; he cannot face the death penalty because it was not in effect at the time of the slaying.
Sister Margaret Ann was found in the sacristy of the hospital chapel on April 5, 1980. It was Holy Saturday, and she had wakened early to get the chapel ready for services.
She apparently was strangled, according to police reports at the time. Investigators since have said her slaying appeared to be part of a ceremony, in part, because an altar cloth had been placed on her body and she'd been stabbed up to 32 times.
Elaine Dudley, now a retired nurse who was working as an administrator for a government program at Mercy, said details were hardly a secret at the time.
In the days following the murder, she said there were suspicions about a ceremony...
...The murder case was reopened last year after a woman testified before the Diocesan Review Board and wrote a detailed statement alleging years of sexual, physical, and psychological abuse by Toledo diocesan and religious-order priests during her childhood.
She said she had been a victim of Satanic rituals, with its participants going as far as killing animals and children - charges that so far police have said they have neither substantiated nor dismissed.
Sister Margaret Ann was found in the sacristy of the hospital chapel on April 5, 1980. It was Holy Saturday, and she had wakened early to get the chapel ready for services.
She apparently was strangled, according to police reports at the time. Investigators since have said her slaying appeared to be part of a ceremony, in part, because an altar cloth had been placed on her body and she'd been stabbed up to 32 times.
Elaine Dudley, now a retired nurse who was working as an administrator for a government program at Mercy, said details were hardly a secret at the time.
In the days following the murder, she said there were suspicions about a ceremony...
...The murder case was reopened last year after a woman testified before the Diocesan Review Board and wrote a detailed statement alleging years of sexual, physical, and psychological abuse by Toledo diocesan and religious-order priests during her childhood.
She said she had been a victim of Satanic rituals, with its participants going as far as killing animals and children - charges that so far police have said they have neither substantiated nor dismissed.
Yikes! What the hell is going on these days?
In the Sunday paper they were even more graphic about the womans allegations...
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040425/NEWS03/404250380/-1/ARCHIVES30
She described Satanic ceremonies in which priests placed her in a coffin filled with cockroaches, forced her to ingest what she believed to be a human eyeball, and penetrated her with a snake "to consecrate these orifices to Satan."
She also alleged that the group of clerics killed an infant and a 3-year-old child, performed an abortion on her, and mutilated dogs during the rituals, according to a copy of her statement obtained by The Blade.
She also alleged that the group of clerics killed an infant and a 3-year-old child, performed an abortion on her, and mutilated dogs during the rituals, according to a copy of her statement obtained by The Blade.
Near the end of that page is a quote from my old boss, Sister Karen Zielinski.
