Catholic Priest Solicited Murder of Teen Accusing Him of Sex Abuse

A Texas Roman Catholic priest, already facing criminal charges and a civil lawsuit alleging that he sexually abused a teenage boy, now faces charges of attempting to hire someone to kill the 18-year-old college student, reports CNN. The Rev. John M. Fiala is booked in the Dallas County Jail and charged with criminal solicitation to commit capital murder and two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child.

He was arrested last week after he offered an undercover agent with the Texas Department of Public Safety $5,000 to kill the teen, according to department spokeswoman Lisa Block. ... The Department of Public Safety and its Texas Ranger Division got involved, sending the undercover agent to speak with Fiala, Rhodes said. The conversation was caught on video and audiotape. gunpoint, reports CNN.

The youth met Fiala in 2007. The attorney said the priest started "grooming him," buying him gifts including a computer and a car. In early 2008, when the boy was 16, under the guise of providing private catechism lessons, Fiala "gained access to him and began to sexually abuse him once or twice a month, including on church grounds," said [Tom Rhodes, the teen's attorney]. Fiala allegedly threatened to kill the youth if he told anyone -- threats he repeated in daily text messages, Rhodes said, and Fiala also threatened to kill himself, telling the teen they would "go to heaven together."

The teen, after struggling with the abuse, told a school counselor, who notified authorities, Rhodes said. He filed suit in April against Fiala, as well as the archdioceses of San Antonio, Texas, and Omaha, Nebraska—where Fiala was before Texas—and Fiala's religious order, the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity, the attorney said.

The 18-year-old "was attending college but had to withdraw" and go into hiding after learning the priest abuser was soliciting his murder.

The suit claims the San Antonio and Omaha archdioceses, as well as the religious order, covered up the abuse. After the priest was indicted in September, he fled to Kansas and was extradited to Texas.

The Rev. John M. Fiala has not been defrocked—yet. The Catholic Archdiocese of El Paso and San Antonio is probably too busy comparing gays to rapists and isn't sure how to respond to actual rapists in their own churches.

Comments

[derrick from Philly]

"telling the teen they would 'go to heaven together.'"

Shi'iit, you go first, motha' f_cka'.

[Isis]

He has a one way ticket to hell and I hope his trip is expedited. Such repulsive behavior.

[FREELEO]

Now do you call that a christian? NO! NO!

[soulbrotha]

hahaha! Freelo, that was brilliant!!

[Anointed]

'The Catholic Archdiocese of El Paso and San Antonio is probably too busy comparing gays to rapists and isn't sure how to respond to actual rapists in their own churches.'

One priest does not spoil the whole bunch! I will pray for you Rod, so much hate, sacrilege and disrespect on this blog.

[soulbrotha]

hahaha! Freelo, that was brilliant!!

[TheRevKev]

As my Mississippi Momma would say: WELL, DO JESUS!

Now this ain't got nothing to do with Christians, Christianity, Jesus or the Church. This son of a sapsucker needs to be under the jail for this! So the young man speaks up and is trying to reclaim his life after abuse and the Father, the Priest, tries to have him killed.

LIFETIME: NEXT MOVIE!

[mjolnir202]

@ The alleged 'Anointed': Shut The Hell Up! Pray for yourself so that God may lift the scales from your eyes and enlighten your stupidity.

Yeah, this is the first time we've heard of a Catholic Priest engaged in criminal behavior. Nope, never happened before. Hell, he was trying to rub out the victim because he had brought to light the priest's prior criminal behavior. The Catholic Church ought to be apologizing to the victims, congregants and innocent priests who've had the endure the shame of the church's evil conduct.

[Taylor Siluwé]

I've come to the belief that these men of the cloth who live the most unholy lives don't even believe in the sh*t they preach. How could they believe in a God who watches our every move and still groom, molest and even murder at will?

But this particular priest was just doing what centuries of Pope's have done, order the death of those who offend or threaten their authority (or bank accounts).

I don't believe any of them believed in God per se, just the power of lording The Word over the masses.

When Pope Clementi VIII in 1598 ordered the horrific murder of a wealthy family just so he could steal their vast property holdings, did The Holy Father think slaughtering a family was God approved? Or more likely, that he was God?

But we don't have to go that far back into history to know this one fact is true: Trust these holy charlatans at your peril....