{"id":184336,"date":"2012-05-30T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T01:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/05\/30\/you-have-got-to-be-kidding-me\/"},"modified":"2012-05-30T20:25:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T01:25:00","slug":"you-have-got-to-be-kidding-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/05\/30\/you-have-got-to-be-kidding-me\/","title":{"rendered":"You Have Got to Be Kidding Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did not think that it was possible for a pedophile priest could get any less sympathetic, but the Transportation Security Administration has proved me wrong, because they <a href=\"http:\/\/philadelphia.cbslocal.com\/2012\/05\/24\/i-team-priest-removed-from-ministry-due-to-sex-abuse-allegations-works-at-phl\/\">hired him as a supervisor of the gropers at Philadelphia International Airport<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>The CBS 3 I-Team has learned that a Catholic priest who was removed from the ministry over sex abuse allegations now holds a sensitive security post at Philadelphia International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The security checkpoint between Terminals D and E is a busy place where thousands of people \u2013 including lots of kids \u2013 pass through every day. But you might not believe who the I-Team observed working as a TSA supervisor at that checkpoint this week: Thomas Harkins.<\/p>\n<p>Until 2002, Harkins was a Catholic priest working at churches across South Jersey. But the Diocese of Camden removed him from ministry because it found he sexually abused two young girls. Now, in a new lawsuit, a third woman is claiming she also is one of Harkins\u2019 victims.<\/p>\n<p>The I-Team asked Harkins about the suit as he was leaving his shift at the airport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have nothing to say,\u201d was Harkins\u2019 reply.<\/p>\n<p>The new lawsuit, filed in federal court against the Camden Diocese says quite a bit. It accuses Harkins of sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl 10 to 15 times in 1980 and 1981. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the alleged victim, claims the abuse occurred while Harkins was a priest at Saint Anthony of Padua parish in Hammonton, NJ, with one assault even occurring in Harkins\u2019 bedroom at the rectory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, this just boggles the mind.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, props to the Camden Diocese, which, unlike to many other dioceses, got rid of this guy, but f%$# the TSA.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americablog.com\/2012\/05\/five-more-things-tsa-would-rather-you.html\">Americablog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did not think that it was possible for a pedophile priest could get any less sympathetic, but the Transportation Security Administration has proved me wrong, because they hired him as a supervisor of the gropers at Philadelphia International Airport: The CBS 3 I-Team has learned that a Catholic priest who was removed from the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1010,1052,1035,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-crimes","category-transportation","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}