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Priest sex abuse victims hurt by Health Minister’s testimony
In a letter written by the sex abuse victims sent to the Pope, the victims claim they are hurt by a government minister’s testimony in favour of the priests.
9 January 2011, 12:00am
Miriam Dalli
Miriam Dalli
1 min read
In the letter, the victims mention a government minister who was one of the witnesses summoned by the legal defence of the priests charged with sexually abusing children. The children at the time were in the care of St Joseph’s Home.
According to newspaper Torċa, the government minister was Health Minister Joe Cassar. In the letter to Pope Benedict XVI, the alleged victims claim that “in Malta, church, political power and the judiciary are all one of the same thing ... so much so that even a minister is testifying in court in favour of the priests.”
The newspaper reports that Cassar had testified in Court as a psychiatrist, claiming that the priests were at some time under his care. Before becoming a Parliamentary Secretary, Cassar was a psychiatrist and a consultant at Mount Carmel Hospital.
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How does Minister Cassar feature in all this? As a person not as a professional. To tell the truth, his looks never convinced me. I'm not implying anything, but subliminal whorls in speech and its variegated means of communications could be mysterious in their subterranean twirlings. But we must leave this to the refined dissections usually carried out by psychological writers! We're not talking about fiction here but hard facts! So let us concentrate on the law courts that are visible and transparent ... when they are allowed to function without extraneous interference.
