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Ex-Priest, Accused Of Abusing Dozens Of Boys, Found Shot To Death In Home
Posted on 3/14/19 at 9:58 am
Posted on 3/14/19 at 9:58 am
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Ex-Priest, Accused Of Abusing Dozens Of Boys, Found Shot To Death In Home
HuffPost Nina Golgowski,HuffPost 21 hours ago
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A former New Jersey priest who was accused of sexually molesting dozens of young boys in the ’70s and ’80s was found dead in his Nevada home over the weekend, authorities said.
John Capparelli’s body was discovered Saturday morning during a wellness check. The 70-year-old’s death, which was deemed suspicious, is being investigated as a homicide, the Henderson Police Department said in a statement.
The Clark County Coroner’s Office, reached by Fox5 News, said he had been shot in the neck.
Capparelli’s death comes one month after his name was listed among 188 priests and deacons that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark said had been “credibly accused” of sexual crimes against children. Of those names, more than 100 are dead.
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A police spokeswoman, reached by HuffPost on Wednesday, declined to release additional details about the case but said a suspect has not been identified at this time.
Capparelli, facing abuse allegations, was removed from the Catholic ministry in 1992 and went on to work as a math teacher at a Newark public high school. On the side, he operated a fetish website out of his home that featured men wrestling, according to New Jersey’s Star-Ledger newspaper, which has reported extensively on the abuse allegations against him.
He had his teaching certificate removed in 2011 after the abuse allegations were revealed by the Newark-based paper. He then moved to Nevada in 2016.
“The world is a safer place without him,” Rich Fitter, one of his accusers, recently told the Star-Ledger after hearing the news of his death. “The guy had a 40-year record of abuse. Whatever led to his death, it’s a certain amount of karma.”
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Fitter, speaking to local papers back in 2011, described Capparelli as preying upon young men by recruiting them to his wrestling team. There, he’d have them wrestle in Speedo swimsuits, arguing that loose fabric could get caught and injure them. He’d take photos of them and sometimes get on the mat and wrestle with them as well.
“He would put a head scissors on you, and your face would be right in front of his crotch,” Fitter told the Star-Ledger in 2011.
Fellow victim Brian Power, also speaking to the paper back in 2011, described Capparelli as pressuring him for months to join his wrestling team. Power said he eventually relented and did attend but didn’t go back after an uncomfortable experience while alone with the then-priest. He said his mother threatened to call the police on Capparelli after he wouldn’t stop hounding him to return to the team.
“There was definitely something way out of the ordinary about the way this guy was pursuing me,” Power told the paper. “He was basically stalking me.”
This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
Posted on 3/14/19 at 9:59 am to TechDawg2007
Good, frick him. I wish more justice was served out like this to these pedo-priests.
Posted on 3/14/19 at 10:00 am to TechDawg2007
Somebody he diddled or their dad
Posted on 3/14/19 at 10:01 am to fallguy_1978
There was an arch Bishop in Texas YEARS ago that had this theory: Back in the day psychologists used to say the best way for a person to be cured of pedophelia was to remain abstinent and the pedophilia would stop. This arch Bishop claims that perhaps this is why some priests joined the priesthood. ...Because they thought abstinence would cure their pedophilia....
This post was edited on 3/14/19 at 10:02 am
Posted on 3/14/19 at 10:01 am to TechDawg2007
Not cruel enough.
He should have been strung up and crucified in front of a crowd of the kids he molested and their families.
He should have been strung up and crucified in front of a crowd of the kids he molested and their families.
Posted on 3/14/19 at 10:03 am to TechDawg2007
Good. I hope more vigilante justice happens.
F those pedos with a hot iron.
F those pedos with a hot iron.
Posted on 3/14/19 at 10:04 am to TechDawg2007
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The 70-year-old’s death, which was deemed suspicious, is being investigated as a homicide,
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Shot to death
You don’t say?
This post was edited on 3/14/19 at 10:05 am
Posted on 3/14/19 at 10:05 am to TechDawg2007
That sounds like a Law & Order episode.
Posted on 3/14/19 at 10:06 am to TechDawg2007
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On the side, he operated a fetish website out of his home that featured men wrestling, according to New Jersey’s Star-Ledger newspaper, which has reported extensively on the abuse allegations against him.
while a HS teacher?
also, i think i know who did it:
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“The world is a safer place without him,” Rich Fitter, one of his accusers, recently told the Star-Ledger
Posted on 3/14/19 at 10:07 am to OysterPoBoy
If it were a Law and Order episode, the perp would have been killed by a right wing religious fanatic and it would have turned out the guy really wasn’t a chomo.
Posted on 3/14/19 at 10:08 am to dnm3305
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Good, frick him. I wish more justice was served out like this to these pedo-priests.
X infinity
Posted on 3/14/19 at 10:09 am to TechDawg2007
Usually, I usually try not to judge a book by its cover. . . but the first look at that guy, he looks like a pedo creep.
Posted on 3/14/19 at 10:13 am to teke184
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If it were a Law and Order episode, Briscoe would have rolled up on the body and said "I guess he didn't say enough Hail Mary's today".
Posted on 3/14/19 at 10:15 am to TechDawg2007
Glad to see some vigilante justice against the pedo priests.
Posted on 3/14/19 at 10:24 am to TechDawg2007
insert "well.. bye " gif
Posted on 3/14/19 at 10:26 am to TechDawg2007
a-hole also should have been arrested for stealing Carol Channings iconic glasses!
Posted on 3/14/19 at 10:28 am to TechDawg2007
Good riddance. It also saves the Church from having to reassign him to another parish where he can rape some more.
Posted on 3/14/19 at 10:28 am to TechDawg2007
If I was the detective I'd rule it a suicide.
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