The Danger that is the Diocese of Manchester and its too-close tie to New Hampshire Public Officials have resulted in Support of Perversion and Perversion of Justice.
On the one hand, the Diocese of Manchester advertises for victims of child sex abuse to come forward. Rich settlements are paid out.
On the other hand, Bishop Peter Libasci is still in place three years after he was accused of sexual abuse of a minor. Luckily for Libasci, his accuser just died, leaving the case in limbo with Libasci still hired.
Now Peter Libasci huddles with his attorneys (presumably Nixon Peabody and/or Divine Millimet) on how to get girls at the Catholic school in Concord (Bishop Brady High School) to stand down from protesting against another school sports team (Kearsage Regional High School) with a transgender player.
The transgender player’s father has been allowed to attend matches featuring his transgender “daughter” while waiting for prison sentencing for sex offenses. There’s no concern from the Diocese about the fact that this man is a sex offender because the Diocese has played a game of covering up actual sex abusers and making deals with law firms and the police for decades while framing innocent and dead priests – for money deals. But ironically, public official Amanda Grady Sexton couldn’t get enough of her media coverage calling 18-year-old St Paul’s School scholarship kid a “rapist” and a sex offender. Don’t think the NHCADSV aren’t tightly wound up with the Diocese because they are, and they, too, are part of the problem of the manipulation of narratives for lobby interest.
Perversion and perversion of justice define the Diocese of Manchester.
Bishop Peter Libasci’s predecessor was Bishop John McCormick, who was heavily criticized for his handling of sex abuse. His sidekick was “Monsignor” Edward Arsenault, who had to leave the Diocese in 2009 abruptly after a priest sued for being forced out in retaliation for his discovery of a box of sex toys that Arsenault seized from him and asked him never to mention again.
The State (Jane Young, assistant AG at the time) announced on the DOJ site that Edward Arsenault was sentenced to 4-20 years in State Prison for defrauding the Diocese, a dead priest’s estate, and the Catholic Medical Center in 2014. But the State lied because it never sent him to prison. He wound up in Keene jail instead and was released on home confinement in Salem and then released altogether with a new name and his restitution all paid off. He married and divorced Francesco Bolognini, who has made claims on social media that suggest Arsenault is a sex pimp.
Meanwhile, Ovide LaMontagne of Divine Millimet told Nixon Peabody to go easy on any claims against the Diocese. Thus, Gordon MacDonald, now NH Supreme Court Chief Justice, had no problem using Father Gordon MacRae’s name to settle knowingly false accusations submitted by Peter Hutchins Esq, who is now treasurer of the NH Attorney Referral Service. MacDonald’s mistake – he forgot that MacRae had no NDA and was free to tell the Wall Street Journal about the false claims made against him. Edward Arsenault wanted MacRae to cease speaking to the Wall Street Journal. MacRae rightfully refused. MacDonald called Dorothy Rabinowitz at the WSJ in protest of the name of the false accuser being made public. She reminded him that MacRae had not signed an NDA and was going to continue to expose false accusers – including Thomas Grover, whose trained testimony by corrupt Keene PD James F McLaughlin put MacRae into prison in the first place.
Bishop John McCormick reportedly admitted to a CBS 60 Minutes producer that he knew MacRae had been framed but said that his hands were tied between lawyers and insurance.
David Thibault’s hands also seem to be tied between lawyers and desired Government/lobbyist public narratives, regardless of whether these have any grounds in constitutional law. The transgender narrative is not under Title IX because the 1972 wording does not mention “gender” anywhere in its 37 words. The transgender player is free to play sports, just not on the team of the opposite biological sex.
Ironically, who is the investigator into sex abuse at the Diocese of Manchester but Concord PD Julie Curtin, who was on the payroll (reportedly) of Shaheen & Gordon while she had been dismissed “retired” from City of Concord Police with her disciplinary records hidden from public view and Assistant AG (now Federal Prosecutor) Geoffrey Ward deleting the files of 28 police officers on the Laurie List shortly after my complaint about Curtin was tossed to the AG’s office by John Scippa of Police Standards and Training.
Who had Curtin working for him, but AG Gordon MacDonald, who argued to keep Laurie List officers’ names private. Needless to say, MacDonald did not disclose that he continues (per NH Secretary of State filings) to have a financial interest in Nixon Peabody, the law firm for the Diocese and the law firm for the NHCADSV. Law firms and lobby interests dictate everything within the Diocese. Morals have disappeared.
If the Diocese were separated from the State, a moral compass might find its way back into both the Diocese and the State. As it is, both have harmed public funds, public trust, and public safety in the name of lobby interest and money. I’m not sure what “Christian values” David Thibault thinks his school has, but silencing women and girls is not a Christian value. Bullying girls and forcing them into desired narratives for public officials and administrations have become the norm in Merrimack County -whether it is at Pembroke Academy, St Paul’s School, or the Diocese.
