Ratigan's Case Study

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Ratigan took pictures of the young girl and young girl parents are very stressed and painful and the six or eight-year girl spoken of wanted to die because she was a very small child and she thought why her good well-wisher would hurt her. Ratigan admitted his crime but he always told that don't want to go jail for 50 years, he thought that 15 years is enough for his crime. His attorney said that he has a mental illness, or he was not mentally healthy. Bishop Robert Finn, the Catholic prelate in the U.S. heartland who became a symbol internationally of the church's failures in addressing the sexual abuse crisis, has resigned. He was the first bishop criminally sentenced misusing an oppressive cleric yet stayed in once for another over two years. The Jackson County fantastic jury started meeting after government …show more content…
When investigation going on Finn said he wanted to "save Ratigan's priesthood", and that Ratigan's problem was "only pornography." In research carried out by the EU Agency for Fundamental Human Rights research, 17,335 female victims of sexual assault were asked to name the feelings that resulted from the most serious incident of sexual assault that they had encountered since the age of 8. 'Anger, annoyance and embarrassment were the most common emotional responses, with 45% of women feeling anger, 41% annoyance, and 36% embarrassment. By the support of Bishop Finn, Ratigan was doing the same thing from December to may. Finn gave him many restrictions, but he doesn't understand that. Ratigan always desperate for taking naked pictures of small children's. Children's was friendly to them as their parents. 8) Bishop Finn sent away from him from children's and send Ratigan to a psychological evaluation and tell him to keep a distance from kids. But after that Ratigan again attend a party of kid and taking pornographic

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