{"id":2375,"date":"2024-01-25T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/25\/how-us-archdiocese-helped-priest-accused-of-abusing-deaf-children\/"},"modified":"2024-01-25T12:48:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T12:48:00","slug":"how-us-archdiocese-helped-priest-accused-of-abusing-deaf-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/25\/how-us-archdiocese-helped-priest-accused-of-abusing-deaf-children\/","title":{"rendered":"How US archdiocese helped priest accused of abusing deaf children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gerard \u2018Jerry\u2019 Howell was supported by New Orleans\u2019s archbishop after credible sexual abuse allegations were made against him by dozens of children<\/p>\n<p>For decades, Gerard \u201cJerry\u201d Howell had avoided punishment for what his own church considers credible sexual abuse allegations leveled against him by dozens of children at the school for deaf students that he founded.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he\u2019s found another way around what little administrative accountability he eventually faced, this time with the help of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/nov\/29\/new-orleans-archdiocese-clergy-abuse-catholic-church\">New Orleans\u2019s archdiocese<\/a> and its archbishop.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/jan\/25\/new-orleans-archbishop-priest-sexual-abuse-allegations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerard \u2018Jerry\u2019 Howell was supported by New Orleans\u2019s archbishop after credible sexual abuse allegations were made against him by dozens of children For decades, Gerard \u201cJerry\u201d Howell had avoided punishment for what his own church considers credible sexual abuse allegations leveled against him by dozens of children at the school for deaf students that he &#8230; <a title=\"How US archdiocese helped priest accused of abusing deaf children\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/25\/how-us-archdiocese-helped-priest-accused-of-abusing-deaf-children\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How US archdiocese helped priest accused of abusing deaf children\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}