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Priest Accused Of Sex Abuse Charged With Soliciting Someone To Kill Teen Accuser

November 24, 2010 at 9:34 am by  

John Fiala Priest Accused Of Sex Abuse Charged With Soliciting Someone To Kill Teen AccuserTexas — Wanna talk about one evil prick? Check this out. A Catholic priest out on bond on charges he sexually abused a teen boy has now been charged with attempting to hire someone to kill the teen. Rev. John M. Fiala, 52, met the teen back in 2007, often visiting him at his grandparent’s house. Authorities say he initially groomed the teen with gifts like a cell phone, MP3 player, and even cash for a car. In 2008 during a trip to a youth event, Fiala raped the teen at gunpoint in a motel room. Fiala then began abusing the teen twice a month, sometimes on church grounds, under the guise of private catechism lessons. Even though the boy was in his late teens, Fiala would keep him submissive and silent by threatening to harm his family or his girlfriend if he told anyone. He would repeat these threats with daily text messages where Fiala would also threaten to kill him and himself so they would go to heaven together. The teen finally had enough and told a school counselor about the abuse he was suffering and Fiala was eventually arrested and indicted on three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and one count of aggravated sexual assault by threat. He posted bail in September.

While out, a neighbor of his contacted police claiming Fiala had offered him $5,000 to get rid of his problems by killing the teen, now 18-years-old. A sting was set up by The Department of Public Safety and its Texas Ranger Division who sent a undercover agent to speak with Fiala. They captured Fiala, on video and audiotape, offering the agent money to kill the teenager. Fiala was arrested and had one count of criminal solicitation to commit capital murder added to his list of charges. He was placed back in jail on $700,000 bond. Good luck in prison, Fiala, I’m sure your new neighbors are just gonna love you to death.

The teen and his family have also filed a lawsuit against Fiala as well as the archdioceses of San Antonio, Texas, and Omaha, Nebraska and Fiala’s religious order, the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity, claiming they should have known what a danger Fiala was and accuses them of covering up his abuse. “He’s a dangerous predator and has been since at least 1988,” said Tom Rhodes, the teen’s attorney. “The church has known how dangerous this guy is for many, many years. They had full knowledge, we believe, and the documents seem to bear that out — that they knew what a bad person he was and what a danger he was to children.”

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  • Tansey

    -_-

    When will people in positions of trust stop doing these kinds of things?

  • Boughtthefarm

    Fact is that priests/clergy of all denominations need to be finger printed and back ground checked.

  • http://www.dreamindemon.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=12 Athena

    @Tansey: Never. Predators will always try to work themselves into positions of trust, and there’s really nothing we can do to stop them.

    This is why it’s important to teach children to NEVER COMPLY. Even if someone is sticking a gun in your face, you’re good as dead anyway, which is why you may as well fight.

    Unfortunately, with the way the media is these days, we teach our kids to be scared when we should be teaching them to be brave.

  • JGo555

    I’m catholic… thank you a**hole for giving all the other non-catholics a reason to believe that all priests are paedophiles.

  • Boughtthefarm

    @JGo, I am Roman Catholic as well. I have listened to many claim that Catholic Priests are pedos because they can’t marry and have sex. That is pure bullshit. Because if marrying and having sex would cure these mother fuckers, there wouldn’t be pedos in all the other denominations. Not to mention all other professions.

    Fact is that until the Catholic adults [mostly men] who were raped and molested by their priests came out, the other denominations kept it hidden as well. I don’t think it was hidden becuase they were Catolic but mostly because they are men who were far more ashamed than women because we’ve been dealing with rapists and pedos since the beginning of time. And men are usually the perps, not the victims.

  • http://www.dreamindemon.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=12 Athena

    @Boughtthefarm: You’re absolutely right – the priesthood doesn’t cause pedophilia, and the Catholic Church is hardly the only one dealing with pedophiles. Problem is, the Catholic Church is the largest religious organization in the world, so they’re going to have more pedophiles… because they have more people. But the real problem faced by Catholicism is the very real evidence of a cover up that went all the way (or nearly all the way) to the top. That’s hard to recover from.

    That said, so long as the church does right by their followers from now on, no one should be holding these individual occurrences against them.

  • AnnabelleLee

    @Athena:

    Ironically, the rationale for many of these cover ups was that if the abuse became public it would make the Church look bad and members to lose faith.

    Boy, did that backfire…

  • Boughtthefarm

    Cover ups are common with crime whether they are religious or business affiliated. We see it all the time, as with Enron. The only people who condone that shit are the ones covering their asses/assets.