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Attack of the Bishops: What happens when you advocate for sex crime victims in the Catholic Church in Geneva, Illinois

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“We know he’s a con man lot of white collar fraud,” Bochte said. Just Google his name and pay those people who pop up whatever on the internet to get the information.

Grice is probably the voice of "The Rock" in webcasts at the CTL site. "Rocky" does a poor imitation of Rush Limbaugh spouting favorable arguments for pervert priests.

Bochte said Grice has several convictions, one for a $45 million dollar con.

“I think he was operating out of the St. Louis area,” Bochte said. "He’d get investors for companies that didn't exist. He has several convictions.”

Now convicted con man James Grice is apparently on the Roman Catholic Church payroll running the CTL website.

“We actually went to New York to the SNAP meeting last year and we went to their street address,” Bochte said. “It’s a rundown Mail Boxes Etcetera type place. The way they describe it on the CTL website, you’d think it it’s a high rise suite in Manhattan.”

A Circus Atmosphere in the Courts

Jeff Anderson said sometimes the atmosphere at court during proceedings for his clients', the two teenage girl victims, was a circus, because of Jarmoluk and Campobello supporters.

“Jarmoluk and a cadre of his supporters would stand outside the courthouse wearing yellow ribbons,” Anderson said.

Mary Lu O'Halloran, another advocate who gets slandered daily at CTL, describes the Jarmoluk-Campobello Courthouse Weirdo Groupies:

“We wrote letters to the parish with court dates, encouraging people to show up and be supportive of these girls and their family.

“All of a sudden these people started showing up and they would stare us down, snicker at us, make remarks in the hall. We learned to ignore them.

“The last day, the settlement day in Geneva in May 2007, they showed up. When you come in the door at the courthouse, they tell you no cameras. But the CTL people must have snuck in cameras.

“They followed us around the courthouse and took our pictures. I went to get a guard and they ran and hid in a courtroom.

“Finally they got caught and we all had to go down in the elevator together. The guards had to take their cameras out and erase the pictures.”

I asked her to describe these people, imaging them as huffing hausfraus in polyester pants suits who carry on secret fantasies about handsome priests while nibbling on potato chips watching soap operas in bed, but Mary Lu described them as the ordinary women in their late forties to sixties.

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