The Gambling Nuns of Torrance, California

ReasonableFlamingo · 2019-06-08T21:47:46+00:00

A church accountant ballparked a number: $500,000.

How much was stolen at least but most likely more.

The Torrance police, Meyers wrote, had been notified, but neither the church, the school, nor the archdiocese would be pressing charges

Of course not.

instead, they would “address the situation internally through investigation, restitution, and sanctions on the Sisters.

Hey sanctions that sounds promising.

the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet would make restitution, and Sister Mary Margaret and Sister Lana would suffer “canonical sanctions,” a phrase uttered with tremendous ferocity but amounting to, according to Graf, really strict probation, albeit without the inconvenience of court supervision and a criminal record.

Well those sanctions should make it so they never do it again.

Of course we all here at PP know that any woman would have gotten probation for a theft this large anyways.

Church officials won't say where either nun is even physically located; for all practical purposes, they've vanished. So their only statements—and purported statements at that—have been filtered through church officials (who also declined to comment further), and those have been wholly unspecific.

Have to protect them like they are the victims.

The nuns “have expressed to me and asked that I convey to you, the deep remorse they each feel for their actions and ask for your forgiveness and prayers.

Oh look they feel remorse. Wonder how this will play if it goes to court.

Sister Mary Margaret has asked us to convey that she does not support public communications suggesting she is not responsible

Ahh yes the old I did not do it from a woman who did in fact do the crime.

Church officials have said Sister Mary Margaret admitted to taking money,

So she admits to doing it and then says she did not do it.

At the meeting, Marge Graf, the diocesan lawyer

Yet she also seemed genuinely surprised to see so many angry parents show up

You are surprised that people who you let get robbed show up angry.

Really.

That is like being surprised that someone who walked through the rain is wet.

As several of those parents pointed out that night, a layperson who looted a half-million from a school would be in handcuffs, and probably perp-walked for the cameras, too.

Exactly. Although I would change layperson to man since woman would not be walked out like this.

But two nuns allegedly do it, and no one even calls the police?

This happens with woman all the time as well.

St. James informed the Torrance Police Department, but not until six months after the fact, and initially declined to file a criminal complaint.

Must be nice being a woman.

A man would have had all this done to them the day it all came out.

Monsignor Meyers considered that. “All we can do is see where the sisters are at, what they're willing to do,” he said. “But it also depends on what we're willing to do. If they come here to ask for your forgiveness and for your understanding, [and] if you're going to sit here and throw tomatoes at them, no, I don't think they ought to come.”

Yep have to protect them like they are the victims.

Can not hold them accountable for their actions.

Six months later, the auditors still couldn't offer a final number. The $500,000 figure is what they've managed to sift from a single checking account going back to 2012

Title	The Gambling Nuns of Torrance, California
Author	ReasonableFlamingo
Upvotes	14
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Date	June 8, 2019 9:27 PM UTC (7 years ago)
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