Very Sick Man!

Dont eat meat on fridays during Lent...but a stuffed lobster tail and some kiddie porn must be ok lol. Unreal.

"So far", perhaps two of the worst words used when describing a person charged with a crime like this. Anyone know his traveling history amongst the various parishes before St. Joe's.

shocker!

seriously...I'm stunned at this.

No...not really.

No wonder the pope quit.

Here is a link to the email sent to parents of St. Joseph's students. The deacon has been with the parish since he was ordained in 1996. I can only hope that none of the students were victims in this case. It's sad to see how mangled the skeletons are in the Catholic closet.

https://connectdocs.blackboard.com/broadcasts/Docs/76bfdecc9369724336949565b2202e69/a8892c85-0506-40cb-8396-84518a4b2338.doc?ticket=t_gWlq462V&xythos-download=true

Maybe the church should start worrying about who is on the payroll instead of how many parishoners turn their Sunday envelopes in.

Wow. I will pray for his family and the victims.

I can only imagine how upsetting this must be for anyone who has a child that attends St. Joe's. How sad to have your trust betrayed like this.

Wafer, an email was sent out today at 3:44pm to all parents. I included a link to the letter that was sent out.

I'm sure there is plenty of space in hell for this POS! Rot in your new cage!

An email? U should go bust down the frieking doors.

First, stop blaming the church. No one knew. No one. You can't stop something you don't know about. And for that matter, no one would care if he was Joe Schmo. He's a man first, leave the church out of it. Secondly, I'm glad there are so many sinless people out there ready to cast stones. I'm not defending his actions, but folks are out of control.

Food for thought...this guy gets $75000 bail but the other guy (seperate story on wmar website) who is a school teacher is also charged with child pornography in an unrelated case got $1 million bail. Dude must have been in waaaay deeper. Sick...pure sick.

Volunteer or paid...it should be a requirement that periodic background checks be conducted on staff who would have any access to children.

The link sent to the parents was actually from the Archdiocese. In the emai, it just said "Please read attached documents". No actual statement has been made or came from the school or parish. We have received more info from this article which is incredibly disheartening.

This is truly sad...My kids went to St. Joe's...And at Meghan I agree with you 100%..

This man married my wife and I, and baptized one of our kids. I am horrified. This isn't an attack on the Catholic Church, but it is growling curious how the most intolerant, anti-gay 'church' continues to turn-up child predators. I grew up with religion and as I grow older, I try and worry more about living life, loving all and doing what's right by mankind. Mental health is crushing our culture, yet we lack the resources or courage and passion to address it.

Who are the sickos that are generating this filth and making it available? When are we going to hear about them being dragged out of their holes and brought to justice?

My son attends CCD there and my daughter was just baptized by this man. This is sickening and so disappointing! Its terrible that you cant even trust that your child is in good hands while they are in Church! :( I hope this man gets help, along with all others that are suffering from mental health problems! This world is a scary place!

Background checks are great if you have a record. So if your are never caught . No record. He or school had nothing to worry about. He had no priors. Probally thought this is in the privacy of my own home no one will no. . Thanks Verizon.

You should know what you are getting into if you are going to a Catholic church or sending your children to a Catholic school. This IS an attack against the Catholic Church because it hasn't done anything to stop this problem but only to cover it up. That being said it isn't an attack against Catholic beliefs and this problems seems unique to the US church. The one Catholic belief that contributes to this problem is that priests can't be married. Almost no man will reject marriage or a bachelor lifestyle for celibacy unless he wants to hide being gay. I've read that more then 1 in 3 priests are gay, I'm sure giving them the benefit of the doubt not as many are practicing gays (which would be against the oath they took). A Catholic priest is 450% more likely to develop be HIV positive then an average mail.
That is shocking! Shocking!
Catholic and pedofile seem to go hand in hand. At least every other article about pedophilia mentions someone from the Catholic church.
So I disagree with those who say don't bring the Church into this..they are behind it because they don't address it.

''these problems''

early in the morning here and I can't modify my above message.. excuse the spelling errors like mail instead of male. gotta get my morning cup of Joe..

According to various sources, the pope is out because there is an arrest warrant out for him for crimes against humanity, covering up all the crimes the priest are committing, as well as all the criminal activity the Vatican bank has been involved. I am sorry people, you have been lied to and deceived over hundreds of years. We are seeing God's day of reckoning, and has only just begun.

Techy, you are correct. Check this out>http://itccs.org/2013/02/13/pope-benedict-resigned-to-avoid-arrest-seizure-of-church-wealth-by-easter/

"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."
One makes matters worse by blaming the Catholic Church for this man's actions. The Archdiocese of Baltimore immediately reacted to this news. A letter is posted on the St. Joseph website with steps that are being taken to address this matter. Everyone in our faith acknowledges sin. Those devoted to the Church and the teachings of God try to follow His Commandments and live according to His will. I hope that Bill will now seek the help he needs to turn his life around. Let us all pray for purity of heart and forgiveness of our sins. For those who disparage our retired Holy Father, I ask God to allow you to see the goodness he has shown for all of God's people.

Ironically, it's the fact that he is associated with the Catholic Church that makes it so easy to believe the charge. Yet, sure, there might be some far-fetched but true excuse such as
1) The child is a 17 year old that was not properly ID'd by an adult web site. The guy thought he was looking at porn (not right especially for a deacon but not the same as looking at child porn) and as a result is involved in this.
2) The ''model'' was of age but law enforcement authorities suspect that she may not be.
3) Someone else in the house looked at the pictures and they were either one of the above or actual child porn and he is taking the fall.

(Please note when I say ''model''' I am referring ONLY to the case when it was an adult who wilfully posed)

Thankfully, in any event there does not seem to be any accusation that he carried out anything related to this in real life.

As for comments like ''He who is without sin..'' I prefer the line ''Let he who is not into child porn, cast the first stone.''
Yet, there is a difference between casting stones and pointing out a very real problem within the Catholic church. Again, it's not an attack on Catholic beliefs but the Church heirarchy and those would are OK with it.
As for the devil's involvement. As the saying goes ''If the devil made you do it, you blew it.''

I know one thing. I won't be putting any company financial data or family pictures on the Verizon cloud. It is pretty evident by this case that your data isn't kept private. All you need is one Deacon Albaugh guy at Verizon cloud and who know where your kid's pictures or your personal financials could wind up. Not sure what you agree to when you use the Verizon cloud but this sick individual may have a case again Verizon. Seems like an invasion of privacy.

I agree Up and At Em. I am wondering if there is the same kind of access with iCloud on a Mac computer.

Channel 2 is reporting that the man's son-in-law, Daniel William Garrett, is a registered sex offender.

would you all STOP for just one second and look at yourselves? Flying accusations, bickering back and forth... It's CHILDISH! If you call yourself a catholic you should be ashamed of yourself. I am not by any means condoning the allegations ahead of deacon bill, but to be ashamed that you have been married by this man or baptized is just down right ignorant. Do we not receive the same graces from God regardless of who they are working through?! And was it not the sinner himself who was unworthy yet washed the very feet of Jesus? Child pornography is wrong, yes. Is it necessary to re-evaluate and provide counsel for our parishioners and children? Absolutely. In this time of uncertainty and despair we should now be turning towards the face of God, and praying for our children, our community, the parish, and this deacon. I am by no means a grown adult and I do not understand everything, nor do I claim to, but if you truly practice what you preach then this is a very crucial time for our parishional community, and your time would be much better spent comforting the sorrowful, then accusing the sinner. NONE of our hands are without the stains of scarlet.

I guess he should have read a little closer the terms of Verizon's cloud agreement before he starting saving kiddie porn on their server. Look, the guy isn't going to jail. He doesn't have a criminal record. There is no evidence yet that he harmed or took pictures of children or produced any of his own child pornography. All he is guilty of is violating the terms of Verizon's cloud agreement and also of being a creep who likes to get his rocks off by looking at child porn in his house. His penalty will be that he will have to register on the sexual offender data base and have his picture posted on there til the day he dies.

Very interesting that according to above poster, his son-in-law is a registered sex offender. Now, I would go back to my earlier question ''Is he protecting someone else?''
Regarding Verizon TOS -- I am so suprised that they are unable to provide any customer support, it takes 2 hours for someone to respond to an online tech chat yet they have time to find sex offenders.
Maybe in fact that is where all the effort is because it sure as heck isn't with customer service. (I switched to FIOS and boy to I regret it)
I am curious -- as per above poster -- how an automated computer program identifies child porn? How is determined to be child porn. My understanding is that this would be any pornography with a child under age 18. So pictures with a mature looking 17 year old could be mistaken as legal. Pictures with a young look 20 year old could be mistaken as illegal. Do we know in this guys case that this was clearly with kids or is termned this way over something like what I just mentioned. (I've heard of more then one 18 year old labeled a sex offender because of a 17 year old girlfriend who then gets a stigma for life as a Child Predator registered in databases without explanation.)
If the guy is guilty, it's a horrible abuse of trust. My understanding of Christianity is also indeed (earlier commentor) that you don't throw the first stone and the church is a place where sinners become whole but NOT a place where active sinners run things.

Wow!!
I would see this guy on Sunday's reading the gospel, giving homilies, and handing out communion at St. Joe's. It just goes to show you, you really don't know someone, it sounds like this guy has some secrets tucked away that we don't know about.
I just hope and pray he never touched any kids. How did he hide this from his wife? I am sure she is embarressed.

Just a tip from your Uncle Ernie -----
Storing anything personal on ANY cloud verizon google etc. can be risky -check the security offered by the provider, and most offer backup services - usually for a price and remember the data is NOT on your computer - nuff said

I am shocked that deacon Bill was involved with child porn. How often did I see him giving communion and he is such a good speaker the priest would often let bill give the homily too. He seemed to be a dedicated family man too. We all have skeletons in the closet but not child porn!!

It is wrong to blame the Church. How could anyone have known what Deacon Bill had on his computer. And to put it in iCloud how dumb. As an older man he apparently not computer savvy enough to see he'd be caught.

He is what is called a permanent deacon. This is a paid job, not volunteer.

Tr, sorry but you are misinformed. Permanent Deacons are not paid. It is a volunteeer job. Unless they are retired, most have normal full-time jobs just like anybody else and do their ministerial work at night and on weekends.

Background checks are not going to reveal anything if the person has never had a problem with the law in the past. These people are found in all walks of life, creeds, colors etc....... There may even be some among our own relatives and we are oblivious to it!!! Regardless, each individual is responsible for his own actions!!! I too was raised in the Catholic Church all my life and was never approached by a priest in a sexual manner, never heard them speak in an inappropriate way to me or anyone else.

This pervert baptized my son in 2005. Makes me want to throw up. We pulled out of St. Joe Fullerton immediately and switched to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Middle River. I encourage all parishioners of St. Joe Fullerton to pull out of there and switch churches. Let that parish go bankrupt, level the building, and build a new public high school to alleviate the overcrowding at Perry Hall High.