Attorney Richard Trahant

Richard Trahant is an officer of the court and, under Louisiana law, is also a mandatory reporter of child sex abuse. When he discovered that a self-admitted pedophile had been hired at Brother Martin High School in New Orleans, he did exactly what the law and his conscience demanded. He acted immediately and decisively to protect our children and our community from a self-confessed predator. His reward for doing the very right thing? A staggering $400,000.00 fine imposed by Federal Judge Meredith Grabill. This isn’t just an injustice; it’s a grotesque betrayal of every principle of law, morality, and basic human decency. A man who stood up for vulnerable children and was punished for it.

Lady Justice is not just blindfolded; She is curled-up weeping on the floor. And there’s no Kleenex tainted with Aloe Vera for Her tears. Lady Justice was raped by a phantasmagorical cast of downright evil characters and bad actors. But Lady Justice will soon be restored in a finer condition in which we origionally found Her. 

Meanwhile, behind sealed doors, Federal Judges with deep financial and personal ties to the Archdiocese of New Orleans, that they knowingly did not disclose, sealed the damning evidence; documents that contain proof of child sex abuse, sex trafficking, and violations of the Federal Mann Act at the hands of the Archdiocese of New Orleans. At the helm? Archbishop Gregory Aymond, orchestrating his own Vatican-sanctioned criminal empire alongside the Theocratic Plutocracy of New Orleans.

This must end.

Judge Meredith Grabill has a fiduciary duty to dismiss this sham bankruptcy, of which in and of itself is bankrupt. I am not suggesting that there is no money to go around, but that he bankruptcy is ethically and morally bankrupt. It is an abomination and obvious legal tactical maneuver designed to shield the Archdiocese from justice. These cases belong in state court, where they were originally filed, where Archbishop Aymond was forced to testify, until he fled to the safe harbor of the Federal bankruptcy court to avoid accountability.

And tonight, the attorneys at Jones Walker Law Firm will feast on lobsters in pounds, with perfectly clarified butter and medium-rare filets; their chilled salad forks precisely positioned to the left of their plates. Fine linens in their laps, intended for their chins, to wipe away the risidual drippings of their collective bounties on the back of the Archdiocese's victims. And let us not ignore their caviar, nor their Banana's Foster for dessert.

The victims tonight will still suffer their co-occurring mental disorders, addictions, nightmares, misplaced shame and guilt, shotguns and needles in their mouths and arms, and the very real fear that was imprinted upon them by the Archdiocese of New Orleans and all their pedophile priests that they protected, moved around, and shipped them to other parishes, jurisdictions, even other countries to evade the consequences of the law of the land, for which the Archdiocese of New Orleans is directly and solely responsible.

Let’s be clear: The Archdiocese of New Orleans is a organized crime ring. It has institutionalized the systematic pattern and practice of the rape of our precious children, following a Vatican-approved blueprint for cover-ups, “Crimen Sollicitationis,” published in 1962. But the cover-up of the cover-up is even worse. And it’s been happening for nearly 2,000 years, as far back as the Synod of Elvira in 390 A.D., according to the Catholic Church’s own records. Sure, Canon law can be used in arguments before the courts of the law of the land, if they are allowed by the Judges, but it is not the law of the land - "Canon Law" is just a "collection of internal corporate policy documents." Maybe that works in Italy, but not here.

And Canon law says that a child that is sixteen years of age is an adult. Louisiana law says otherwise.

A sixteen year-old has not completely developed their frontal cortices, and by law and science, cannot consent to sex with an ordinary in a white collar. What's worse, is while their victims neural pathways were developing, by their grooming process and subsequent rape; they programmed their victims to live a life of fear, misplaced guilt and shame, as if their rape wasn't quite enough for them. And their victims' lives are incurable because of what they did to them. They are true monsters. This is not an institution in a financial crisis. It does not pay taxes, it does not contribute to the tax base. Why is the Archdiocese of New Orleans able to avail itself to the Federal Court System? It is not insolvent by any wildest stretch of the imagination, and is fully invested in their assets. It has already defrauded the U.S. government out of $46 million in FEMA funds immediately after Hurricane Katrina, then paid a meager $1 million fine for its crime, with the explicit condition that further investigations could follow.

So what are we waiting for? Investigate them. Hold them accountable.

Their victims are taxpayers too. The Archdiocese of New Orleans has no business hiding in U.S. Federal Bankruptcy Court while hoarding its wealth and silencing its "accusers," which are actually their own victims. No, "Barrister" for the Archdiocese of New Orleans in the original Louisiana Supreme Court hearing; they did not walk underneath a tree, and collectively got hit in their heads with its fruits and suddenly, and in unison, remembered what happened to them. It actually happened, and you know it did. Evidenced by their testimonies, corroborating witnesses, enhanced by the church's own records, along with their secret files, "love letters" to their victims, branding them like cattle with a ring or a necklace around their innocent fingers and necks, to let the other monsters in Jesus' Bride know that they were ripe for the picking, sending private investigators and attorneys into our poorest neighborhoods, in a desperate attempt to get the friends and families of their own victims to discredit them - and made them sign the legally unenforceable NDAs that they made their victims sign AFTER the Dallas Charter.

Do you remember when you did that to me and my childhood friends, USNR Captain Christopher Fronk? (RET, God willing). Do you hear me "Captain?" There's no mast for you, a non-judicial proceeding for what you did. I pray the Commanding Officer of COMNAVRESFORCOM dressed you down appropriately, excluded you from the Officer's Mess and sent you to directly to court-martial for what you did to me and my childhood friends.

All the while Aymond looking straight into the camera saying "It never happened," and "Who are these Jane and John Does?" NDAs, "non-disclosure agreements," are intended for the protection of intellectual property rights, not to conceal the commission of the church's crimes against our precious children. They made their own victims sign away their own voices, coerced them into silence, while secretly making them sign those NDAs. At the very same time, their public response to the ones who refused to shut up was to proclaim publicly that their victims were lying about their abuse? And Pope Benedict personally called me "The Great Accuser," and in the same breath, privately invited me to an all expenses paid trip to the Vatican, to be facilitated by the Jesuit Order, for a "private audience?" I've never kissed a ring, and I never will, unless it is on the finger of the Woman who once upon a time allowed me into her world.

And when we were trying to get the statute of limitations for child sex crimes eliminated with a legislative look-back window, all that was read were green cards. The only red card in opposition to the bill was from a very nervous priest in the back row, sent by Archbishop Aymond. Oh, I am sorry, his "council of bishops" for whom he is the Chair, and the head of the "Ecclesiastical State of Louisiana." I know, I was there. After the law was unanimously passed by the Representatives, Senators and signed into law by Governor Edwards, Archbishop Aymond then paid for air time on the local television stations saying that he was in favor of the new law, saying "because children in public schools would now be safer." Shame on you local television stations. Did you really need Aymond's filthy money that badly?

Taking a hard left turn, Archbishop Aymond would again oppose the new law, all the way up to the Louisiana Supreme Court. The law was struck down. That is, until good men and women in power demanded that they re-hear the case, and then they were somehow "compelled" and upheld the law. What is it about state Supreme Court Justices and their antipathy towards our children and unwillingness to protect them?

At any rate, it is now the law of the land.

The biggest question that still remains: Why was the Archdiocese of New Orleans' bankruptcy application ever allowed, approved and admitted in the first place? It seems to a layman that the docket was soiled with a distraction, at the cost of the emotional distress, unheaval and turmoil of the Archdiocese's victims. It is a good and honest question. Very respectfully, I think it’s time for the Federal Court of the Eastern District of Louisiana to answer. But in the meantime, I'll give you a hint: The Saint Thomas More Society and annual Red Mass. We take attendance records, but you can also see for yourselves.

FREE TRAHANT, ADAMS, BERTHELOT, JACKSON AND JOHNSON!!!

About the author: Dr. Windmann has been an activist and advocate for chilldhood sex abuse victims and survivors for over a decade. He is one of the co-founders of Survivors of Childhood Sex Abuse, and is currently the president of the organization. He is also a prolific speaker and writer on the subject of childhood sex abuse, and appeared in the Netflix documentary "Scouts Honor: The Secret Files Of The Boy Scouts Of America." You can contact him at [email protected].

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