Catholic priest and convicted pedophile Claude Richard has changed his story about how times he sexually abused his victim. Richard pleaded guilty in June to assaulting the boy 20 to 30 times over a four-month period in 1987 but during his sentencing hearing Richard claimed to have had a “one night stand” with his 14 year old victim.
Claude Richard has pleaded guilty or been convicted of dozens of charges of sexually abusing children, many of whom were altar boys in various parishes throughout Cape Breton.
15 years ago I sued Claude Richard and his pedophile twin brother, Clair Richard on behalf of a dozen of their sexual abuse victims. During his examination for discovery Claude Richard denied, under oath, having sexually abused my clients… after he had already pleaded guilty to criminal charges of sexual assault against the same victims!
I have to wonder if there is some genetic connection between being a pedophile and being a pathological liar!
According to David France’s book about pedo-priests, Our Fathers, “Scanning their brains, he discovered they suffered mild to severe frontal lobe dysfunction, manifesting as impaired verbal fluency, attention deficits, poor impulse control, poor judgment, problems sequencing and organizing thoughts, and a tendency to ‘perseverate,’ or cling to inappropriate mental operations.”
As I go into on many of the webpages on my website, ever since I was a teenager anyone who didn’t have a chronically manic, what science calls a “hyperthymic,” personality seemed half dead to me. Those with hyperthymic temperaments are very likely to have frontal lobe impairments. In practical terms, though booze is actually a depressant, it feels like a stimulant since it disinhibits people by impairing the frontal lobes, leading to temporary poor impulse control. Therefore, pedophiles, and pervs in general, are very likely to act as if they might as well have been disinhibited by booze!