Hi Tracy, thank you, very sick image and I hope not either.

Do you have the link to the missing person's site?

Brian

Dear Brian,

Just an article I found on internet en translated with worldlingo: 

10.7.2007

10.21.2007

Dear Brian,

World Briefing | Europe: Portugal: Sex-Abuse Suspect Confesses

The first suspect to go on trial in a case of sex abuse in state orphanages admitted his guilt and said his co-defendants were also guilty. Carlos Silvino, 48, a former driver at Casa Pia, a network of 10 homes and schools that look after 4,000 children, said he himself, a former Casa Pia inmate, had been raped ''virtually every evening'' from the age of 4 to 13, particularly by ''two teachers, two educators, five older students and a priest.'' In September 2002 the mother of a boy who attended a Casa Pia school told the police her son had been raped by Mr. Silvino, who is charged with 634 offenses and is suspected of procuring children for wealthy child molesters for more than 20 years. The other defendants include a television star and a retired ambassador.

10.26.2007

Considerando que o depoimento hoje prestado pela antiga secretária de Estado da Família revela contradições com anteriores declarações e não esclarece o mistério das fotografias, a defesa de Carlos Cruz requereu a audição em tribunal de Joaquim Pignatelli Videira, que foi chefe de gabinete de Teresa Costa Macedo na década de 80. Whereas the evidence provided today by the former Secretary of State for Family reveals inconsistencies with previous statements and not explained the mystery of the photographs, the defense of Carlos Cruz requested the hearing in court, Joaquim Pignatelli Videira, who was head of office of Teresa Costa Macedo in the decade of 80.

Ricardo Sá Fernandes, advogado do arguido Carlos Cruz, solicitou ainda ao colectivo de juízes a audição em julgamento de dois educadores que, em 1982, se deslocaram ao apartamento do embaixador Jorge Ritto, em Cascais, onde foram localizados dois alunos casapianos que tinham desaparecido. Ricardo Sá Fernandes, lawyer of the defendant Carlos Cruz, also called the collective of judges hearing in the trial of two educators who, in 1982, went to the apartment of Ambassador Jorge Ritto in Cascais, where two students were located casapianos who had disappeared.

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Another very interesting article - extracts here only.

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:HZ4cqdq7jl0J:www.the7thfire.com/Politics%2520and%2520History/Pedophocracy/child_sexual_abuse_in_Brussels.htm+jorge+ritto,+apartment,+cascais&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=safari

On November 27, 2002, The Guardian reported that many among Portugal's elite were linked to a pedophile ring as well: "A scandal over a paedophile ring run from a state orphanage gripped Portugal yesterday as it threatened to engulf diplomats, media personalities and senior politicians. Photographs of unnamed senior government officials with young boys from Lisbon's Casa Pia orphanage were among the evidence reportedly available to police after they arrested a former orphanage employee called Carlos Silvino." One revelation in the case was "that systematic sexual abuse of children at the home had allegedly been going on for more than 20 years and had been known to police and other authorities for most of that time." Teresa Costa Macedo, a former secretary of state for families, has said that she sent a dossier to police twenty years ago containing "damning proof" of the abuse, including photographs and eyewitness statements. The information was not acted upon, and, for her trouble, Macedo became the victim of a campaign of threats and intimidation.

In June 2003, the Independent reported that police "at first denied her reports existed," but then later produced them. Macedo has testified before parliament that the former president, Antonio Ramalho Eanes, the former foreign secretary, Jaime Garcia, and elements within the police all knew of the ongoing abuse. An official report claims that, "among the children still living at Casa Pia, at least 128 had been subjected to sexual abuse. Many are deaf and dumb." Countless other victims have passed through the facility over the last thirty years. Among those detained or questioned in the case were Carlos Cruz, known in Portugal as "Mr. Television"; Manuel Abrantes, a former director of Casa Pia; Joao Ferreira Diniz, a doctor at Casa Pia; Jorge Ritto, a former ambassador to UNESCO; Hugo Marcal, Carlos Silvino's former attorney; Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, Portugal's Socialist Party leader; television talk show host Herman Jose; and Paulo Pedroso, a former Labour minister.

A follow-up report in the Independent noted that Casa Pia, founded by a police superintendent, first "came under scrutiny 20 years ago when a young inmate died . Officials found the home's doors open all night and youngsters in a cruising area for male prostitutes. Four children aged between eight and 12, missing for a fortnight, were found in a luxury flat in nearby Cascais owned by a diplomat." That diplomat was Jorge Ritto. It is now alleged that Silvino, an employee and former resident of Casa Pia, acted for years to procure young boys for rich and powerful pedophiles, including Ritto. Adolescent witnesses have claimed on Portuguese television that they were offered enticements and "then raped . and recruited for sex parties with powerful 'friends.' Others, now adult, have told of chilling experiences long suppressed." A Portuguese organization calling itself Innocence in Danger has been working for years to publicize the problem of child abuse and child abductions in the country, but have been unable to penetrate what they describe as a "media blackout."

12.13.2007

Dear Brian, just upon leaving I thought I should give you this file.  Do publish it if you think it will help.  You should attach to Rui Pedro case for certain, and also Joana case.   It is all the articles I have collected on casa pia.  I have held off from sending it because simply it is so upsetting and makes one very disillusioned about how certain people seem to be above the law. MOST IMPORTANTLY - LOOK AT THE VERY END OF THE DOCUMENT.   IMPLICATES BRITISH LABOUR GOVERNMENT IN CASA PIA.  THIS IS SCANDALOUS.... of course needs verification but rumors don't start from no where - right.!

With very best wishes, CL

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Hi CL, will post anything you think is helpful I did read that, and I hope it's not true.

Brian

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Names so far:

Carlos Cruz – TV personality

Carlos Silvino (already in jail?)

Manuel Abrantes, a former director of Casa Pia;

Joao Ferreira Diniz, a doctor at Casa Pia;

Jorge Ritto, a former ambassador to UNESCO;

Hugo Marcal, Carlos Silvino's former attorney;

Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, Portugal's Socialist Party leader;

Herman Jose television talk show host

Paulo Pedroso, a former Labour minister

Francisco Alves, a prominent archeologist, 

Gertrudes Nunes, a 61-year-old woman who owns a country villa where some of the abuse allegedly took place..

Why Portugal is a haven for paedophiles - the disturbing backcloth to the Madeleine case

By ANDREW MALONE and VANESSA ALLEN – Last updated at 01:07am on 20th October 2007
A ferrari engine makes a deep, distinctive sound.

When the children at Portugal's most famous orphanage heard the sports car roaring down the driveway, fear swept through the dormitories.

The noise could mean only one thing: the man known as The Doctor was coming to call.

Yet this medical practitioner had no intention of adhering to the ancient Hippocratic Oath.

Instead, arriving at Casa Pia (House of the Pious), a 17th century Lisbon orphanage where more than 4,000 children are cared for each year behind high stone walls, the doctor would summon selected boys and girls from their beds for examinations one night each week.

Where possible, he chose deaf-mutes.

After checking that the children were not suffering from any sexual infections, the doctor was joined by the orphanage caretaker, known as Bibi, who ushered the unfortunate children outside to a waiting van.

With the doctor following in his red Ferrari, Bibi drove the van to the prestigious homes of some of the leading members of Lisbon society - ranging from Portuguese government ministers and high-ranking diplomats, to famous television stars and members of the judiciary.

Normal life: Kate and Gerry McCann try to live normally for the sake of their twins Sean and Amelie

There, the children were repeatedly sexually abused. Some were allegedly drugged to make them compliant; others were plied with alcohol.

This continued for years. Assaults were filmed; pictures of one attack were subsequently found at the home of a suspected paedophile in Paris.

According to medical records, the victims' injuries were horrific - and consistent with serious sexual assault and rape. In witness statements, many were able to describe in minute detail the homes where they were taken and identifying marks on the bodies of their abusers.

The existence of this so-called "magic circle" of the Portuguese establishment, allegedly involved in an international paedophile ring using boys and girls from Casa Pia, was last week likened to an earthquake waiting to shake Portugal to its foundations.

New allegations about the scale of the network will be put before the country's highest court within the next few weeks.

Amid rumours of links to other paedophile gangs across Europe and the U.S., international experts on child sex crimes and murders are expected to be in court when the case re-opens, four years after a group of victims broke a silence lasting more than 30 years.

But what relevance does this have to the disappearance 170 days ago of four-year-old Madeleine McCann in Praia da Luz, about 280km from Lisbon?

And what does it mean for Kate and Gerry McCann, who have not only had to cope with losing their child, but have also been subjects of a vicious campaign in the Portuguese press to smear them?

It is crucial for two reasons; first because it proves what international crime agencies have long suspected: that Portugal has become a magnet for predatory paedophiles from around the world, using the country's lax laws and preying on the high numbers of poor, abandoned children.

And second, because Paulo Rebelo, an urbane, methodical detective who led the Casa Pia paedophile inquiry, was last night finishing his first week as the new chief of the investigation into the disappearance of the British child.

Rebelo has replaced Goncalo Amaral, the "oafish" local police chief out of his depth in a case that has captured unprecedented world attention, with millions fascinated by the story of the girl snatched from her bed on holiday while her parents ate with friends 200 yards away.

The sight of the sweaty, corpulent Amaral in restaurants and cafes near the Portimao police headquarters had become commonplace since Madeleine disappeared.

While the McCanns were warned repeatedly they faced jail for speaking about the case, he was been overheard, during his daily three-hour lunches of wine and shellfish, accusing the couple of killing their daughter.

In one conversation with Portugal's ex-Formula One racing driver Pedro Lamy, Amaral revealed he was convinced the McCanns drugged their daughter and accidentally killed her. "The police case is we are sure the parents killed Madeleine. They are both doctors and know about drugs.

"We are confident in our case," he said.

In an effort to make up for lost time following Amaral's dismissal, Rebelo has recruited his own men from Lisbon. To the fury of the original officers, he has lost little time in sidelining them, bringing in two child sex experts from the Casa Pia case as well as homicide specialists and computer analysts - known as "the cleaners" due to their reputation for leaving no stone unturned.

According to senior police sources, he also launched a furious private attack on the 100 officers involved in the original inquiry, which he has now cut back to 40.

At a meeting, he accused some officers of having "closed minds" about who was guilty, saying that "pre-conceptions should be challenged".

In addition, he oversaw Operation Predator - raids on more than 70 suspected paedophiles, whose computers were searched last week for images of Madeleine or other evidence of criminal sexual acts. Although by last night Rebelo had failed to make a breakthrough, sources say it is a clear sign, along with reports that Russian child traffickers may be involved, of a strand of his current thinking.

In a Lisbon café, an associate of Rebelo told the Mail: "The Casa Pia case had a deep affect on Paulo. You come across things that are appalling and cruel. But you get a feeling that there are some seriously bad people in the world, and some of them are here. He does not rule anything out."

So, after enduring months of soul-destroying leaks from the Portuguese police - from claims that they drugged Madeleine and then disposed of her body, to allegations that Gerry was not even her real father - the McCanns are no longer the sole focus of the Portuguese police investigation.

But the nightmare goes on. A group of officers loyal to Amaral are still leaking smears to the Portuguese press.

The latest?

That bodily fluids from Madeleine's corpse were found in the boot of the couple's hire care and that "background checks" were to be carried out on Gerry McCann's laptop. And then the police "sources" claimed that Kate killed Madeleine without telling Gerry, and that the body was "refrigerated" before being dumped up to 25 days later.

His career in tatters and now back on desk duties in Faro, Amaral faces a criminal hearing in the case of another missing child, Joana Cipriano, after being accused of concealing evidence that the girl's mother was tortured into confessing to her murder.

Amaral and his colleagues face countless unanswered questions about mistakes in the original police investigation into Maddie's disappearance, such as failing to ensure the McCanns' apartment was sealed off for forensics. (This did not happen until the next day, by which time the McCanns, their friends, resort staff and detectives had traipsed through, destroying potentially vital evidence.)

They also failed to seal off the Mark Warner Ocean Club resort. No roadblocks were set up and police on the Spanish border - two hours' drive away - were not alerted for 12 hours. Staff were only quizzed 60 hours later. And the CCTV footage from a busy main road was never studied. The list of mistakes goes on.

While the shift in the investigation may ease the intolerable pressure on the McCanns, it will do little to console them.

As well as growing fears that Madeleine was abducted by a paedophile ring, they can have little hope of justice when leading Portuguese figures are allegedly involved in covering-up their own child sex scandal.

Both cases - the two highestprofile criminal investigations in the country since the end of the Portuguese military dictatorship in 1974 - have been riven by allegations of compromised police officers, high-level interference and vicious, virulent attacks on key witnesses.

Pedro Namora, a former Casa Pia orphan who witnessed 11 rapes on fellow orphans, during which they were tied to their beds, sympathises with the McCanns. He believes elements in the force have conspired to suppress both scandals, fearing damage to the country's reputation.

"Portugal is a paedophiles' paradise," said Mr Namora, now a lawyer campaigning on behalf of the Casa Pia victims. "If all the names come out, this will be an earthquake in Portugal. There is a massive, sophisticated network at play here - stretching from the government to the judiciary and the police.

"The network is enormous and extremely powerful. There are magistrates, ambassadors, police, politicians - all have procured children from Casa Pia. It is extremely difficult to break this down. These people cover for each other, because if one is arrested, they all are arrested. They don't want anyone to know."

Now 44, Mr Namora watched as friends sank into alcoholism, drug addiction and death after their traumatic childhood experiences at Casa Pia. "I was the only one who made it," he said. "What could I do? I couldn't keep silent."

He has received death threats and warnings about what will happen to his own children, after taking up the case when an orphan called "Joel" approached him, saying prominent paedophiles were using Casa Pia as a "supermarket for children".

Mr Namora has been threatened after fighting on behalf of the abused children he grew up with.

After being telephoned by a stranger offering to pay off his mortgage, he was told the exact movements of his own three children, and warned that they and their father would come to a grisly end unless he shut up.

An open, warm man, Mr Namora makes an unlikely conspiracy theorist-But he believes the case, which he brought to light in 2003, will underscore Portugal's growing attraction for paedophiles, which has seen six children disappear in recent years.

One reason for this attraction is that the law was quietly relaxed last year, ahead of the forthcoming trial, meaning that repeat offences against the same child would merit only a single charge - and a lesser sentence.

In echoes of the McCanns' ordeal, the initial investigation was badly handled when allegations of abuse were first made at Casa Pia in 1982. Carlos Silvino, the man known as Bibi, was linked to rapes and assaults, but police "lost" pictures showing prominent Lisbon politicians with him and the children.

He was only charged after dozens of children came forward in 2003. They also accused Jorge Ritto, a former Portuguese ambassador, of child abuse. Ritto, it transpired, had also once been sent home in disgrace from a posting in Germany after an incident involving a young boy in a park.

The conspiracy did not end there. Teresa Costa Macedo, a former secretary of state for the family, has revealed that she knew about the attacks in the early Eighties - and that she had alerted General Antonio Ramalho Eanes, the then Portuguese president, about the allegations.

Mrs Costa Macedo, who remained silent for two decades after being warned she would be killed if she spoke, now says that the caretaker "was just one element in a huge paedophile network that involved important people in our country. It wasn't just him [the caretaker]. He was a procurer of children for well-known people who range from diplomats and politicians to people linked to the media".

While still a government minister, Costa Macedo handed police "photographs, an account of the methods used to spirit children out of the orphanage and testimonies of a number of children". Many of the photographs were found at ex-ambassador Jorge Ritto's house. Police reportedly found four children locked up who had been missing from Casa Pia.

Under armed guard at a safe house last week, Bibi could count himself a lucky man. He originally faced allegations that he had sexually assaulted more than 600 children. That has since been reduced to 30. Silvino has hinted at the high-level of the conspiracy, saying: "They can't touch me - there are too many people involved."

Following Ritto's arrest, the police questioned Carloz Cruz, known as Portugal's "Mr Television", and Joao Diniz, a high- society doctor and driver of the red Ferrari. The network allegedly went further. Paulo Pedroso, a government minister, was arrested and quizzed about 15 cases of child sexual abuse.

Amid allegations that paedophile networks have become endemic in Portugal - the European police force Interpol has named the country as one of the worst offenders in Europe - there are fears that the Casa Pia scandal will come to eclipse Belgium's notorious Marc Dutroux case, in which the arrest of a notorious paedophile and child murderer revealed a sordid picture of judicial and political corruption.

Of course, the Casa Pia case may have no direct link to the disappearance of Madeleine, but the culture in which such a serious child abuse network was allowed to operate is the same culture that pervades the whole of Portugal. Was it this attitude that led to the bungled initial investigation in the McCann case?

Perhaps the appointment of the man who exposed the Casa Pia scandal will give the parents of Maddie hope that a proper investigation will now discover the truth.

Daily Mirror Wed 10th Oct 2007

"Highly respected Mr Rebelo made his name at the drug squads in Lisbon and Porto before leading Portugals' armed robbery unit, the counter-terrorism team and probing allegations of a child sex ring at a state-run children's home"**

"Many of the orgies apparently took place at ambassador Jorge Ritto's villa near Lisbon.  "

Can anyone get pictures of Rittos villa and flat?

Ricardo Sá Fernandes fala em contradições no último depoimento da ex-secretária de Estado da Família.

The defense of Carlos Cruz considered, this Monday, need to hear other leaders on photographs seized in the house of the diplomat Jorge Ritto, in the 80s, after hearing of the ex-ruler Teresa Costa Macedo Ricardo Sá Fernandes speaks in contradictions on the last testimony of ex-secretary of state for the family.

Considerando que o depoimento hoje prestado pela antiga secretária de Estado da Família revela contradições com anteriores declarações e não esclarece o mistério das fotografias, a defesa de Carlos Cruz requereu a audição em tribunal de Joaquim Pignatelli Videira, que foi chefe de gabinete de Teresa Costa Macedo na década de 80. Whereas the evidence provided today by the former Secretary of State for Family reveals inconsistencies with previous statements and not explained the mystery of the photographs, the defense of Carlos Cruz requested the hearing in court, Joaquim Pignatelli Videira, who was head of office of Teresa Costa Macedo in the decade of 80.

Ricardo Sá Fernandes, advogado do arguido Carlos Cruz, solicitou ainda ao colectivo de juízes a audição em julgamento de dois educadores que, em 1982, se deslocaram ao apartamento do embaixador Jorge Ritto, em Cascais, onde foram localizados dois alunos casapianos que tinham desaparecido. Ricardo Sá Fernandes, lawyer of the defendant Carlos Cruz, also called the collective of judges hearing in the trial of two educators who, in 1982, went to the apartment of Ambassador Jorge Ritto in Cascais, where two students were located casapianos who had disappeared

World Press Freedom Review

2006Portugal

The Casa Pia child sex abuse trial continued in 2006. In January, the newspaper 24 Horas reported that telephone records of many politicians, including those of Attorney General Jose Souto de Moura and President Jorge Sampaio, had been examined as part of the case. As a result, on 28 February, an investigative criminal court in Lisbon ordered the confiscation of journalists’ computers from 24 Horas.

The protection of sources became an issue in Portugal when a court rejected the journalists’ appeal to stop the courts from examining their computers. The journalists based their argument on their right to protect their sources. According to RSF, on 6 April, the court of appeals allowed the courts to examine the computers of two journalists from the daily newspaper.

On 18 February, authorities, who had a court order, confiscated the laptop computers of Eduardo Oliveira and Jorge Van Krieken, in order to analyse them. The journalists plan to appeal to the Supreme Court. They also lodged a second appeal, after searches were made at the newspaper and at the home of Van Krieken, who was freelancing for 24 Horas.

Reportedly, this is part of an investigation into a high-level child-sex-abuse scandal, which was almost complete. The two journalists are being prosecuted for publishing the telephone numbers of public figures who may have been investigated in connection with the case.

The Casa Pia sex abuse scandal started in 2002, when the Portuguese press first began reporting sexual abuse allegations by children, who were in the Casa Pia network of homes. The paedophilia trials began in 2003. Casa Pia homes are public institutions that house several thousand orphans, as well as abandoned and troubled children. These cases of abuse reportedly started in the 1970s. In 2004, 53 journalists were summonsed for "violating legal confidentiality rules" in the Casa Pia child sex abuse trial by the Lisbon Public Prosecutor’s Office.

SIC archive

Catalina Pestana says she has a list of names of abusers

Publicação: 13-10-2007 12:18    |   Última actualização: 14-10-2007 12:20

Casa Pia abusers favoured by new law

Former head of Casa Pia says Article 30 was 'tailor made'

The former head of Casa Pia institution, Catalina Pestana, said this Saturday in an interview with Sol that she believes the pedophile case involving former students of the institution has taken so long in court because 'it was necessary' to change the law and make sentences more lenient.

Catalina Pestana spoke about the new Penal Code and Penal Procedure Code which have come into effect as of September 15. 

In the second interview the former head of Casa Pia has agreed to do she was asked what she thought of a trial that had dragged on for three years. Catalina said: 'It's going to take even longer and I've only just understood why. It was necessary for the new Penal Code to come into effect, whose Article 30, as many legal experts have said, was tailor made for the Casa Pia trial.' 

'Before, when there was a case of sex abuse, the number of times the victim was abused had to be taken into account; with the present Penal Code a continuous crime of sex abuse counts as a single crime. Now I understand why it was taking so long, why the court allowed for endless and repeated questioning,' she said. 

She added: 'I myself was present at hearings for almost three months and the lawyers asked me the same questions three, four, five times. The same thing happened to the victims.' 

'But those penal codes were approved by both the Socialists and the Social Democrats. What do you make of that?' asked the interviewers, Ana Paula Azevedo and Felícia Cabrita. 

'That's one of the things that bothered me the most. I'm not a legal expert. I was only aware of the seriousness of what was happening when I heard some of the comments made by the experts. They all agree that this isn't a question of ideology or academic thinking but of political issues,' replied Catalina Pestana. 

He added: 'If you asked me how two parties came to an agreement on this I'd say there was a Pact for Justice in place, and besides that, the difference between the two parties at this point in time would have to be looked at with a microscope...' 

'As for oppositions, my feeling is that this vote goes beyond the sphere of parties and that some changes have been headed by people in a ... more discreet organisation,' said Catalina Pestana. 

Asked whether she was referring to Freemasonry, Catalina expalined her thinking. 

'Your director, José António Saraiva, in an article that he wrote, was the first person to say that many cases linked to Casa Pia were the fallout from wars between freemasons. Even so, I wouldn't talk about Freemasonry, but certain sectors of the Freemasons. They are not a criminal association but they do have a twisted defect - they cover each other's backs,' said the former head of the institution. 

'If all the parties think they have a very good Penal Code and Penal Procedure Code, then it is up to people in society to organise themselves to protect at least those who don't have a grown up to stick up for them,' stressed Catalina Pestana, announcing that in January a Network of Carers would be launched to defend children who are victims of abuse. 

The idea of the Network of Carers she said 'comes from what happened at Casa Pia - against a network of abusers you have to have a network of carers.' 

'You said that the truth about Casa Pia was like an earthquake. How powerful was this earthquake?' 

Catalina said: 'About seven on the Richter scale. When the history of this case is written up everyone will see that if the laws had been put in place to allow an investigation into everything that I have said the earthquake would have had devastating consequences.' 

Asked whether she wanted to 'blow the whistle' on the people allegedly involved in acts of pedophilia with students of Casa Pia, Catalina Pestana said: 'When that happens I won't be around. I'll leave that to the people who survive me and can publish this, in 25 years, according to the law.' 

Catalina Pestana said she would leave that list of names 'with someone of absolute trust.'

I just stumbled across this (and it answer a lot of our questions as to why casa pia has not been fully dealt with).   Actually it makes me really angry to see that the law was conveniently changed (to suit the people involved in the case.)  Its really disgusting. To spell it out, those who helped change the law happen to be suspects in the casa pia case!  Can this really be true?  

From what I understand, and do correct me, it basically means that if you rape and abuse someone say over 200 times, over a period of time it will now (with law change) only count as one offence!

Stranger still, as I got to end of article I realised there was another connection that i had doubed and thought was a bit foolish on my part.

That is, the connection to Freemasons.   Now reading it the connection and comments made fits with what I have been thinking. 

World Briefing | Europe: Portugal: Sex-Abuse Suspect Confesses

Published: December 17, 2004

The first suspect to go on trial in a case of sex abuse in state orphanages admitted his guilt and said his co-defendants were also guilty. Carlos Silvino, 48, a former driver at Casa Pia, a network of 10 homes and schools that look after 4,000 children, said he himself, a former Casa Pia inmate, had been raped ''virtually every evening'' from the age of 4 to 13, particularly by ''two teachers, two educators, five older students and a priest.'' In September 2002 the mother of a boy who attended a Casa Pia school told the police her son had been raped by Mr. Silvino, who is charged with 634 offenses and is suspected of procuring children for wealthy child molesters for more than 20 years. The other defendants include a television star and a retired ambassador.

Given that this article mentions: police, judges and diplomats as part of the ring, what are the odds of the church are also being linked?   What if "the church know

where the children are.... " Either because they have found out through confessions or because (more sinister angle). Some individuals within the church are involved?

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:HZ4cqdq7jl0J:www.the7thfire.com/Politics%2520and%2520History/Pedophocracy/child_sexual_abuse_in_Brussels.htm+jorge+ritto,+apartment,+cascais&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=safari

On November 27, 2002, The Guardian reported that many among Portugal's elite were linked to a pedophile ring as well: "A scandal over a paedophile ring run from a state orphanage gripped Portugal yesterday as it threatened to engulf diplomats, media personalities and senior politicians. Photographs of unnamed senior government officials with young boys from Lisbon's Casa Pia orphanage were among the evidence reportedly available to police after they arrested a former orphanage employee called Carlos Silvino." One revelation in the case was "that systematic sexual abuse of children at the home had allegedly been going on for more than 20 years and had been known to police and other authorities for most of that time." Teresa Costa Macedo, a former secretary of state for families, has said that she sent a dossier to police twenty years ago containing "damning proof" of the abuse, including photographs and eyewitness statements. The information was not acted upon, and, for her trouble, Macedo became the victim of a campaign of threats and intimidation.

In June 2003, the Independent reported that police "at first denied her reports existed," but then later produced them. Macedo has testified before parliament that the former president, Antonio Ramalho Eanes, the former foreign secretary, Jaime Garcia, and elements within the police all knew of the ongoing abuse. An official report claims that, "among the children still living at Casa Pia, at least 128 had been subjected to sexual abuse. Many are deaf and dumb." Countless other victims have passed through the facility over the last thirty years. Among those detained or questioned in the case were Carlos Cruz, known in Portugal as "Mr. Television"; Manuel Abrantes, a former director of Casa Pia; Joao Ferreira Diniz, a doctor at Casa Pia; Jorge Ritto, a former ambassador to UNESCO; Hugo Marcal, Carlos Silvino's former attorney; Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, Portugal's Socialist Party leader; television talk show host Herman Jose; and Paulo Pedroso, a former Labour minister.

A follow-up report in the Independent noted that Casa Pia, founded by a police superintendent, first "came under scrutiny 20 years ago when a young inmate died . Officials found the home's doors open all night and youngsters in a cruising area for male prostitutes. Four children aged between eight and 12, missing for a fortnight, were found in a luxury flat in nearby Cascais owned by a diplomat." That diplomat was Jorge Ritto. It is now alleged that Silvino, an employee and former resident of Casa Pia, acted for years to procure young boys for rich and powerful pedophiles, including Ritto. Adolescent witnesses have claimed on Portuguese television that they were offered enticements and "then raped . and recruited for sex parties with powerful 'friends.' Others, now adult, have told of chilling experiences long suppressed." A Portuguese organization calling itself Innocence in Danger has been working for years to publicize the problem of child abuse and child abductions in the country, but have been unable to penetrate what they describe as a "media blackout."

Supposedly shot between 1985 and 1987 in a warehouse in Feta??

Note: Bad translation into english

Bibi liga Carlos Cruz à produção de "filmagens" de cariz pedófilo Bibi league Carlos Cruz to the production of "filming" of nature pedophile

Ricardo Sá Fernandes disse que, uma vez mais, Carlos Silvino faltou à verdade Ricardo Sá Fernandes said that, once again, Carlos Silvino failed to truth 

carlos rodrigues lima Carlos file rodrigues

Lusa-Tiago Petinga Lusa-James Petinga 

posição. Carlos Cruz já tinha negado conhecer armazém em Fetais Position. Carlos Cruz had denied knowing warehouse in Fetal

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Re: Innocents in Danger

swiss charity who showed Rui Pedros poor mother pictures of him being abused

Child protection campaigners have alleged that a culture of corruption and complacency in Portugal is allowing such kidnappings to continue unabated. The founder of the Switzerland-based group Innocents in Danger has said that she had tried to set up an office in Portugal but gave up because of the reluctance of the authorities. Homayra Sellier said after Madeleine's disappearance last week that Portugal was a country in which "the corruption has gone so high that there's nothing we can do".
"The fact that the girl [Madeleine] was kidnapped from her bed shows how bad things are."

Portugal child sex trial begins 11/25/04 "The trial of seven people accused of forming a child sex ring in Portuguese care homes has begun in Lisbon. The accused include a TV presenter, a former top diplomat, and a former director of the Casa Pia children's home network. Abuse at Casa Pia is said to have started in the mid-1970s, but was only discovered in 2002. About 700 witnesses and 32 alleged victims, some of them under 16 years old, are due to testify in the case." "A former director of Casa Pia, Manuel Abrantes, is also on trial. A woman, Gertrudes Nunes, is accused of providing her house to be used for abuse. But a Portuguese judge threw out the cases against ex-government minister Paulo Pedroso, TV comedian Herman Jose and archaeologist Francisco Alves." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4040733.stm

Major paedophile trial opens By Levi Fernandes in Lisbon 11/26/04 "Seven people, including a popular TV star and a former diplomat, went on trial over a high-profile child abuse scandal in Portugal today, facing charges that include the sexual abuse of minors in a network of state-run children's homes." ""Among those standing trial are Jorge Ritto, a former Portuguese ambassador to South Africa; Carlos Cruz, a television presenter whose career spans over three decades; and a former director of Casa Pia, Manuel Abrantes. The seven, including one woman, face charges ranging from child sexual abuse to procurement and rape involving 32 victims, with the former driver of the childrens' homes, Carlos Silvino, alone facing 600 different charges." http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11504230%5E1702,00.html

Child rapist implicates six co-accused 12/18/04 Lisbon "The chief accused in a high-profile trial of seven people charged in Portugal with sexual abuse of minors from a state-run institution has admitted his guilt on the witness stand and confirmed the charges against his co-defendants. "I, along with the other defendants, am guilty of what is listed in the indictment," said Carlos Silvino, 48, a former driver at Casa Pia, a 224-year-old network of 10 homes and schools that care for about 4000 children...."Rapes of younger children were frequent in all colleges of Casa Pia," he said....The subsequent investigation uncovered claims of decades of sexual abuse at the Lisbon-based institution. Most of the abuse was alleged on boys aged between 12 and 16. A 62-year-old woman is also among the seven accused. She is has been charged with providing her home as a venue for some of the crimes. The case has shattered public trust in the authorities, especially after reports that children had been complaining of the abuse since the mid-1970s, but no action was taken. Silvino, who is charged with 634 offences, including 598 counts of sexual abuse of minors, is also accused of procuring children for wealthy child molesters for more than 20 years. "I took some boys to these homes. I have dates and addresses where they went to make movies, attend parties or sex orgies," he said." http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11720238%5E2703,00.html

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Police also discovered links between British Labour government paedophile suspects and the trafficking of children for purposes of prostitution from Belgium and Portugal (including young boys from the Casa Pia orphanage in Portugal). 

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