What is Your immediate Reaction.

[the_bob_delusion]

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/catholic-priest-apologises-for-comments-about-about-jill-...

A CATHOLIC priest has reportedly told a primary school mass in Melbourne’s west Jill Meagher would not have been murdered if she had not been out so late.

Jill Meagher was raped and murdered while walking home after leaving a Brunswick pub at about 1.30am in September, 2012. According to reports, the priest made the comments to staff and students on Friday morning at St Christopher’s Primary School in Airport West while holding up Bayley’s picture in Friday’s newspaper and talking about murder and rape.

NOW.

[lionrose.7]

Actually bob words fail me, I just wont to slap that stupid #$^*&#@ so bad.

[wilk1149]

He's a priest. That alone is testimony to his intellect

[rabbitearbandicoot]

I don't want to upset anyone, but he has to be correct - logically. It's painfully obvious that eg if I didn't drive to visit my wife in hospital that day, I wouldn't have been booked. 

If she was home in bed, she wouldn't have been a target for that piece of chit that attacked her.

How else can you interprete it? 

And, now everyone jump on me and tell me she had a right to be out - I KNOW that but you cannot change the logic - if she wasn't there, she wouldn't have been attacked - it's OBVIOUS.

[polksaladallie]

If his aim was to talk to children about their welfare, it should not have been at a primary school.  A secondary school would be appropriate, and the lesson should have been to do whatever you can to get home safely.

Nobody's name should have been mentioned, unless he had been asked.  Nowadays children are aware of incidents in the news, and often the school is called upon to deal with questions in a counselling session.

[cherry*135]

That is ridiculous. Time isn't an issue.

There was a woman murdered by a stranger in Sydney recently. She was walking after getting off a train, on her way home from work, about 9.30 pm.

Not the womens fault they happen to be in the same area at the same time as a mad/bad/evil person.

[gleee58]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

If his aim was to talk to children about their welfare, it should not have been at a primary school.  A secondary school would be appropriate, and the lesson should have been to do whatever you can to get home safely.

Nobody's name should have been mentioned, unless he had been asked.  Nowadays children are aware of incidents in the news, and often the school is called upon to deal with questions in a counselling session.

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It seems that was not the aim.

A Catholic Church official has apologised after a priest told parishioners that had murdered Melbourne woman Jill Meagher's faith been stronger, she would have been "home in bed" and not walking down a street on the night she was brutally raped and killed.

The controversial homily was reportedly delivered during an end-of-term service at St Christopher's Primary School in Airport West on Friday when the priest held up a newspaper article with an image of Ms Meagher's killer, Adrian Bayley.

Radio station 3AW reported that the priest made the comments to an audience of about 100 people, saying that if Ms Meagher had been "more faith-filled", she "would have been home in bed" and "not walking down Sydney Road at 3am".

[raptor_rebooted]

almost as bad as taj din al-hilali's uncovered meat

comment.

almost.

except in this case the church apologised.

[raptor_rebooted]

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@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:

I don't want to upset anyone, but he has to be correct - logically. It's painfully obvious that eg if I didn't drive to visit my wife in hospital that day, I wouldn't have been booked. 

If she was home in bed, she wouldn't have been a target for that piece of chit that attacked her.

How else can you interprete it? 

And, now everyone jump on me and tell me she had a right to be out - I KNOW that but you cannot change the logic - if she wasn't there, she wouldn't have been attacked - it's OBVIOUS.

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i won't jump on you - i get where you're

coming from.  i'm sure parents tell their 

daughters not to take unnecessary risks 

and use such tragedies as an example.

it shouldn't be that way but the reality is 

there are people like bayley out there.

[lind9650]

What the stupid Priest forgot to tell, was that Jill worked late hours. Yes, she went to a bar to have some after work drinks with collegues, It wuld not have made her to be on the Street much later than if she had walked straight home. Her murderer was already out there prowling for a victim and nobody can say that he would not have killed her earlier.

That Priest was propably at home watching TV, not evn thinking that some people work late and have to get home in the dark. Idiot!

Erica