Polish priest in bizarre whipped cream 'initiation ceremony'

[Martinus]

Polish priest in bizarre whipped cream 'initiation ceremony'
Police in Poland have launched an investigation after photographs were posted on a school website of 14-year-old children licking whipped cream from the knees of a priest.

By Matthew Day, Warsaw6:37PM BST 19 Sep 2012

The series of pictures show boys and girls, apparently pretending to be cats, approaching the priest, seated in a battered armchair, on all fours.

They then take turns at licking cream from his legs in what the school has described as an "initiation ceremony" for first year pupils at the school in the south-west town of Lubin where the priest is also the director.

Once the pictures were picked up by the media, police and the local prosecutor's office began a formal investigation into the affair that has prompted condemnation across Poland.

"This is very disturbing," said Marek Michalak, the Polish government's spokesman on child affairs. "Surely the boundaries of decency and acceptable forms of bodily contact have been exceeded. I've ordered an enquiry and demanded an explanation from all relevant authorities."

Monika Sajkowska, director of a charity working with abused children said the "children were manipulated" into the knee licking and that "limits had been exceeded".

But the priest involved, Father Marcin Kozyra, defended the "ceremony".

"There has never been a complaint from either parents or students about any impropriety involved in these games," he said in a radio interview.

"Similar pictures were posted on the school website last year and nobody batted an eyelid."

The priest has also won the support of his immediate superior.

"It appears to be a storm in a teacup," commented Father Alfred Leja, a school inspector from the local church authority. "It appears to me that people are trying to distort this situation and make it look like some form of sexual abuse." So far prosecutors have said will not press charges against Father Kozyra, but condemned his behaviour as "tasteless".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/9553859/Polish-priest-in-bizarre-whipped-cream-initiation-ceremony.html

I love that the parents do not see anything wrong with that.

[garbon]

I just saw your post on facebook and this made me laugh.

[Martinus]

Here's one of the pictures from HuffPo. Assuming that, like he claims, this guy is not a pedophile and he did that, then saw the pictures from the event and posted this on the school website thinking there is nothing wrong here, he is a fucking idiot:

[garbon]

At a different angle - what is the reason said for why they did this?

[Barrister]

I don't know if it's a crime, but dude is definitely an idiot.

[Habbaku]

Seems legit.

[Martinus]

I don't know if it's a crime, but dude is definitely an idiot.

Yeah my thoughts exactly. One way or another, he is not fit to work with children. Even if this is "innocent", only an idiot would not see how this could be taken by a third party.

To answer garbon, the Church is claiming this is "traditional hazing" that they have been doing "for many years".  

This gives me hope - the Polish Catholic Church is so stupid, it will hang itself on its own.

[CountDeMoney]

Jesus H Whipped Creamed Christ, it's Holy Mother Church, not a goddamned bachelor party.  Ugh.

[Malthus]

Here's one of the pictures from HuffPo. Assuming that, like he claims, this guy is not a pedophile and he did that, then saw the pictures from the event and posted this on the school website thinking there is nothing wrong here, he is a fucking idiot:

So very, very wrong.

[Solmyr]

He probably wanted to see which of them looks best with white stuff smeared all over her face.

[garbon]

He probably wanted to see which of them looks best with white stuff smeared all over her face.

Per article and other photos, he did this activity with boys as well.

[Malthus]

He probably wanted to see which of them looks best with white stuff smeared all over her face.

Per article and other photos, he did this activity with boys as well.

So, the dude is "flexible" in his tastes. 

[Phillip V]

Here's one of the pictures from HuffPo. Assuming that, like he claims, this guy is not a pedophile and he did that, then saw the pictures from the event and posted this on the school website thinking there is nothing wrong here, he is a fucking idiot:

It's a gateway activity to more inappropriate activities. He is looking down her shirt. The other girl has an even more cleavage-revealing top.

[Phillip V]

[Tonitrus]