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NFL agelong snapper Jake McQuaide was escorted retired of a religion successful Ohio by constabulary implicit the play aft helium confronted a subordinate of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati during Mass implicit allegations that a clergyman utilized a parish-owned machine to entree pornography.
The incidental unfolded astatine Our Lady of the Visitation successful Green Township connected Saturday erstwhile Archdiocese of Cincinnati Chancellor Jason Williams addressed parishioners during Mass regarding the caller accusations against the Rev. Martin Bachman, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
The Archdiocese of Cincinnati said an probe recovered "no wrongdoing" involving the clergyman from Our Lady of the Visitation successful Green Township, Ohio. (Google Maps)
Williams work a missive from Archbishop Robert Casey successful which helium said each concerns "have been investigated, and nary wrongdoing either criminally oregon ecclesiastically has been substantiated" against Buchman oregon the parish’s pastor, Don Siciliano.
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"Furthermore, caller rumors, for which nary corroborating facts person been uncovered, are unsubstantiated," the missive continued. "Rumors which rapidly spiral retired of power person the imaginable to severely harm the bully estimation which each of america should enjoy. Consequently, similar gossip, the spreading of rumors is sinful, and we should each enactment to flooded this inclination of our fallen quality nature."
Casey noted that the Green Township Police Department confirmed to the archdiocese that determination was "no grounds oregon probe of transgression wrongdoing by Fr. Bachman." The missive besides noted determination are nary ongoing "ecclesiastical investigations."
But during Williams’ address, McQuaide stood up from his pew to request much clarity.
"Please instrumentality a second. We privation to enactment these rumors to rest. Can you reply this for me, information oregon fiction?" McQuaide was heard saying successful a video obtained by WCPO. Someone successful the video is heard responding, "This is not the clip for this," but McQuaide continues.
"I’m sorry, sir, this is the clip and the place. I volition basal up."
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Officers with the Green Township Police Department are seen escorting McQuaide retired of the church. According to the Cincinnati Enquirer, constabulary were asked by the archdiocese to be Mass successful the lawsuit of disruptions.
In a connection to Fox News Digital, Capt. Mitch Hill said McQuaide "was escorted retired astatine the circumstantial absorption of the church" and that helium was not arrested oregon charged with immoderate crime. Hill besides noted that Bachman "has not been the people of an probe by this department" and that Green Township constabulary person not been asked to analyse immoderate matters involving him.
Jake McQuaide (Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports)
One parishioner told the Cincinnati Enquirer that helium filed a ailment with the archdiocese aft allegedly seeing images connected the parish machine "that included thumbnail links to big pornography sites and different sites with explicit content." While the antheral said the images look legal, helium believed they violated parish rules.
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In his letter, Casey said Bachman volition instrumentality a "previously planned sabbatical" successful July.
McQuaide, 37, is presently a escaped cause aft spending past play with 3 teams, including astir precocious the Miami Dolphins. He spent the bulk of his 14-year vocation successful the NFL playing for the now-Los Angeles Rams, with whom helium was a two-time Pro Bowler. He besides spent clip with the Dallas Cowboys and Detroit Lions.
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