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A priest in the Italian city of Bologna has been forced to apologize after telling an under-age girl who was raped that she deserved it.
Lorenzo Guidotti posted a long rant on Facebook in which he blamed the girl for hanging around with migrants and getting drunk.
"Sweetie, I'm sorry, but... you get revoltingly drunk... and then who do you go off with? A North African?" the priest wrote in the Facebook post. "I'm sorry but if you swim in the piranha tank you cannot complain if you lose a limb," he wrote.
The girl was raped and robbed by a North African man after getting intoxicated.
"Do you understand that, along with the alcohol, you've gulped down the ideological tirade about 'welcoming everyone'?" Fr. Guidotti told the girl.
"Darling, at this point, waking up semi-naked is the least that could happen to you," he added.
Rant Only Visible to Priest's Facebook Friends
The priest's rant was leaked to Radio Citta del Capo by someone who saw it on Father Guidotti's Facebook page, which was set to private.
At one point he railed at the Italian government's policy of welcoming migrants.
Twitter: "I find disgusting the words of don Lorenzo Guidotti about the young girl raped in Bologna."
Apology
Confronted about the Facebook post, Fr. Guidotti said he did not intend to attack the girl personally, but was "trying to make kids and their parents think."
But he later issued an unreserved apology to the victim and her family.
"With my intervention, I missed the terms, the ways, the corrections. I apologize to her and her parents if my imprudent words may have added pain," Fr. Guidotti said.
It is not clear if Fr. Guidotti faces disciplinary action by the Roman Catholic Church. The Bologna Archdiocese said his opinion "in no way reflects that of the Church, which condemns every sort of violence."
Continuing to live and remain healthy requires a view of the world which coincides with real circumstances. No one, absolutely no one, "deserves" rape, but any parent in Europe who hasn't at least attempted to tell their children (I realize some children are in rebellion and feeling their oats) that Europe today is extremely unsafe to females, young and old, and should be considered a war zone.
Even in America. Some youths were outside my local Whole Foods yesterday, and I wasn't sure what they were doing so I made sure, even to the point of running away from them, to stay very far away from them. An elderly woman was badly beaten here in the middle of the day in the middle of street with no provocation. She had no knowledge of her attacker (a young Hispanic), but she's in the hospital. The "sucker punching" is another reason to allow no one within approximately 8-10 feet of you.