Iowa date rape drug probe targets Illinois priest

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Now explain to me what a Catholic priest needs with date rape drugs????

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Iowa drug probe targets Illinois priest Posted at 7:43 on 01/29/2002 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Roman Catholic priest from Illinois and two Iowa residents of the Quad Cities are charged with making the ‘‘date rape’’ drug in a Davenport home.

Documents filed in U.S. District Court in Davenport name Jeffery Windy, priest of St. Patrick’s Church in Sheffield, Ill., and St. Margaret Mary’s in Wyanet, Ill.

Timothy O’Brien and Bradley Bush also are charged with the manufacture of the drug called Gamma Hydroxybutyrate, or GHB. Windy and O’ Brien were being held Monday night in the Scott County Jail. Bush was being held in the Rock Island, Ill., County Jail.

Sheffield is a town of about 1,000 about 50 miles east of the Quad Cities. Wyanet, about 10 miles farther east, has a population about the same as Sheffield.

‘‘It’s very sad for the church. It’s very sad for the community,’’ Sheffield Mayor Bill Rosenow said ‘‘When those things start going bad, we’ve got problems.’’

Both churches are part of the Peoria Diocese.

‘‘The Catholic Diocese of Peoria will cooperate to the full extent of the law with police and federal authorities during the investigation,’’ a prepared statement released Monday by the diocese says.

GHB is a depressant that produces ‘‘euphoric and hallucinatory states’’ and has an ‘‘alleged ability to release a growth hormone and stimulate muscle growth,’’ the U.S. Justice Department says.

‘‘Abusers include high school and college students and rave party attendees who use GHB for its intoxicating effects,’’ the department says. ‘‘Some body builders also abuse GHB for its alleged anabolic effects.’’

It is called the date rape drug because ‘‘several cases have documented the use of GHB to incapacitate women for the commission of sexual assault.’’

It can be found in liquid form or as a white powdery material.This case involves the liquid form of the drug, authorities said.

Authorities were told last May O’Brien and Windy had been seen manufacturing GHB three times at O’Brien’s house in Davenport, court documents state. The source told them Windy provided one of the chemicals necessary to making GHB. On July 12, an undercover agent with the Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement bought a half-gallon of GHB from O’Brien, the federal court affidavit states.

-- Anonymous, January 29, 2002

Answers

Beckie,

Hmmmmmmm...... How do I say this...... What do you really know about the behavior of Catholic priests? (Hint: Not for the faint of heart)

-- Anonymous, January 29, 2002


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