Updated 11 November 2002

Community Outraged at Response to Suit

By Daniel Branion, 22 May

In his first response to charges that Father Phillip Kekli-Aragoniez mutilated an 8-year-old Newtown boy with a straight razor, Cardinal Warren Laughlin of the Western Cross of the Catholic Church asserted that cybernetic environmental tampering contributed to the alleged assault. The cardinal's claim, filed by his attorneys, has been viewed by many as an inflammatory legal defense and is the first documented use by this newly formed branch of the Catholic Church of the cybernetic tampering defense polarized last year by the high profile Dr. Jimmie Brosnan case.

Carmine Duncan, a New England prosecuting attorney, said he found no legal fault with the defense. But for Laughlin to make use of it, Duncan said, "is irresponsible to say the least. It is a stupid and noncredible argument to make when you know that the Catholic Hierarchy is already staring at you, angrily watching your every move."

"Even the Church is having a hard time swallowing the 'Devil and the Chrome made me do it' defense. Kekli-Aragoniez has very little in the way of intrusive cyberware, excluding his brainware, and his proclamation that his body was taken over by his cyberlinks is ludicrous at best, malicious and inflammatory at worst," according to local cyber-expert Dr. Jared Winslow. "The archdiocese so far has been incredibly clumsy in the way they have handled this media-popularized crisis. And as hard as it was to do, they have managed to make things worse for themselves. At least they're making the prosecuting attorney's job easier for him. But he'll probably not find an unbiased juror in the State."

Last night, the parents of the boy, who was forever scarred by Kekli-Aragoniez on December 17, 2015, said they are furious. "To blame an outside influence other than the dementia of one man for Greg's condition is horrific," Nikolaus Fitzgerald, the father of Gregory Bleyaert and former porn star turned porn director, said in an interview. "He's trying to make it look like there are people out there willing to use a f***ing priest to get to me though my son, and that's just not the case. This isn't my fault or anyone else's. It's his. My son will never look at his reflection in the same way again, no matter how much surgery we do. He'll always remember that d*** in the robes coming at him with a razor blade. I hope the freak fries." In the lawsuit, the Fitzgeralds charged that Laughlin was negligent in overseeing Kekli-Aragoniez, whom he knew to be a danger to children, due to his previous record.

W. Reighardt Snipe, a priest and a psychotherapist who has treated those who have had adverse psychological stress due to cybernetic implants, said that the defense chosen by Laughlin's attorney "is laughable. While the court may not be able to prove that Kekli-Aragoniez was NOT controlled through the use of cybernetic terrorism, it seems unlikely, considering Aragoniez's record, that they'll really have to. He exhibited no early signs of being manipulated by any outside source on any of the reports we've received or any of his monthly reviews. I think they're grasping at straws. Honestly, he probably would have a better shot at getting off if he had just killed the kid. Now the jury gets to look at a 9-year-old with no nose before making any decisions. I just wish the defense wasn't holding off corrective surgery until after the trial. That kid must be going through Hell." Snipe said the message that people should take from this is that "every child, Church-going or not, and every parent should be watching out for everyone they entrust with their children. Period."

Gregory Bleyaert (who has taken his mother's last name) was reportedly assaulted while away at camp. Gregory was placed in camp so that Fitzgerald would be free to work on the set of A Girl, Two Guys, Her Dog and a Cyberarm: Neon Bug-alloo Part 61. Father Kekli-Aragoniez was unavailable for comment, as he has been advised to have only limited contact with the press at this time. Gloria Bleyaert, the child's mother, was also unavailable for comment, as she is serving three consecutive life sentences at Huntsville Maximum Security Prison and remains in solitary confinement at this time.

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