Ohio Trial Court Dismisses Ritualistic Torture Case On Statute of Limitations Grounds

Today's Toledo (OH) Blade reports that the Lucas County (OH) Common Pleas Court has dismissed on statute of limitations grounds a civil suit against Fr. Gerald Robinson that accused him, Gerald Mazuchowski, a former lay minister, and others of bizarre ritualistic torture and rape that supposedly took place some 40 years ago. The result was required by Ohio Supreme Court precedent. The plaintiff, identified only as "Survivor Doe", said that Robinson and other men, dressed in nun's clothing chanted Satanic verses, cut her with a knife as a sacrifice to Satan, drew an upside-down cross on her abdomen, and forced her to drink the blood of sacrificed animals, such as a rabbit. Also she says she was forced to perform sexual acts on the men. The abuse originally took place at a North Toledo church, and later in an unidentified wooded area. The lawsuit claims that Robinson and Mazuchowski "had a close relationship with Survivor Doe's mother, who also participated in the ceremonies in the woods and was becoming high priestess of Satan." Robinson was convicted last year of murdering a Roman Catholic nun in 1980. (See prior posting.)