For those completely new here, this post involves the
1978 accusations against Anthony Cipolla. As the 2018 Pennsylvania
Grand Jury report shows ... in the testimony of the sole detective of
that case ... Cipolla was NOT arrested in 1978.
It's simply that an
incompetent journalist wrote that Cipolla was arrested and scheduled for
a prelim hearing on August 28th of that year. The reality was that he was summoned to
a Probable Cause hearing on Aug 28, where a magistrate was going to
decide if there existed probable cause "to issue process" and put Cipolla in
handcuffs or not. No arrest transpired.
The O/I Report: That sheet of paper only started-off an investigation. Moreover, Tucker Thompson said that he was molested only two times, and NOT for two years of time, as the media insinuated. Yet, the way Tucker claimed to have been molested was highly improbable and not very credible.
As a very important reminder, the white sheet of hand-printing on a police form that the Thompson People made sure would get put online was NOT an arrest report. It was NOT an arrest warrant. It was NOT even a police affidavit. And it certainly was NOT a case report.
It was simply the notes of a mother's accusations against Anthony Cipolla ... and assertions by her son Tucker. The accusations were made to a uniformed police officer and then hand-printed onto a police form by a man in blue. It's their allegation only, and not any assessment of any law enforcement officer. It's their side of the story without any cross-examination.
It's technically an Offense/Incident Report, pertaining July 25, 1978. That's all. It's NOT evidence. Rather, it creates the task to look for evidence or corroborating witnesses which can confirm the accusations stated in the Offense/Incident Report.
The Offense/Incident Report of July 1978
The O/I report in the 1978 Cipolla case simply outlined the words of Diane Thompson, as were recorded by an uniformed man in blue. Events "after the fact" are also mentioned in brief outline form, in an O/I report, such as a trip to the hospital.
Within the Cipolla Case's O/I report, mention was made of nine year old Tucker Thompson ... aka Thomas Thompson ... having been taken to Allegheny General Hospital, for an "exam for sexual molested."
Note: The word, molested, in that text was a noun; a person. Plus, in Pgh police reports, AGH is Allegheny General Hospital.
The same 1978 Offense/Incident Report marked Tucker Thompson's "victim's condition" as "GOOD." There was ZERO MENTION OF SEMEN ever having been found on Tucker's body and/or clothing. Plus, no injury to the private bodily section recorded. Neither front nor back had tearing, bruising, etc.
In the same 1978 report, there was ZERO MENTION OF CIPOLLA GETTING ARRESTED, thereby showing the outright incompetency of local journalists in the late 1970s who did NOT know the difference between a post-arrest prelim hearing and a pending-arrest Probable Cause Hearing.
It was a probable cause hearing which was scheduled for Aug 28, 1978. The newspapers falsely reported it as a post-arrest hearing. In reality, the hearing was see if Cipolla were going to get arrested or not.
In the illustration below ... at the top right-hand corner ... look for "victim's condition," and below it is "GOOD."
Proof that there was no immediate arrest came in the fact that, after Mark Ninehouser submitted his Offense/Incident Report, the sole detective of the case later had a chat with 12 year old Frank Labiaux, as a witness. The investigation had just begun.
In addition, proof that there was no arrest at all came from the detective's 2018 grand jury testimony, when he described the transpiration in the hallway, shortly before the Aug 28 Probable Cause Hearing was cancelled. It was cancelled by cause of Diane Thompson withdrawing her private citizen's criminal complaint.
Now, Cipolla had youth groups for years, along with numerous altar servers. Yet, concerning the only two times when Cipolla was ever accused of abuse, both accusing parties were dirt poor and in desperate need for money. And of course, accusing a priest of sexual abuse could get for you a huge chunk of change.
Moreover,
there certainly was an Offense/Incident Report in the 1978 Cipolla Case posted
online. So, where is the arrest report, if there actually were an
arrest of Cipolla in 1978?
In
fact, being that Diane Thompson claimed that a hospital tested actual semen
said to have been found on Tucker, followed by it quickly declaring that it belonged to Cipolla, in a few short days or even hours.
This means that there would have been an
actual warrant for Cipolla's arrest describing this, being that Cipolla was not at the hospital and didn't even know that Tucker was taken to the hospital. Okay then, where is a copy of the
warrant? Why was it not posted online. In fact, what was the docket number given to the case, if it went beyond the investigation stage, into full blown indictment?
Timeline Problems, aka head-scratcher mysteries
Diane Thompson was allegedly married to a guy named Tom Thompson in 1965, until 1977 or
so, upon which he allegedly committed suicide by an overdose of
barbiturates. And then, according to Randy Engel, Anthony Cipolla simply popped-in and
started molesting Diane Thompson's two sons.
Of course, Randy Engel made it sound as if Cipolla were grooming and then molesting Tucker for a long time and many times. In fact, an occasional website would state that that the molesting of Tucker AND Frank was done by Cipolla in 1977 and in 1978. The Pgh Post Gazette made it look as if Cipolla molested Tucker 20, 40, 60, or even 80 times.
TWO TIMES ONLY went the accusation, as was told to the police, on July 25th, 1978
Well,
the alleged claim ... that was stated on record ... was that Anthony Cipolla
molested Tucker Thompson a total of TWO TIMES ONLY. Concerning the molestation technique described, it is NOT the usual way molesters molested the young.
In fact, even though it's a brief description stated in the O/I report, it's a gross-out description. It alleges the Cipolla was pretending to be giving Tucker a medical exam, for Holy Communion, followed by him sticking one finger where it should NOT have been. It then alleged that Cipolla took one adult-sized hand and invaded the small private sector of Tucker.
In true molestation cases not narrated by mothers in desperate need of apartment rent money, it's the child's hand that gets in great demand by the molester.
More specifically, we are talking about an Anthony Cipolla who literally did have pretend masses as a young child, where he actually did get neighborhood kids to attend. An play altar was even built for him by a neighbor versed in carpentry.
All this means that Anthony Cipolla had an intense belief in a consecrated host, so much so that he would NEVER defile his hands and then hold a host.
The description is in Officer Mark
Ninehouser's Offense/Incident Report of July 25, 1978. In that report, Mark
stated that Tucker expressly claimed that he was first molested by Anthony
Cipolla around the 4th of July, 1978 ... and then on July 25, 1978. That was a case which spanned no longer than 3 to 4 weeks. It was NOT the eight, twelve, or sixteen weeks that the mainstream media and Randy Engel insinuated or declared.
It was such a small amount of time that Diane needed to bring Frank into the narrative, to make Cipolla look like a monster. Well, one of the things that Frank claimed was that Cipolla actually taught Frank how to molest himself. This is why, in America, there is a phrase of non-credibility which states, "You've got to be kidding."
And of course, Diane Thompson claimed that she had to drag the information out of Tucker. And quite frankly, I don't know what story she gave about getting info from Frank. None the less, the July 25th, 1978 O/I only mentioned Tucker, under the name Thomas.
Take note at the bottom of the illustration above, where Mark Ninehouser prints his name clearly enough for legibility. How did Randy Engel end up calling him "Nehouser?" This is the sign of an incompetent ... yet self-righteously arrogant & presumptive ... buffoon, not paying attention to the case.
This is also the sign of a buffoon who doesn't know how to tell who the uniformed officers are and who the detectives are, by the badge numbers. After all, Randy claimed that "Nehouser" was a detective, when he was a uniformed office. For the record, next to the Ninehouser name is the number 46. That was his badge number.
And speaking of numbers, Diane Thompson was 32 years old, in the Summer of '78. In fact, her phone number at the time was 1-412-766-4563. None the less, it was a land-line, like every other civilian phone of the 1970s.
And of course, she stopped living there in 1978, shortly after she was denied her request of having Cipolla get his pastor to start paying Diane Thompson's apartment rent for her. The pastor was willing to pay zero dollars of her monthly rent.
If the pastor agreed to pay her rent in 1978, then Cipolla would not have been accused of molestation at a time when the apartment rent was due. Oh, and it was for Apt 16, on 3616 Mexico St, Pgh, PA 15227.
Moreover, Tucker ... and/or Diane Thompson ... told uniformed police officer Ninehouser that Cipolla only molested Tucker with his hand ... and a stethoscope via some sort of medical exam. The insinuation was that Cipolla was using ye olde medical exam as a ploy to molest Tucker only ... by the use of one adult hand on a nine year old's very small you-know-what-while-you-simultaneously-don't-want-to-know-what.
Now, Randy Engel claimed that Tucker was taken to the hospital and semen was found on him, followed by a positive DNA identification of Cipolla being quickly made in the hospital laboratory. HOWEVER, in 1978, it took at least 7 weeks for a DNA test result to be ascertained, and hospitals didn't do the testing. NIH government labs did.
HOWEVER, the contradiction and hypocrisy of the accusation against Cipolla existed in the fact that Tucker said that Cipolla only used his hand to molest him, and the male hand is NOT the body part that ejaculates semen.
If Cipolla kept his pants on ... and if Cipolla's private section had not been involved in the molestation of Tucker ... as the Offense/Incident Report claimed ... then how did semen get on Tucker's clothes?
The only answer is that Diane Thompson lied yet again to Randy, and Randy Engel once again fell for it. There was no semen anywhere ... according to police report. Remember, the "victim's condition" was officially stated as "GOOD."
Now, for the big
credibility problem concerning ages:
Diane
Thompson's eldest son or step-son in 1978 was Frank Labiaux. According to
the record, Frank Labiaux was 12 years old in 1978. This would mean
that he was born in 1966. Well, in 1966, a Tom Thompson was allegedly
the husband of Diane Thompson.
So,
why does Frank have a different last name, if he is Tom Thompson's
son? Who was the real father of Frank? If he were adopted, then how did a court grant custody of a minor of no relation to a financially impoverished woman who didn't even have readily available rent money? Plus, if he were adopted back in 1966, how did he get assigned to a severely injured special forces soldier?
And who was
the father of Diane Thompson's alleged third son ... who actually did die young, somewhere around his late teens or early twenties or even early thirties or whatever? Or was he instead a nephew or something similar?
Also in the 1978 scene was a ten year old girl whose last name was different than Tucker's and Frank's. She was supposedly Diane Thompson's daughter. Mark Ninehouser's report stated that the young girl was Kathy Kennealy. Who are/were that child's parents and who were her legal guardians?
So, in the same "household" ... at 3616 Mexico Street, Pittsburgh, PA, Apartment 16 ... there was a nine year old named Thompson, a 10 year old named Kenealy, and a 12 year old named Labiaux. Diane Thompson was said to have been the mother and/or guardian of those children. Who were the fathers of these children?
In fact, if you know anything about this Tom Thompson, assuming he did exist at one time on Planet Earth, could you fill me in, as to date of birth, place of birth, place of death, cause of death, educational background, work background, any military service, any civilian administrative records, even past hobbies? Please? Anything about him will do.
He was alleged to have committed suicide some time around 1977. My cell phone number ... which receives texts ... is in each post about an interpreter for the UN converting St Wenceslaus' into a theater or convention center or whatever. I am NOT going to post here any numbers not related to the 1978 Cipolla Case. To do so is to cause confusion. This includes my cell phone number.
There
is even a bigger time problem with the tale of Tom Thompson going from master
printer ... in the age of automated printing ... to special forces
trainee in 1965 which meant that he had to have started his
military service in 1962
Diane
Thompson ... according to Randy Engel ... said that Tom Thompson's
trade was that of a printer and that he was one of the finest printing craftsmen in the land.
At
this point, there is a time problem here. Firstly, how old was Tom
Thompson
in 1965 that he could gain the experience of a master printer and
yet end up in America's elite forces with the required three years of
previous military experience? Uhhhhm, there is one thing you
need to know about Special Forces recruitment. That is this:
In
order to be recruited and then sent to Special Forces training, you "usually" needed to already have had three years
of military experience. THUS,
according to Randy Engel, the master civilian tradesman husband of Diane
Thompson started his military service in 1962. And of course, I don't even know if this Tom Thompson guy ever existed.
Guess
how old Diane Thompson was in 1962. Chances are the you guessed
wrongly. She was 16. Then, 16 years later, in 1978, she accused
Cipolla of molesting Tucker ... and Tucker only, originally.
By
the way, she was 19 in 1965, the year when her husband, Tom, was said
to have been in a devastating special forces training accident at the
Spartanburg military base which was permanently closed 19 years prior, in 1946. It was then turned into a State Park, in 1949. But, according to Diane Thompson, for some magic reason, Tom was training there in 1965 ... perhaps in a parallel universe.
Therefore, how did Tom Thompson get the time to become a master printer during an era when the
printing trade had long since turned "push-button" ... as far back as the
1940s? That is to ask, how did the young Tom Thompson get the time to
become a master craftsmen, when there was only the need for button
pushers? Or is it that Randy explained this poorly, in her defamatory 2016 article which demonized Cipolla from A to Z.
Below:
Concerning the DE FACTO claim that Tom Thompson was both a master tradesman and a
special forces recruit with three years prior military experience, how
does a man in his mere 20's become a master craftsman
in the printing trade by 1961, when printing turned automated and became
a push-button industry?
In
the event you're keeping score on the case which Donald Wuerl used as a
diversionary tactic ... done in order to misdirect attention away from Wuerl's undisputed abusive priests ... the magistrate in charge of the Cipolla Case's Aug 28, 1978 Probable Cause Hearing was Stephen Laffey. He was a local magistrate.
In law, a magistrate is basically "a screener," to see if a case should continue onward or be dismissed. A local magistrate can also serve as a motions judge, if need be. In fact, a magistrate is a preliminary judge with a judge's power.
That August 28th hearing was cancelled via Diane Thompson, herself, during a time when
"charges" were NOT YET FILED, meaning that Diane Thompson IS A LIAR for
claiming that her signature, written under duress according to her, "dropped criminal
charges" against Cipolla.
As a reminder for the seventh or eighth time, in every jurisdiction in
the United States and in its 50 sovereign states, once criminal charges
are filed against anyone, the only two persons who can "drop the
charges" in every case are 1] either the prosecutor 2] and/or the judge, including a magistrate involved in the case.
Thus,
the whole newspaper narrative of the Drop-the-Charges Nightmare
scenario of Diane Thompson, when she was
unable-to-see-the-paper-she-was-signing-because-of-tears-in-the-eyes, it was theatrical bull crap. When you have tears in your eyes and need to write something, what do you instinctively do? ANS: You wipe them away with one hand and maybe even a Kleenex. Then you sign your name.
Moreover,
Hollywood repeatedly had movies which claimed that only the victim can
file charges ... for dramatic effect and story-line flexibility only. Well, a
murdered man is incapable of filing criminal charges against his
murderer. Yet, numerous murder charges have been filed throughout
American history. Therefore, persons other than the victim have repeatedly filed criminal charges in the USA.
Did anyone in the media mention the asst DA of the 1978 Case?
Moreover, the assistant DA who was notified of Diane Thompson's accusations against Anthony Cipolla was John Marchetti.
The
point to mentioning this is that Marchetti is the one who eventually
received (uniformed) Officer Mark Ninehouser's Offense/Incident Report.
Yet, Diane Thompson NEVER mentioned this name, when she gave her first
interview with the Pgh Post Gazette, back in the 1990s.
She
kept mentioning the DA in a very defamatory way, as if he were the one
front & center. It would have been Marchetti who personally spoke
with her and conducted things. Perhaps she was too stupid to know the
difference between the DA and an assistant DA.
Even
at that, I had a cousin who was an assistant DA, and his name was very
well known. It was in a county famous for its Hall of Fame sports legend
and its many steel mills. Yet, it didn't come close to the fame of
Allegheny County whose DA's would have been more well known than my assistant DA cousin. Yet, Diane
Thompson wasn't paying attention.
For
the record ... for the seventh or eighth time ... when a private
citizen signs a private citizen's criminal complaint, an assistant DA,
as either monitor or mentor, gets assigned to the case. Moreover, there
has been a very small percentage of private citizen's complaints which became actual "private prosecutions."
Of
course, the media claimed that the local government in 1978 shut down
all possibility of persecuting a priest claimed to have had DNA evidence
against him.
Of
course, there was NO DNA EVIDENCE in the 1978 case, and it took over 7
weeks for any DNA test results in 1978. In 1978, you did not get DNA
results in three days, or even within 3 weeks. The DNA evidence claim
of the 1978 was another Diane Thompson lie.
Furthermore, that was as blatant a lie as the time when Diane Thompson told Randy Engel that she had to laboriously, at great sacrifice, pay a $45 fee, for Frank Labiaux to go to the annual convention in Michigan, at the grounds of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions.
Firstly, it was vocations weekend and it was 100% for free. That particular weekend was designed to inspire young lads into seeking a priesthood vocation. Therefore, Cipolla didn't go there to molest Tucker or Frank. He went there to get the religious order to recruit young lads into a pre-seminary curriculum. It was a typical recruiting weekend, and the cost of it was already in the religious order's budget.
Once again, in case I wasn't understood ... due to poor writing ... Diane Thompson NEVER had to pay a $45 entrance free for any relative to go to the Michigan seminary recruit weekend. She lied yet another time.
The big question very soon in my investigation & fact-checking literally became ======> When does Diane Thompson not lie? After all, she claimed that, after Aug 28, 1978, she now had no chance ever of getting Cipolla indicted and tried in a criminal court of law.
Well,
in 1978, child molestation charges in the State of Pennsylvania had a TWO YEAR STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS, and the US Constitution's Double
Jeopardy Law was not in effect. It wasn't in effect, because there was
no jury verdict, or judge's directed verdict, or a bench trial judge's
"finding."
Diane Thompson most definitely could have pursued the case. She had time, all the way until July 24, 1980. If she wanted two counts of charges filed, then she had until June 30th, 1980, to have an uncontested "timely" filing. Thus, she had 22 months or approximately 660 days to get Cipolla in handcuffs, IF he actually did molest Tucker and/or Frank.
Even
at that, there was no case in the first place, being that CIPPOLA WAS
NOT ARRESTED in 1978 or ever. He was NOT indicted. The case literally didn't even
begin. Things were only at the investigation phase.
That 1978 Investigation ran at a lynch mob speed
The
investigation should have continued beyond August 1978, just to make sure that a molester didn't go free ... and just to make sure that the accusing mother wasn't a con artist who literally committed the crime of having filed a false police report.
However, the sole detective of
the case jumped the gun, in his fatal error of NOT corroborating a thing
said by then-twelve-year old Frank Labiaux, in an interview with him.
The detective's fatal error was in him assuming that every 12 year old male always tells the truth to the police. Of course, junior high school teachers knew that 12 year old males certainly do lie to teachers. So, why would they not lie to the police?
Moreover, a few 1980 cases showed us that there are mothers out there who most certainly did tell their children to lie to the police.
If
Cipolla were actually guilty of any wrong-doing, a few more months of
police investigation could have resulted in actual evidence or
corroborating points of circumstantial evidence ... or a newly emerging
witness ... which could have warranted an indictment & arrest.
If
the Allegheny County DA's office were as corrupt as Diane Thompson claimed, then Diane Thompson could
have brought-in the State Boys from Harrisburg for investigation
purposes ... if and only if she were telling the truth and not playing a con game
designed to quickly get apartment rent money, back in 1978.