That sheet of paper was only that which starts-off an investigation and is NOT the conclusion of an investigation.
As a very important reminder, that white sheet of hand-printing that the Thompson team made sure would get downloaded and put online was NOT an arrest report. It was NOT an arrest warrant. It was NOT even a police affidavit. And it was NOT a case report.
It was simply notes of two persons making accusations against Anthony Cipolla. It's their allegation only, and not any assessment of any law enforcement agent.
It's technically an Offense/Incident Report. That's all. It's NOT evidence. It creates the task to find if any physical evidence or corroborating witnesses exists which can confirm the accusations made to police 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. Within it was mention 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. Plus, in Pgh police reports, AGH is Allegheny General.
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 pre-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, where it states, "GOOD."
Proof that there was no immediate arrest came in the fact that, after 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, by cause of Diane Thompson withdrawing her private citizen's criminal complaint on Aug 28.
Now, Cipolla had youth groups for years and numerous altar servers. Yet, concerning the only two times when Cipolla was 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 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 semen
said to have been found on Tucker, and then quickly discerning that it to belong to Cipolla, this means that there would have been an
actual warrant for Cipolla's arrest. Okay then, where is a copy of the
warrant?
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 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 was done 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 ... as was stated on record ... was that Anthony Cipolla
molested Tucker Thompson a total of TWO TIMES ONLY.
This is according to Officer Mark
Ninehouser's Offense/Incident Report of July 25th, 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 ... only after Diane Thompson dragged the information out of him ... or dragged what she wanted to hear out of him, for profit.
Take note at the bottom, 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. After all, Randy claimed the "Nehouser" was a detective, when he was a uniformed office.
In fact, 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 asking Cipolla to ask his pastor to start paying her apartment rent. The pastor was willing to pay zero dollars of her rent due. Oh, and it was at 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.
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 many 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 ... 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?
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 being 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 in the military in 1962, even though Engel stated that
Diane Thompson married young, indicating that she married an equally young man.
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.
This
would mean that Tom Thompson was too young
and/or inexperienced to have been training in the U.S. special forces in 1965,
after having been a master printer ... during the era of automation ...
where
master printers were rarely in demand.
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 claim that Tom Thompson was both a master tradesman and a
special forces recruit with three years prior military experience, how
does a master craftsman 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 ... 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.
That
hearing was cancelled via Diane Thompson, herself, during a time when
"charges" were NOT YET FILED, meaning the Diane Thompson IS A LIAR for
claiming that her signature, written under duress, "dropped criminal
charges" against Cipolla.
And
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 is 1] the prosecutor 2] and the judge.
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 total bull crap. When you have tears in the eyes and need to write something, what do you instinctively do? ANS: You wipe them away with one hand and maybe even a Kleenex.
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.
Who in mainstream media ever mentioned the asst DA in charge?
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 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. 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, found in a hospital lab within a few days of time, shortly
after July 25, 1978.
Of
course, there was NO DNA EVIDENCE in the 1978 case, and it took over 7
weeks for 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.
That was as blatant a lie as 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. It was 100% for free, because it weekend designed to inspire young lads into seeking a priesthood vocation. It was a recruiting weekend, and the cost of it was already in the missionary 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 was literally ======> When does Diane Thompson not lie? After all, she claimed that, after Aug 28, 1978 was that 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, and 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, in an uncontested "timely" filing. Thus, she had 22 months or approximately 660 days to get Cipolla in handcuffs, IF he actually did any molesting.
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. 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 lie to teachers. So, why not the police, also?
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.