New Evidence about Father Gordon MacRae. May he be free very soon!

From TheMediaReport.com

• Rev. Gordon J. MacRae, sentenced to 33½ to 67 years, has  been in the New Hampshire State Prison For Men since 1994 on abuse charges.
• Newly released signed statements in a recent court motion contend  that the primary accuser, Thomas Grover, made up the  accusations to extract money from the Church.
• Grover’s former stepson: “On several occasions, Grover told  me that he had never been molested by MacRae.”
• Grover’s former wife: Grover is a “compulsive  liar” and a “manipulator” who “can tell a lie  and stick to it ’til its end.” Most notably, Grover “never  stated one word of abuse by [MacRae].”
• Former friend of Grover and accuser who recanted: I knew  “full well that it was [all] bogus … I did not want to lie or make up  stories.”
• Former drug and alcohol counselor for Grover: Accuser Grover  claimed abuse “by so many disparate people that his credibility in the  [counseling] program was seriously in doubt”; Grover seemed like “he was  going for some kind of sexual abuse victim world record.” Plus,  aggressive New Hampshire detectives applied “coercion, intimidation,  veiled and more forward threats” and “threats of  arrest” upon the counselor to try to extract a false incrimination  of MacRae from her.
• Courtroom spectators during Fr. MacRae’s 1994 trial: A therapist  hired by Grover’s contingency lawyer used hand signals from the back of  the courtroom to coach Grover on the witness stand.
• Veteran FBI detective, after three-year private  investigation: “I discovered no evidence of MacRae  having committed the crimes charged, or any other crimes.”
• Plus: A lengthy criminal rap sheet of accuser Grover  reveals numerous arrests, before and after trial: multiple forgeries, multiple  thefts, multiple burglaries, and assault on a police officer (after breaking his  future ex-wife’s nose). The jury at the trial never heard any of  this.
• and more.

Eye-popping new evidence is shining a new light on one of the most disputed  cases of the entire Catholic Church abuse narrative.
Rev. Gordon J. MacRae and his attorneys have filed a motion  for a new trial in New Hampshire based on astonishing new declarations.
The motion for a new trial contains multiple, uncollaborated signed  statements from a number of people who were close to accuser Thomas  Grover at the time Fr. MacRae’s 1994 criminal trial, and these  statements indicate that Grover perpetrated a massive fraud in falsely accusing  the cleric of abuse.
1. The motion contains an astonishing 2008 signed  statement from the former stepson of accuser Grover, who was in the  company of Grover for a period of years before, during, and  afterFr. MacRae’s 1994 criminal trial:

“[O]ver a number of months and years, Thomas Grover discussed the sex abuse  allegations of [Father] Gordon MacRae with me. Grover often stated to me  that he was going to set MacRae and the church up to gain money for sexual  abuse. Grover would laugh and joke about this scheme …

“On several occasions Grover told me that he had never been molested  by MacRae. “Grover, on several occasions, called his civil case attorneys for money or  cash advances on his expected cash award and Grover told me that his  attorneys directed him to go for psychiatric and drug therapy to gain jury  appeal in his court case.”

[Click  here to read this man's signed statement]
2. The motion also contains statements from the  former wife of accuser Grover. According to this woman, Grover is a  “compulsive liar” and a  “manipulator,” “who can tell a lie and stick to it ’til  its end.”She also has claimed:

• Grover asked her to marry him in 1994 “because it would look better and,  more importantly, he needed the security of a wife for a trial.”
• In the entire time the pair were together, “never once did [Grover]  say he was abused by MacRae.”
• Grover claimed that his monetary civil suit was to pay for his needed  therapy, but once he received his sizable settlement ($195,000  in 1997), he never returned to therapy again.

[Click  here to see relevant court documents related to Grover's former  wife.]
3. Also included in the file is a 2008 signed  statement from a former friend of Grover who recanted his bogus claims of  abuse by MacRae. The statement shockingly suggests that the lead  detective in Fr. Gordon’s New Hampshire case, James McLaughlin,  attempted to manipulate the young man into making a false  accusation:

“I was aware at the time of [Father] Gordon’s trial knowing full well  that it was bogus and having heard of the lawsuits and money involved, also the  reputations of those who were making accusations.

“I agreed to meet with the [detectives] after being told I would be  reimbursed for my time/gas money …  [Detective] McLaughlin had me  believing that all I had to do is make up a story about Gordon and I could  receive a large sum of money as others already had. McLaughlin reminded me of  the young child and girlfriend I had and referenced that life could be easier  for us with a large amount of money.

“I knew of the Grovers’ reputation as well as others involved, many of whom I  went to school with. It seemed as though it would be easy money if I would also  accuse Gordon of wrongdoing. I left that meeting after being given I believe  $50, easy money, like what would come from lawsuits against  MacRae.”

Fortunately, after being subpoenaed, the man had a change of feelings.  “I did not want to lie or make up stories … Gordon had never done  anything wrong towards me,” the man has written.
[Click  here to read this man's handwritten statement]

Link:

• Alarming New Evidence May Exonerate Imprisoned Priest

Related:

• Special Report: New Appeal Filed in the Case of Fr. Gordon MacRae
• New Trial Motion Filed for Father Gordon MacRae
• Memorandum of Law in Support of a Motion for a New Trial (.pdf)
• Father Gordon MacRae’s These Stone Walls – Musings From Prison of a Priest Falsely Accused
• Thy Brother’s Keeper: Why Wrongful Convictions Should  Matter to You
• Trial by Therapists – by Ryan A. MacDonald
• Dr. Bill Donohue Discussing Fr. Gordon MacRae and SNAP on EWTN’s The World Over
• A Touch of Deja Vu: The Case against Rev. Gordon MacRae – by Ryan A. MacDonald
• To Azazel:  Father Gordon MacRae and the Gospel of Mercy – by Ryan A. MacDonald
• A Priest and His Wounds: Padre Pio Under Investigation
• SNAP Judgments Part II: Ground Zero of the Catholic Scandal
• SNAP Judgements Part I: Catholic Priests Among the Public Ruins – by Fr. Gordon MacRae
• As The Year of the Priest Ends, Are Civil Liberties for Priests Intact?
• SNAP EXPOSED: Unmasking the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests – by William A. Donohue, Ph.D.