The Catholic Defender: Responds to John Benko who gives a wrong view which proves he is incapable to find the truth.

John Benko's is here in blue as follows with my response.

Do I honestly believe that Donald Hartley is a child molester?

Benko makes it clear that he has determined yes, but in reality, no way. When I was first told this after the Holy Thursday Mass, I was then taken outside by Father and he told me that someone thought I was being accused for being a "suspicious child stalker."

I was totally taken by suprize by that, and I responded that this was a bunch of bull crap. I responded to Father, that if it came to that, I would lay my life down to save a child threatened by harm.

Initially That was all their was to that, except Father told me about this that the Diocese could take away my ability to speak at conferences. Because of that threat, I wrote the happenings to defend myself.

There is no question in my mind about it.

That has been his agenda, Benko could care less about the truth. At one time, Benko use to respect my history and what I was about defending the Catholic Faith. We stood shoulder to shoulder against the arguments of the Anti-Catholics.

Let me explore this fully so there can be no misunderstanding on this point.

Donald Hartley makes an assertion that would be 100% correct if the premises of the assertion were correct. The assertion is that, the knowingly, false accusation of someone being a child molester would be a terrible evil. I agree that that is true. It would be a very grave, despicable, mortal sin and a disgusting crime. I agree with this myself.

I am not guilty of this sin. Not even 1%: John, nor am I

What I will concede is that there lies at least the theoretical, though unlikely, possibility that my assertion that Hartley is a pedophile is incorrect and that despite all the multitudinous things that clearly make him look guilty, he isn't.

Well, John, your assertion is 100% incorrect, nothing comes close... to make me look guilty, never did because I have zero tolerance of child abuse or any other abuse

Now, I'm discussing this merely as a theoretical point though I am certain that the chances of this are about the same as me winning the Powerball, being struck by lightning and being hit by a meteor on the same day.

This shows how much you really don't know, your agenda set, not truth set.

If this theoretical possibility manifested itself, conceding that I would not be guilty of Slander, would I at least be guilty of gossip or detraction? I am going to say no, and here is why.

Actually, you are guilty of Slander, gossip, and much more on multiple occasions. Hence why I responded so much to your lies and falsehoods.

I did not repeat something I heard whispered in someone's ears. I repeated the news that a formal accusation was made, documented and submitted by a credible witness and that that accusation was fully vetted by the Parish Priest and initially

A formal accusation was made and it was investigated and I was found 100% innocent by the ArchDiocese IG from the Office for Protection and Care Rep Declan Lowney. The Parish Priest said that he didn't believe I was guilty according to Declan Lowney.

The complainte was then elevated to the Diocese and directly resulted in the revocation of his child environment certification.

John you are in error to bridge the false accusation to the deactivation of my certification. I was not recognized in the Parish to serve at a capacity serving for and with children, that is why I was deactivated. That is an ordinary happening. The false accusation had nothing to do with it. That is a whole different issue.

Further, I did not do so out of malicious intent but to provide a context for Hartley's relentless and unprovoked dozens and dozens of attack articles and podcasts against me.

John, this is where you have lost yourself, for several months after my stroke, I was not allowed to be on the computer at all. Soon, I began recieving complaints about you attacking other members of Deepertruth to include you going after me at a time I could not defend myself. Dr. Gregory Thompson and John Carpenter helped me in keeping Deepertruth running. They did excellent until I was able to come back. When I did come back, that is when I found what you had been doing which began a series of reponses and why I fired you from Deepertruth.

In just the last week, I made the firm promise to not say anything against him if he would do the same. As always, I kept my word. As always, he didn't.

John, your twisted here, for three days, you did not lodge an attack and for three days, there was peace. I didn't think it would take you very long before you would go on the attack again. It didn't day 4 you began again.

John if you look at that very article, I was quoting you as follows:

The Catholic Defender: John Benko is vicious and demonic

This should ring a bell:

"Telling the truth is not vicious and certainly not demonic," I agree, but when you are not telling the truth, you are absolutely vicious and demonic.

It is not vicious or demonic to say that Donald Hartley openly plaigiarized material from Franciscan media and then lied about it.

No, you are a liar, visious and demonic. No, I did not openly "plaigiarized material from Franciscan media and then lied about it.

Thank you for reaching out again. Below is a copy of the written permission. 

Thank you for reaching out. As long as you keep us as a source when writing these articles, you are free to use our information within reason. You should be fine to do so.

Thank you for your patience and understanding. 

Thank you and God Bless,

Maria

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I did not add Maria's last name and I took off the phone number because I don't want Benko to attack Maria.

It is not vicious or demonic to say that Donald Hartley has been credibly accussed of being a child stalker by his own church.

"It is not vicious or demonic It is vicious and demonic to falsely accuse against the innocent," Call 913-721=1570 and ask for the Diocese IG who will tell you the truth that I am innocent of the false accusation.

It is not vicious or demonic to say that the diocese stripped him of his safe environment certification.

It is vicious and demonic to falsely accuse why my Virtus Account was deactivated. I was deativated due that at this time I was not recognized to be serving in a Parish Ministry dealing with children. This is a routine happening. I will eventually have my account reopened. John, your a liar trying to insinuate that I was deativated due to the false accusation.

It is not vicious or demonic to say that Donald Hartley is despised by all of the members of T4P and many, many others in Catholic circles as a direct result of his sick, psychotic behavior.

It is vicious and demonic to make false statments in regards to my standing with other Catholic circles. To say that your T4P has little respect based on you vicious, vain, vile, and vulgar actions.

It is not vicious or demonic to say that Hartley's podcast is dead because he is incompetent and cannot figure out anything more complicated than a telephone.

Considering that you are more than 200,000 behind me and since joining Podbean, we continue to expand our lead. Your opinion on Deepertruth is yours, but not the hundreds that daily respond positively to our podcasts and articles.

It is not vicious or demonic to say that Hartley is the bully who starts all of this then cries like a little girl when I give him the medicine he deserves.

It is vicious and demonic to falsely acuse me of being the bully which is what you are, the beast of the Internet. Your put down goes no where, I pray for you everyday hoping to see some sign that you will truly follow Jesus. Your blog is cluttered with trash.

These are all facts and they are indisputable and Hartley needs to grow up and put the big boy pants on.

The fact is that you are vicious, demonic, vain, vile, vulgar. that is what is indisputable, you have no friends with Deepertruth Members to include Dr. Gregory Thompson, he wants nothing to do with personally, Jimmy Z, and the Sander Clan thinks you are vicious and demonic. Once I defended you against some of your past associates, now that you have gone down this road, I can only pray for you.

You should concentrate more to build your relationship with your children, recently I encouraged Megan to forgive you. She reached out to me because she does not trust you.

Yesterday, without any provocation whatsoever, he republished this hit piece.

The title is ironic enough seeing as it is him, not me, acting in this vicious and demonic behavior.

Just responding to you John!

Now is where I am going to get blunt.

John

I have only seen this type of unrestrained and cold-blooded malice, paranoia and endless obsession once before in my life. The memory of it is an open wound. It was from the man we had to send to prison for 17 years for sexually assaulting my daughters Megan and Melissa.

John, your the one that is exhibiting this "type of unrestrained and cold-blooded malice, paranoia and endless obsession once before in your life"

Donald Hartley and his unimaginably evil wife, Gloria, have openly posited that I somehow enabled this monster or that I even engaged in the crimes myself. Can you imagine a more horrific assertion? Can you imagine a set of minds so evil and cruel that they could conceive something like this?

Gigi was getting very tired of your crying on the phone, Megan asked me not to continue with claiming Benko was guilty of what happened. In respect to Megan I agreed. I then responded to John's repeated lies and attacks with saying that John Benko was certainly responsible for what happened, John did in fact empowered the monster that is guilty of what happened, John failed to protect his children. I have since asked people to pray for John and his children, that they would recieve the healing of memory. I also encourged Megan to forgive her father.

Here are the facts.

My daughter came forward about these crimes 8 years after they took place. The perpetrator was living almost 300 miles from us when he was arrested. He was found guilty and sentenced to prison in the State of New Jersey in January of 2007. I have never been accused of anything by anyone except these two hell-bound filthy pigs who live in Kansas.

He might of been 300 miles away when he was arrested, but he was living under your roof when he committed these crimes. for that, your responsible. John, you had been falsely accusing me for weeks, Your the reason that I blamed you for what happened.

8 years after the sentence, in 2015, my daughters came forward with another, even more horrifying accusation. They both told me that they believed that their mother knew about the crimes and aided in them.

My wife happens to have a 4 year degree in Pschology and the way you had been acting, gave her doubt about your innocense came into view.

I have to be honest and say that I could not process such a horrific possibility and reconcile it with the woman I had been married to for 30 years. To some level, I still can't process it.

Again, I ask anyone who sees this to please remember John and his children, they need a lot of prayer over this matter.

She left me in October of 2017 because I refused to look the other way at her out-of-control alcoholism and worse. We formally divorced in September of 2018.

John, much of what you are sharing I had already known, while you were going through this, I was with you every day as you were more than a friend, you were a brother. You obviously forgot about that because I was for you and with you.

Tragically, my daughters perceive her as a monster and refuse to reconcile with me because they feel I took the side of the monster. The truth is that I walked through this hell in a haze, not knowing what to believe or how to react.

Oviously your still walking in a haze, not knowing what to believe or how to react. You broke away from Deepertruth because of these issues, and finances had something to do with it. I always kept the line open for you when I had hoped you would finally return. You didn't like that I had Sundays, Mondays booked up during the week, then Friday became a possibility when you had the chance, your job made that night difficult. Wednsday William Henworth helped out for awhile, until you decided to quit once again. Thursday I left open for interviews.

At first, I thought the counsellors placed it in their heads or that they misinterpreted events in some way. Almost 8 years of estrangement, and the guiding hand of God have led me to swallow the bitter medicine that these horrific claims are true. She knew. As horrible as that sounds.

John, again, your history is again faulty. by the fall of 2021, that would be the third time you had left the scene, yes our disagreement concerning Medjugorje was part of it, but our differences there still exist.

We still disagree today about Medjugorje, now that your on your own podcast, T4P you can say what you want.

My fallout with Donald Hartley began in the fall of 2021. This was months before his stroke despite his repeated lies to the contrary in attempting to portray himself as a victim. It resulted from my complaint that John Carpenter was openly promoting condemned private revelations and spouting out multiple falsehoods about all of these events, approved, rejected and unapproved.

I felt that an Apostolate called Deeper Truth should live up to its name by being accurate. Which we have and alway will. Medjugorje we can differ, Actually, The Vatican gave strong support for Medjugorje, John your the one that can't stand the truth. I was never a blind rage, not even now despite all your lies, I pray for your family, you attack mine.

The problem was that Hartley went into a blind rage and for three solid months produced hit piece shows and articles, one after another, personally and viciously attacking me because I concluded, based on the clear evidence, that Medjugorje was false.

That was and is your opinion, john, you became a bully to the rest of the team that did not agree with you, and yes, you attacked me.

His reaction caused me, William Hemsworth, Josey Banales, Terry Delp, Michael Cibenko, and countless others to leave Deeper Truth. The level of the vitriol was beyond insane, even sociopathic.

They followed you, John they do not like us going back and forth, nor does Deepertruth either. That was my issue because I could not leave alone your ungodly attacks. You were bent on bringing down deepertruth and I was bent on defending her.

As I mentioned before, I had only witnessed this kind of psychotic behavior once before.

Sadly, the attacks intensified after I left. I would ignore them and say nothing for literally weeks at a time while an unrelenting torrent of venom poured forth from this filthy pig every single day, unprovoked. Sometimes 3, 4, 5 unprovoked attacks in a single day.

You must be totally lost, because I never randonly attacked you at any time without first being attacked. That is the way it is, even now you have trash on your blog. I would respond when we beat you day by day because you made such a big deal about your numbers, but we were destroying you. Your doing the same thing now. Your either attacking me, or your bragging how good your doing.

This behavior chased away everyone, even the most loyal members of his inner circle. He now has not one single co-member, not one single follower.

Not true, we have not lost a person, we have gained new members from Colorado, Kansas, Missouri,

Now we know why.

When the facts came out that he had been formally accused of being a child predator and that those accusations were vetted, investigated and substantiated by his diocese, it all made sense.

Again John Lies about this false accusation being a child predator, those accusations were proven false, by the IG Declan Lowney, if anyone really would like to hear this from Mr. Lowney, call him at 913-276-8703 The Diocese, did substatiate my innocense.

The child predator is the most obsessed, most paranoid, most cold-blooded and relentless aggressor there is. I agree with this , however, John is very much misplaced. That sounds more like John Benko?

Donald Hartley's behavior has convinced hundreds, if not thousands of people that he is exactly that kind of soulless, calculating monster, because he is.

That is so false, your a good example why you should not bear false witness, because you are seeking to hurt me to hurt Deepertruth, that's it entirely, plus revenge for firing you. I hurt your ego and pride.

In the face of these very serious and very credible accusations, his only response has been to attack the witnesses- his parishioners, his priest, and me.

They were not credible, they are false accusations, I did forgive the said priest for his role in the matter, he didn't handle it well, he did tell the IG that I was innocent of the accusation. I told the priest that I forgave whoever made the false accusation. Now, I should forgive Benko for his pushing it as he has. I am innocent of this as confirmed by the diocese.

That is the M.O. of the child predator- the attempted preservation of his own image as a pillar of the community. It is that image that they foster in order to shield themself from suspicion.

John, that sounds like you are telling on yourself, that is what Democrats do, they accuse others for what they themselves do. This is a reason why Gigi felt you were acting like you were guilty based on listening to you on the phone.

We are now past that. Everyone who knows Donald Hartley believes he is a child predator because of the nature of the accusations, the complete and total absence of anyone defending him, or any presented and credible evidence that he is innocent.

Your accusation was and is still a lie, You have the phone number to call the IG, he is credibleI

As for me, I am actually a very kind, humble, decent and generous man and everyone knows it. Even Hartley. He knows full well that the caricature of me that he has created is less his actual image of me and more a necessary foil to detract attention from his own psychotic and threatening behavior.

No, John, you are the Beast on the internet, We have no common ground, your agenda driven, not truth driven.

True, though I am a very kind, decent and generous man, I am also a deeply wounded and broken soldier. I have been deeply affected by the horrors my family have experienced, and I do occasionally snap from the pain. I feel I have borne up well, by God's grace considering all I have been through.

Stop lying and attacking me, I'll have no need to defend myself.

The fact that the two Hartley's would make sport of something so horrific says all you need to know about what absolutely filthy souls they have. They are both absolute filth. Hellbound garbage.

Accually, your either guilty or your responsible for what happened, you have only yourself to blame. Since Megan reached out to me, I will now concede that your innocent of this crime, but your responsible and you failed as a father.

I absolutely believe Hartley is guilty. I would welcome the opportunity to see the presentation of credible evidence that would force me to admit I was incorrect.

And you are absolutely wrong as I am innocent, you can't accept the truth, it would destroy your agenda.

Don't hold your breath.

John, I am breathing just fine