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	SNAP Wants Sex Offender out of Treatment, behind Bars By Tim O'Neil St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) March 25, 2004 A former member of a Catholic religious order who has been living at a treatment center in Jefferson County should return to the Chicago area and serve a six-month jail term, a group that monitors sex offenders in the Catholic clergy urged Wednesday. Members of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, held a news conference downtown to discuss the case of Robert Brouillette, a former Christian Brother who has lived at the Vianney Renewal Center near Dittmer since he was convicted in 2000 in Joliet, Ill. The private center has housed priests who committed sex offenses against minors. Brouillette, 62, was convicted of indecent solicitation of a child and disseminating child pornography after Chicago-area investigators arrested him during an Internet sting in 1998. At the time, he was a counselor at St. Laurence High School for boys in suburban Chicago. On Friday, a judge in Joliet, Ill., is to consider a motion by prosecutors that Brouillette serve the six-month jail term that was included in his original sentence, but never imposed. Brouillette also faces lawsuits in Chicago alleging he sexually abused two boys at St. Laurence. A spokesman for the Congregation of Christian Brothers said Wednesday Brouillette no longer is a member of the order. A spokesman for the Vianney Center said Brouillette remains a resident there.
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