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	Group to Focus on Priest Abuse at K.c. Demonstration Springfield News-Leader January 16, 2008 http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080116/BREAKING01/80116038 The Missouri Survivors Network of those who were Abused by Priests — SNAP — will hold a demonstration and press conference this afternoon in Kansas City. The organization will discuss two recent lawsuit settlements involving priests accused of sexual child abuse, including one who worked at a Springfield church in the early 1950s. The Springfield-Cape Girardeau Diocese, which was established in 1956, has no record of O'Brien. Monsignor Thomas J. O'Brien, who worked at St. Agnes Cathedral 1951-54 when it was part of the Kansas City Diocese, and Father Thomas Reardon, who has worked in several Kansas City parishes, were accused of molesting a boy at least three times in 1974 at St. Elizabeth's Church in Kansas City. The diocese settled a lawsuit against the two priests last month, according to SNAP. Representatives of SNAP are asking church officials in Kansas City-St. Joseph diocese to post the names of all proven, admitted, and credibly accused abusive clergy on the diocesan Web site. They will meet at 1:45 p.m. outside the diocesan headquarters at 300 E. 36th St. in Kansas City. The public is invited and encouraged to report any clergy abuse, regardless of when it occurred. For more information, call SNAP National Director David Clohessy in St. Louis at (314) 566-9790 or Outreach Coordinator Barbara Dorris at (314) 862-7688.
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