SNAP Is Grilled

By Jerry Berger
Berger's Beat
March 2, 2012

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In January, five Catholic church defense lawyers grilled SNAP director David Clohessy for more than six hours. Now, SNAP is posting the transcript of that deposition on its website: SNAPnetwork.org. It shows that both sides got a little testy toward the end of the questioning. KC lawyer Gerry McGonagle represents Monsignor Thomas J. O’Brien,, an accused child molesting cleric. After Clohessy refused to answer several questions, McGonagle said “So just for the record, any questions I ask you about Monsignor O’Brien or about any of the alleged victims, you’re going to refuse to answer my questions; is that true? “No,” Clohessy replied. “I can’t speculate about what other questions you MIGHT ask me about Monsignor O’Brien. If you want to ask me if I think that he’s a dangerous serial predator, I’ll answer that question, I’ll say yes.” (For the record, O’Brien is Missouri’s most frequently accused pedophile priest. He has faced 29 civil lawsuits.