SNAP to Appeal

By Jerry Berger
Berger's Beat
April 23, 2012

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SNAP plans to appeal a KC judge’s ruling that the group must turn over hundreds or thousands of pages of communications between its leaders and victims, witnesses, whistleblowers, police, prosecutors and journalists. The group’s outreach director Barbara Dorris, who has been subpoenaed by Archbishop Robert Carlson’s lawyers in a clergy sex suit involving Fr. Joseph Ross, detects a double standard: “Bishops blast President Barak Obama saying it’s wrong to allegedly try to force someone to violate his or her conscience. But that’s precisely what Missouri Catholic officials are trying to do to us – by forcing us to turn over confidential communications from hundreds of deeply wounded child sex abuse victims, victims who have been promised – and who deserve – privacy.”