PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Daily News
KAREN POLESIR stands in the kitchen in her cozy one-bedroom Ambler apartment, the kettle boiling for English tea, as her cat, Harley, sits perched on a chair at the table, a scrunchie around her neck, as if she’s a toddler waiting for cake.
“She’s like a dog,” says Polesir. “She loves hair ties. I throw them across the floor and she brings them back to me.”
The name Harley seems more suited for a crazed pitbull, but here’s how Polesir explains the name for her tortoise-shell cat with piercing, sea-green eyes who was abandoned on a doorstep: “She purrs like an engine.”
Given that Polesir is director of the Philadelphia chapter of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), you’d expect her to be reflective.
And yes, Polesir, 52, is serious when it comes to supporting people who have suffered years of torment after being molested by priests.
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