MANCHESTER (NH)
New Hampshire Union Leader
By KATHRYN MARCHOCKI
New Hampshire Union Leader
Published Feb 8, 2012
MANCHESTER — Four victims of alleged clergy sexual abuse and their advocates appealed to the state’s new Roman Catholic bishop to change the diocese’s child sexual abuse policies during a brief sidewalk vigil Tuesday.
The six held signs and asked Bishop Peter A. Libasci to make a “clean break from the past” by replacing the lawyers and others involved with the diocese’s victim assistance ministries, publicly post the names and addresses of all credibly accused clergy and support any legislative reform that better protects children from molesters.
Libasci succeeded Bishop John B. McCormack as 10th bishop of Manchester last Dec. 8.
“With this new beginning, we’re just hoping there is going to be a new era and it will make it easier for victims to come forward and help make New Hampshire schools, parishes and hospitals safer for the children and the vulnerable,” said Barbara Blaine, president of the Chicago-based Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, also known as SNAP.
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