MILWAUKEE (WI)
Fox 6
[with video]
by Angelica Duria
MILWAUKEE — Local activists want the names of alleged child abusers made public after 100 new sex offenders were identified in court documents. The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, known as SNAP, will be asking federal judge Susan Kelley Thrusday to release testimony made by former Archbishop Rembert Weakland and his Chief Deputy Bishop Richard Sklaba.
Last month, lawyers for victims of sexual abuse said there were 100 new sex offenders identified in more than 8,000 accounts of sexual abuse (in their claims). This number was well publicized.
Members of SNAP (The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) along with members of BishopAccountability.com, called those numbers a “personal safety crisis.” The group wants an investigation by the attorney general into who these people are in case there are current members of the Archdiocese identified in court documents. “The people who need to be held responsible have not been held responsible. What you have in these documents are the truth. The gospel tells us the truth shall set us free,” SNAP Midwest President Peter Isely said.
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