GREEN BAY (WI)
Green Bay Press-Gazette
Written by
Paul Srubas
Green Bay Press-Gazette
Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests used a favorable ruling by an Outagamie County jury on Monday to turn up the heat on the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay.
The organization, which goes by the acronym SNAP, on Tuesday asked Brown County District Attorney David Lasee to demand the names and files of 51 priests reportedly involved in sexual abuse over the last several decades.
“We had a good meeting with the DA, he took our concern seriously, stated he is a great advocate for child protection and that he will contact the diocese and see if he can get the names of the priest offenders and their files,” said John Pilmaier, director of Wisconsin’s SNAP chapter.
Peter Isley, SNAP’s Midwest director, said the diocese in 2004 reported in a study commissioned by the U.S. bishops as having had 35 diocesan priests and 16 Norbertine priests who had been accused at some point of child molestation. However, the diocese never released their names, Isley said.
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