ATLANTA (GA)
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
Posted by David Clohessy on June 12, 2012
■Scrap national church abuse policy, they say
■SNAP: “It’s violated often with no consequences”
■Group wants an inclusive, 1 year process with “real input”
■Now, victims say, focus is on pedophile priest & lay Catholics
■But officials who “still ignore & hide crimes” must be punished, SNAP argues
■For starters, group says, prelates in San Diego & Owensboro should be “denounced”
WHAT
Holding signs and childhood photos at a sidewalk news conference, clergy sex abuse victims and their supporters will call on America’s Catholic bishops (who are meeting now in Atlanta) to
— totally scrap and revamp their ten year old child sex abuse policy,
— commit to an inclusive, one year planning process with public hearings and “real input,” and
— adopt tough penalties for church officials who ignore, conceal and enable child sex crimes.
They will also ask the prelates to denounce bishops in California and Kentucky for their “complicity” and “violations” in clergy sex cases that arose just last week.
WHEN
Tuesday, June 12 at 1:30 pm
WHERE
Corner of Peachtree Center NE &John Portman streets, across the street from the Hyatt, where the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is meeting
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