KANSAS CITY (MO)
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
Posted by Barbara Dorris on June 13, 2012
We are grateful for this ruling. We’re confident it will mean that dozens and dozens of KC area victims are a step closer toward healing and closure. We hope it will mean that Bishop Finn and other Catholic officials really will start implementing the 19 prevention steps they promised victims they’d take four years ago.
And we hope it will mean that Catholic officials across the country will be forced to honor their promises, especially those relating to children’s safety.
It never should have come to this. In 2008, Bishop Finn signed a deal with 47 victims. He made a commitment to take 19 straightforward, logical and effective prevention steps that the victims devised. Then, month after month, Finn broke the deal. (And, adding insult to injury, he broke it again last year, by refusing to go to arbitration, as the agreement mandated.)
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