MANCHESTER (NH)
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
Posted by David Clohessy on September 13, 2012
■Two clergy sex cases settle
■Victims urge bishop to do outreach
■On his 1 year anniversary, SNAP prods NH’s top Catholic official
■”Go beyond bare minimum,” group says, “and visit predators’ parishes”
■“And put names of pedophile priests on your website,” support group begs
■SNAP: For kids’ safety & victims’ healing, “it’s the LEAST any Catholic diocese should do”
WHAT
Holding signs and childhood photos at a sidewalk news conference, a year after NH’s Catholic bishop was picked, clergy sex abuse victims and supporters will publicly
—disclose that two clergy sex abuse and cover up lawsuits against a NH priest have just settled,
—urge NH’s bishop to aggressively seek out other victims, witnesses, and whistleblowers of this child molesting cleric and others, and
—-beg him to post on his diocesan website – like 30 other bishops have done – the names of proven, admitted and credibly accused pedophile priests (to help protect innocent kids and heal wounded victims).
WHEN
TODAY, Thursday September 13 at 2:15 PM
WHERE
Outside the Manchester Diocese headquarters (“chancery office”’), 153 Ash Street (between Orange and Myrtle) in downtown Manchester.
WHO
Three-four members of a support group called SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAPnetwork.org), including a Missouri man whose brother is a predator priest and who is the organization’s long time director
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