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By Joshua Staab
In the wake of new sexual molestation accusations lodged against a former Jesuit High School teacher, a member of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests says he has letters from at least four more Carmichael locals alleging abuse by Brother William Farrington.
Joey Piscitelli, Northern California Director of SNAP, said Farrington’s purported Carmichael victims contacted him directly within the past 13 days, after a former student at San Jose’s Bellarmine College Preparatory School went public with accusations that Farrington molested him there in the 1960s. The Carmichael letter-writers claim they were abused by Farrington while he worked at Jesuit High School, Piscitelli said, though he did not give details of the allegations.
SNAP is a victim’s rights group focused on bringing awareness to past and present cases of sexual misconduct by clergy members.
“Most of these clergy predators have escaped justice or punishment, as the antiquated statute of limitations has passed for conviction, and the abusers have slid by the radar, and are not posted on Megan’s Law database,” Piscitelli said in an e-mail.
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