MISSOURI
Fulton Sun
By Don Norfleet
Thursday, November 15, 2012
A priest on trial in Boonville on charges of molesting children may have worked as a counselor in Fulton during the 1980s, a representative of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) said Wednesday in Fulton.
Judy Jones, SNAP midwest associate director, appeared in front of the Callaway County Sheriff’s Office Wednesday morning to ask anyone in Callaway County who might have known of any sexual abuse by Gerald James Howard, the accused priest and counselor, to notify the Callaway County Sheriff’s Office or Fulton Police.
Jones said she has not personally notified the Callaway County Sheriff’s Office about the situation but she wanted to have the press conference in front of the Sheriff’s Office to make sure that all of the department’s officers and the public were aware of the potential earlier sexual abuse in Callaway County.
Jones produced a notarized statement by one of the parents of the boy who testified against Howard at his recent forcible sodomy and kidnapping trial in Boonville.
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