WISCONSIN/NEVADA
SNAP Wisconsin
Statement by Peter Isely, SNAP Midwest Director
CONTACT: 414.429.7259 or 414.336.8575
For the first time today, the Diocese of Green Bay has been held accountable in a civil court of law for their decades long practice of concealing and transferring priest child sex offenders.
In a verdict today by a Las Vegas jury, the diocese was found guilty of negligence in transferring notorious child sex predator John Patrick Feeney to a Nevada parish where he sexually assaulted the plaintiff when he was 13 years old. The jury ordered the diocese to provide $500,000 in
damages to the victim/survivor in the case.
The Green Bay diocese goes on trial in May in Wisconsin for Feeney’s crimes while Feeney was still a priest of the diocese and before his transfer to Las Vegas.
The Diocese of Green Bay has a long standing practice of attempting to evade responsibility for the crimes of their sex offending clerics. Fr. Feeney is just one of 51 clerics that Green Bay church officials have received reports of sexual assault or misconduct on over the past few decades. The diocese has refused repeated pleas from victims and their families to publically identify the names
and locations of their sex offending clergy leaving additional children at risk.
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