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Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
Posted by David Clohessy on November 12, 2012
■Abuse victims urge action against 3 bishops
■Each has recently put children at risk, SNAP says
■And one was criminally convicted in sex case last month
■Group urges Catholic hierarchy to enforce its own policy
■A decade ago, prelates promised to discipline complicit colleagues
■But over ten years, bishops keep ignoring other bishops who endanger kids
WHAT
Outside the annual meeting of all US Catholic bishops, clergy sex abuse victims and their supporters will hold signs and childhood photos at a sidewalk news conference, urging bishop to oust or discipline three other bishops who have “recently and egregiously endangered kids.” One of them is the first – and only – American prelate to be criminally convicted (just last month) of hiding evidence of clergy child sex crimes from police for months.
WHEN
Monday, November 12 at 1:00 pm
WHERE
Outside the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront, 700 Aliceanna Street (where hundreds of bishops are meeting) in Baltimore
WHO
Three-four clergy sex abuse victims who belong to a support group called SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAPnetwork.org) and the co-director of a Boston-based research group called BishopAccountability.org
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