OH – Accused predator priest is back on the job
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Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
Posted by David Clohessy on November 16, 2012
Cleveland’s Catholic bishop is restoring to ministry a priest who “groomed” a teenager and tried to abuse him.
In a nine minute televised investigative report, based largely on “hundreds of pages of documents from the Lake County prosecutor,” Fox 8 investigative reporter Bill Sheil reports that Bishop Richard Lennon is putting Fr. Jeffrey M. Weaver back on the job for the first time in a decade.
Leaders of a support group called SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, are blasting the move as “reckless, callous and deceitful.”
According to the records released by prosecutors, in 1996, Fr. Weaver
–“bought the teenager a large number of alcoholic drinks,”
–“then tried to French kiss him” while victim pushed him away in the Immaculate Conception rectory,
–“rubbed…
