MILWAUKEE (WI)
SNAP Wisconsin
Archdiocese refusing to turn over criminal evidence to police in current child sex abuse case
Former Fond du Lac priest Jerome Wagner under active investigation for child sex
assaults
Group urging action by Wisconsin Attorney General
WHO
Victim/survivors of childhood sexual assault by clergy of the Milwaukee archdiocese who are members of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAPnetwork.org/SNAPwisconsin.com), will discuss outside the Milwaukee office of the Wisconsin Attorney General, new documents filed in Federal Bankruptcy Court which show that officials of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee are refusing to cooperate with police in a current child abuse investigation in Fond du Lac concerning former priest, Fr. Jerome Wagner. The Archdiocese will not turn over to the police Wagner’s church file, which contains criminal evidence of at least 7 other victims of child sex crimes.
In a brief to the court, at least 350 victims are calling upon Judge Susan Kelley to allow their
attorneys to immediately release Wagner’s file to police and make abuse related files, documents, and depositions public.
Victims, in a letter to the Wisconsin AG, are also urging his involvement to assure the public that
church officials have turned over all abuse related evidence in Wisconsin to local officials and are not obstructing or impeding justice.
Expected to join SNAP members is a victim/survivor of Wagner, who was sexually assaulted by the priest as a youngster attending St. Jerome’s Church in Oconomowoc.
After the press conference SNAP will attempt to hand deliver a letter to the Milwaukee office of the Wisconsin Attorney General.
WHEN Thursday, January 17, 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Lobby of the State Office Building, outside of the Department of Justice, Office of Crime Victim Services (Room 180), 819 N. 6th Street, Milwaukee
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