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Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
Posted by Barbara Dorris on February 04, 2013
At least 11 clerics who worked at schools in the Seattle archdiocese are publicly and credibly accused child molesters. We suspect the real number is much higher.
They hurt kids in the Seattle archdiocese. Those kids’ parents belong to the Seattle archdiocese. Those moms and dads have donated to the Seattle archdiocese. They attended or attend parishes in the Seattle archdiocese, parishes that are run by the Seattle archdiocese.
Yet Seattle archdiocesan staff – from the archbishop on down – have done little, if anything, to help warn other families about or protect other kids from these child molesting clerics.
Why? Because the clerics’ paychecks are not signed by the Seattle archdiocese. They’re signed by another Catholic entity, the Christian Brothers.
The Christian Brothers, however, operate in the Seattle archdiocese with the explicit permission of the Seattle archdiocese, specifically, the head of the archdiocese, Archbishop J. Peter Sartain.
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