MILWAUKEE (WI)
WISN
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MILWAUKEE —The choice of Pope Francis is not only the turning of a page in history, but for victims of clergy sex abuse, it offers an opportunity.
Among those who would like to speak to the new pope is a group that advocates for the victims of clergy sex abuse.
WISN 12 News reporter Nick Bohr caught-up with Milwaukee’s co-founder of the Survivor’s Network of Those Abused by Priests, Peter Isely, as he left for Chicago to announce the group is sending a letter to the new pope asking to meet.
“We have a pope who has apparently invoked as his spiritual guide and shelter Francis of Assisi. I was assaulted by a Franciscan priest. So it’s personally very important to me,” Isely said.
Isely was sexually abused as a 13-year-old student at St. Lawrence Seminary in Fond du Lac and has championed church reform for two decades.
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