MILWAUKEE (WI)
Wiscosin Public Radio
By Chuck Quirmbach
Clergy abuse victims in Milwaukee say they want more documents from the Catholic Church than the church is promising to release.
The St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in downtown Milwaukee. The Milwaukee archdiocese plans to publicly release thousands of documents regarding child molestation this summer.
As part of the Catholic Church’s two-year-old bankruptcy case in Milwaukee, Archbishop Jerome Listecki says that on July 1, he will release thousands of pages of documents regarding clergy sex abuse
But the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) says it also wants information about abuse committed by religious order clerics, deacons and Catholic school employees. SNAP Midwest Director Peter Isely says those other cases may represent at least half of all church-related molestations.
“And so when you talk about half a glass, that may be okay with some things, but it’s not acceptable when it comes to child molesters. The archbishop knows right now that there are 10 child molesters in this neighborhood. Why would he only tell you about five of them?”
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