PEORIA (IL)
Journal Star

[Bishop Myers deposition via BishopAccountability.org in easy to use format]

[Via Jeff Anderson & Associates: Deposition of Archbishop Myers Redacted
Deposition of Msgr Gerald Ward Redacted
Deposition of Archbishop Myers Redacted]

By PAM ADAMS (padams@pjstar.com)
Journal Star
Posted Aug 13, 2013

PEORIA —
On the heels of the Catholic Diocese of Peoria’s $1.35 million settlement on sexual abuse charges brought by a former altar boy in Normal, three members of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, gathered near diocese headquarters today to urge all victims of abuse to come forward.

“I’m standing right here to ask every child who’s been abused to come forward, come forward. It doesn’t have to have been by a Catholic priest,” said Jeff Jones, 59, a Rockford man who says he was abused by a Catholic priest while…