NEW JERSEY
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Tuesday, Sept. 3
Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 314 862 7688 home, 314 503 0003 cell, SNAPdorris@gmail.com )
Two New Jersey predator priests have finally been defrocked by the Vatican. Shame on Newark’s archbishop for not doing more to spread the word about this news and warn more families about these dangerous men.
[NJ.com]
Child molesting Catholic clerics don’t just hurt Catholic kids. So it’s wrong for Archbishop John Myers to only alert Catholic parents when predatory Catholic priests are demoted. Myers should alert as many parents as possible, especially in light of his repeatedly pledges to be “open” about clergy sex crimes.
Instead of one small notice in one issue of the archdiocesan newspaper, Myers should have held a news conference or at least issued a news release and put prominent notices in every parish bulletin urging anyone who might have seen, suspected or suffered these clerics’ crimes to call police.
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