MINNESOTA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
After being deemed guilty at trial, he remains a priest today
On top of regular retirement pay, he gets a monthly “bonus”
Another predator is accused of molesting more than 80 kids
He abused a Twin Cities boy but St. Paul church officials stay silent
In 2005, local Catholic officials quietly settled the case but told no one
SNAP: “How many other child molesting clerics are still being hidden now?”
WHAT
Holding signs and childhood photos at a sidewalk news conference, clergy sex abuse victims will prod the Twin Cities archbishop to aggressively seek out other victims of two child molesting clerics
–a Catholic brother accused of molesting 80 kids, and
–a priest who was found guilty of abuse by a jury, is still a priest, is unsupervised, lives in a $500,000 home and gets extra payments above his retirement.
They will also urge the archbishop to
— put all of his child molesting clerics in secure treatment centers and
— publicly explain why he secretly pays proven, admitted and credibly accused child molesting clerics.
WHEN
TODAY, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013 at 2:30 p.m.
WHERE
Outside the St. Paul-Minneapolis Catholic archdiocesan headquarters (‘chancery office’), 226 Summit Avenue in Saint Paul, MN
WHO
Several local concerned Catholics and two victims who belong to a self-help group called SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAPnetwork.org), including a Minnesota man who was molested by Minnesota’s notorious “Polka Padre”
WHY
1.Yesterday, Minnesota Public Radio disclosed that Fr. Robert Kapoun, who was found guilty of abuse at a trial, is getting paid a monthly “bonus,” not being supervised, lives in a $500,000 lakeside home and has not been defrocked.
In a jury found that Fr. Kapoun repeatedly molested Dale Scheffler and awarded Scheffler $1 million. Later, an appellate court overturned the verdict because of the statute of limitations. In what SNAP calls “an extraordinarily cruel move,” archdiocesan officials sent Scheffler a bill for $6,019.10 for its legal expenses. m the archdiocese for its legal expenses.
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