SUITLAND (MD)
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
One targets DC area Catholic facility
Hundreds of predator priests have been sent there
The center was sued this week for the first time ever
The other case let’s an accused Maryland priest “off the hook”
WHAT:
Holding signs and childhood photos at a sidewalk news conference, clergy sex abuse victims and their supporters will disclose that
–a Catholic priest accused of molesting in Baltimore won a key court case last week, and
— the first-ever clergy sex abuse and cover up lawsuit against a Maryland facility for predator priests was filed last week.
They will also urge anyone who may have seen, suspected or suffered clergy sex crimes in the state to “speak up,
WHEN:
Monday, Nov. 25 at 11:30 a.m.
WHERE:
On the sidewalk in front of the Saint Luke’s Institute – 8901 New Hampshire Ave Silver Spring, MD 20903
WHO:
Four to five members of a support group called SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAPnetwork.org)
WHY:
1)Last week, apparently for the first time ever, a Catholic facility in Maryland that has housed hundreds of predator priests was named as a defendant in a civil clergy sex abuse and cover up lawsuit.
The suit, filed Tuesday in Dakota County Minnesota, was brought by a Minnesota man who charges that Fr. Francis Hoefgen sexually abused him after the priest “graduated” from sex offender treatment at the St. Luke’s Institute in Suitland and was then put back in to a church with no warning to the parishioners.
Before being sent to the center, Fr. Hoefgen admitted to police that he had twice performed oral sex on a boy, according to Minnesota Public Radio.
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