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Detroit priest to be sentenced for child porn; SNAP responds

For immediate release Wednesday, January 22

Statement by Barbara Dorris, SNAP Outreach Director, 314-503 0003, SNAPdorris@gmail.com

A Detroit priest will be sentenced tomorrow for child porn. We hope he gets the maximum sentence.

[Detroit Free Press]

Father Timothy Murray escaped prosecution for sexually assaulting a child – even though he admitted the crimes – due to archaic statute of limitations on these crimes. He has now been convicted of possessing and distributing child pornography and is awaiting sentencing.

This priest, and the church officials responsible for him, have been given multiple chances to put the safety of the innocent and the vulnerable first but have refused at every turn to do so. Church officials could have chosen to put Murray in a secured independently run treatment center where Murray could…