MINNESOTA
Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests

For immediate release Wednesday, January 29 2014

Statement by Barbara Dorris, SNAP Outreach Director, 314-862-7688 SNAPdorris@gmail.com

We are saddened by the fact that at this time the Washington County Attorney has decided not to pursue charges against Fr. Jonathan Shelley. We hope someday he will and that in the meantime other police and prosecutors will continue investigating Fr. Shelley.

[Pioneer Press]

We suspect that evidence was withheld or destroyed.

Now more than ever it is important for anyone with knowledge of Fr. Shelley’s crimes or misdeeds to contact law enforcement. Violent child sexual images – or as it is commonly called, child porn – cause great harm to the kids involved.

We hope that Archbishop John Nienstedt will do now what he should have done long ago – visit all the parishes where Fr. Shelley worked and beg anyone who was…