ST. LOUIS (MO)
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

No names of pedophile priests will be turned over today

For immediate release: Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, 3:15 p.m.

For more information: David Clohessy of St. Louis, SNAP Director (314) 566-9790 cell, SNAPclohessy@aol.com

St. Louis Catholic Archbishop Robert Carlson has won a delay from the Missouri Supreme Court so that he will not have to turn over the names of 115 archdiocesan employees who have been accused of sexually assaulting children.

A support group for clergy sex abuse victims is disappointed in the one sentence decision (available on CaseNet).

Leaders of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, says the state’s highest court is being inconsistent.

“When Carlson sought 20 years of our records, the Supreme Court didn’t stop that process,” said David Clohessy of SNAP. “We weren’t even a party to that litigation and no one’s…