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

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

After months of delay and adverse rulings from two courts, lawyers for St. Louis Catholic Archbishop Robert Carlson have filed an emergency writ with the Missouri Supreme Court seeking to block the disclosure of the names of 115 archdiocesan employees who have been accused of sexually assaulting children.

A support group for clergy sex abuse victims is deploring Carlson’s move.

Leaders of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, are urging “anyone who may have seen, suspected or suffered clergy sex crimes and cover ups in St. Louis to step forward now, regardless of what the courts do or don’t do.”

“Even if the state’s highest…