FLORIDA
Fox 4
[with video]
By Sara Belsole
FORT MYERS, Fla. – Survivors Network for those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, demonstrating outside St. Francis Xavier Church in Fort Myers.
“Church officials can and should do more,” says Barbara Blaine, President of SNAP.
Blaine says they have concerns about how the Diocese of Venice responded when Eucharistic Minister Robert Little was arrested for molesting a young boy he met at church.
“The way the diocese dealt with this was reckless and that it placed children at risk.” Blaine says.
Little was no longer volunteering at Saint Francis Xavier when he admitted to police he touched the boy inappropriately, but was living at the diocese-owned Villa Francisco, just blocks from the church.
The Diocese didn’t ask Little to leave until a week after his arrest and after a local attorney, who represents another boy who claims Little molested him, voiced his concerns to Fox 4.
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