NEW JERSEY
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Monday, March 17, 2014
Statement by New Jersey SNAP leader Mark Crawford ( 732-632-7687, mecrawf@comcast.net )
Once again, for clearly selfish reasons, Newark Catholic officials are taking secretive steps to reduce public attention on predator priests. Shame on them.
Church officials will claim that this is about being sensitive to victims. It’s not. Church officials’ use of the phrase “negative publicity” shows their true intent: it’s about keeping predator priests out of the news. Church officials know that every time a child molesting cleric is mentioned in public, other victims, witnesses and whistleblowers might step forward. Preventing such disclosures continues to be a top priority in the Catholic hierarchy.
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