MARYLAND
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
for immediate release: Friday, April 04, 2014
Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 314 566 9790, SNAPclohessy@aol.com )
A Baltimore teacher has been arrested for sexually abusing one of her current students. We urge Catholic officials to fire and denounce – not just suspend – the librarian who kept silent about these crimes for weeks and discipline two Catholic officials who are calling these crimes “a relationship.”
[WBAL]
[Archbishop Curley High School]
They are wrong and callous to do so. It’s misleading and hurtful to call child sex crimes “a relationship.” That implies equality and consent that cannot exist between an adult and a child, especially between a teacher and a student.
Baltimore Archbishop William Lori’s spokesman used that insensitive and inaccurate phrase in a radio interview. And school president Fr. Joseph Benicewicz did the same in a letter to parents.
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