MICHIGAN
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
Victims to leaflet statewide church meeting
They worry about predator at Methodist college
As a teacher, he admitted molesting two teenagers
He’s accused of impregnating one & giving her an STD
SNAP to ministers: “Don’t be like the ‘do nothing’ Catholics”
“Pressure college president & warn your flocks,” victims urge
WHAT
Holding signs and childhood photos, child sex abuse victims will hand fliers to Methodist ministers and congregants from across Michigan at their annual conference. The leaflets urge church officials and members to
–warn others about a professor at a Michigan Methodist college who admitted molesting two teenagers, and
–pressure the college president to disclose the professor’s admissions to students and staff.
They will also beg anyone who may have seen, suspected or suffered any crimes or misdeeds by the professor to “speak up, get help, expose wrongdoers, protect others and start healing.”
WHEN
Saturday, May 16 at 11:00 a.m.
WHERE
On the sidewalk leading to the Bell Tower at Adrian College in Adrian, Michigan
WHO
Two-three members of a self help group called SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAPnetwork.org)
WHY
Leaders of SNAP will hand leaflets to passers-by and to Michigan Methodist church officials and members about a professor at a local Methodist college who admitted molesting two girls and is accused of molesting at least one more. He’s also accused, in court records, of getting one of them pregnant and giving her a sexually transmitted disease.
He is Dr. Thomas Hodgman, a music professor at Adrian College since in 1999. Adrian officials hired him despite the fact that Hodgman admitted his crimes against the two girls.
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