CANADA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

For Immediate Release: Monday, Aug. 18, 2014

Contact: David Clohessy of St. Louis MO 314 566 9790, SNAPclohessy@aol.com, Brenda Brunelle of Windsor, Canada 519 800 3492, windsor@SNAPnetwork.org

Victims urge Catholic group to do outreach
Its former official faces sentencing in sex case
Ottawa man was former head of Catholic youth group
He just pleaded guilty in 1984 child sexual assault case
In 2002, a civil case against him & Knights of Columbus was settled
Group says Knights should prod others who were hurt to “come forward, get help, and call police”

A support group for clergy sex abuse victims is urging a Catholic men’s organization to help find others who may have been sexually assaulted by an Ottawa man who pleaded guilty last week to child sex crimes.

Leaders of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those…