CONNECTICUT
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

For immediate release: Sept. 18, 2014

Statement by Jim Hackett, Connecticut co-leader of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 203-710-0968, SNAPct@cotse.net )

Deterrence. That’s what I want to stress: current Connecticut law deters wrongdoing. That’s why current Connecticut law should be preserved.

The message our current law sends is this: “Don’t try to hide child sex crimes. With our smart and just statute of limitations, you won’t succeed in keeping it under wraps long enough to escape detection. So when abuse reports surface, act promptly and responsibly and protect kids.” That’s the message we should keep sending. That’s the message Archbishop Blair doesn’t want to hear. He wants to go back to the old days when a tight, unfair statute of limitations stopped victims who wanted to show the public, through judicial channels, who the molesters were…