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Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

For immediate release: Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014

Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 314 503 0003, SNAPdorris@gmail.com )

A Maine priest admits that he committed child sex crimes. The question now is what will his congregants do now? Will they actively help police and prosecutors? Or will they sit passively back and force the brave victim to carry the burden of pursuing a predator alone?

We beg current and former staff and members of the Saint George Greek Orthodox Church in Bangor to aggressively seek out others who may have seen, suspected or suffered child sex crimes by Father Adam Metropoulos.

That’s the best way to protect kids. That’s the responsible course of action. That’s what Jesus would do, we believe.

But in most cases, colleagues…