CALIFORNIA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
SF Catholic church group is sued for cover up
Priest threatened to kill a young boy he molested
And his supervisors guilt-tripped the boy’s mother
They threatened her with “eternal damnation” over “lost souls”
SNAP to priest’s boss: “Tell parishioners where offender is now”
“Put him in treatment center and explain your deceit,” they say
Group seeks help from archbishop in “reaching out” to other victims
WHAT
Holding signs and childhood photos, clergy sex abuse victims will urge Bay Area Catholic officials to
–disclose the whereabouts of an admitted child molesting cleric who was sued last week and was quietly sent at least twice to unsuspecting parishes without warning,
–put the predator priest in a secure treatment facility where he can’t be near kids,
–explain why they allegedly transferred the cleric out of the US, and
–discipline a priest whose still on the job who deceived parishioners and refused to tell them their pastor admitted molesting a boy.
WHERE
Outside of Capuchin Religious Order Provincial headquarters, 1345 Cortez Ave. in Burlingame CA
(A church and school are on the same campus: http://www.olaschoolk8.org/
WHEN
Wednesday, Sept. 10 at 1:00 p.m.
WHO
Three-four men and women who are members of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAPnetwork.org), the nation’s largest and oldest support group for men and women abused in religious and institutional settings
WHY
Last week, a Burlington-based Catholic religious order was sued because it allegedly concealed the child sex crimes of a priest. The priest, Fr. Luis Jaramillo, first molested in Los Angeles, then admitted molesting in Oregon in 1988-89. But his supervisors never told law enforcement and successfully threatened and guilt-tripped the boy’s mother into staying silent.
His church supervisors refuse to say where he is now but some believe he is in Mexico or Argentina.
After being accused of molesting two boys in Los Angeles, Fr. Jaramillo was transferred from Los Angeles to eastern Oregon in 1987, the suit says. Then, he abused again. “A Capuchin Franciscan supervisor asked Fr. Jaramillo about the alleged abuse; court documents say Fr. Jaramillo admitted to ‘kissing the boy on the mouth and petting his legs and fondling his genitals,’” according to The Oregonian, After the boy told his mother about the abuse and that Fr. Jaramillo threatened to kill him if he resisted, the mother complained to church officials, the suit alleges.
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