NEW MEXICO
KRQE
[with video]
By Cole Miller
Published: December 9, 2014
GALLUP, N.M. (KRQE) – There are new sexual abuse allegations against priests and friars in New Mexico. A national group is now responding to those allegations and is trying to track down victims. The allegations involve seven men that at one time served the Gallup area.
“I believe there have been 12 Gallup area priests that have been publicly accused of molesting children in the past and this now brings the total up to 19,” Barbara Dorris said.
The Survivors Network for those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, is reacting to a news report that an additional seven Catholic priests and friars are now facing allegations of sexual abuse against children. SNAP says they are all from the diocese in Gallup.
“We would like to see church officials do everything within their power to do outreach, to turn over the documents they have regarding these accusations regarding the clerics,” Dorris, SNAP’s Victims Outreach Director, said.
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