Group protests Zalenski at Belmont College

OHIO
WTOV

BELMONT COUNTY, Ohio – A victim’s advocate group took its protest to the campus of Belmont College on Friday where defrocked priest Gary Zalenski recently worked as a member of the faculty.

While Zalenski hasn’t been teaching for a while, he has said would like to get back to it. Judy Jones and Steven Spaner are with the group “SNAP” — Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. “He’s on the faculty there, and we believe he should never be on a faculty at a college,” Jones said.

The recently defrocked catholic priest was once accused of sexually assaulting a young girl from his former church. A grand jury investigated the case and didn’t find enough evidence to file charges.

Jones and Spaner presented the school with a letter in hopes of getting answers. “If he’s too dangerous to be a priest at a parish, he is…