UNITED STATES
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

For immediate release: Monday, November 16, 2015

Statement by Kevin Flood of Washington DC, SNAP spokesman (Horizons3@verizon.net)

Along with other groups, we in SNAP today are pushing for a governmental investigation into child sex crimes and cover ups, like Australian officials are doing and officials in other nations have done.

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Kids are safest when those who commit and conceal child sex crimes are behind bars. When that can’t happen, those who commit and conceal child sex crimes should at least be exposed and deterred.

That’s what an independent, thorough government-sponsored inquiry can do. It’s also the very least that our federal government should do, since it has completely refused to take even a single meaningful step in response to the Catholic church’s on-going clergy sex abuse and cover up crisis.

Catholic experts have admitted that an estimated 100,000…