NEBRASKA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

For immediate release: Friday, Jan. 15, 2016

Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, SNAP outreach director (314-503-0003 cell, bdorris@SNAPnetwork.org)

Nebraska Catholic officials are deceiving their flock about Bishop Robert Finn, the only prelate in the US to be criminally convicted for refusing to report child sex crimes to police. (Finn now works in Nebraska.)

[Lincoln Journal Star]

It’s dreadfully disingenuous to claim, as Bishop James Conley and one of his spokesmen JD Flynn are doing, that “Finn’s offense was an administrative mistake.” It was not. It was a crime. There was a trial. Finn was found guilty. He was penalized.

It’s also disingenuous to claim, as Conley and Flynn are doing, that (Finn) failed to notify police immediately of (a now-convicted priest’s) behavior.” Finn never notified the police. (Months later, one of Finn’s underlings called the police.)

And, in…