ROME
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Thursday, Feb. 4
Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314-503-0003, bdorris@SNAPnetwork.org)
Yet another church abuse panel is holding yet another meeting. Such panels have met at varying levels in the church for decades the results: extraordinarily little progress.
More than thirty years ago, the first US pedophile priest made national headlines. We fear thirty years from now there will still be more meaningless meetings by church officials making promises instead of calling the police. Church officials refuse to take the easiest and quickest abuse prevention step: firing clerics who conceal abuse. Until this happens, the meetings, talks, pledges, and all the rest will amount to no more than public relations.
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