OHIO
10TV
[with video]
By Tylar Bacome
Tuesday February 2, 2016
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A man who says a priest abused him as a child believes seminaries should be doing more thorough screenings when accepting individuals.
David Clohessy is the director of the Survivor’s Network for Those Abused by Priests or SNAP.
“I was abused as a kid from age 11 or 12 through 16 by a priest who molested three of my siblings. One of my brothers went on to become a priest and molest kids himself,” Clohessy said.
Clohessy has been following the Joel Wright case and said he fears Wright could have multiple victims who haven’t come forward.
“In our experience there almost always are,” he said.
He is calling on the Josephinum and the Diocese of Steubenville to release whatever background checks and psychological assessments they conducted on Wright and how they differ from those done by the more than 45 other seminaries where Wright reportedly tried to enroll.
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