A cautionary tale: Clergy sex abuse victim’s confidentiality breached

GALLUP (NM)
Gallup Independent

October 21, 2017

By Elizabeth Hardin-Burrola

[Note: See also BishopAccountability.org’s database entry on Schornack, with links to complaints, newsletters, and other sources.]

Flagstaff, Ariz. – The story of plaintiff Jane L.S. Doe’s clergy sex abuse lawsuit in Coconino County Superior Court should be a cautionary tale for all sex abuse victims.

Particularly for any abuse survivor who is given promises that his or her identity and personal information will be kept confidential by attorneys and the court system.

In the case of Jane L.S. Doe v. the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament and St. Michael Indian School, Doe’s real name, identifying information and confidential details about her abuse have been published all throughout the public court file for months courtesy of the attorneys for the Sisters and Catholic school and her own attorney is now scrambling to seal all those documents.

The breach…