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The Daily Outrage – The Center for Constitutional Rights blog

September 26, 2017

By Pamela Spees

Barbara Blaine, founder and former president of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, died on Sunday, September 24, 2017. She was only 61. We are devastated by the loss of our friend and colleague.

CCR’s work with SNAP launched in September 2011 with the filing of a complaint at the International Criminal Court (ICC) requesting investigation and prosecution of high-level Vatican officials, including then-Pope Benedict, for the widespread and systematic rape and sexual violence within the Catholic Church. Barbara was the energy and inspiration behind the efforts to bring the issue to international human rights bodies. She had an early instinct and vision that the International Criminal Court was an appropriate forum to deal with the Vatican, an entity with a global presence and reach that…