KNOXVILLE (TN)
Knoxville News Sentinel
November 9, 2018
By Amy McRary
Tennessee or federal authorities should investigate allegations of Catholic “pedophile priests” in the state, a leader of a survivors organization said Friday.
Susan Vance, a former nun with Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), also called on Catholic authorities to support abolishing statutes of limitations on child sex abuse crimes.
Vance held a short news conference Friday in drizzling rain on the sidewalk outside the Roman Catholic Diocese of Knoxville offices on Northshore Drive. A similar news conference was held an hour later in Nashville.
“We would ask the state attorney general to impanel a grand jury or the district attorneys to ask the State Bureau of Investigation to investigate the church files,” Vance said. “An independent investigation is needed, whatever that may be.”
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