RICHMOND (VA)
News Channel 6
February 14, 2019
By Matthew Fultz
As victims, church members and the general public look through the list of names of men the Catholic Diocese of Richmond says has hurt children, they still have many questions – like where are the names of the other priests who were accused and have there been no reports of abuse since 1993?
CBS 6 talked to a victims advocate, Dottie Klamer, with Survivors Network of those Abused by Priest (SNAP) to get answers.
“Everything that`s going on in the Catholic church right now has been brewing for a long long time,” said Klammer.
Decades and decades of sexual abuse have been slowly coming to light. After Virginia’s attorney general opened an investigation into clergy abuse last year, Wednesday, the Dioceses of Arlington and Richmond released a list of names of catholic priests who abused minors.
“We tell them first of all that they need to file a police report, that they need to go on record,” said Klammer.
Dottie Klammer, Richmond Coordinator for SNAP, tells victims each day who say their abuser not on the list, to file first.
She said the investigation starts internally at an accused priest’s church.
“What I understand is that they have panel and boards at the different parishes in the state of Virginia,” said Klammer. “And people are deciding on some level who`s guilty and who isn`t.”
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