SNAP Applauds News Organizations’ Fight to Unseal Abuse Records in North Carolina

ST. LOUIS (MO)
Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests

July 24, 2019

Several major news organizations in North Carolina are going to court in order to unseal records related to two local cases of alleged clergy sexual abuse. We applaud this effort and hope that their request is successful.

The Charlotte Observer, WBTV, WCNC, and WSOC have filed motions asking for the release of documents from two separate lawsuits, saying that the information is of significant public interest, and that the Diocese of Charlotte did not prove that the narrow range of circumstances existed in which such documents can be sealed.

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