PHOENIX (AZ)
3TV/CBS 5
August 7, 2019
By Nicole Crites
Arizona sex-abuse survivors are asking Attorney General Mark Brnovich to join 20 other states investigating sex abuse and subsequent cover-ups in the Catholic Church.
The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, says we cannot trust the Church to self-report.
They want Brnovich to open a new statewide investigation and set up a new hotline for victims of sex abuse.
The AG’s team says they do not have original jurisdiction here. But at least three other states — New York, Colorado and Missouri — are in the same boat, and are still going after institutions like the Church using fraud, consumer protection and voluntary compliance.
Mary O’Day runs the Phoenix chapter of SNAP.
She is also a survivor.
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