‘Accept ownership’: Advocates call on Peoria diocese to add names to priest sex abuse list

A representative of Survivor’s Network of those Abused by Priests visited Peoria on Friday to publicize the names of 10 priests who are not on the Peoria Catholic Diocese’s list of those credibly accused of sexual abuse.

“We want church officials in Peoria to publicize these names,” St. Louis resident David Clohessy, a representative of SNAP, said while standing outside the Peoria Diocese offices Friday afternoon.

Beside Clohessy, Darin Buckman, a former Chillicothe resident and an abuse survivor, held a list of names.

“We are asking the bishop to come clean and list every single child-molesting cleric — proven, admitted and credibly accused — who was, or is, in the diocese, whether it was for two decades or two days. Because that’s what the bishop promised, that’s what will protect kids, that’s what will help heal victims, and that’s what will help restore the faith of so many disillusioned Catholics.”

A representative of