GEORGIA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
Posted by David Clohessy on February 08, 2012
■Defrocked minister to lead retreat in Georgia
■In 1999 he admitted abusing boy at a retreat in Texas
■Now, he’s set to lead a retreat in Augusta this weekend
■And church officials are refusing to warn retreat-goers
■Self help group is urging Episcopal bishop to ‘take action’
A convicted and defrocked child molesting cleric will lead a religious retreat this weekend in Augusta and a support group is begging Georgia’s Episcopalian bishop to stop him.
Starting Friday, a registered sex offender, Lynn C. Bauman will lead a three-day event at the Episcopal Convent of St. Helena. Bauman is a defrocked Episcopalian priest who, in 1999, admitted molesting an eight-year-old boy on a retreat in Texas in 1996. Bauman was sentenced to ten years probation.
A Chicago based support group called SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, is writing Georgia’s Episcopal Bishop J. Neil Alexander, asking him to step in and remove Bauman himself.
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