LOS ANGELES (CA)
LA Weekly
By Patrick Range McDonald
Wed., Jan. 23 2013
On the front page of this morning’s Los Angeles Times, the paper notes that several legal experts suspect Cardinal Roger Mahony will not face criminal charges for covering up clergy sex abuse due to the statute of limitations. One advocacy group says those experts have it wrong.
“We aren’t police, prosecutors or even lawyers,” says David Clohessy, director of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), in a press statement today. “But for 25 years, we’ve seen, in the words of Martin Luther King Jr., ‘the long arc of history bend toward justice.’ We’ve seen secular authorities become increasingly assertive and creative and successful in pursuing sophisticated criminals.”
Founded in 1988, SNAP is the world’s oldest and largest support group for clergy abuse victims and has more than 12,000 members.
Clohessy adds, “Remember one simple fact and one simple adage: Al Capone was nailed on tax evasion [and] ‘Where there’s a will, there’s a way.'”
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