VERMONT/NEW YORK
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Monday, September 8, 2013
Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 314 862 7688 home, 314 503 0003 cell, SNAPdorris@gmail.com )
A clergy sex abuse and cover up case involving an Albany Catholic priest will proceed, despite a pathetic effort by Albany’s bishop to exploit legal technicalities to keep the cover up covered up.
Bishop Howard Hubbard should accept the court’s ruling, stop further delays, and let this brave victim seek justice.
Hubbard’s splitting hairs over which court has jurisdiction rather than showing leadership and helping out resolve this case.
It’s clear he’s dreadfully afraid that long-secret church records about Fr. Mercure will surface. Hubbard also fears that he’ll have to face tough questions under oath in open court about what he and his top staff did to ignore, conceal or enable Fr. Mercure’s crimes.
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