LOUISIANA
KATC
The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests has called for a religious brother accused of child molestation to stop being allowed on a Lafayette school campus, following a KATC investigation.
Bro. Samuel Martinez, a member of the Brothers of Christian Schools, who was accused of molesting 10 boys in the 1980s, lives in a Lafayette retirement home and is transported to the Holy Family Community on the campus of John Paul The Great Academy on weekends for religious exercises, a KATC investigation uncovered.
“We urge officials at the John Paul the Great Academy and the Brothers of Christians Schools to do the right thing and keep a credibly accused serial child molester away from children,” SNAP Director David Clohessy said in a statement.
Martinez is not allowed to live on the campus like the other brothers because he’s under a safety plan. When he is taken to the campus, he is under constant supervision with another adult, Bro. David Sinitiere told KATC. Sintiere is the most recent head of the order’s New Orleans-Santa Fe District.
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