MICHIGAN
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015
For more information: Claudia Vercellotti, Toledo SNAP leader (419) 345-9291cell Snaptoledo@aol.com; Claudiayv@gmail.com
David Clohessy of St. Louis, SNAP Director (314) 566-9790 cell, davidgclohessy@gmail.com,
Victims ask justice to cancel speech
She’s going to college with a predatory professor
Abuse group warns “Her presence endorses recklessness”
A support group for clergy sex abuse victims is asking an Ohio Supreme Court justice to cancel her appearance at a college this week where an admitted abuser teaches.
Leaders of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, are writing Ohio Supreme Court Justice Judith Lanzinger protesting her upcoming speech at Adrian College, a Methodist school in Michigan. They’re worried about Thomas Hodgman, an Adrian music professor who admitted abusing three girls.
“If a college hired Bill Cosby, you wouldn’t speak there,” said Toledo SNAP leader, Claudia Vercellotti’s letter to Lanzinger. “But Cosby is an accused serial offender. This professor is an admitted serial offender.”
“A state Supreme Court justice should be very concerned about seeming to ignore or condone child sex crimes,” said David Clohessy of St. Louis, SNAP’s director. “We doubt Lanzinger knew about Hodgman when she accepted this invitation but we sure hope that, for the safety of students and the integrity of the court, she backs out immediately.”
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