UNITED STATES
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016
Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 566 9790, 314 645 5915 home, davidgclohessy@gmail.com)
The recklessness of Vatican officials, including Pope Francis, has evidently enabled a predator priest to sexually assault more kids by just moving elsewhere. This increasingly well-documented trend – more and more child molesting clerics simply going abroad in search of fresh victims – is one of the most troubling and virtually unaddressed aspects of the church’s child sex abuse and cover up crisis. It’s also breathtakingly irresponsible.
The Associated Press reports that “a priest accused of sexually abusing deaf children in Italy wasn’t sanctioned by the Vatican and allegedly went on to abuse” kids in Argentina.
Fr. Nicola Corradi, Fr. Horacio Corbacho and three others have been arrested on charges of molesting at least eight children at a school for youths with hearing disabilities for years and years.
In 2008 and 2014, according to BishopAccountability.org, Vatican staff were told that Fr. Corradi and others accused of molesting children at a school for the deaf in Verona, where allegations of a ring of predators were also made.
We are grateful that secular officials in Mendoza have suspended classes at the school and forbidden faculty and staff from having contact with students. This caring action by government officials stands in stark contrast to the clearly callous actions of church officials.
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