FL- Tampa priest caught giving hugs while falsifying community service hours
For immediate release: August 1, 2013
Statement by Barbara Dorris, Outreach Director, 314-862-7688 SNAPdorris@gmail.com
We hope every single person who saw, suspected or suffered sexual misdeeds by this priest, Charles Leigh, will come forward.
And we hope law enforcement authorities are very careful about which clergy they work with. Often, sexually troubled ministers gravitate towards positions like this in which they have access to and power over vulnerable individuals.
SNAP will be Representing Clergy Abuse Survivors in Rome!
SNAP will be Representing Clergy Abuse Survivors in Rome!
We are taking the fight to Rome and are standing up for all survivors on a world stage! From February 19-25, Board President Tim Lennon, Seattle Leader Mary Dispenza, Los Angeles Leader Esther Hatfield Miller and Austin Leader Carol Midboe will be traveling to Rome for Pope Francis' Papal Abuse Summit.
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Always verify who this is who WANTS so much to watch your children.Even the police were taken in. No more! I was there when it happened. It was in all the papers. It made me know that all the things I had heard from the religious in our family ( that I wouldn’t believe at the time) was true! This was 2001. We immediately left the rcc. after over 60 yrs. THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN.