Victims & advocates want new Catholic lawyers
- Victims & advocates want new Catholic lawyers
- Manchester bishop should have “clean break from the past”
- He should also post names of “all accused predators,” three groups say
- Two dozen prelates have taken “this bare minimum safety measure”
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Victims blast Archbishop: Stop deceit about predator
- Victims blast Archbishop: Stop deceit about predator
- Last summer, archbishop let him work at Sunday school
- But prelate claimed that accused priest "didn't work with kids"
- SF Catholic officials knew about child molesting cleric for 40 years
- New Fresno's new bishop must "come clean" about offender, group begs
- And SF Archbishop also must be held accountable for abuse cover-up, they say
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Controversial Vatican official in St. Louis today; SNAP protests
- Controversial Cardinal returns here
- Burke headed archdiocese & was promoted
- Clergy sex abuse victims will hand out leaflets
- They want him to stop Carlson’s “legal hardball”
- Local Catholic officials want 19 year old girl’s e mails
- Event is at church where now-serial child predator worked
- Convicted of abuse, Catholic officials moved him to another parish
- There, as recently as 2001, he molested again; now he’s allegedly missing
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WA: Victims blast one law, praise another
- Victims blast one law, praise another
- Both proposals impact child sex crimes
- Group backs making clergy “mandated reporters”
- But organization warns against any cap on damages
- “Severe penalties help deter severe wrongdoing,” SNAP says
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NJ: Church sex abuse & cover up case is filed
- Church sex abuse & cover up case is filed
- This is the fourth time priest has been sued
- Man charges that cleric abused him in Catholic school
- SNAP is urging Camden’s bishop to ‘reach out’ to other victims
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Church seeks 19 year old victim’s records
- Church seeks 19 year old victim’s records
- Catholic officials try new hardball tactic again
- It’s the 1st time here & only 2nd time in SNAP’s history
- Predator priest, now allegedly “missing,” was convicted years before
- But archdiocese put him back into a parish & kept him on duty til 2002
- Now, archbishop wants thousands of pages of other “private” documents
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Victims ‘diss’ bishops’ upcoming meetings
- Victims ‘diss’ bishops’ upcoming meetings
- Six sessions - with prosecutor- start this weekend
- SNAP urges parishioners to push for five specific reforms
- It begs Catholics to “ask tough questions & insist on straight answers”
- "Enforcement,” not “education” is what’s lacking, support group says
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MO Supreme Court rules against SNAP
- MO Supreme Court rules against SNAP
- Victims group refuses to disclose names
- For first time ever, SNAP head is deposed
- Lawyers for predators want 1000s of records
- But the organization is not turning them over
- Group vows to keep on "protecting privacy"
- It calls legal maneuver a "new low in church hardball tactics"
- Victims blast Catholic bishop & priest for "unprecedented attack"
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Accused priest may be in court today
- Accused priest may be in court today
- He’s the 3rd alleged Sac predator priest in 6 months
- Victims blast Catholic officials for tolerating “bullying”
- SNAP: He lets church staff & members “intimidate” others
- They want Bishop Soto to discipline a local pastor for his court actions
- Group begs victims, witnesses and whistleblowers to “come forward now”
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Clergy sex victims blast bishop
- Clergy sex victims blast bishop
- Allegations vs. just-ousted priest had surfaced years ago
- But no one was warned, SNAP contends, so kids were at risk
- And local Catholic officials deceived the public, self help group says
- SNAP also wants Jeff City diocese to move cleric from his Jeff City parish
- Victims say prelate should “come clean” & admit that accused priest had child porn
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New clergy sex abuse & cover up case is filed
- New clergy sex abuse & cover up case is filed
- Predator priest taught recently at NJ school
- Church officials misled victim, lawsuit asserts
- Other men charge they were molested by cleric too
- Victim appeals to Governor for help reforming “predator-friendly” laws
- Group urges others who “saw, suspected or suffered” crimes to “step forward”
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Group challenges bishop over accused predator
- Group challenges bishop over accused predator
- Prelate kept secret about child sex accusations for 3 years
- Catholic officials allegedly “restricted” priest but warned no one
- Now, he’s been arrested in Canada for molesting at least one child
- SNAP: “Now, pedophile priests are moved from nation to nation, not just from city to city”
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Victims praise one prosecutor & blast another
- Victims praise one prosecutor & blast another
- Brooklyn DA arrests dozens of Orthodox predators
- But Bronx prosecutor cuts “bizarre deal” with Catholic one
- Group also praises Jewish victims for “breaking their silence”
- It blasts case where principal was charged, pled & sentenced on same day
- SNAP: All churches must seek out others who saw, suspected & suffered crimes
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Springfield clergy abuse victim speaks out
- Local clergy abuse victim speaks out
- Lawsuit says 3 priests abused him as a boy
- Victim, now 40, speaks publicly here for first time
- He wants Springfield bishop to “reach out” to other victims
- Predator worked here at Catholic cathedral for three years
- This is first case in MO to implicate so many clerics, SNAP says
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Clergy sex victims leaflet about priest
- Clergy sex victims leaflet about priest
- He was arrested on Monday on child sex charges
- SNAP urges university & church officials to disclose other predators
- And in a rare move, group praises a cleric for “standing up” to his bosses
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