CO- Three more victims of Westminster pastor come forward
For immediate release: Thursday, April 3, 2014
Statement by Jeb Barrett, Colorado SNAP Director, [email protected], 720-891-0540
Three more victims of a Westminster pastor, who has already been charged with sexual assault on a child, came forward to authorities.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/front-range/westminster/3-additional-young-women-come-forward-as-possible-victims-of-pastor-charged-with-child-sex-assault
We are thankful that these three brave women have found the courage to come forward. It is immoral and many times illegal when a pastor who is a position of power uses his position to harm the innocent and vulnerable.
We hope every single person who saw, suspected or suffered clergy sex crimes – by Clark or others, as adults or as children – will speak up. Keeping quiet only helps predators and endangers others. When victims and witnesses speak out children are safer.
(SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, is the world’s oldest and largest support group for clergy abuse victims. We’ve been around for 25 years and have more than 15,000 members. Despite the word “priest” in our title, we have members who were molested by religious figures of all denominations, including nuns, rabbis, bishops, and Protestant ministers. Our website is SNAPnetwork.org)
Contact - David Clohessy (314-566-9790 cell, [email protected]), Barbara Dorris (314-862-7688 home, 314-503-0003 cell, [email protected])