FL--Naples priest accused of child sex abuse

For immediate release: Thursday, March 12

Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 566 9790, [email protected], [email protected])

A Naples priest is accused of molesting a child. We urge Naples’ bishop to visit his parish this weekend begging anyone who may have seen, suspected or suffered crimes or misdeeds by him to call police.

http://www.kcrg.com/subject/news/archdiocese-investigates-30-year-old-sexual-abuse-claim-20150311  

Fr. Leo P. Riley is listed in the 2014 Official Catholic Directory as working at St. Peter the Apostle church in Naples FL in the Venice diocese. 

Dubuque Iowa Archbishop Michael O. Jackels (563-556-2580) announced the accusation against Fr. Riley, stemming from a previous assignment in that archdiocese.

On 10 December 2014, an accusation of sexual abuse of a minor was made against Father Leo Riley, alleged to have taken place in 1985, when he was assigned as an associate pastor at Resurrection Parish in Dubuque.

Iowa Catholic official are urging anyone with information or suspicions about Fr. Riley to call them. That’s wrong. Victims, witnesses and whistleblowers – in Iowa or Florida – should call police and prosecutors, not church officials. Child sex crimes should be reported to the independent, unbiased professionals in law enforcement, not to self-serving, biased church bureaucrats.

(SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, is the world’s oldest and largest support group for clergy abuse victims. We were founded in 1988 and have more than 20,000 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, [email protected], Barbara Dorris 314-503-0003, [email protected], Barbara Blaine 312-399-4747, [email protected]  


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