SNAP Media Events
Victims to leaflet church-goers in New Orleans
Victims to leaflet church-goers - Monday @ 12:30 pm (after 12:05 pm Mass)
Victims to leaflet church-goers
They prod Catholics & Archbishop on abuse
SNAP wants to know whereabouts of accused priests
Group says list of alleged predators is "long overdue" & "inadequate"
WHAT
Handing out fliers to parishioners as they leave the church, clergy sex abuse victims and their supporters will announce they are:
--writing to all 5 Louisiana Bishops asking for the "immediate release" of the names and whereabouts of all Church employees proven, admitted or credibly accused of child sexual abuse,
--prodding those Bishops to be "very inclusive" with the lists, and
--urging lay Catholics to donate elsewhere until Church officials do better at protecting children.
Abuse victims beg LA Attorney General Landry to initiate statewide investigation
Abuse victims beg LA Attorney General Landry to initiate statewide investigation
They want professionally staffed hotline for victims to report sexual abuse
They also urge local police & prosecutors to "be more aggressive"
“Law enforcement must do more,” group says, “if children are to be better protected”
WHAT
Holding signs at a sidewalk news conference clergy sex abuse victims will, in the wake of a scathing Pennsylvania grand jury report about Catholic clergy sex crimes and cover ups:
--beg Louisiana's attorney general to probe clergy sex crimes & cover ups,
--urge him to join a dozen other states and launch a statewide grand jury-style investigation,
--prod local prosecutors across the state to take similar steps, and
--ask all law enforcement personnel in the state to use their resources to ask, beg, and encourage victims, witnesses and whistle blowers to report known or suspected crimes and cover ups to secular authorities.
Survivor Group pushes governor on predator priests
They want him to order AG to use subpoenas
SNAP also wants Hawley to delay & expand abuse inquiry
"Make no announcement until after election day," they urge
Otherwise, probe will be "politicized" and "hurtful," victims argue
WHAT
Holding signs and childhood photos at a sidewalk news conference, clergy sex abuse victims and their supporters will hand deliver a letter to Missouri's governor urging him to insist that the state attorney general
--use subpoena powers to expand a statewide clergy sex abuse inquiry,
--question Catholic officials, in Jeff City & elsewhere, under oath, and
--use state resources to prod victims, witnesses & whistleblowers to come forward soon.
New St. Louis "predator" priests outed; SNAP prods MO AG Hawley
Nine new "predator" priests are "outed"
All were sent here after being accused in Pennsylvania
Group pushes AG Hawley to delay and expand his abuse inquiry
"Make no announcement until after election day," victims urge
Otherwise, probe will be "politicized" and "hurtful," they argue
WHAT
Holding signs and childhood photos at a sidewalk news conference, clergy sex abuse victims and their supporters will
--disclose the names of nine priests named in a recent Pennsylvania grand jury report who were sent to St. Louis after having been accused of child sex crimes, and
--hand deliver a letter urging Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley to both delay and expand his clergy sex abuse inquiry.
Abuse victims want statewide AG probe of California Catholic Church
Abuse victims want statewide AG probe of California Catholic Church
They also urge police and prosecutors at local levels to "be more aggressive"
Roughly 500 priests in the state have been accused of hurting kids, but statistics indicate there should be 2000 or more
The San Diego Diocese recently admitted it hid files on at least 8 clergymen – including a man who is still running religious retreats out of Sacramento
At least one accused priest was shuffled out of California and first publicly identified in the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report
Another clergyman with multiple allegations in the Keystone State was moved to California and worked for years in parishes in this state
“Law enforcement must do more,” survivors group says, “if children are to be better protected”
Survivors Call Upon Pennsylvania Lawmakers to Pass a Window for Justice in Pennsylvania
PRESS ADVISORY
September 10, 2018
Contact:
Prof. Marci A. Hamilton, CEO, CHILD USA, 215-353-8984, [email protected]
Alix Boren, Esq., Executive Director, CHILD USA, 215-539-1906, [email protected]
Michael McDonnell, SNAP, Philadelphia, 267-261-0578, [email protected]
Vinka Jackson, 470-464-0779, [email protected]
Jessica Howard, 904-314-8764, [email protected]
Sarah Klein, 646-335-3385, [email protected]
Larry Nassar Survivors Join CHILD USA and SNAP (the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) Hold Press Conference to Call Upon Pennsylvania Lawmakers to Pass a Window for Justice in Pennsylvania
WHERE:
601 S. Henderson Road,
King of Prussia, PA 19406
DATE: September 11, 2018
TIME: 11:30 a.m.
DC Cardinal should resign," Victims and Advocates say
#CatholicToo Movement – Times Up Nationwide protests
"DC Cardinal should resign," Victims and Advocates say
They demand that he post names of accused clerics on church websites
Group urges release of all church documents pertaining to abuse or the cover up of abuse.
And Grand jury investigations similar to the one just held in Pennsylvania be carried out in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington DC
WHAT
As Part of a Nation-wide response this weekend, Local clergy survivor groups and support organizations will be holding signs and childhood photos, to demand that Washington DC's top Catholic figure resign. They will also ask DC archdiocesan officials to:
- Post the names of all the current and former accused child molesting clerics on church websites, and
- Stop lobbying against efforts to reform "archaic, predator-friendly state laws." And instead support these legal reforms necessary for survivor justice that they claim to support
- Urge State attorneys general across the DMV to launch investigations into their local dioceses,
- Ask US Justice Department to launch a full-scale federal investigation into the systematic sex crimes and cover ups within the Catholic Church, and
- Demand State lawmakers to extend statues of limitations and strengthen mandatory reporting laws to help deter future abuse and cover ups.
WHEN
Sunday, September 9 at 11:00 am
WHERE
United States Vatican Embassy (Apostolic Nunciature), 3339 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008
WHO
About a dozen survivors and supporters including members from SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests), who are fed up with the Church providing cover for predator priests. Sponsoring organizations include Call To Action, DignityUSA, FutureChurch, New Ways Ministry, Quixote Center, RAPPORT (Renewing and Priestly People Ordination Reconsidered Today), Roman Catholic Women Priests, Southeastern Pennsylvania Women's Ordination Conference, Women's Ordination Conference
WHY
- In response to Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s release of an 887 page report that details the systematic sexual abuse of children and coverups by top Catholic officials.
- https://www.attorneygeneral.gov/report/
- In response to hearing that Washington Archdiocese, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, engaged in "absolutely abhorrent" behavior, according to AG Shapiro. (Page#229) https://www.npr.org/2018/08/16/639371818/how-pennsylvanias-attorney-general-is-investigating-reports-of-sex-abuse-by-prie
- Noting that the MD Attorney General, Brian Frosh has asked victims and/or their family members to reach out to his office with emails, so he can be informed of clergy sex abuse cases in the state of Maryland. [email protected]
- Realizing that the time is now for the US Department of Justice action on this issue. Last week the group - along with the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rightswrote to Deputy US Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein. They're asking the DOJ to initiate “a full-scale, nationwide investigation into the systemic rape and sexual violence, and cover-ups in the Catholic church, and, where appropriate, bring criminal proceedings against the hierarchy that enabled the violations.
- http://www.snapnetwork.org/after_pa_grand_jury_report_survivors_renew_demand_for_federal_investigation_into_church_sexual_violence_and_cover_up
- The PA grand jury concluded that “Over one thousand child victims were identifiable, from the church’s own records. SNAP believes that the real number – of children whose records were lost, or who were afraid ever to come forward – is in the thousands.”
- http://www.snapnetwork.org/blog
- SNAP is worried about those victims, and about children who are at risk now, because of predators who may be living or working near kids.
CONTACT
Judy Lorenz (301-633-2823) [email protected], David Lorenz, (301-906-9161) [email protected]) Deborah Rose Milavec, Executive Director FutureChurch 216.228.0869 Ext.3
Global Groups Hold Press Conference to Demand the Truth, Pope Must Order Release of Vatican’s Files on Former Cardinal
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Survivors Denounce Archbishop Viganò’s Statements Conflating Homosexuality and Sexual Violence by Clergy
Who:
- Peter Isley, founding member and spokesperson for Ending Clergy Abuse (ECA USA), survivor of childhood sexual assault by a priest;
- Becky Ianni, member of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) since 2006 and D.C. area leader of SNAP since 2007, survivor of sexual abuse by a priest; and
- Pamela Spees, senior staff attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights, and lead counsel to Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP)