SNAP Media Events

Catholic official misled police, SNAP says

Clergy sex abuse victims want him fired by archbishop

• New clergy sex suit filed by parents
• Their son, suit says, was driven to suicide
• Accused priest was police department chaplain
• New legal action means KC monsignor is Missouri’s “most sued pedophile”
• He faces 27 lawsuits and was reported to church officials as far back as 1972
• Yet child molesting cleric remains a priest today; Bishop won’t ask Vatican to defrock him

• Man says two priests molested him as a kid
• He also witnessed 3 other boys being abuse
• One of them, he says, later committed suicide
• One of the predators has never been accused before
• That cleric is still on the job today in northern Missouri

• But dozens of alleged abusers are missing, SNAP says
• Group is grateful but says names are “very hard to find”
• For "public safety," victims push for "more accessible disclosure”
• Two alleged offender priests are publicly identified for the first time
• SNAP “Diocese should also name abusive nuns, bishops, seminarians & lay workers”

• Archdiocese has put him "on restriction"
• He's accused of molesting a girl in the 1970s
• SNAP blasts Cardinal for not suspending cleric
• And group says he "continues secrecy & recklessness"
• Private email from church official to victim is released
• George is also blasted for new agreement with lawyers

• Court hearing is set for tomorrow
• Prosecutors try to keep priest locked up
• They’re using new “sexually violent predator” law
• Group wants LA’s current & former church heads to help
• Both Mahony and Gomez should write judge, SNAP feels

• Cleric was credibly accused earlier this year
• Abuse survivors react to news of grand jury investigation

• They want grand jury investigation into church
• Twice, SNAP has written Buchanan County official
• But so far, support group has gotten no response from him
• They repeat their plea to KC bishop to write families of St. Joe students
• If he refuses, then local school principals should do this ‘simple outreach,’ SNAP says
• Controversial cleric also spent time at a third church in the area while pastor was sick