SNAP Media Events
Catholic official misled police, SNAP says
Catholic official misled police, SNAP says
Clergy sex abuse victims want him fired by archbishop
MO - Parents sue diocese; their abused son committed suicide
- 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
MO - Shocking new clergy abuse case is filed
- 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
MA - Springfield diocese releases accused clerics list
- 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”
IL - Priest is investigated about abuse
- 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
CA - Victims want pedophile jailed
- 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
MO - New lawsuit filed against predator priest
- Cleric was credibly accused earlier this year
- Abuse survivors react to news of grand jury investigation
MO - Abuse victims prod prosecutor
- 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