SNAP Media Events

• Two new legal moves in clergy sex cases
• KC bishop “is being dishonest,” group says
• In unusual move, victim seeks punitive damages vs. diocese
• SNAP: Finn deceives flock about when cleric was first accused
• And group announces that a case vs. a different predator can move ahead
• A western MO judge rejects church officials' claim that victim is “too late”
• Both molesters are still priests and not being supervised, self-help group believes

• Priest is accused of child sex abuse
• Catholic officials “quietly” suspend him
• Victims blast Sacramento bishop for “recklessness”
• SNAP: He’s breaking his pledge to be “open” with sex crimes
• And he’s violating US church policy which mandates “transparency”
• Group begs victims, witnesses and whistleblowers to “come forward now”

• Ex-predator priest is sued
• In 80s, he pled guilty to abusing a boy
• But archdiocese put him back in a parish
• Then, from 1997-2001, he molested a girl
• Now, he walks free & his whereabouts are unknown
• Cleric’s child sex crimes are the most recent ones known in St. Louis
• And she’s the youngest MO girl to ever sue an abusive Catholic priest
• SNAP praises brave teenager & urges others to ‘step forward & call cops’

• Abusive priest sued again
• He molested both girls and boys
• An earlier case against him settled for $225,000
• Now in his 80s, cleric is still a priest in KC area

40+ victims file “unprecedented” new lawsuit 

They charge KC’s bishop with “breach of contract”

He breaks 2008 agreement & endangers kids, they say

Suit seeks “continuing supervision” of diocese, not money

Finn pledged to report child sex abuse suspicions to police

But he clearly hid evidence & reports about Ratigan for a year

And for seven months, he kept twice-accused predator priest in parish

• He’s only been accused once before
• The victim is incarcerated, but his abuser is not
• In 2008, KC’s bishop promised to defrock the cleric
• But three years later, it apparently hasn’t been done
• Accused priest is now a businessman in Lee’s Summit 
• Suit implicates now-deceased bishop for the first time

• They call for grand jury investigation
• Young immigrant child was sodomized at children’s home
• Staff misled investigators and delayed reporting the crimes
• Their goal, federal report said, was to “protect” their program
• SNAP: “Houston’s Cardinal should aggressively seek out others”

• Brothers say they were molested there
• A staffer saw older kid in bed with younger one
• Still the abuse continued, new lawsuit contends
• Archdiocese and archbishop named as defendants
• Priest who’s now in a parish was also accused of abuse at home
• He allegedly sexually assaulted three kids but denies allegations