SNAP Media Events

• In “unprecedented move,” nun blasts bishop
• It’s 1^st time ever that an ‘ex-victims director’ speaks out
• For four years, she worked in KC Catholic headquarters
• She says bishop “put kids at risk” & must be “accountable”
• And a fifth lawsuit filed against priest who was ousted in June
• He repeatedly molested boy, once at priests’ notorious lake house
• There, a second priest “offered boys chance for sexual favors with a girl”

• Predator priest’s written confession is released (READ IT HERE)
• It shows that 16 church officials knew he had molested
• Yet cleric kept getting parish jobs until six months ago
• Four top Catholic prelates (& an Episcopalian one) kept silent
• Clergy sex victims with SNAP will leaflet at cathedral after Mass

• Accused abusive priest is quietly reassigned
• He was sued in 2004 in Joliet for molesting a boy
• Now, new internal church records show he’s in Missouri
• Lawsuit against him was settled, but church officials stay mum
• SNAP: “None of predator’s neighbors know of his presence or his past
• Group urges new bishop & Franciscans to “reach out to others in pain”

• 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