SNAP Media Events

For first time ever, Victims Assistance Coordinator speaks out

  • In “unprecedented move,” nun blasts bishop
  • It’s 1st 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

  • 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

Abusive priest is quietly reassigned to MO

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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


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