SNAP Media Events

• They Urge Government Probe of Church Cover Ups
• Group Dismisses “Biased” Church-Initiated Investigation
• SNAP Also Wants Other Denominations to Do More to Protect Kids

• They name recently convicted Ontario predator priest
• Church officials didn’t tell police about crimes, victims say
• Suit says now-jailed cleric spent 20 years abusing in Latino communities 

They beg victims witnesses and whistleblowers to “break your silence now” 

Group issues special appeal to current and former church employees“

Search your conscience, be part of the solution, call law enforcement,” SNAP says

On local and international levels, victims want them to “protect kids, not predators”

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