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The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests SNAP Press Statement
Four
Recent Cases Show Church Officials
Have Not Reformed
1) In January, the Grand Rapids bishop claimed he just 'found' a 1993 admission of child sexual abuse by Fr. David LeBlanc in the diocesan files. He suspended LeBlanc, but took no action to determine who else in the diocese knew of the admission and kept silent, enabling a known predator to stay in active parish ministry for 14 years (and five years after the bishops' much-touted 'Dallas charter' was passed.) http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2007/01_02/2007_01_19_Honey_BishopKnocked.htm 2) In Fresno, CA, a civil trial was held in November 2006. Fr. Swearingen was accused of molested Juan Rocha as a boy. The jury found Swearingen guilty. (They deadlocked on whether church officials knew about the abuse.) But the Fresno bishop is keeping Swearingen in active parish ministry even now. http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2006/11_12/2006_12_21_FresnoBee_SwearingenDecision.htm
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2006/11_12/2006_12_06_Lopez_FresnoPriest.htm
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2006/11_12/2006_11_19_NBC4_ArchdioceseChurch.htm
http://www.snapmidwest.org/htm/ImportingPredators.htm
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