VA - Virginia pastor arrested for abusing a child, SNAP responds

For immediate release: Friday, Nov. 8, 2013

Statement by Becky Ianni of Burke VA, DC area director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (703-801- 6044, [email protected])

Larry Clark, a pastor with Cornerstone Pentecostal Outreach Church in Verona, VA was arrested Thursday for sexually abusing a boy in 2011.

http://www.thenews-gazette.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=890:buena-vista-pastor-arrested-on-sex-offenses&catid=77:breaking-news&Itemid=395

We applaud this brave victim for speaking up and hope his courage prods others who are suffering in silence to step forward.

It is extremely rare that a child predator has only one victim. We urge anyone who has knowledge or may have been harmed by Clark to contact the police.

Contact - David Clohessy (314-566-9790 cell, [email protected]), Barbara Dorris (314-862-7688 home, 314-503-0003 cell, [email protected]), Barbara Blaine (312-399-4747, [email protected])


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