CARPENTERSVILLE (IL)
The Courier News
By Janelle Walker
STAFF WRITER
CARPENTERSVILLE — Representatives of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests knocked on doors in Meadowdale subdivision Wednesday, telling residents a former priest accused of abusing children now lives in their neighborhood.
By canvassing the neighborhood in which John D. Murphy now lives, the SNAP activists said, they hope to protect other children.
"We want to ensure innocent children are not hurt the way we were hurt," said Barbara Blaine, an abuse survivor and SNAP founder who helped pass out fliers.
Murphy does not have a listed phone number and did not answer reporters' knocks at his door Wednesday.
Dan Herlihy of Chicago and Ken Kaczmarz of LaGrange Park, now members of SNAP, say they were both abused by the Carpentersville man in the late 1970s and early 1980s when he was a priest at St. Rita's Catholic School in Chicago.
Posted by kshaw at December 11, 2004 12:21 AM