RENO (NV)
KRNV
Aug 18, 2005, 08:37 PM
An advocacy group is demanding action from the Reno Catholic Church regarding sex abuse.
The group is called "SNAP," The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.
There are two things SNAP is trying to accomplish. It's trying to get officials with the Reno Catholic Church to be proactive in finding molestation victims. They also want the church to come clean about retired bishop, Phillip Straling and his alleged role in dozens of abuse cases in California.
Thursday, SNAP members hand delivered a letter to church officials at the diocese headquarters in Reno, requesting just that.
According to a report published in the Reno Gazette-Journal earlier this month, Straling has been named as a key witness in more than 150 lawsuits in Southern California against priests accused of molesting children.
The suits allege Straling should have known that some of the priests were having sex with children. Leaders of SNAP believe action on the part of the church could help victims heal and make kids in today's church safer.