TOLEDO (OH)
Toledo Blade
By Bill Frogameni
Special to Toledo Free Press
Before Claudia Vercellotti left for a doctor’s appointment last Tuesday, she considered canceling and taking a nap. Had she stayed, Vercellotti might have been engulfed in the fire that decimated her South Toledo home.
Vercellotti, the volunteer co-leader of Toledo SNAP, Survivors Network for those Abused by Priests, had worked during Labor Day weekend. “I’m a heavy sleeper. Thank God I went to the appointment,” she said.
Within a half hour, Vercellotti was called and told her home was burning. The call came from her neighbor, Catherine Hoolahan, a local attorney who represents several clients who allege clerical sexual abuse.