PALM SPRINGS (CA)
The Desert Sun
Kakie Urch
The Desert Sun
September 20, 2005
The leading national organization of people who have been abused by priests hand-delivered letters Monday to the Palm Springs Police Department and Palm Springs Unified School District warning the agencies about a priest they say has recently moved to Palm Springs.
Joelle Casteix of Newport Beach, southwestern regional director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, delivered the letters Monday, according to Mary Grant of Long Beach, the group's western regional director.
In addition, SNAP wrote to Diocese of San Bernardino Bishop Gerald Barnes, urging him to inform all Catholics about the priest, and to personally go to every parish in Palm Springs and to publicly urge victims who know of or suspect abuse to contact criminal authorities.