PITTSBURGH (PA)
WTAE
PITTSBURGH -- At two local events Tuesday, clergy molestation victims will urge the Allegheny County district attorney to convene a grand jury in the wake of last week's Philadelphia grand jury report on sex abuse (contains explicit material).
SNAP -- the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests -- wants local Catholics to read what they called a "scathing report."
The group will gather on Tuesday at 11:45 a.m. outside St. Paul's Cathedral, and at 2:15 p.m. outside the City-County building/Allegheny County District Attorney's Office.
As Catholics enter Mass, victims will hand out flyers urging parishioners to read the Philadelphia grand jury report, ask friends and family if they were hurt by abusive Pittsburgh area clergy, report any suspicions or information about sex crimes by priests and nuns to police, and call state lawmakers and insist on legislative reforms that would prevent future abuse. After a news conference, victims will try to hand-deliver a letter to prosecutors urging Allegheny County District Attorney to convene a similar grand jury investigation into the Pittsburgh diocese, and publicly call on victims and witnesses to come forward.