April 26, 2006

DVD lobbies for abuse victims

PENNSYLVANIA
Tribune-Review

By Chris Foreman
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Wednesday, April 26, 2006

A former Greensburg man who has accused a priest of raping him in the 1970s is featured in a DVD that encourages state legislators to give a one-year window for past child victims of sexual abuse to file lawsuits.

The Pennsylvania chapters of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, known as SNAP, shared the 15-minute production Monday at a legislative forum on child abuse legislation in Harrisburg.

"To this day, I still shudder inside," Brian G. Guarino, formerly of Greensburg, says in the DVD about the alleged abuse by the Rev. Roger J. Trott.

Guarino is one of six alleged abuse survivors who appears in the video, said Tammy Lerner, the state government affairs liaison for SNAP.

Posted by kshaw at April 26, 2006 11:05 PM