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	Tulsa Diocese Found Non-Compliant in Annual Review KTUL March 13, 2009 http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/0309/603576.html [2008 Annual Report: Findings and Recommendations] Tulsa - The Catholic Diocese of Tulsa is coming under fire after an annual review of child safety in American dioceses and religious orders found it was in non-compliance. The report was released Friday by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. It found only four dioceses were in non-compliance. Tulsa's diocese was not in compliance with Article 12, "providing safe environment training to children". The other three non-compliant dioceses were in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Lansing, Michigan and the Archdiocese of San Francisco, but those three had remedied those issues by December 19th. This afternoon, the Survivors Network of those Abused By Priests, or SNAP, blasted Tulsa's diocese. "Seven years ago, America's Catholic bishops promised to train all Catholic kids about how to prevent and stop child sex abuse," said SNAP Founder and President Barbara Blame. "We're deeply saddened that Tulsa's bishop refuses to honor this simple pledge. This inexcusable violation needlessly puts innocent kids in harm's way." The review indicates Roman Catholic dioceses and religious orders saw an increase in molestation claims against clergy in 2008 and that nearly all of the more than eight-hundred cases involved adults who claimed to have been abused as children decades ago.
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