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	Organization Seeks Possible Victims of Former Appleton Xavier High School Teacher Raimond Rose By Dan Wilson Post-Crescent September 1, 2009 http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20090901/APC0101/909010438/1979 APPLETON — The Minnesota director of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests issued an appeal Monday for possible victims of a teacher who served at Xavier High School in the late 1960s. Bob Schwiderski, standing on the Prospect Avenue sidewalk outside the school, said he is looking for any victims of Brother Raimond Rose, who taught at the school from 1966 to 1968. At the same press conference was a Xavier official who offered an apology to priest abuse victims. Rose is the target of sexual abuse complaints at schools he served both before and after his stint in Appleton. To date, no Xavier students claimed to have been molested. Rose was sent to Xavier in 1966 after he was the subject of a sexual abuse complaint at a Minnesota school. "And then he was dropped on the unsuspecting families and children who went here," said Schwiderski. Schwiderski said there was no evidence the Christian Brothers order, to which Rose belongs, communicated any problems to the Green Bay Diocese at the time. Rose left Appleton for Stevens Point Pacelli High School. Schwiderski claims a man has come forward to claim he was abused there by Rose when he was a student in 1969-70. The man said he was assaulted after he was plied with alcohol and drugs on class trips to Washington, D.C., and New York, a pattern found in other complaints, said Schwiderski. Rose, 76, who is living in Chicago, has not been charged criminally but is named in a Minnesota lawsuit against the Christian Brothers order. Tim Reilly, vice president of the board of ACES Xavier Educational System, who attended the press conference, said the Green Bay Diocese is seeking possible victims as well, to take advantage of its counseling resources and conduct its own investigation. "There is not a month that goes by that we are not talking to victims of sexual abuse," Reilly said. "And we believe that is a necessary part of the healing process. Speaking for the diocese, I want to apologize to every victim of clergy sexual abuse." Dan Wilson: 920-993-1000, ext. 304, or dwilson@postcrescent.com
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