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	U.S. Victims Protesting outside of Vatican Taken Away by Police By Kelly Heffernan-Tabor digtriad March 25, 2010 http://www.digtriad.com/news/national_world/article.aspx?storyid=139458&catid=175 Vatican City, Vatican -- American victims of abuse by clergy were taken away by police as they protested outside the Vatican about the handling of sexual abuse cases. Peter Isely, of SNAP, the Survivors Network of Abuse by Priests was giving an emotional statement on how the Vatican had sought to move criminal evidence relating to abuse cases in diplomatic pouches, affectively hiding information from local authorities. Isely cited the most recent case of pedophilia to explode into the media, that of Father Murphy, head of a school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and accused of assaulting some 200 children. "What are they doing moving criminal evidence about children being raped in Milwaukee, Wisconsin bringing it over here, not telling the police, not alerting the authorities and then telling the bishops in Milwaukee this man is going to die a priest," Isely said as pictures of Pope Benedict were being held up. "Father Murphy died in his vestments in an open casket, a man who raped and assaulted 200 children, that is simply unacceptable," Isely said. Police who arrived on the scene confiscated the photograph of Pope Benedict that the protestors had been holding up and placed it in the trunk of a police vehicle.
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