Catholic Church Needs to Do More to Expose Sex Scandal, Says Survivor

One News Now
January 22, 2014

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The Chicago archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church has released records on priest sex abuse, prompting a call by some people for more reform. 

The files reach back several decades with reports within the church of priests abusing children and teens, and transferring certain priests to other jobs but leaving them in ministry.

OneNewsNow turned to S.N.A.P., or Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, and President Barbara Blaine who says the release of the records has been a long time coming.

"What's being recovered really shows that what we have been saying all along is true, that church officials have known about our perpetrators," says Blaine. "They have had the ability to protect kids and to remove perpetrators but they refused to do so."

Yet Blaine says there have been only a relative few prosecutions "because church officials successfully shielded them from law enforcement," alleging they were saying one thing publicly and doing something completely different behind the scenes.