MA- Fundraiser set for clergy sex victims' group

By Barbara Blaine
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
March 19, 2014

http://www.snapnetwork.org/ma_fundraiser_set_for_clergy_sex_victims_group

Fundraiser set for victims' group

In honor of SNAP 25^th anniversary

Group's founder & president will speak

Massachusetts Citizens for Children is hosting a lecture and fundraiser this Sunday (March 23) to mark and honor the 25^th anniversary of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.

The event will be held at New England Law (classroom 301), 154 Stuart Street in Boston MA from 3:00 to 5:00 pm.  Admission is a donation to SNAP (suggested amount is $25). 

Barbara Blaine of Chicago, who founded SNAP, will speak. Other speakers include Vince Warren, Executive Director of Center for Constitutional Rights and retired Detroit Bishop Tom Gumbleton. Warren's group helped SNAP submit testimony to the International Criminal Court and the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child about the Catholic Church’s child sex abuse and cover up scandal.

Gumbleton is the only Catholic prelate in the US to acknowledge having been molested as a child himself. He has helped SNAP lobby for legislative reforms that make it easier for child sex abuse victims to file lawsuits.

“We are deeply grateful to our friends at Massachusetts Citizens for Children for supporting us and for their outstanding work to protect kids too,” said David Clohessy of St. Louis, SNAP's director.