WA--Victims applaud $5 million judgment vs. predator priest

By David Clohessy
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
August 25, 2015

http://www.snapnetwork.org/wa_victims_applaud_5_million_judgment_vs_predator_priest

We are glad that a judge has awarded a brave victim of a Yakima predator priest a $5 million judgment. We hope this victim’s courage will inspire others who are in pain because of child molesting clerics to step forward, seek justice, expose predators and protect kids.

http://www.kimatv.com/news/crime-and-justice/322723751.html

http://www.kapptv.com/article/2015/aug/24/multi-million-dollar-award-issued-yakima-sexual-ab/

As we said back in February 2014, Catholic officials should now aggressively reach out to others who may have seen, suspected or suffered Fr. Calhoun’s crimes and beg them to call law enforcement.

Fr. Calhoun was ordained by the Beaumont Diocese and he faced his first child sex abuse lawsuit in 1988.

According to BishopAccountability.org, Fr. Calhoun's personnel file “shows he should never have been ordained.” In 1969, he raped a 15 year old and was transferred to the Yakima Diocese where he continued to abuse.

http://www.bishop-accountability.org/member/psearch.jsp

Fr. Calhoun is a serial predator. He was recruited, educated, ordained, trained, transferred and shielded by Catholic officials. So whether he's still in a church or not, it's the duty of Catholic officials to warn families about him and protect kids from him.

Yakima church officials and Bishop Curtis J. Guillory should use their vast resources – church bulletins, parish websites and pulpit announcements - to seek out others with knowledge and suspicions about Fr. Calhoun - and beg them to call police so he might be prosecuted and kept away from children.