Wheeling-charleston Diocese to Release Names of Accused Priests

WTRF TV
October 25, 2018

https://www.wtrf.com/news/snap-responds-wheeling-charleston-diocese-to-release-names-of-accused-priests/1550563309

The Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston has announced that they will release the names of "credibly" accused priests in their diocese.

While SNAP is grateful that yet another diocese will be releasing the names of those they have found to be "credibly accused," they believe that this should have been done years ago.

SNAP also hopes that the list will include those who have had allegations of abusing vulnerable adults, such as former head of the Diocese, Bishop Michael J. Bransfield.

SNAP is hopeful the West Virginia attorney general will be investigating the Wheeling-Charleston Diocese. .

SNAP believes the list should be kept permanently on the Diocesan website and run at least quarterly in every parish bulletin. They say it should include every single proven, admitted and "credibly accused" church employee: bishops, priests, seminarians, brothers, nuns, and lay people, no matter who supervised or ordained them or where the abuse took place.

For more information, contact Judy Jones, SNAP Midwest Regional Leader (636-433-2511, snapjudy@gmail.com) or Zach Hiner, SNAP Executive Director (517-974-9009, zhiner@snapnetwork.org).