MISSOURI
Riverfront Times
By Nicholas Phillips Tue., Mar. 6 2012
On January 2, David Clohessy — director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) — sat down with lawyers representing Catholic priests.
It was not to chat over tea.
The attorneys deposed Clohessy for over six hours as part of a lawsuit that a anonymous victim has brought against Fr. Michael Tierney, a priest in Kansas City.
But many of the questions had rather little to do with Tierney or other priests accused of sexual abuse in Kansas City. Instead, they had a lot to do with how SNAP operates, and appeared to be an attempt to establish that SNAP is not a rape crisis center under state law.
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