MILWAUKEE (WI)
SNAP Wisconsin
Minutes from 2003 confirm: Dolan discussed paying $20,000 each to child molesters to quietly leave the priesthood
Minutes from 2003 meeting confirm: Dolan discussed paying $20,000 each to child molesters to quietly leave the priesthood
Policy appears to have been implemented, as revealed in church disbursements to pedophile clerics
Meeting also shows beginning of Dolan’s “shell game” by moving tens of millions of dollars into newly invented “trusts”
Victims want current Archbishop Listecki to reveal all payouts and costs of sex offenders, release the Milwaukee “Dolan Papers”, including all Finance Council minutes
WHO
Victim/survivors of childhood sexual violence by clergy of the Milwaukee archdiocese, including leaders of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAPnetwork.org/SNAPwisconsin.com) will release and discuss newly uncovered minutes from a March 2003 Milwaukee Archdiocese Finance council meeting where former Archbishop Timothy Dolan and Milwaukee auxiliary Bishop Richard Sklba discuss using church funds to:
–pay off known priest pedophiles and child molesters $20,000 each to quietly leave the priesthood,
–set up a “restorative justice” program to prevent victims from receiving compensation for injuries comparable to cases being filed against the archdiocese of Milwaukee in California, and
–move millions of dollars from the archdiocese into a newly invented “trust” to prevent compensating victims, the first of several such “trusts” to be set up before the archdiocese declared bankruptcy in 2011.
Victims will also be emailing a letter Wednesday to current Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki demanding:
–full financial disclosure of all payouts and “laicization” bonuses to sex offender clerics,
–which charitable funds were used to pay-off clergy sex offenders, and
–the release of the “Dolan Papers”, including all minutes of the monthly Archdiocese Finance Council chaired by Dolan and auxiliary Bishop Richard Sklba
WHEN
Wednesday, May 30, 11:30 a.m.
WHERE
On the front steps of the Federal Courthouse, 517 E. Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee
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