SAVANNAH (GA)
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
Posted by Barbara Dorris on August 22, 2012
An Atlanta-area man has filed a police report charging that a Savannah Catholic priest molested him as a child, and clergy sex abuse victims are prodding Georgia church officials to widely publicize the latest allegations against the recently-ousted cleric.
Leaders of a support group called SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, are concerned about Fr. Robert F. Poandl. They want Poandl put in a secure treatment center, so that kids will be safer, and they want Georgia church officials to “stop being passive and start being compassionate” by seeking out others who’ve been hurt by the cleric.
Specifically, they’re asking Atlanta Archbishop Wilton Gregory and Savannah Bishop Gregory Hartmayer to personally visit each place where Fr. Poandl worked and reach out to any other victims, urging them to call police.
SNAP members are leafleting today outside the Christ the King Cathedral, 2699 Peachtree Road Northeast (corner of Peachtree Way NE) in Atlanta, the symbolic center of the Atlanta archdiocese. Later, they are holding a news conference outside the Atlanta Archdiocese headquarters, 2401 Lake Park Dr. S.E., Smyrna, GA
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