CHICAGO (IL)
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release Friday, November 8, 2013
Statement by Barbara Dorris, Outreach Director, 314-862-7688 SNAPdorris@gmail.com
We are alarmed that Chicago Catholic officials never contacted police, prosecutors or the Illinois Department of Children & Family Services about alleged “sexually explicit photographs” of a girl at a parochial school.
It is stunning that Hales Franciscan High School principal Jeffrey Gray told the Chicago Tribune that “We did not think it was a criminal act because it [was] dealing with minors.” At best, that’s alarmingly wrong-headed. At worst, it’s a lie.
The photos apparently circulated a month ago.
Coincidently, this troubling report arises at the same time a similarly troubling case is unfolding in the Kansas City Missouri.
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To anyone who reads or follows the news at all, it’s as clear as it can possibly be: even now, despite decades of heinous sex crimes against kids and cover ups by Catholic officials, Catholic officials STILL try very hard to handle reports of such crimes quietly and internally, telling the fewest people possible and NOT telling law enforcement.
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