TUCSON (AZ)
Tucson Weekly
POSTED BY MARI HERRERAS ON FRI, NOV 8, 2013
A national group that advocates on behalf of victims of sexual abuse plans to protest outside a Tucson church this Sunday at 11:15 a.m to demand the resignation of music minister Eric Holtan.
The group SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, is a national support network for men and women abused in religious and institutional settings. Joelle Casteix, the organization’s volunteer western regional director, told the Range recently that SNAP did try to contact the pastor of Dove of Peace Lutheran Church to talk about the protest.
“We sent an email to the church, but we never received a response,” Casteix said.
Casteix said that this week SNAP learned that Holtan, who plead guilty in 2000 to two counts of child sexual abuse involving two former choir students in Duluth, Minnesota, was working at Dove of Peace. Holtan also works as director of Tucson Chamber Artists.
“He’s still on probation,” she said, adding that part of that requires that he have no unsupervised contact with underage women.
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