TEXAS
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
POSTED BY BARBARA DORRIS ON JANUARY 08, 2014
Victims want church’s help
Two accused predators worked there
One’s in prison; the other’s at a different church
Self help group says “If you were hurt, come forward”
It also urges Houston congregation to “do outreach to others”
WHAT
Holding signs and childhood photos at a sidewalk news conference, clergy sex abuse victims will
–release a police report about an alleged predatory minister at a huge Houston church,
–urge victims of his – or of another predatory minister at the same church – to step forward, and
–beg anyone who many have seen or suspected crimes – by either man – to call police.
They will also prod current and former church officials to use pulpit announcements and website pleas to encourage anyone with knowledge of or suspicions about either minister to speak up.
WHEN
Thursday, Jan. 9 at 12:30 p.m.
WHERE
Outside a mega-church, Second Baptist, 6400 Woodway (corner of Voss) in Houston
WHO
Three members of a support group called SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, including a Missouri woman who is the organization’s assistant Midwest director
WHY
SNAP is worried about more possible victims two former Second Baptist ministers, both accused of crimes.
The first is Chad Foster, a young minister who was sentenced in April to five years in prison after he pleaded guilty to raping a 16-year-old girl in 2011 and soliciting another teen online
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