LOUISIANA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Monday, Sept. 8, 2014
Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 314 566 9790, SNAPclohessy@aol.co, davidgclohessy@gmail.com )
A Louisiana newspaper has disclosed that a Lafayette predator priest was quietly sent to work in the Baton Rouge diocese. We strongly suspect that he is living or working among unsuspecting neighbors or colleagues. So for the protection of kids and the healing of victims, we urgently call on Baton Rouge Bishop Robert W. Muench to:
–warn his flock about the priest (through news conferences, news releases, on church websites, etc.),
–aggressively seek out anyone who may have seen, suspected or suffered the cleric’s crimes and
–disclose whether there are or have been other pedophile priests who molested elsewhere and were secretly transferred to his diocese.
In the 1980s, Lafayette diocese officials “quietly moved another child sex-abusing priest, Fr. Robert Limoges, to the neighboring Diocese of Baton Rouge,” reported The Advocate yesterday.
The revelation comes from long-secret Catholic church records that were unsealed in litigation and sought first by Minnesota Public Radio (for a profile of a former Louisiana bishop).
Fr. Limoges was first exposed as a child molester almost three decades ago.
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