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Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Friday, Oct. 3
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Victims appeal to new SLU president
SNAP “Tell students & staff about abusive clerics”
SNAP: University has “long, sad history” of hiding predators
An ex-SLU head sexually exploited a 20 year old college student
Another admitted child molesting cleric works & lives across the street
A third was criminally charged in 2004 for sodomizing a St. Louis boy
A support group for clergy sex abuse victims is urging the new president of St. Louis University to disclose that several abusive priests have worked at the school and that an admitted child molesting cleric priest lives and works and lives on the edge of the campus.
One is a fugitive and another is a former SLU president, the group notes
Today, Dr. Fred P. Pestello will installed as the head of SLU. The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) wants him to “come clean” about “proven, admitted and credibly accused” current and former university staffers who have faced child sex or sexual misconduct allegations.
SNAP is most concerned about Fr. Vincent W. Bryce who, according to a Chicago newspaper and internet searches, works at the Aquinas Institute and lives in a Jesuit building at the corner of Grand and Lindell, both directly across from the SLU campus) despite the fact that he told his Catholic supervisor that he had molested at least one child.
The group is also concerned about Fr. Daniel O’Connell who is believed to still be living in St. Louis. According to the New York Times, he “was accused of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old college student in 1983. His Jesuit supervisors “found the accusation credible,” paid her a $181,000 settlement. and agreed to remove O’Connell “from a teaching post at another Jesuit institution” and bar him “from public ministry.”
Besides Fr. Bryce and Fr. O’Connell, the others proven, admitted or credibly accused abusive clerics to be or have been at SLU are Fr. Franklyn W. Becker, Fr. Juan Carlos Duran, Fr. Charles H. Miller, Fr. Gerhardt B. Lehmkuhl, Fr. Eugene Maio, Fr. John Slowey, Fr. John J. “Jack” Campbell, Fr. Edward F. Beutner, Fr. Chester E. Gaiter, and Fr. Thomas J. Naughton.
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