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Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Wednesday, Dec. 3
Statement by Mike Hunter of Kansas City, KC Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (913 634 6490, mhunter535@gmail.com)
In 2010, an admitted predator priest was ousted from working with the Special Olympics in KC.
Now, he’s been caught at another non-profit around vulnerable low income families and unsuspecting colleagues.
He is the now-defrocked Fr. Thomas E. Ericksen.
At least three other credibly accused predator priests who have been in Kansas City (and are from KC) are in similar situations, living out-of-state now among unsuspecting neighbors. They are:
–Fr. Thomas Cronin (in Nevada, trying to open a shelter for homeless and abused women and girls),
–Fr. Michael Brewer (in Colorado, working with gay youth) and
–Fr. Mark Honhart (in Pennsylvania, unsure what he’s doing).
Civil suits against all four priests have been settled and all of them are suspended. (More info is available at BishopAccountability.org. Their victims were represented by Rebecca Randles 816 931 9901, 816 510 2704, rebecca@rmblawyers.com)
This is why we keep pushing KC Bishop Robert Finn to post predator priests names on church websites, like 30 of his colleagues have done. If these priests are too dangerous to have working in parishes, they are too dangerous to have living among unsuspecting families.
(Here’s a list of the 30 bishops who HAVE posted predators’ names: http://www.bishop-accountability.org/AtAGlance/lists.htm)
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