GEORGIA
WTOC
By Sean Evans
SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) –
The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, says they want the public to be aware of seven credibly accused Catholic clerics who have worked in Georgia, but haven’t been publicly called out until now.
The SNAP representatives WTOC spoke to want the names of those priests out there, in case there are any victims who might not have come forward yet.
There are seven altogether, most notably a Father Donald McGuire, a convicted Jesuit priest who was Mother Teresa’s spiritual advisor, according to SNAP. McGuire led three retreats in central Georgia in the late 1990’s. And from 2000 to 2003, two Georgia families wrote Catholic Church officials in Savannah about McGuire’s suspected sexual and psychological abuse of their teens.
The SNAP team say they have requested several things of the Diocese of Savannah. One, is that the Church permanently post on all their websites the names of all predator priests who have worked or lived – or now work or live – in the diocese.
Another request is that the church spread the word about a new Georgia law that makes kids safer by enabling child sex abuse victims to file civil lawsuits against “those who commit or conceal sexual violence.”
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