PENNSYLVANIA
WJAC
HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa.– Exactly one week after a gut-wrenching grand jury report that detailed decades of sexual abuse and a cover-up within the Altoona-Johnstown Diocese, a group rallies to support victims.
Clutching photos of innocent children, a small group rallied outside the diocese in Hollidaysburg asking for change.
“This biggest issue is the cover up and that needs to get stopped in order for kids to get help,” Judy Jones, SNAP’s Midwest associate director said.
The young faces are on photos are important. They are the faces of survivors at the age they were abused. Those in the photos allow SNAP, the Survivor’s Network of those Abused by Priests, show their faces and to tell their story about sexual abuse at the hands of church leaders. For protester Pam Erdely this mission is personal.
“I was sexual abused by a nun in my high school in 1972,” Erdely said.
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