UNITED STATES
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
By Joel Currier St. Louis Post-Dispatch
ST. LOUIS • Barbara Blaine, founder and president of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, has stepped down after 29 years, the organization said.
Blaine’s resignation from the nonprofit was effective Friday.
“It has been the greatest honor of my life to have found and been your president,” Blaine said in a statement.
Blaine and SNAP’s new managing director, Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, said Blaine’s decision has “absolutely nothing” to do with recent litigation. In the lawsuit, a former development director for SNAP claims she was fired in retaliation for confronting the organization for making referrals to lawyers in exchange for donations.
Dorris will now serve as the group’s highest ranking official. She said she will continue to work with SNAP’s board to help sex abuse survivors everywhere.
Blaine’s departure follows that of David Clohessy of St. Louis, who resigned as SNAP’s executive director Dec. 31. Clohessy started with SNAP in the late 1980s.
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