TOLEDO (OH)
Toledo Blade
October 20, 2018
When Toledo Catholic officials admitted that the Rev. Nelson Beaver has been accused of child sexual abuse, they took great pains to mention the alleged offense happened 25 years ago. But they refused to disclose a more important date (”Diocese places priest on leave to investigate sex abuse allegation,” Oct. 13).
The self-serving and carefully-orchestrated news release prepared by Bishop Daniel Thomas’ public relations team said nothing about when church staff received the accusation.
Parents, police, prosecutors, parishioners, and the public deserve to know whether Bishop Thomas and his colleagues acted within days or years after being told that Father Beaver allegedly assaulted a child .
DAVID CLOHESSY
St. Louis, Mo.
The writer is the former national director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.
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