LOUISVILLE (KY)
Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests
January 17, 2019
Abuse victims want Louisville accused cleric list ASAP
Archbishop should make it “thorough & detailed,” group says
Five clerics who largely abused elsewhere should be added, victims claim
SNAP: They’re almost completely ‘under the radar’ and may have hurt local kids”
Group wants victims, witnesses and witnesses to call KY state attorney general”
WHAT
Holding signs and childhood photos at a sidewalk news conference, a clergy sex abuse victim and advocate will
–publicly disclose for the first time that five credibly accused predator priests worked in the Louisville ar but have attracted no public attention there, and
–prod Louisville’s Catholic archbishop to add their names to his “accused” clergy list, and
–beg anyone who saw, suspected or suffered clergy sex crimes or cover ups in Kentucky to contact the attorney general who is conducting a statewide investigation into this crisis.
WHEN
Thursday, January 17 at 11:00 a.m.
WHERE
Outside the Louisville archdiocesan headquarters (aka the chancery or “pastoral center”), 3940 Poplar Level Rd. in Louisville KY
WHO
Two abuse victims: a Missouri man who is the St. Louis volunteer leader of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (and the organization’s former long time executive director) and an Illinois man who is the group’s Chicago volunteer leader, and at least two KY area victims
WHY
1) These publicly accused priests worked in Louisville, abused mostly outside of Kentucky, but have attracted virtually no local attention. They should be put on the archdiocesan list of alleged predators that Archbishop Joseph Kurtz has pledged to release, SNAP says.
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