LOUISVILLE (KY)
WLKY TV
January 17, 2019
By Caray Grace
A group of sexual abuse survivors with the group SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) stood outside the Archdiocese of Louisville with one message, release their names.
“It should have happened a long time ago. It should happen tomorrow. There’s no reason why you can’t release a partial list today,” said David Clohessy, volunteer director of SNAP.
Four survivors are calling for Archbishop Joseph Kurtz to release the list of priests who have been accused of sexual assault in Louisville. They want him to go a step further, by adding the names of those who didn’t always work in Louisville.
“These are five priests who mostly were ordained elsewhere, mostly worked elsewhere, mostly accused of abusing elsewhere but they all were in Louisville,” said Clohessy.
We sat down with Archbishop Kurtz in November. He told us they would release a full list of priests in December, but according to a recent leadership briefing, the expected publication date is now late January. In a statement from the Archdiocese regarding SNAP’s demands they said:
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