GREEN BAY (WI)
WBAY TV
January 18, 2019
By Tia Johnson
A national clergy abuse survivor group is urging Wisconsin’s Attorney General to investigate the Diocese of Green Bay after the church released names of 46 priests with substantiated allegations of sexual abuse of a minor.
On Friday, SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) held a press conference in front of the Cathedral of St. Francis Xavier on Madison Street in Green Bay.
SNAP is urging Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul to initiate a statewide investigation of church sexual abuse and cover up.
“There are 15 states now and the US Department of Justice that have open investigations of Diocese like this one where there has been demonstrable evidence and proof that there has been a history of decades of covering up child sex crimes,” says Peter Isely, founding member of SNAP.
SNAP is asking for Bishop David Ricken to name “additional abusive priests known by church officials to have operated within his diocese.”
“That list is partial, it is biased and it is incomplete,” Isely says.
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