Survivors dismiss Columbus priest sex-abuse list as ‘token measure’

COLUMBUS (OH)
The Columbus Dispatch

March 4, 2019

By Danae King

Several local survivors and victims advocates are calling a “token measure” the Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus’ release Friday of a list of 34 clergy members who have been “credibly accused” of sexually abusing minors, saying it was “too little, too late.”

“It makes me angry,” Ken Wilcox said Monday.

The 55-year-old Olde Towne East resident says he was molested by the late Monsignor Thomas Bennett as a teenager at St. Charles Preparatory School in Bexley in the early 1980s.

“What I see is what’s missing,” he said of the list. “It’s monumentally maddening for a survivor.”

The most-recent abuse case on the list occurred more than 25 years ago, according to the diocese.

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