CHICAGO (IL)
Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests
March 15, 2019
Victims question new church accountability plan
SNAP: “It is big bishops investigating small ones”
Group prefers independent lay body instead
It also names ‘Dangerous Dozen’ Chicago priests
Most abused elsewhere & have gotten no attention here
Survivors will also prod archdiocese over 500 still-hidden accused priests’ names
WHAT
Holding signs and childhood photos at a sidewalk news conference, clergy sex abuse victims and their supporters will release a “Dangerous Dozen” list of priests publicly accused of molesting children elsewhere but who also spent time in Chicago and have escaped virtually all public attention here.
They will also ask Chicago’s Cardinal Blasé Cupich to:
—release some of the 500 accused clerics’ names that an Illinois attorney general says he and his brother bishops have not yet disclosed,
—drop his plan to have bishops investigate other accused bishops, and
—back the Springfield IL bishop’s plan for an independent lay group to do this.
WHEN
Friday, March 15 at 11:15 a.m.
WHERE
On the sidewalk outside the Chicago Archdiocesan Headquarters at 835 N. Rush Street (corner of Rush and Pearson)
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