OKLAHOMA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Monday, Aug. 11, 2014
Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 314 566 9790, davidgclohessy@gmail.com )
Every person at the Highway of Holiness Church should be ashamed and outraged that church officials let a registered sex offender attend the Children’s Crusade event last week.
Convicted bank robbers can’t own handguns. Convicted drunk drivers can’t operate school buses. And convicted child predators should be nowhere near kids, even after “paying their debt to society.”
A reformed alcoholic doesn’t seek work in a brewery. And a truly repentant and reformed child molester doesn’t attend a children’s church service.
But Dale Hoffert Junior is just doing what predators do: spend time around kids. The more troubling wrongdoers here are the staff and members of Highway of Holiness Church, who are knowingly endangering kids by letting Hoffert near children.
You can believe God changes people without tempting fate and setting up risky situations in which children are put in harm’s way.
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