NEW YORK
Syracuse.com
By John O’Brien | jobrien@syracuse.com
on September 14, 2015
FAYETTEVILLE, N.Y. — Two victims of child-molesting priests fought back tears tonight as they told their stories and called on the Catholic bishop of Syracuse to resign.
About 50 people listened to Kevin Braney and Charles Bailey retell the repeated abuse they suffered as children, and their call for Bishop Robert Cunningham to release the names of all priests against whom the diocese has found credible evidence of abuse.
Many people in the audience at the Craftsman Inn in Fayetteville were there in response to a Syracuse.com story that revealed Cunningham’s deposition in 2011 when he said victims of priest sexual abuse were partly to blame.
“It brings me no joy to say that I believe Bishop Cunningham is not fit to lead,” Braney said. “It does not feel good. But I’m doing so with belief that children in our community are not safe because our leader is protecting pedophiles.”
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