WASHINGTON
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016
For more information: David Clohessy 314 566 9790 cell, 314 645 5915 home, davidgclohessy@gmail.com, Barbara Dorris 314 503 0003 cell, bdorris@SNAPnetwork.ordg
Victims oppose Yakima bishop’s bid for national office
SNAP to prelate: “You shouldn’t even be on child sex abuse panel
The world’s largest group of clergy sex abuse victims wants Yakima’s top Catholic official to withdraw from his bid to head a national church abuse panel next week and instead focus on “protecting the vulnerable and healing the wounded” in Washington.
The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests is writing Bishop Joseph Tyson asking him to abandon his race for chair of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on the Protection of Children and Young People. The election is Nov. 14 in Baltimore.
“You have done virtually nothing to undo the damage that your predecessor did when he protected clergy who abused children. You have also done virtually nothing, above the legally required bare minimum, to safeguard kids.” said,” SNAP in a letter sent today to Tyson (bishop@yakimadiocese.org). It’s also signed by Robert Fontana, who founded the central Washington chapter of Voice of the Faithful.
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