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	Survivors Group to Speak out about Clergy Abuse Rockford Register Star April 29, 2006 http://www.rrstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article? AID=/20060429/NEWS0107/104290014/1004/NEWS ROCKFORD — The Rockford chapter of a national survivors group will hold a news conference about "new events" in the clergy sexual-abuse scandal. Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests plans the media event for 11 a.m. Monday at St. Peter Cathedral, 1243 N. Church St., Rockford, the group announced in a statement released Friday. Survivors and supporters of alleged abuse will be present. Donald Bondick, coordinator of the Rockford chapter, will make a statement about the Catholic Diocese of Rockford. Bondick would not say whether the news conference was about new victims or allegations in the 11-county diocese. In February, Bondick filed a lawsuit against the diocese and the Chicago-based Conventual Franciscans of St. Bonaventure Province, alleging that the Rev. Ted Feely had sexually abused him in 1969. The alleged victim was 13 at the time, and Feely, a Franciscan priest, was assigned to St. Anthony of Padua in Rockford. Officials at the diocese went public with the allegations against the deceased priest in June 2002, but the victims were not named. The allegations are false, diocese officials said when the lawsuit was announced.
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