Tuesday, August 17, 2010

PENNSYLVANIA: Clergy sex victims challenge 8 Episcopal bishops

PENNSYLVANIA: Clergy sex victims challenge 8 Episcopal bishops
SNAP officials denomination leaders to blast cover ups
It also wants church hierarchy to lift statute of limitations

Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests Press Release
August 16, 2010

As a once-ousted Episcopal bishop resumes his office today, a support group for clergy sex abuse victims is challenging eight of his colleagues across the US to reform church policies and educate church staff and members about child sex crimes.

The organization is also urging the controversial prelate, Bishop Charles Bennison, to voluntarily step aside. Leaders of the Chicago-based Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, are sending letters today to each of the bishops who recently concluded that the church statute of limitations on Bennison's misdeeds had expired.

Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org

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