As abundant of you know the media and many Catholics will mark the cardinal yr anniversary of the clergy physiological property fry abuse tragedy January 7th. The bulk of people, who have followed this story, see the preliminary central fable on Fr. John Geoghan by the Boston Globe's Spotlight Team, January 6, 2002 as the 'beginning' of the scandal, at least in a national, population import.
We all know that sexual toddler maltreatment crimes and wrapper ups have absent on for centuries, and that sizeable donkey work was through by many to make public the criminals and their supervisors prolonged earlier the Globe began moving stories.
This 'anniversary' is an possibleness to re-group and re-focus limelight on protecting the threatened and sanative the dead.
SNAP - Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests-is organizing a vigil for Sunday, January 7th, 2007. The goals for these regional vigils are:
- draw in media exposure, which will assist bring forward much survivors and whistleblowers front.
- exposure the constant corruption/insensitivity of the basilica hierarchy.
- ameliorate/remind lawmakers that assembly reshuffle (esp. statute of limitations) is desperately needed
- furnish our members and supporters a simple, low key, low burden but strong way to mark this anniversary
- inform one and all that, dislike all the public eye one postpaid to lawsuits and settlements and bankruptcies, many a survivors are static greatly in pain, with few professionals trained to ease the healing course of action.
SNAP is the nation's largest, first and best alive bracket horde for women and men hurt by divine rule info (priests, ministers, bishops, deacons, nuns and others). SNAP is an independent, non-profit and hush-hush organization, near no acquaintances near the priestly or place of worship officials.
The SNAP pursuit is supported on the cognitive content that by giving out their stories, clergy physiological property invective survivors will make out that they are not alone, that they are not criminal for what they fully fledged. Thus, respectively subsister will come in to pregnant expertise of their authorization to face up to the lawfulness and occupy in a whole curative process.
Armed beside the reality in the region of what a priesthood physiological property tyke ill-treat survivors experienced, they can afterwards use that impetus to bring down roughly speaking renovate. When they put their voices together, they turn a beefed-up sound that will be heard.
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