Kansas City Judge Allows Case To Move Forward Wherein Family Claims Priest Sex Abuse Caused Suicide, SNAP Responds
The latest news in the ongoing Kansas City Catholic Hierarchy Sex Abuse Scandal . . .
Judge issues historical ruling for abuse victims’ parents; SNAP responds
For immediate release: Friday, June 29
Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAPdorris@gmail.com)
A KC judge is letting a wrongful death lawsuit, stemming from childhood sex abuse by a priest, go ahead toward trial because the victim’s parents charge they were deceived by church staffers who “fraudulently concealed the clerics’ crimes.”
We applaud this historic ruling, and this family for having the courage and strength to seek justice and expose wrongdoing in court.
It’s hard to imagine much of anything worse than the death of a child. But this case is indeed worse: a child died by his own hand because of a pedophile priest and the priest’s crimes were concealed from the child’s parents for years.
So we are glad that Judge Michael W. Manners sided with Donald and Rosemary Teeman. We are grateful that a trial is now possible, at which the heinous crimes of Msgr. Thomas J. O’Brien and the inexcusable complicity of church officials may be further documented and disclosed.
It’s important to remember that O’Brien faces allegations that he molested more than two dozen children (sometimes along with fellow KC priest Fr. Thomas Reardon). He still lives in the KC area and kept working as a priest until 2002. O’Brien remains a priest today.
Let’s hope that every person who saw, suspected or suffered clergy sex crimes and cover ups in KC will find the courage and strength to speak up, call police, expose wrongdoing, protect kids and start healing.
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Examiner: Family claims sexual abuse caused son's suicide
(SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, is the world’s oldest and largest support group for clergy abuse victims. SNAP was founded in 1988 and has more than 12,000 members. Despite the word “priest” in our title, we have members who were molested by religious figures of all denominations, including nuns, rabbis, bishops, and Protestant ministers and increasingly, victims who were assaulted in a wide range of institutional settings like summer camps, athletic programs, Boy Scouts, etc. Our website is SNAPnetwork.org)
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These criminal fucking priests, have gotten away with this crap for two thousand years now and it sure looks like they'll continue. All a church is good for anymore, is taking your money and assaulting your children. If you have a family issue, they scatter like doves. Fuck abunch of churches...
ReplyDeleteum, maybe calm down a bit.
ReplyDeleteUm, no. You obviously haven't been the beneficiary of these wonderful houses of worship and the horrible abuses they inflict everyday. Oh well, you probably will, sooner or later.
ReplyDeleteCatholic institutionalized mass murder by serial killers revealed after being covered up for 60 years.
ReplyDeleteSlave labor, sexual and physical abuse also hidden "so as not to harm the Catholic cause."
Multiple deaths at boys’ home were no accident
" A Roman Catholic brother administered a deadly overdose of medication to 37 severely handicapped boys at a home for the disabled in the Netherlands 60 years ago, the Dutch public prosecution office has confirmed."
"The public prosecutor in the Dutch city of Roermond reports that Andreas, who belonged to a congregation called the Brothers of the Holy Joseph, put the permanently bedridden boys to death one by one, shortly after they arrived at the home between 1952 and 1954."
"Aside from the deaths by overdose, the prosecution office's report also cited documentation of rampant physical and sexual abuse by the brothers at Saint Joseph's. Less severely disabled boys were slammed against walls, choked, and hit in the face with a ring of keys. At night they were put to work in a makeshift factory in the cellar where they produced light bulbs for Philips."