TKC BREAKING NEWS!!! SNAP ACCUSES DEAD KANSAS CITY PRIEST AND DIOCESE!!!
The Kansas City Catholic Hierarchy Sex Scandal only seems to be getting worse . . . And the following allegations seem exceptionally troubling regarding the alleged horrific deeds of a dead priest.
More importantly . . .And this seems reasonable . . . SNAP is asking the Bishop to address allegations against dead priests in order to comfort victims.
Here's the latest . . . I've highlighted the passages in this presser that seem important to me.
Predator priest is sued
He’s named for 1st time as an offender
Diocese has remained silent about for eleven years
Crimes happened at motels, rectory, retreats, & church parking lots
Victims group begs bishop to post names of other pedophile priests
WHAT
Holding signs and childhood photos at a sidewalk news conference, clergy sex abuse victims and supporters will publicly
-- announce a new child abuse lawsuit naming publicly for the first time a Kansas City priest,
-- prod the bishop to post the names of credibly accused predators on diocesan website, and
-- urge those who see, suspect or suffer clergy sex crimes and cover ups to keep calling police and prosecutors, not church officials.
WHEN
TODAY - Thursday, September 13 at 1:30 p.m.
WHERE
Outside the KC Catholic diocesan chancery office/headquarters, 20 W. 9th Street in downtown KC
WHO
Three-four members of a support group called SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAPnetwork.org), including a St. Louis woman who is the organization’s long time outreach director
WHY
Clergy sex abuse victims will announce a new lawsuit naming Fr. Jerry J. Wegenek and the diocese of Kansas City MO as defendants. The suit says that diocesan officials were first warned about Wegenek in 2001 when a Kansas City man reported his abuse to them.
The victim in this lawsuit was about ten years old when the assaults began. Wegenek showered him with attention, gave him beer and raped him repeatedly for years, at motels, retreats, church parking lots, and in the rectory of either St. Gabriel or St. Patrick parish in KC MO.
Wegenek worked at parishes in three western Missouri towns: Higginsville (St. Mary’s) Montrose (Immaculate Conception) and St. Joseph (Queen of the Apostle and St. James). He also worked at four parishes in Kansas City (St. Bernadette, St. James, St. Patrick and St. John the Baptist). At the latter, he worked with Msgr. Thomas O’Brien, a serial KC predator priest with dozens of victims.
Wegenek was born in St. Joseph MO and died in 2011. He was ordained in 1964.
The victim is in his early 50s and now lives in Florida.
Roughly 30 US bishops have posted names of credibly accused clerics on their websites. Despite repeated requests from SNAP, Bishop Finn refuses to take this simple, inexpensive step to better protect children and help victims heal. At the very least, SNAP says, Finn could easily and safely post the names of proven, admitted and credibly accused clerics who have died. Deceased clerics would not be be harmed, SNAP maintains, but living victims would be helped. Victims often find the courage to break their silence once they know they are not alone”, said David Clohessy, executive director of SNAP.
CONTACT
Barbara Dorris, SNAP Outreach Director, SNAPdorris@gmail.com, David Clohessy, SNAP Director, SNAPclohessy@aol.com
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10 Comments:
Why you wasting space with this stupid thing.
Only God can decide his fate now.
Just how in the hell can you sue a dead guy?
When a crime occurs, you call the police, yes? The police conduct investigations and prosecute criminals. SNAP and others do not seem to be interested in actually catching criminals. Instead they continue turn out allegations from anonymous accusers from decades ago (in this case 40 years ago) with accusers who are not willing to go to the police. At this point I can only conclude that some are doing this to slander Priests and the Church for whatever reason they may have. The idea is that once you accuse someone of such a heinous act without even attempting to prove it, simply accusing them will diminish a lifetime good service and forever stick with them. I question the motives of these people.
I don't question the motives of going after a long dead person. The motive is called: the quest for CASH. There isn't anybody around to refute their story, true or false. Obviously someone that is dead is not a danger to anyone, so why drag it through the courts? CASH!!!
Catholic Church = deep pockets. He figures that the Church will throw a check at him to get him out of their hair. He is probably right.
12:59, the "whatever reason" is money. It is a documented fact that SNAP gets its money from lawyers who sue the church and priests. I imagine there is a lawyer at every one of SNAP's so-called protests for the sole purpose of soliciting new clients to sue the church.
The catholic church is not the victim...
Rome stands up for what is right.
Joliet Diocese: Bishop Can’t Be Removed From Ministry Despite Having Molested Boy
If I can quote a catholic church h -- billboard along 435:
The catholic church -- under the same management for 2,000 years.
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It shows. 2,000 year old thinking, beliefs, and sensibilities. Not a selling point if you ask me.
If you were smart enough to actually read the article the abused person reported it before tha piece of sh!+ died
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