TKC EXCLUSIVE AND BREAKING NEWS!!! SNAP CALLS OUT "PREDATOR" PRIEST LIVING IN THE GOLDEN GHETTO!!!

This afternoon SNAP - The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests makes a serious move against a local priest who was ALLEGEDLY involved in molestation cases over the years.

TAKE A LOOK AT SNAP CALLING OUT A DUDE THEY SAY IS "MISSOURI'S MOST WIDELY ACCUSED PREDATOR PRIEST" NOW LIVING IN THE GOLDEN GHETTO!!!

They're sending this letter out to more than a few JoCo Schools

TAKE A LOOK AT THE TEXT FROM SNAP FOR YOURSELF:

Doris Moore
Principal
Overland Trail Elementary
Leawood, KS

Dear Principal Moore,

We are clergy sex abuse victims who belong to a support group called SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAPnetwork.org). Our mission is to protect the vulnerable and heal the wounded.

We have learned that Missouri’s most widely-accused predator priest lives near you.

He’s Fr. Thomas M. Reardon and he now lives at an apartment complex at ##############, near two other schools and the Deer Creek subdivision. Weeks ago, a civil lawsuit was served against Reardon there. No Missouri priest faces as many child sex abuse allegations as Reardon.

In 1989, Reardon resigned from the Catholic priesthood in the face of allegations of financial misdeeds. Earlier, he had been sent to Johns Hopkins for treatment for his “addictions,” yet still the Kansas City diocese paid for him to become a licensed counselor. In 2004, however, Reardon voluntarily turned in that professional license when lawsuits against him began piling up.

He’s now faced at least twenty-five individuals who say he molested them as kids. Almost all of them have settled civil cases against him. Kansas City Catholic officials are reportedly trying to defrock him.

We worry about the safety of kids near Reardon. So we are writing letters to church officials asking them to alert the public about his presence and his crimes. We are asking the same of you, and of officials with the Kansas City Christian School (Oxford Park Campus) and Mission Trail Elementary. (

Why are we so worried?

--Because he’s a serial predator

--Because he’s shrewd (as evidenced by the fact that he’s gotten by with his crimes for so many years)

--Because he’s well-spoken and well-educated (and adept at winning people’s trust quickly)

--Because even after leaving the priesthood, he sought positions of access to and power over kids

--Because we’ve seen no hint or evidence that he has, in any way, “reformed”

--Because he often acted in concert with another child molesting cleric, Fr. Thomas O’Brien, and

--Because in our highly transient society, we strongly suspect that few who live near him have any idea of his crimes.

“But Reardon hasn’t been found guilty in court, so how do we know he’s guilty?” you might ask.

-- Because he’s been accused dozens of times

-- Because dozens of those suits have risen to the level of civil lawsuits

-- Because dozens of those suits have been settled

-- Because he’s been ousted from ministry for years by his own supervisors

-- Because those supervisors are trying to defrock him

-- Because he didn’t fight when faced with potential challenges to his counseling license

-- Because many of his victims don’t know one another (and thus could not have concocted “stories”)

So please, protect your students and staff. Please do all that you can’t to alert them to Reardon’s presence nearby.

You needn’t worry about Reardon suing you for slander or libel. (The last thing a predator wants is more public attention to him and his crimes.) There’s plenty of information in the public domain about the many credible allegations against him (see BishopAccountability.org for details).

We look forward hearing from you.

Mike Hunter
SNAP Kansas City Director

David Clohessy
SNAP Executive Director
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