Episode 12: We discuss the Vatican fighting against laws that would push priests to disclose sexual abuse told to them during confession, as well as an update on Erin’s Law in New York and news about the $34 million settlement reached between the Diocese of New Ulm, MN and survivors of abuse.
Episode 10: Marci A. Hamilton, one of the foremost advocates for survivors of child sex abuse in the country as well as a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, speaks about statute of limitations reform and the role that her organization, Child USA, plays in the larger picture of preventing child abuse and supporting survivors.
Episode 9: David Clohessy, a survivor of clergy sexual abuse and the former national director of SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests), joins us again to discuss the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops fixating on “policies, protocols, and procedures” without any “actual day-to-day change in how they behave,” as well as why he thinks Bishops are spending their vast dollars “not to protect kids, not to help victims, but to protect themselves and their reputations and their careers.”
Episode 8: A survivor of clergy sexual abuse and prominent advocate for survivors, David Clohessy, discusses why he began advocating for other survivors, as well as talking about an organization which he is a part of and formerly led, SNAP – The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests – before telling us why “only vigilance protects the vulnerable.”
Episode 7: We talk about a prominent judge in New York who recently revealed his sexual abuse by a doctor in hopes of inspiring others to report, as well as a bill that extends the statute of limitations within Rhode Island but is receiving negative feedback from survivors, and a recently published survey of Americans about the Catholic sexual abuse crisis within the country.
