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SNAP National Press Conference

May 9, 2002

Highlights of Media Coverage

Advocates Ask Bishops to Help Prosecute Abusive Priests, By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - May 9, 2002

Victims' Group Uses Spotlight to Seek Changes in Law,
By Laurie Goodstein, THE NEW YORK TIMES - May 10, 2002

Victims of clergy abuse granted meeting with S.F. auxiliary bishop, San Francisco Chronicle, Friday, May 10, 2002

Diocese to meet with abuse victims, Portland Press Herald, Friday, May 10, 2002

St. Louis Archbishop Rigali backs Missouri review of statute of limitations laws, St Louis Post-Dispatch, Friday, May 10, 2002

 

From Massachusetts:

Laity steps up sex-abuse fight: Boston victims groups lobby for new laws, The Boston Herald, Sunday, November 24, 2002

From Connecticut:

State House Backs Stricter Penalties For Sex Abusers, Hartford Courant, May 3, 2002

From Florida:

Legislators draft bill to aid clergy victims, By Noaki Schwartz and Nicole Sterghos Brochu, Sun-Sentinel - June 30, 2002