Links:
• Documents from SNAP (Survivor's Network of those Abused by Priests) on Franklyn Becker: One | Two | Three
• Archbishop Timothy Dolan's letter regarding future issues involving sexual abuse lawsuits
• Archdiocesan statement about the Franklyn Becker case

Audio:
• Peter Isely of SNAP on Newsradio 620 WTMJ's "The Charlie Sykes Show"

A group that has railed against the church over priest abuse today is releasing documents which it says show a decades long effort by the church to cover up such abuse.

"Complete, total, absolute certain knowledge that he was assaulting children," said Peter Isely of SNAP on Newsradio 620 WTMJ's "Charlie Sykes Show."

"Complete, total, absolute certain knowledge that he was assaulting children," said Peter Isely of SNAP on Newsradio 620 WTMJ's "Charlie Sykes Show."

He alleges that Archbishop Rembert Weakland knew Fr. Franklyn Becker was committing sexual abuse on children.

Isely also stated that the Archdiocese's kept a pattern of hiding the information from the public for 40 years.

The documents SNAP is releasing even claim that current Archbishop Timothy Dolan paid off Becker when they removed him from the priesthood, didn't help him with treatment, and didn't tell the public about his alleged past.

Dolan admits in a letter to the Archdiocese that it didn't handle the Becker case perfectly.

"Poor decisions were made," says Dolan in regards to Becker's case involving allegations of abuse from 1970 through the early 1990s. "The Church's decisions about Becker were badly misguided."

 

"Complete, total, absolute certain knowledge that he was assaulting children," said Peter Isely of SNAP on Newsradio 620 WTMJ's "Charlie Sykes Show."