Letter to Riverside DA from SNAP members
Riverside, California --
We the members of SNAP, (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) wish to publicly express our outrage at your recent "secret deal" with the San Bernadino Diocese.
Fr. Jesse Dominguez and any men who allowed him to molest children are criminals. As such, their crimes, files and other information must be public in order to protect the innocent children who are still at severe risk of sexual abuse.
Your secret agreement is tantamount to the FBI striking a deal with Al Capone. Since when is it acceptable to protect molesters and the men who allowed them to abuse? Why does the Church think it is above the law? Whose safety was sold to protect the diocese? Whose child was endangered?
Secret "gangster-era" deals do not comply with the law, because neither judge nor jury was there to evaluate the deal, the consequences and the risks to the children of Riverside.
We encourage you to immediately nullify this deal, make Jesse Dominguez's files public, and uphold the law that keeps children safe from sexual predators.
We strongly suspect that the dioceses secret deal is another attempt to manipulate and undermine your credibility and efforts to locate, arrest, and prosecute Fr. Jessie Dominguez and other molesters. Worse, we believe that church officials will also be shielded from accountability for covering up sex crimes in the church with a private plea bargain disguised as a protocol agreement with prosecutors. Don't allow your office to be compromised to protect a few guilty men.
Any deal struck to protect the files of Fr. Dominguez will be seen as a deal paved on the bodies of innocent children. It didn't work in San Francisco and it will not work in Riverside. As a support group of men and women victimized by clergy, we are deeply concerned about the protection of children. We implore you to pursue Fr. Dominguez and church officials' files to bring him and other perpetrators to justice. We urge you to continue to investigate and prosecute known and suspected child molesters and their alleged accomplices to the fullest extent of the law, even if the suspects are Catholic priests and their bishops. Unless this secret agreement is immediately nullified and made public, the D.A. is telling parents that molesters are more important than their children's safety, especially if there is embarrassing information in a molester's protected secret file that could implicate powerful local leaders.
Read the article at DailyBulletin.com Dated July 22, 2005
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We the members of SNAP, (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) wish to publicly express our outrage at your recent "secret deal" with the San Bernadino Diocese.
Fr. Jesse Dominguez and any men who allowed him to molest children are criminals. As such, their crimes, files and other information must be public in order to protect the innocent children who are still at severe risk of sexual abuse.
Your secret agreement is tantamount to the FBI striking a deal with Al Capone. Since when is it acceptable to protect molesters and the men who allowed them to abuse? Why does the Church think it is above the law? Whose safety was sold to protect the diocese? Whose child was endangered?
Secret "gangster-era" deals do not comply with the law, because neither judge nor jury was there to evaluate the deal, the consequences and the risks to the children of Riverside.
We encourage you to immediately nullify this deal, make Jesse Dominguez's files public, and uphold the law that keeps children safe from sexual predators.
We strongly suspect that the dioceses secret deal is another attempt to manipulate and undermine your credibility and efforts to locate, arrest, and prosecute Fr. Jessie Dominguez and other molesters. Worse, we believe that church officials will also be shielded from accountability for covering up sex crimes in the church with a private plea bargain disguised as a protocol agreement with prosecutors. Don't allow your office to be compromised to protect a few guilty men.
Any deal struck to protect the files of Fr. Dominguez will be seen as a deal paved on the bodies of innocent children. It didn't work in San Francisco and it will not work in Riverside. As a support group of men and women victimized by clergy, we are deeply concerned about the protection of children. We implore you to pursue Fr. Dominguez and church officials' files to bring him and other perpetrators to justice. We urge you to continue to investigate and prosecute known and suspected child molesters and their alleged accomplices to the fullest extent of the law, even if the suspects are Catholic priests and their bishops. Unless this secret agreement is immediately nullified and made public, the D.A. is telling parents that molesters are more important than their children's safety, especially if there is embarrassing information in a molester's protected secret file that could implicate powerful local leaders.
Read the article at DailyBulletin.com Dated July 22, 2005
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