Wednesday, June 07, 2006

SNAP is on the case...

...of a St Louis Community College employee accused of sexual misconduct in Orange County, California...
A 25-year-old woman filed suit Tuesday in Superior Court in Orange County, Calif., alleging that a St. Louis County man sexually abused, molested and raped her in 1998, before he became the music director at St. Louis Community College at Meramec.

Larry Stukenholtz is accused of abusing the girl, then 17, while he was the choir director at Mater Dei High School, a Catholic school in Santa Ana, Calif.
Stukenholtz works in St Louis for the Community College system. He denied the accusations and said that he was unaware of any allegations against him while he was at Mater Dei.

Never fear - SNAP is on this case like white on rice! The fact that the man is not a priest is unimportant - this happened at a Catholic school!
At a news conference on the edge of campus Tuesday, Barbara Dorris, outreach director for the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, asked the college to suspend Stukenholtz and to reach out to the people who have come in close contact with him. Dorris said the Catholic Church was concealing information about wrongdoing.
GUILTY - until proven innocent...SNAP's solution always appears to be the "Shoot first, ask questions later approach." Does SNAP take as much interest in the numerous sexual abuse cases occurring in the public school sector or in Protestant churches, or is it's interest merely in the Catholic realm.

Now had this been a female teacher having her way with an underage male student, we could well see that behavior lauded and displayed on TV.

Personally, I advocate locking up child molesters and throwing away the key - IF they survive long enough to make it to jail.

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