Who: John Staab, a clergy abuse survivor, his family and supporters
What: A sidewalk demonstration and leafleting at the Open House of a Catholic high
school
Where: On the sidewalk in front of Roselle Catholic High School, 1 Raritan Road,
Roselle, New Jersey, 07203-2599, (908) 245-2350
When: Tuesday evening, October 5, 2010 from 6:40 PM until 9:00 PM
Tonight, on his 56th birthday, a brave man has come to his alma mater, Roselle Catholic High School, to warn and educate. John Staab was the same age as your child when he was recruited to attend Roselle Catholic High School in the 1960’s. He graduated from a Catholic elementary school in Elizabeth and thought Roselle Catholic High School would be a good fit for him. Forty years later, he is back at his high school to tell the true story of horrendous sexual abuse by a Marist Brother.
If NBC’s TODAY Show can ask the question, “Where in the world is Matt Lauer,” why can’t the National Survivor Advocates Coalition ask a similar question? Where in the world is Bob Hoatson? Right now, he is in New Jersey.
HELPING VICTIMS OF CLERGY SEXUAL ABUSE:
SUGGESTIONS FOR POPE BENEDICT XVI
FATHERS HOATSON AND LASCH TO PRESENT WORKSHOP AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Father Bob Hoatson and Father Ken Lasch, co-founders of “Road to Recovery,” a non-profit charity that assists survivors of clergy and other sexual abuse, will present a workshop at the “Male Survivor International Conference” entitled “Helping Survivors Get On the Road to Recovery. The workshop will take place on Sunday, March 21, from 9:00 A.M. to 10:30 A.M. at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan. For more information, please go to Malesurvivor.com.
STATEMENT BY REV. ROBERT M. HOATSON, PH.D., PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER OF “ROAD TO RECOVERY,” P.O. BOX 279, LIVINGSTON, NEW JERSEY 07039
“THE POPE EXPRESSES SHOCK AND OUTRAGE”
When the leader of over a billion Catholics expresses shock and outrage, as Pope Benedict XVI did today, after reading the “Murphy Report” about sexual abuse of children in the Dublin Archdiocese and its cover-up by numerous bishops, it is expected that he will follow-up with definitive and concerted action.
Road to Recovery recommends that Pope Benedict: