KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Advocates for survivors of sexual abuse at the hands of priests are publicly asking the Kansas City archdiocese to remove two men from their jobs in Johnson County.
One is now a priest at a Lenexa parish with a parochial school, and the other is the president at a Roeland Park Catholic high school.
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Both have faced accusations of child molestation in the past. One of them faced a lawsuit, but neither of them ever faced criminal charges.
The Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas said it did investigations into both men, as did law enforcement, and could not substantiate the accusations.
The advocates group Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests said that doesn’t justify putting them back in jobs near children.
“This notion of innocent until proven guilty, that the standard we use to lock up people and deprive them of their freedom, and that’s the standard that should be used,” former SNAP director David Clohessy said.