In the news: Victims beg accused minister’s backers for “sensitivity”

A support group for clergy sex abuse victims is urging backers of a prominent Atlanta minister being sued for alleged sexual misconduct to be “open-minded and sensitive” and avoid “attacking” his accusers.

Leaders of a Chicago-based self help group called SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, are writing to some staff and members at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church with advice on what the organization calls “the compassionate and appropriate ways” to respond to charges that Pastor Eddie Long sexually exploited three young congregants.

Read the full article at the link below:

http://www.snapnetwork.org/snap_press_releases/2010_press_releases/092310_victims_beg_accused_ministers_backers_for_sensitivity.htm

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