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I have some familiarity with SNAP. Here’s how the scheme works. SNAP is a PR and recruiting tool for Jeff Anderson. They look for alleged victims and get them to sign up for lawsuits with Jeff Anderson’s firm and nowhere else. They only care about money. They rarely atempt to get priests sent to jail. They just turn a lawsuit into a big media story to negotiate a bigger settlement. Here’s a related link of a story I had written about them a few years ago:

http://www.unpost.org/international-cover-up-priest-misconduct/

On this, Jeff Anderson’s public persona and I agree: the perpetrators of injustice must be brought to the light and held accountable. The difference between us is that I don’t make millions of dollars writing articles like this one. Also, I don’t pretend to be morally incorrupt. Like Pope Francis, Fr. Wehmeyer and (yes) even Anderson and the folks at SNAP, I am a sinner. God will judge me alongside all the rest. Against Anderson and SNAP is a convincing case. Anderson makes a lot of money doing what he does though he claims to be concerned for the victims. SNAP is not a reputable organization but rather presents a new standard as far as incompetence is concerned. There is reason to suspect the recent push by MPR is driven in whole or in part by Mr. Anderson and his money, since MPR is funded by donations, Anderson has money and his profile notes he likes to be close to the press. This is what I maintain; nothing more, nothing less. May God who is Lord of all, judge each of us, including me, according to his justice.

I don’t discount what this article says but as a survivor of priest abuse SNAP was the only organization that took what I’d endured seriously and got help for me. SNAP helped save my life. That’s much more than the big powerful organization that turned it’s back on me and ran me out.