"Why on earth does it take a more than a year - and consultation with church bureaucrats in Rome - to determine whether a child sex abuse report against a New York priest is 'credible'?" asked SNAP's director, David Clohessy, in an email to Syracuse.com.
"When officials move slowly and quietly in abuse cases, they break their promises to be 'open and transparent,' and they endanger other children," Clohessy said. "Child abusers rarely abuse once. There is no telling how many more children might have needlessly been victimized."
A child-molesting accusation against a Catholic monsignor and former Bishop Ludden High School principal is credible, the Vatican notified the Syracuse Roman Catholic Diocese today.
The Syracuse Diocese in April removed Monsignor Charles Eckermann from ministry after determining the recently disclosed accusation from a former altar boy from 25 years ago to be credible, a diocese official confirmed today.
"Charles Eckermann will no longer be able to function as a priest, wear clerical garb or be presented as a priest," she said of Eckermann, who also served as Syracuse's school board president decades ago.
The victim, Kevin Braney, said Eckermann raped him more than a dozen times in a basement storage room in the rectory at St. Ann's Church in Manlius in 1988 and 1989, when Braney was 15 and 16 years old.
Syracuse monsignor removed from ministry over decades-old child-molesting accusation | syracuse.com
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