NSAC News – press release – October 8, 2009
National Survivor Advocates Coalition Hails US Supreme Court Decision
Hopes It Frees Any Person with Information to Come Forward
It is our sincere hope that the United States Supreme Court’s decision not to hear the appeal of Father Gerald Robinson convicted of murdering Sister Margaret Pahl in Toledo, Ohio in 1980 will provide some sense of peace to the Pahl family.
Given the Vatican’s current investigation of US nuns, there seems no better time to wonder where the Vatican’s heft and moral leadership were when a no holds barred approach to finding the killer was needed when Sister Margaret was found slain in the hospital chapel on Holy Saturday 1980.
Instead officials of the Toledo Diocese, the same diocese now headed by Bishop Blair who is carrying out the Vatican’s investigation of nuns, block and blunted a true investigation of Father Robinson.
The Supreme Court has done what Catholic bishops have failed to do: provide justice to victims. This shameful stain cries out for Bishop Blair to seek out any and all victims of Father Robinson and all sexual abuse victims. We hope this decision is freeing for any person who may have any additional information regarding Father Robinson and it is an impetus to come forward to the Toledo police.
Contact:
- Kristine Ward, chair, National Survivor Advocates Coalition
937-272-0308