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Video from Live Web Cast: Thursday, August 21, 2008
Educating To End Abuse Show Giving Victims a Voice - www.educatingtoendabuse.com Full hour video from my interview with Peggy Warren 
Watched live on www.kctu.com Guest speaker: Charles L. Bailey Jr. Topic: Clergy Sexual Abuse - Call in toll free with questions or comments 1-866-905-8855 It will be a live web cast so anyone with a pc can watch it live (Thursday, August 21, 2008 7pm EST). Anyone can call in with the toll free number to ask questions of me. |
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You Tube Article, featuring the Author; Charles L. Bailey Jr.
My name is Sue. I am Charles' wife of over 35 years. I wanted to thank Charley for disclosing his childhood abuse to me. It was a sign of trust. He is helping all those who have been abused and those that haven't but are near to someone who has been abused. His book is his legacy and I couldn't be prouder to be his wife. 
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NEWS RELEASE: Monday, April 28, 2008
Pope must address sex criminals in church By Charles L. Bailey Jr. click here for the online posting of this article - from http://www.syracuse.com/ As an adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse by a Catholic priest, I don't know if I'm more deeply hurt or offended by the pope's visit. As head of the Catholic Church, he should talk less and do more about his offending bishops and priests. For Pope Benedict to say he is "ashamed" by the sex scandal is an insult to us survivors. To say he feels bad about the damage to the church is very offensive. What about the damage to the children? Meeting with a few survivors doesn't cut it. He should have met with the National Leadership of SNAP, the Survivors' Network of those Abused by Priests. SNAP followed proper channels to meet with the pope in advance of his visit, but received no response. It is past time for the pope to address these men as what they are. They are criminals, felony criminals at that. In every other sect of society it is a felony crime to rape a child, as I was raped. The charter for the protection of children states: "Complete openness and transparency" with regard to the sex abuse scandal. How can our bishop have a list of 49 suspected priests, going back to 1950, and be able to keep it secret? If a school district had a list of 49 suspect teachers, wouldn't there be public outrage and demand for the names? Why is our bishop allowed to keep such secrets? The abuse is documented by Father Doyle, Sipe and Wall in their new book, "Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes The Catholic Church's 2,000-year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse." Pope Benedict has kept the most notorious of all American bishops in handling the clergy sexual abuse on the job in the literal and figurative center of Catholic power. That's Cardinal Bernard Law, the disgraced former archbishop of Boston, whom the Vatican plucked for a prominent position in Rome after Law resigned over public outcry because of his cover-ups of predator priests. Pope Benedict, since becoming pope, hasn't disciplined or spoken out against a single U.S. bishop who failed to enforce the 2002 policy on child sexual abuse. Among these bishops is Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. George's failure to heed warnings about pedophile priest Daniel McCormack led to more children being abused between 2004 and 2005. McCormack was arrested in 2006 and sent to jail. Pope Benedict ignored the Dallas Morning News report on "Runaway Priests" about several proven, admitted and some credibly accused U.S. pedophile priests who fled the country to where? To Rome, where they live and work in and around the Vatican. Pope Benedict hasn't disciplined or spoken out against diocese or religious orders, including St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minn., which allows a convicted clergy sex offender to repeatedly lead retreats on its grounds, and misleads the public about its so-called monitoring of predator monks. In fact, the pope just welcomed the abbot and others from the abbey to the Vatican a few weeks back to promote a Bible the abbey publishes. Cardinal Ratzinger ignored repeated complaints from eight Legion of Christ seminarians who came forward in 1998 to say the order's founder, the Rev. Marcial Maciel Degollado, sexually abused them. As cardinal, he slapped ABC-TV investigative reporter Brian Ross on the wrist (literally) for even asking a question about the case. (In 2006, Pope Benedict "invited" Maciel to live a "life of prayer and penance" but prohibited a church trial, much less turn him over the police). For articles, go to snapnetwork.org |
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NEWS RELEASE: April 3, 2008
Cazenovia College's Human Services Lecture Series - Ref: 080423HumanSvcLectureBailey Contact: Wayne Westervelt, director of communications - Phone: 315-655-7377 Survivor Charles L. Bailey to Speak about Sexual Abuse Part of Cazenovia College's Human Services Program "Child Abuse Month" Events Cazenovia, N.Y. - "One of every five women, one of every nine men. These are the estimated numbers of people who have suffered sexual abuse, many at the hands of a trusted family member, a friend, a priest…" said Charles L. Bailey, Jr., author of "In the Shadow of the Cross," a heart-wrenching account of what he suffered as a child at the hands of a priest, in the house where his trusting mother unknowingly abetted the victimizer by allowing "private counseling" in her son's bedroom. April is observed nationally as Prevent Child Abuse Month. On Tuesday, April 22, as part of Cazenovia College's Human Services Lecture Series, Bailey will speak in Hubbard Hall on Seminary Street in Cazenovia from 6 to 8 p.m. The lecture is free and open to the public. The lecture will be introduced by Martha Ryan, of the McMahon/Ryan Child Advocacy Center in Syracuse. Like most victims of sexual abuse by a person of authority, Bailey was threatened and shamed into silence; for more than 40 years the threats and the shame kept him silent. Recovery only began when a chance event forced him to reveal his secret to his wife, who helped him go into counseling and begin to come to grips with what the priest had done to his life. "I never forgave the priest," said Bailey. "But I was finally able to forgive myself." Through this forgiveness and understanding, Bailey has become a dedicated advocate for victims of abuse. His mantra became, "Not one more child." He is involved with SNAP (Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests), and has worked with the FBI to develop profiling criteria for sexual predators, and with many organizations around the country that serve victims of abuse. Cazenovia College, named one of "America's Best Colleges" by US News & World Report, is an independent, co-educational, baccalaureate college. Located near Syracuse, N.Y., Cazenovia College offers a comprehensive liberal arts education in an exceptional community environment, with academic and co-curricular programs devoted to developing leaders in their professional fields. For more information, visit www.cazenovia.edu. |
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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
Article - Mea Maxima Culpa By Barry Crimmins (Former Air America Radio writer and correspondent, internationally renowned political satirist and author of the acclaimed Seven Stories Press book "Never Shake Hands With A War Criminal") Preview of the article(below) for full article click here A few years back my dear childhood friend, John Considine, called me to ask if I had seen that morning's Syracuse Post Standard. I hadn't. He said. "Well go online and check it out. There's a story about Neary in there." I KNEW what the story would be. I knew that one or some of his victims had come forward to blow the whistle on him. One had --a courageous man named Charles L. Bailey Jr. disclosed that he’d suffered unspeakable abuse at the hands of Thomas Neary. Simple math told me that the satanic maggot had victimized Charles just before he had been assigned to Skaneateles. I immediately called the Post-Standard writer to tell her that although I had never been sexually abused by Neary, I’d dealt with him for years as a child and had absolutely no doubt concerning the veracity of Charles’ story. She said there was no need for that-- several other victims had already called in. I gave her my contact info and asked that it be passed along to Mr. Bailey. He called me that day and told me details that were shocking even to me, a true believer in the depravity of Thomas Neary. I had wildly underestimated the evil he was not only capable of but had committed for years before the Catholic Church decided to stow him away in Skaneateles. We spoke by phone a number of times and I promised to help "in any way I could." |
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The Post Standard (a Syracuse, NY local Newspaper) - June 28th, 2007
Article - Priest Accused in New Book By Mike McAndrew "Staff writer at the Post Standard" "Dear God, are you there? This is Charles Bailey. I am ten years old. . .A man in priestly robes has just raped me." "Is he one of yours?. . .How could you let this happen?" That's how Bailey, 56, a burly Lysander grandfather and retired Niagara Mohawk worker, begins "In the Shadow of the Cross," a new book believed to be the first written by a local clergy abuse victim. In his book, Bailey recounts in painful detail how the Rev. Thomas Neary, a Catholic priest in the Syracuse Diocese, raped him dozens of times from 1961 to 1963 when he was 10 to 12 years old. He describes how the abuse affected his entire life, how he kept the secret for 40 years before telling his wife, and how he still struggles to make peace with God. Neary - who served at diocesan churches in Onondaga Hill, Hannibal, Jordan, Skaneateles, New Hartford, Durhamville and Norwich - died Sept. 17, 2001, at the age of 83. That was eight months before Bailey disclosed his secret to his wife, Sue. Since he publicly testified in 2003 before a state Senate panel, more than 30 other men have told him they were Neary victims, too. Some have contacted him anonymously. But 17 of them gave Bailey their names. |
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Saturday, June 30th at 1:00 pm
Book signing - Meet Local Author Charles L. Bailey, Jr. author of "In the Shadow of the Cross" at Creekside Books and Coffee 35 Fennell Street Skaneateles, NY 13152 Tel: 315-685-0379 |
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The Author "Charles L Bailey Jr.", will be on the Today Show, Saturday the 10th of March at 8:45am.
The Today show is nationwide from 7 AM to 10 AM and they break away for local broadcasts and I will be in that segment. |
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TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE - Feb 2007
Short Movie from the Conference 
Pictures from the Conference 
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