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SNAP will distribute leaflets in at Stacyville, Greene churches

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HUDSON - Members of the Northeast Iowa chapter of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests will leaflet two churches in Stacyville and Greene Sunday.

Steve Theisen and Larry Kramer, both victims of religious sexual abuse, will distribute printed information at the Church of the Visitation in Stacyville at 8 a.m. and at St. Mary's Church in Greene at 10 a.m. The effort, they said, is to let victims of religious sexual abuse and their families know about the SNAP chapter in Northeast Iowa.

Theisen has notified both parishes about the leaflets.

Kramer of Byron, Minn., was abused as a child by a priest. Theisen's abuser taught in Stacyville both before and after she abused him at Sacred Heart School in Dubuque.

St. Mary's was selected as a site to pass out information because a priest who abused a female child at Sacred Heart in Dubuque was later transferred to Greene.

SNAP's support group meeting schedule is:

- In the Dubuque area, from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. on the third Monday of every other month beginning April 19 at the Dubuque Area Lifetime Center, 3505 Stoneman Road.

- In the Waterloo area, from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. the first Monday of every month beginning May 3 at the Hudson Public Library in Hudson.

- In the Mason City area, from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. the third Monday of every other month beginning May 17 at the OK House on the North Iowa Area Community College campus.

For information, call Theisen at (319) 231-1663 or Heather Smith at (319) 236-8147.

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