Barbara Blaine

Barbara Blaine is the founder and president of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), a national advocacy group for survivors of clerical sexual abuse. She was sexually abused during her teenage years from junior high school until graduation (the abuse occurred from 1969–1974) by a priest. She revealed this in 1989.[1] The priest, Chet Warren, was removed from ministry and has been defrocked after she and others came forward.[2]

Blaine was born in Toledo, Ohio, and currently resides in Chicago. She has a bachelor's degree from St. Louis University, a master's degree in social work from Washington University in St. Louis and a law degree from DePaul University School of Law.

Blaine worked as a lay missionary in Jamaica before moving to Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood in 1983 to take a job with Pax Christi, an international Catholic peace movement. She then held a decade-long position with the Catholic Worker, a social service agency. Blaine also opened a homeless facility in a convent at the now-shuttered Little Flower Catholic Church on the South Side. In 2002 she also worked as an assistant Cook County Public Guardian in Patrick Murphy's office.

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References

  1. ↑ Bill Frogameni. "Toledo Native Barbara Blaine Crusades against Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church." Toledo City Paper April 29, 2004
  2. ↑ http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040428/NEWS03/404280366/-1/NEWS

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