July 13, 2005
Joe Saunders Appears on WFLA Orlando radio station with Pat Campbell
I was invited onto the Pat Campbell show this morning in Orlando to discuss the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church. We spent about 30 minutes talking about why the Church was slow to respond to the crisis as well as the ongoing cases I'm handling throughout the state of Florida and across the country. I also talked about how abusive priests were secretly transferred from parish to parish and in many instances, transferred from Diocese to Diocese. The most recent case in the Diocese of Orlando concerns the Rev. Vernon Uhran. The Diocese settled three cases for approximately $1.5 million against Uhran. Uhran moved around the Diocese of Orlando as well as stints in the Dominican Republic where he was working with youth and in Alaska. He was finally removed from active ministry in 1992 by then Bishop Dorsey.
