Mike McDonnell, SNAP Communications Manager, says hearing the term "Minor Attracted Person" is a "slap in the face"

People like Mike McConnell is why I have no respect for professional victim advocates, but it seems many in the anti-registry movement believe she should kiss up to these people. 

SNAP has a history of exploitation it needs to address. Maybe Mikey didn't get the memo because he was apparently too busy getting "gut punched" and "face slapped" by words he does not like. 

It is obvious he thinks everyone who uses the term MAP is a child abuser. 

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/08/prison-sex-therapist-defends-pedophiles-as-minor-attracted-persons-outraging-victim-advocates.html

Advocates for victims of childhood sexual abuse are excoriating a licensed sex therapist with the Commonwealth who is advocating that pedophiles be referred to as “minor-attracted persons.”

Miranda Galbreath, a Pennsylvania Department of Corrections sex therapist and counselor, this week engendered pushback after posting a video on social media seeming to defend pedophiles and calling on them to be referred to as “minor-attracted persons.”

“She is helping to minimize the problem,” said Mike McDonnell, survivor of clergy sexual abuse and a leader of the state Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. “She’s helping to minimize the truth, the depth and the scope and gravity of the crime itself.”

In a YouTube video titled “Let’s talk about minor-attracted persons”, Galbreath said pedophiles were “probably the most vilified population of folks in our culture.”

“The term pedophile has moved from being a diagnostic label to being a judgmental, hurtful insult that we hurl at people in order to harm them or slander them,” Galbreath said. “I also like to use person-first language that recognizes that any label we apply to a person is only part of who they are and doesn’t represent everything that they are.”

PennLive reached out to the Department of Corrections for comment. Press Secretary Maria Bevins indicated she would respond to the inquiry, but had not done so by Friday afternoon.

McDonnell, who was abused by two priests when he was between the ages of 11 and 12 and who has for years advocated for victims of clergy sex abuse, pushed back on Galbreath’s suggestion.

“When I hear the term pedophilia I get a punch in the gut and I have to pay attention because I want to know more about that individual,” said, McDonnell, who testified in the investigation into clergy sex abuse in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

“I want to know if the community is going to be safe where he or she is going to be allowed to return to after serving time. Minor attracted individual absolutely is a slap in the face to sexual abuse victims globally. We were victimized. We were targeted by predators who had groomed us and who had used us as their bait and as their play. That is the crime and it needs to remain named a crime.”

Galbreath claimed that “many minor-attracted persons never act on their attraction”. She pointed to incorrect assumptions about child sex offenders and referred to them as an “already marginalized population.”