BALTIMORE (MD)
The Charleston Gazette
BALTIMORE (AP) -- In a Dec. 22 story about the defrocking of a priest for sexual abuse, The Associated Press erroneously reported the chronology of the case involving Maurice Blackwell. He was not returned to his parish after acknowledging a relationship with a teenager.
Blackwell was accused of sexually abusing Dontee Stokes in 1993 at his parish in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. The priest denied the allegation, was given psychological treatment and allowed to return to his parish. Subsequently, a second person accused Blackwell of abusing him in the early 1970s. Blackwell acknowledged a relationship had occurred with that person, and the archdiocese removed him from the ministry in 1998.