PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Inquirer
By Craig R. McCoy and Nancy Phillips
Inquirer Staff Writers
A Philadelphia priest removed from ministry in 1993 after he was accused of abusing a teenage boy went on to teach middle school at the prestigious Haverford School - which never knew of the earlier complaint against him.
The priest, Martin J. Satchell, 39, was recently defrocked, the church disclosed Thursday. Until the defrocking, he had been removed from active ministry, but was still officially a priest.
Four years after the Philadelphia Archdiocese dismissed him, Satchell was hired to teach history to boys at the Haverford School. He worked there from 1997 until 2000, school officials said yesterday.
They said that no complaints of misconduct surfaced against him during his years there and that he left voluntarily.
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