SAN ANTONIO (TX)
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO - Central Catholic High School officials are notifying alumni about lawsuits alleging sexual abuse by a former band director at the San Antonio school.
Three suits were filed this week in Pueblo, Colo., and one in St. Louis against the U.S. Province of the Society of Mary, naming former Brother William Mueller, 67, of San Antonio. Mueller worked at Central Catholic from 1971 to 1981.
"We are not aware of any complaints regarding his service here at Central Catholic," Father Joseph Tarrillion, president of the San Antonio school, said in a letter sent Thursday to all who attended Central Catholic between 1971 and 1984.
His one-page letter invites concerned alumni to notify authorities in San Antonio or St. Louis of any allegations of improper behavior by Mueller.
The latest suit was filed Wednesday in Pueblo, Colo., by a 52-year-old man who alleged Mueller masturbated and fondled him on several occasions when the man was a student at the former Roncalli High School. Mueller left Roncalli in 1971.