MISSOURI
Times Newspapers
by Don Corrigan
Kirkwood police are investigating allegations made by a former Vianney High School student body president, Bryan Bacon, that he was sexually abused by Brother William Mueller at the school in 1985.
Bacon, a Kirkwood resident, filed a lawsuit against Mueller, Vianney and the Marianist Order earlier this month. Bacon's lawsuit is one of several that have been filed across the country involving Mueller, who has taught students in Pueblo, Colo.; San Antonio, Tex.; and St. Mary's High School in St. Louis, where he served as the principal from 1981 to 1983.
Bacon's lawsuit accuses Marianist officials of knowing that Mueller had a history of abusing children, but that they failed to remove him. Mueller had spent several months in 1984 at a treatment center, the Servants of the Paraclete Center in New Mexico, before being assigned to Vianney.