UNIVERSITY CITY (MO)
Des Moines Register
By SHIRLEY RAGSDALE
REGISTER RELIGION EDITOR
December 23, 2005
When a "nice old gentleman" moved into Sandra Ford's apartment building in University City, Mo., she didn't think anything of it.
The 37-year-old mother and full-time student made a mental note to add him to the number of oldsters for whom she occasionally cooks.
"He was outgoing and friendly," Ford said. "He brought cookies and bread to my 6-year-old son from the bakery he worked for."
Several weeks later, she heard that the man was the Rev. William Wiebler, an inactive priest from the Davenport Catholic Diocese in Iowa who has been accused of sexually abusing children.
"I freaked," Ford said Thursday.
The Davenport Diocese on Tuesday reported it had lost contact with Wiebler after Deacon David Montgomery went to St. Louis to check up on the priest, who has been recommended to the Vatican for defrocking.