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Lafayette bishop was Maurice Schexnayder (1956-1972), replaced by Gerard Louis Frey (1972-1989)

Broussard

• Admitted to having molested three young boys from this parish in 1972. Nuns at the parish were concerned about Gauthe's behavior with children, including noticing that little boys would spend weekend nights with him in the rectory. (The Times of Acadiana,
May 23, 1985)

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Gauthe worked under Msgr. John Kemps.

New Iberia

• Bishop Frey confronted Gauthe in 1974 about a report of his having had sexual contact with a "young man," and Gauthe admitted that the report was true. Frey appointed Gauthe chaplain of the diocesan Boy Scouts the following year.

• Gauthe admitted in a 1980s deposition that he had sexually abused six boys in this parish. (The Times of Acadiana,
May 23, 1985)

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Gauthe is listed last, after Rev. Joseph A. Bourque and Rev. Martin C. Borcherding. Rev. Daniel Schexnayder was in residence 1975-1976.

Abbeville

• Two parishioners of this parish reported to Msgr. Mouton that Gauthe had licked their sons on the cheeks. Mouton alerted the vicar general, Msgr. Henri Larroque, and Gauthe underwent psychiatric treatment, while remaining an active priest. (The Times of Acadiana,
May 23, 1985)

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Gauthe worked under Msgr. Richard vonPhul Mouton and Rev. Glen J. Provost. Rev. J.C. Sinnige was in residence.

Henry

• In April 1980 St. John's parishioners complained in a letter to Bishop Frey that Gauthe's house had become a "second home" to "a bunch of" unsupervised Abbeville boys. There was no intervention.

• In 1980 Gilbert Gauthe's sister-in-law reported to police that he was a pedophile. This was after she caught her husband, who was Gilbert's brother, Richard, molesting one of her children; Richard told her that he and Gilbert had been "doing this for years." The sister in law stated that the police didn't believe her. (Houston Chronicle,
November 1, 1998)

• Gauthe was suspended from ministry in June of 1983, after the father of three little boys reported to an attorney that his sons had been molested for several years in Henry by Gauthe. These boys told their therapist about many other Gauthe victims. (The Times of Acadiana,
May 23, 1985)

• Gauthe eventually admitted to raping or sodomizing at least 37 children. (National Law Journal,
April 4, 1988)

• In a 1986 civil trial, a boy testified that Gauthe began molesting him when he was seven years old, in 1982, on his first day as an altar boy. Gauthe involved him and other altar boys in group sex, which he photographed. Gauthe used both threats and gifts to keep children from telling. (Associated Press,
February 15, 1987)

Gauthe does not appear in the Directories after 1987.

Upon his removal from St. John's, Gauthe saw a psychiatrist in Opelousas, then went to live with his family in Napoleonville, LA. He spent 1984 at the House of Affirmation in Whitinsville, MA. The diocese settled with nine plaintiffs in June 1984. (The Times of Acadiana,
May 23, 1985)

Pleaded guilty in 1985 to sexually abusing 11 altar boys and sentenced to 20 years in prison. (Associated Press,
February 15, 1987)

In a 1986 civil trial, the jury ruled in favor of another victim. (Associated Press,
February 15, 1987)

Ace

• Arrested for molesting a three year old boy in July 1996. (Houston Chronicle,
November 1, 1998)

Gauthe lived in a house that belonged to his sister and posed as a retired paramedic.

Pleaded no contest to "injury to a child," and sentenced to seven years probation.

Shreveport

• Charged with having raped a female child at gunpoint 20 years previously.

• Charged with rape after another former altar boy came forward. (Houston Chronicle,
November 1, 1998)