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	More Sex Abuse Accusations against Former Brother By James Muñoz KENS [San Antonio TX] February 2, 2007 http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA020107.brother.william.mueller.KENS.402666be.html Self-proclaimed victims of sexual abuse say Colorado church officials knew of accusations of abuse against a former Brother, but did nothing about it. One victim said he reported the abuse in 1965, but the accused Brother, who lives in San Antonio, was allowed to work around children for 21 more years. William Mueller, the former Brother, was never brought up on formal charges. Now, 22 victims are suing the Diocese of Colorado. "Here locally, people are afraid and people are still coming forward about William Mueller and they are local," said Barbara Garcia-Boehland, a member of SNAP, the Survivor Network of Those Abused by Priests. "Many people have called telling about how he would make them pass out." "Mueller was moved around left and right; one year at a time, he couldn't event sit in one place at a time," Garcia-Boehland said. Another victim recently said he was blindfolded and inappropriately touched by Mueller in 1965. Mueller told him it was part of a research project. That accuser said he told church officials and that's when Mueller was transferred to Colorado. Mueller taught at Central Catholic High School in San Antonio for 10 years. He voluntarily left the Marianist Order in 1986. A deposition with Mueller was set for Jan. 16, but was postponed because of a winter storm. A law firm in Florida is currently working with several accusers who live in San Antonio.
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