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	Rev. Martin P. O'Loghlen, Ss.cc. Bishopaccountability.org February 13, 2011 http://www.bishop-accountability.org/assign/OLoghlen_Rev_Martin_SS_CC.htm O'Loghlen was accused in late 1995 or early 1996 of sexually abusing a girl at Bishop Amat High School in La Puente CA during the late 1960s. O'Loghlen admitted the abuse, which included sexual intercourse. The survivor made her complaint after O'Loghlen renewed contact with her. At the time of the complaint, he was provincial of the Sacred Hearts' Western United States Province. O'Loghlen was not removed from this position as a result of the complaint, and in fact was reelected for another term. Within ten months of receiving the complaint, the Los Angeles archdiocese invited O'Loghlen to join their Sexual Abuse Advisory Board, and he accepted with the knowledge of the head of his order. More than seven years later, Cardinal Mahony included O'Loghlen in his Report to the People of God (PDF p. 32, no. 47), listing one accuser. The New York Times published an investigative report on the abuse on 2/12/11. O'Loghlen was removed from his parish only after Times reporter, Jennifer Medina, made inquiries; the Vicar for Clergy, Msgr. Michael Meyers, who had assigned O'Loghlen to the parish, resigned. During his fifty-year career, O'Loghlen has taught in two high schools and was Vice Principal and Principal at one of them; worked in two parishes, one in California and one (as pastor) in the Philippines; and he has worked as a senior official of his religious order, the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, in California and in Rome. O'Loghlen was sent to the Philippines in 2003, when the statute of limitations "window" was in effect, and he was in the Philippines while the Los Angeles settlements were negotiated. Two priests of the order who are bishops have resigned during the abuse crisis. Bishop Georg Mueller, SS.CC. of the prelature of Trondheim in Norway, abused a boy in the 1990s, and Bishop Brendan Comiskey of the Diocese of Ferns in Ireland resigned after his role in the cover-up of abuse by Rev. Sean Fortune was revealed. Comiskey trained with O'Loghlen and worked with him in California in the 1960s.
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