Los Angeles Roman Catholic Archdiocese Releases Abuse Files

By Veronica Rocha
Glendale News-Press
February 8, 2013

http://articles.glendalenewspress.com/2013-02-08/news/tn-gnp-0208-los-angeles-roman-catholic-archdiocese-releases-abuse-files_1_lynn-caffoe-abuse-claims-personnel-files

Holy Family Catholic Church in Glendale. (Tim Berger/Staff…)

[Clergy Files Produced by Archdiocese of Los Angeles]

Twenty-nine clergy tied to local churches are included in list of 122.

Files recently released by the Los Angeles Roman Catholic Archdiocese show that 29 clergy accused of sexual abuse served assignments at local parishes, where some of the alleged child molestation took place.

Of the 29 men who were named, eight were accused of committing sex abuse while assigned to local parishes in Burbank, La Cañada Flintridge, Pasadena, Montrose and La Crescenta. Of those eight priests, three — Leland Boyer, Lynn Caffoe and John Kohnke — are dead. The other 21 were either not assigned to local churches at the time of the allegation being made, or there were no files listed.

Richard Henry, who served as a priest at Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in Montrose between 1982 and 1986, was sentenced to eight years in prison for molesting four boys whose families attended the church after confessing to psychiatrists, according to the archdiocese records.

One of Henry's victims committed suicide.