Youngstown Diocese issues list of priests ‘credibly’ accused of abuse

The Alliance Review
October 30, 2018

https://www.the-review.com/news/20181030/youngstown-diocese-issues-list-of-priests-credibly-accused-of-abuse

Bishop George V. Murry from the Diocese of Youngstown speaks during a news conference Sept. 4. He spoke about his personal battle with leukemia and sex abuse investigations within the Catholic church. Photo by Michael Balash

Bishop George V. Murry says 31 with roles in church accused; diocese includes churches, Catholic schools in Stark County.

Bishop George V. Murry of the Catholic Diocese of Youngstown released a list of priests who have been credibly accused of sexual abuse of a minor and reported to police. Since 1943, there have been 31 out of 1,026 priests or religious leaders accused of behaving inappropriately, Murry said during a news conference Tuesday.

“I am very sorry that the Church has failed to act aggressively to eliminate this evil,” Murry said in a statement from the diocese. “I humbly ask forgiveness from the victims and their families for the grave mistakes the Church has made.”

A credible accusation is one against a priest or deacon that, after thorough investigation and review of information, appears more likely true than not in the judgment of the Diocesan Review Board and is accepted as credible by the bishop.

This list will be supplemented based upon further determinations of credible allegations. The Youngstown Diocese is asking victims of clergy sexual abuse or those with knowledge of instances to call law enforcement or to contact the victim assistance coordinator for the Diocese of Youngstown, retired police Detective Delphine Baldwin-Casey, at 330-718-1388.

Clergy of the Diocese of Youngstown against whom credible, substantiated allegations of sexual abuse of a minor have been made:

Robert Burns

Thomas Crum

Anthony Esposito

Richard Evritt

James Fondriest (deceased)

Ernest Formichelli (permanent deacon)

Paul Gubser (deceased)

John Hammer

Robert Hill (deceased)

Thomas Kelly (deceased)

Donald Oser (deceased)

Robert Reidy

John Ryan (deceased)

Robert Sabatino (deceased)

Louis Santucci

John Schmidt (deceased)

William Smaltz

John Warner

Francis Zapitelli (deceased)

Clergy of the Diocese of Youngstown against whom credible allegations of sexual abuse of a minor have been made after the accused was deceased:

Joseph Bennett

John P. Cunningham

Gerald Curran

Joseph Galganski

Henry Gallagher

John Gallagher

James Hennessey

John Lyons

John Parillo

Clergy from Religious Orders against whom credible, substantiated allegations of sexual abuse of a minor have been made while serving in the Diocese of Youngstown:

Gerald Dupont, OP

Donald Marrokal, CR (deceased)

Giles Nealen, OSB (deceased)

Clergy from other dioceses against whom credible, substantiated allegations of sexual abuse of a minor have been made and who have subsequently reside in the territory of the Diocese of Youngstown:

Robert Castelucci (Diocese of Pittsburgh)

Anthony Cipola (Diocese of Pittsburgh, deceased)

Non-Clergy from Religious Orders against whom credible, substantiated allegations of sexual abuse of a minor have been made while employed in the Diocese of Youngstown:

Stephen Baker, TOR (deceased)