ARLINGTON (VA)
BishopAccountability.org – Assignment Record
Summary of Case: Specht was placed on administrative leave in April 2012, due to an allegation that he had engaged in “sexual misconduct” with a teenage boy in the late 1990s. Specht was ordained in 1996, after a 21-year Navy career, where he worked on submarines. As a priest he was a high school chaplain and assistant principal, as well as the diocese’s director of the Office of Child Protection and Safety, from 2004-2011. At the time of his removal from active ministry Specht was a parish pastor. Police launched a criminal investigation. Specht denied the allegations.
Ordained: 1996
Incardinated: Arlington diocese
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