Assignment Record – Rev. Michael O’Connor Barry, s.j.

MISSOURI
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Summary of Case: A member of the Societ of Jesus, Barry was a teacher and, at some point, a hospital chaplain in St. Louis. He was accused in a 2004 lawsuit, along with three other priests, of having sexually abused a student at a St. Louis Jesuit high school from 1982-1985. Barry’s accuser said the priests plied him with alcohol and “played mind games” to silence him. Barry died in 1987.

Ordained: 1979
Died: Feb. 19, 1987

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