WILMINGTON (DE)
News-Journal
August 16, 2018
By Xerxes Wilson
There are Delaware ties to three priests named in a sprawling Pennsylvania grand jury report detailing sexual abuse by hundreds of clergymen over 70 years.
At least two held positions at Salesianum School in Wilmington and another was employed at Archmere Academy in Claymont. Another is said to have molested adolescent brothers on a trip to Rehoboth Beach.
The report covers abuse and subsequent cover-ups within six Pennsylvania Catholic dioceses. The abuse detailed about priests with local ties appears to have occurred outside their duties at Delaware schools though at least one of the priests was previously sued for sex abuse at Salesianum.
The late Father John McDevitt taught at Sallies in the 1980s. The grand jury report states that a man reported that he had kissed him in a confessional at a Pennsylvania High School that McDevitt taught at before his time at Salesianum.
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