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Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests
May 7, 2019
–Fr. Julian Haas, whose status is listed as “removed from ministry / under supervision” on a list of credibly accused Capuchin Franciscans (based inDenver, 303-477-5436 or jason.faris@capuchins.org, joseph.elder@capuchins.org).
Fr. Haas worked in Rome, Kansas, Pennsylvania, two Colorado cities (Denver and Colorado Springs) and two St. Louis locations: St. Crispin Friary and St. Patrick Friary. He reportedly abused in the 1970s and 1980s and faces more than one accuser.
13 Denver-based Catholic friars with credible sexual-abuse allegations identified
https://www.capuchins.org/documents/PressRelease2019.pdf
–Fr. Benignus Scarry, who was born in 1944, reportedly left the Capuchin Franciscan religious order in 2016. He worked in two Kansas cities (Lawrence and Hays), two in Colorado (Denver and Colorado Springs) and in St. Louis at the St. Crispin Friary.
He reportedly abused in 1980s and is on a list of credibly accused abusers released by the Capuchin Franciscans (based in Denver, 303-477-5436 orjason.faris@capuchins.org, joseph.elder@capuchins.org).
https://www.capuchins.org/documents/PressRelease2019.pdf
–Fr. Perry L. Robinson, who was sent to St. Luke’s Institute in Maryland for treatment twice in the 1980s. He was fired from his long-time high school teaching position in Milwaukee in 1988 for taking nude photographs of students, and was quietly transferred to a parish in Omaha, NE. In 2011, he was removed from ministry in Omaha after a man informed the Omaha archbishop of the earlier allegations against Robinson. The man also stated that Robinson had given him an inappropriate backrub in the early 1980s when he was one of Robinson’s high school students in Milwaukee.
Last year, his name was included in the Midwest Jesuits list of credibly accused clerics.
According to the Official Catholic Directory, from 1972-1973, he was in St. Louis at the Lewis Memorial Jesuit Community.
http://www.bishopaccountability.org/assign/Robinson_Perry_L_sj.htm
http://image.jesuits.org/MIDWESTPROV/media/All_Pastoral_Assignments_of_Jesuits_on_Midwest_Jesuits-12-17-18_List_posted_21_Dec_2018.pdf
–Fr. Timothy F. Keppel is a priest of the Congregation of the Resurrection who worked in the San Bernardino diocese. In 2013, his church supervisors announced that Fr. Keppel allegedly molested a child in the late 1970s in San Bernardino. Following an investigation, both the diocese and the Congregation of the Resurrection concluded that there was reasonable cause to suspect that inappropriate sexual behavior with a child did occur. Consequently, Fr. Keppel was removed from public ministry. His was included in the San Bernardino diocese’s list of clergy credibly accused of child sexual abuse. According to San Bernardino church officials, he is permanently banned from ministry in the diocese.
https://www.sbdiocese.org/documents/latestnews/Priest-List.pdf
From 1982-1983, he was at Our Lady of Loretto Church in Spanish Lake.
— Fr. Marvin Archuleta who, according to the Santa Fe New Mexican, “was sent to the Vianney Renewal Center near St. Louis, which offered ‘rehabilitation and reconciliation’ for priests and was a stopping point for clergy accused of abuse.” He’s now wearing a GPS monitoring bracelet as he awaits trial.
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2019/01_02/2019_02_16_Press_Judge_of.htm
https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/legal-options-limited-for-man-who-says-priest-molested-him/article_3a874088-f674-5f6f-a4e2-b1e52aa88345.html
–Fr. Clarence J. Vavra, who in 2003, was named by the St. Paul archdiocese as having a substantiated claim of sexual abuse of a minor.
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2013/11_12/2013_11_11_SurvivorsNetwork_SdPredator.htm
He was sent to the St. Michael’s Center here for treatment in 1996. The year before, he admitted sexually assaulting several kids on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Yet no Catholic official ever told anyone about him.
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