Catholic priest named as a child abuser in new report was a counselor at church camp in 1958 when 10-year-old deaf boy disappeared before skeletal remains were found a year later

LONDON (ENGLAND)
Daily Mail

December 3, 2020

By Rachel Sharp

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9014259/Catholic-priest-named-child-abuser-church-camp-1958-deaf-boy-10-disappeared.html

A Catholic priest who was named as a child sex abuser in a new report was a counselor at a church camp in 1958 when a 10-year-old deaf boy disappeared before his skeletal remains were discovered a year later.

Jerry Repola worked at the Catholic Camp St. Malo in Colorado in August 1958, when Bobby Bizup vanished in mysterious circumstances after a day of fishing in the mountains.

Bones belonging to the little boy were found in July 1959 in a spot that had been extensively searched by a 500-strong crew, the Colorado Civil Air Patrol and an Indian tracker the year before.

It has now been revealed that Repola, who died in March 1971 from a long illness, sexually abused a teenage boy when he was a parish priest in Grand Junction in 1967 and authorities believe the boy could be one of several victims.

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